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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:04:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: rpm on freebsd
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> 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 <package>.rpm
> > > >
> > > > I get
> > > >
> > > > error: failed dependencies:
> > > > 	/bin/sh   is needed by <package>
> > > >
> > > > 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.
Searching this directory I found a command called chroot . It changes the
root directory for the following command.

# chroot /compat/linux /bin/rpm -i /usr/local/<package>.rpm

at least will run rpm . But there were some other errors I will have to
find out about.

Thanx.

Uli.

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