From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 17:49:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9138337B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000913004837.JUMC2358.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:48:37 -0700 Message-ID: <39BE6CA9.E7DD0D4C@home.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:49:30 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) 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 Perhaps this why my first and only attempt to use rpm2cpio failed. When I tried it, it crashed my machine and automatically rebooted. I never did find a core. Rob. 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 > > Fabien Derudder > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=1327867 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message