From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 11:45:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (OperaMail.com [199.29.68.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFDD37B698 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:45:22 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Mon, 22 Jan 01 14:45:17 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: jim_fix Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:45:17 -0500 From: jimmy fix To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: RE: rpm on freebsd - beginner Message-ID: <3AA5EBB9@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG basically i wanna change the window manager and put KDE so i can configure ppp (its easier from there) and put netscape ( i got it on rpm only) so i can go on the web, do cvs, chech for native versions as u said etc... >===== Original Message From Jonathan Chen ===== >On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:04:46PM -0500, jimmy fix wrote: >> hi, i just got freebsd to work, including X, but i didnt dowload any packages >> yet as i havent configured ppp. since i have a lot of linux stuff that i'd >> like to install and use, does anyone know how i can install rpm packages on >> freebsd? > >It's `possible' to install and use Linux-rpms, but why not check out >whether there are native FreeBSD versions of what you want to use >first? Check out the list in the ports (/usr/ports) >-- >Jonathan Chen >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" > - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message