From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 0:15:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lrt.be (mail.lrt.be [212.221.42.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EF0B37B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 212.221.42.252 by mail.lrt.be with ESMTP (WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v4.3); Tue, 12 Sep 00 09:14:22 +0100 X-Server-Uuid: 70ab2e80-edeb-11d3-ba8e-0050bac381d6 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4368.4 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:16:18 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file Thread-Index: AcAcgkTcmTftnmJ5Q/eL53RtVUmSBQABBWCw From: "Fabien DERUDDER" To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-WSS-ID: 15A33A5717968-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes but... I think rpm2cpio should be 'brandelfed'for Linux and then moved to the /compat/linux/usr/bin, and then installing the rpm should be done this way : /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio yourrpm.rpm | (cd /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose --unconditional). If there are some Linux libraries included, /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig=20 Fabien Derudder http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=3D1327867=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message