From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 17:40:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B707E16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:40:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from net.netophilia.net (ns.netophilia.net [66.96.216.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BEA43D3F for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:40:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@netophilia.net) Received: by net.netophilia.net (Postfix, from userid 1005) id B7398114F1; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:40:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:40:49 -0500 From: Dan Kilbourne To: frost wave Message-ID: <20041115174049.GA57472@netophilia.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: netophilia.net Visit: http://netophilia.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: help with rpm X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:40:52 -0000 frost wave extolled: > hi thanks in advance for your answer > > here's my situation > I just installed FreeBSD and now I want to install Maya ( maya is in a TGZ > that include the rpms inside. ) > I searched all the night through the internet but I didn't find how to > install the rpm package. > I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 > > tell me what are the steps to do... > > thanks a lot > rpm == redhat package management I guess you could look into the rpm port, but not sure why you would want to do that. Do they either have the source available (ususally tar.gz file) or do either of these ports look like what you are looking for? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- drk:drk:[12:39pm]:~> cat /usr/ports/www/amaya/pkg-descr Amaya is the W3C's testbed editor/browser for new HTML and CSS features. It provides a WYSIWYG editing interface while generating documents that adhere to a DTD. WWW: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ drk:drk:[12:39pm]:~> cat /usr/ports/science/mayavi/pkg-descr MayaVi is a scientific data visualizer. It is written in Python and uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the visualization. An easy to use GUI using Tkinter is provided. It is also cross platform and should run on any platform where both Python and VTK are available (which is almost any *nix, Mac OSX or Windows). WWW: http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- ___ Dan