Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:13:44PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell
> NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc
> v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that
> program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD,
> there are lots of *.rpms, which are installed by some obscure
> install-script (not directly with rpm). Now the problem is, that the
> installation breaks, because it says, some packages are not installed
> (glibc not found, /bin/sh not found etc). But they are installed, I
Do you have noexec or ro in your /etc/fstab entry for the CD. I expect
you'll still have problems, since it will probably look for Redhat's
/etc/init.d/rc.d/ directory structure...
> think "rpm" is just not aware of that. Is there a way to tell rpm (maybe
> with alien?), what packages/files are installed (eventhough they are
> *.deb packages?).
> TIA,
> Greetings,
> Tibor
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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