Date: 08 Oct 2001 16:06:59 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm question Message-ID: <86sncuqigc.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> In-Reply-To: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A668653@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu> References: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A668653@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>
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"Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> writes: > Does any one know of a way to extract an rpm without it installing into the > paths that it should use but to the current directory. I have a mandrake linux > package that are fonts. I tried to do: > > rpm -i --nodeps > but it gave me the error the "the package was for a different file system." I > don't understand what to do with that? try --force :) Otherwise, open the rpm using midnight commander and extract away. Last option would be to grab the source RPM and get the fonts out of the tarball in that. HTH -- Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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