Hi,

Can Frederick's instructions be generalized for NetBSD-1.5 i386? 
 Once the NetBSD rpm package and the NetBSD SuSE Linux emul package 
are installed and rpm --initdb is run, is it correct that

# rpm -i --ignorearch --ignoreos --nodeps foo-version.i386.rpm

is the way to install any Linux i386.rpm binary package on NetBSD-1.5 i386?

Thanks,


Tom

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On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:28:16  
 Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Tue, 29 May 2001, Steve Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am a newbee, and wondered if anyone knew how to install ymessenger
>> from the Redhat binary onto a NetBSD 1.5 system?
>
>Easy. (Build or) install the NetBSD "misc/rpm" package, then, as root
>
>  rpm --initdb
>  rpm -i --ignorearch --ignoreos --nodeps ymessenger-0.93.0-1.i386.rpm
>
>will create the single file "/usr/local/bin/ymessenger"! That answers
>your question, but in order to actually _run_ it, you'll need to
>install the "emulators/suse_linux" package.
>
>Everything you need to know about the package system may be found at
>one of the following URI's, or if not, ask a question here or on
>tech-pkg@netbsd.org...
>
>  http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
>  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html
>
>
>Frederick
>
>


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