On 07/19/2013 10:47 AM, Niels Terp wrote: Hi,
I have now installed RPM, and it seems to work. But when I tried to install Webmin from a RPM, I got errors like "Webmin .. needs /bin/sh" I found a very nice script (in the Linux Cookbook) to find things that has been compiled from source, and include them in a emty RPM, which can then be installed - then you should have everything in RPM. But even this I can't install, because of the same dependency. Does anyone know a shortcut to include all the "normal" linux commands in the RPM database, or do I have to build LFS with RPM-support from the beginning ? The reason why I want RPM is, that I have not been able to build the Google Chrome browser from source, while on my host system (Suse) it is a matter of downloading and installing a RPM. So in case it is not possible to get RPM to work on a finished system, I could certainly need some advice on building Chrome from source ! Niels You are getting that error because the rpm database is clean, it has nothing in it. You just can not install rpm onto a system and think it will work. It knows nothing of what is already installed. --- Well, that was my fear. I had hoped that there was a "manual" way to get linux itself into the RPM database, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that it will be impossible. In fact I tried your solution a few months ago, but I couldn't make it work then. Now I have downloaded it again, I spotted a few errors in the md5sum check (really not alarming, the files seems to be OK) and a patch file could not be downloaded - I found it at another location. Right now my computer is chewing its way through chapter 5, and still looking good. Thank you for your advice on Chrome, I appreciate it ! And sorry to hear that you are planning to leave the community, I had hoped for an updated version of your system, but I guess you have shown me the way to go - Thank you again ! Niels
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