From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 5:24:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net (smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net [199.45.39.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BAC37B42C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 05:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smartsoft.cc (client-209-158-91-1.bellatlantic.net [209.158.91.1]) by smtp-out2.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA17835; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39BE201F.DA22A04A@smartsoft.cc> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:22:55 -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: Fabien DERUDDER Cc: igorr@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks! Fabien DERUDDER wrote: > 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 -- 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