Re: trouble installing rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

2003-12-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 04:11, Frederick Thomas wrote: > shalom, > I have a question which I hope that you can help me with. I just > tried to intstall rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz on my system[freebsd 4.8] and have not > been able to get it to ./configure let alone make. Is there a special dir, > ( /usr/com

Re: trouble installing rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

2003-12-29 Thread Gilad Rom
Shalom Frederick, Why not use ports? Try to cd to /usr/ports/archivers/rpm and type 'make install'. That should do the trick. (Although the ported version of RPM is not of the 4.x branch). Could you possibly send a longer description of the problem? ("not able to ./configure") is not a very clear

trouble installing rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

2003-12-29 Thread Frederick Thomas
shalom, I have a question which I hope that you can help me with. I just tried to intstall rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz on my system[freebsd 4.8] and have not been able to get it to ./configure let alone make. Is there a special dir, ( /usr/compat/linux?), or dependencies that are required to compile