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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        "Gerald E. Bennett" <geb@silres.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RPM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809282347240.3140-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <360F0AFF.EB1A2D7@silres.com>

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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Gerald E. Bennett wrote:

>I just installed Linux and RPM using the /usr/misc/ports/rmp port
>
>Now when I use rpm:
>
>bash-2.01# rpm -ivh executor-libc5-demo-2.0w-1.i386.rpm
>failed to open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
>error: cannot open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

RPM is pretty linux specific. You may have better luck asking a linux
forum how to set it up.

Just off the top of my head, I would say that /var/local doesn't even
exist on your FreeBSD system. This is just a guess.

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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