From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 11:38:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E86337B698 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0MJc5O93464; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:38:05 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:38:05 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: jimmy fix Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm on freebsd - beginner Message-ID: <20010123083805.A92950@itouchnz.itouch> References: <3AA56E39@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AA56E39@operamail.com>; from jim_fix@operamail.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:04:46PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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