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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux Programs?? Date: 7 Jun 1997 14:21:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5nbqok$2h6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3398CC8E.64AB@sun4.iol.unh.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42567 Benjamin Schurman <brs@sun4.iol.unh.edu> wrote: > Is there some way of duping the machine to return > values of Linux and such with the uname command Install a faked uname command in /compat/linux/usr/bin/. However, rpm also bailing out with a similar message, i finally took the route to install manually (rpm's are just a .cpio.gz file with some binary junk at the front). There's now also a port to assist you in installing StarOffice. (Please, don't ask me StarOffice-related questions though. I've installed it out of curiosity, but found that i don't like it since it's abusing `antisocial programming' practices, and generally smells too much like Winlose to me. I gonna remove it again.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)