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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!posts.execpc.com!usenet From: fpawlak@execpc.com (Frank Pawlak) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: RPM problems Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:06:51 -0500 Organization: Connect Consulting Resources Lines: 18 Message-ID: <MPG.e39c0a45719cd22989683@news.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bacrana-42.mdm.mke.execpc.com X-Newsreader: Anawave Gravity v1.10 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44630 I am relatively new to FreeBSD, and am having a problem using the RPM package. All binaries have been upgraded to RELENG_2_2, and the latest version of the RPM package is installed. The kernel is compiled to support Linux emulation. When attempting to load software distributed with the RPM system, I get an error message stating "can not open /var/lib/rpm/packages". When RPM is installed under Linux that directory path is created and several files are placed in the rpm directory. When rpm is loaded on FreeBSD the path is not created nor is anything installed. The software in question is RedHat's port of ApplixWare. I have RedHat and the Applix package installed on my system, and if I mount the RedHat volume and run Applix on FreeBSD using Linux emulation it runs just fine. I would like to install and run it on FreeBSD as I prefer FreeBSD to Linux. Please, can anyone help me out with this. Thanks Frank