Question about RPM?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

At 06:37 AM 6/3/2005, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
>
>>>Unfortunately, if I try to install the arkeia RPM (with the usual 'rpm 
>>>-ivh arkeiaXXXX.rpm' incantation), it gives me a raft of warnings about 
>>>various shared libraries being needed, as well as /bin/sh.  I don't 
>>>recall seeing any errors during either the build or the install of the 
>>>base package, so I'm mystified as to why the installation of that rpm 
>>>failed.  Any thoughts?
>>
>>You forgot to tell us how you exactly tried to install it (cut&paste of the
>>command line) and you forgot to cut&paste the error messages in your mail.
>
>Ooops, actually you did tell us the command line... I suggest to have a look
>at /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk/Makfile how to use rpm on FreeBSD.

>Thanks, I'll take a look.  Out of curiosity, why is something pertaining 
>to linux emulation in x11-toolkits/linux-gtk?