From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 08:03:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05907 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sura.dyn.ml.org (dialinl3-0.cudenver.edu [132.194.10.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05878 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:03:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baram@mscd.edu) Received: from localhost (baram@localhost) by sura.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00506; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:05:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from baram@mscd.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: sura.dyn.ml.org: baram owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:05:15 -0600 (MDT) From: baram X-Sender: baram@sura.dyn.ml.org To: "Gerald E. Bennett" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RPM In-Reply-To: <360F0AFF.EB1A2D7@silres.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, try rpm -ivh -nodeps file.rpm, maybe --ignoreos is needed to bye. On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Gerald E. Bennett wrote: > I just installed Linux and RPM using the /usr/misc/ports/rmp port > > Now when I use rpm: > > bash-2.01# rpm -ivh executor-libc5-demo-2.0w-1.i386.rpm > failed to open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > > error: cannot open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > > > I get a fail > > > Why does this happen How can I fix this problem ???? > > > > Thanks > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message