From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 8:10:59 2002 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 906D837B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 08:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail2.broadpark.no [217.13.4.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADBF43E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johann@broadpark.no) Received: from aegis.terrabionic.lan (ninja.terrabionic.com [217.13.29.51]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id D92937DA0; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:10:53 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:10:26 +0100 From: Janine C.Buorditez To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RPM with FreeBSD Message-Id: <20021124181026.43a2ae32.johann@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20021124154926.GK77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20021124174515.78103425.johann@broadpark.no> <20021124154926.GK77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. Unfortunately I have no /compat/linux/bin/perl, nor a /usr/compat/linux/bin/perl. By the way, how do I tell RPM where perl is located? And why won't it use /usr/bin/perl? --janine On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:49:26 +0100 Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # johann@broadpark.no / 2002-11-24 17:45:15 +0100: > > Hi. > > > > I'm trying to install the full version of VMWare using RPM on my > > FreeBSD system. > > > > I'm experiencing this problem: > > > > aegis# rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm vmware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.i386.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > > /usr/bin/perl is needed by VMwareWorkstation-3.2.0-2230 > > > > Is anyone familiar with this? Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you. > > Looks like it wants /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/perl. > > -- > If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore > your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message