Dear Experts,
I am a newbie to this arena. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
1) I have installed FreeBSD on one of our server with Webmin. There are software like Wildfire that I need to install on this server. I would like to download the RPM or BIN version of this package. However, when I try to run the "rpm" command from root /usr/local/, the message came back as "command not found".
2) I researched on and realized that I will need to install a rpm handling software such as RPM 4.4 or Yum. I went to download them, but now don't know how to install them. I searched high and low for installation docs, but most just point to the how-to of installing the rpm packaged software, but not the rpm software itself.
3) I also need to install the Java JRE or JDK 5.0 (according to Wildfire), but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to do that.
4) I toyed around with WebMin's add package, that didn't work. I also played around with the "pkg_add" and "make" command, that didn't help either. I need to know how to handle rpm packages not just for wildfire, but for all future software install. I mean why can't I just handle the package install from Webmin? It kept saying the package is not a FreeBSD package.
5) How do I install a .bin version of the software onto FreeBSD? In brief, how do I handle .bin installations?
Looking forward to your kind help.
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YUM is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. To make a long story short, I wouldn't install YUM on the system.
FreeBSD ports tree has it's own package management tool.
use pkg_info command to list your various installed packages.
use pkg_version -v to determine if ports need to be updated.
Install portupgrade from /usr/ports/sysutils/portup
To upgrade your software using the portupgrade system follow the directions at the below included link:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc
Hope this helps.
rpm2cpio wildfire-whatever-rpm | pax -rv
will extract your RPM.
as for every custom linux program you will have to examine www.freebsd.org/handbook on how to enable running Linux binary programs.
Not having /usr/ports is your choice at installation time.
it is good time to run sysinstall -> Comfigur -> Packages and install ports collection; then sysinstall ->Configure -> Ports and install with rpm and linux compatibility packages.
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by: rivusglobalPosted on 2006-05-08 at 19:21:11ID: 16635955
With FreeBSD, you use "make install clean" in the /usr/ports/... directory to install ports (rpms). FreeBSD doesn't use RPM.
Java is located in the /usr/ports/lang/.. dir <--- you can find it there. FreeBSD will automatically install dependencies.
As for Wildfire.. I can't help you out there. As far as I am aware, it's not a part of the ports tree, so compatibility may be an issue.
Hope you can get things going.
Cheers!