From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 9:44:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cgmd76206.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3AC37B719 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 09:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@cgmd76206.chello.nl) Received: by cgmd76206.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BA4C5144; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:44:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:44:32 +0200 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm on freebsd Message-ID: <20010401184432.P490@cgmd76206.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Peter Ulrich Kruppa , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010401155751.M490@cgmd76206.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from root@pukruppa.de on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:33:34PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:33:34PM +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:35:11PM +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > I would like to install an rpm on freebsd but when I do > > > > > > # rpm -i .rpm > > > > > > I get > > > > > > error: failed dependencies: > > > /bin/sh is needed by > > > > > > Of course there is /bin/sh on my system! > > > > Maybe it's looking for /compat/linux/bin/sh ? > > Did you install the linux-base from the ports-collection? > Yes. But it would be asking for /compat/linux/bin/sh would it not? That's the whole trick, I never know if it's looking for things in / or in /compat/linux. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://FatalDimensions.nl.eu.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message