From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 5:22: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net [199.45.39.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7533C37B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 05:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smartsoft.cc (client-209-158-92-79.bellatlantic.net [209.158.92.79]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA21542; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:21:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39BE1F92.AB8B9235@smartsoft.cc> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:20:34 -0400 From: Jan Knepper Organization: Smartsoft, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ahze@baddog.yi.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file References: <20000912051241.8CEF0CC@baddog.yi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Johnson wrote: > can you not get the source? Nop! > 'man rpm' shows this.. just install it like /home/user/rpmname or > something.. Tried that, no such luck... Guess it has not been installed huh?! > --prefix > This sets the installation prefix to for > relocatable packages. What does rpm stand for? Relocatable Package Manager. Jan -- Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. http://www.smartsoft.cc/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess Phone : 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message