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 -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
