Re: Installing RPM from scratch - how?

[Adrian Reber <adrian lisas de>]

> I have just tried to install RPM from scratch on a Solaris v2.6 machine.
> I've done the whole ./configure ; make ; make install thing. I've run
> rpm --initdb and this has worked fine.

Done the same.

> According to the INSTALL instructions, I need to set up RPM so that the
> existing applications on the machine can be found to satisfy the
> dependancies. It suggests that a script called find-provides.sh be used
> to do this, but neglects to mention how. It is of course academic -
> find-provides.sh does not exist anyway. Another file called

find-provides exists on my solaris2.6 system  (without the ".sh")

and

echo * | find-provides

did work for me perfectly...


		Adrian