help with rpm

[Frank Laszlo]

Dan Kilbourne wrote:

>frost wave extolled:
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>>hi thanks in advance for your answer
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>>here's my situation
>>I just installed FreeBSD and now I want to install Maya ( maya is in a TGZ 
>>that include the rpms inside. )
>>I searched all the night through the internet but I didn't find how to 
>>install the rpm package.
>>I'm running FreeBSD 4.10
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>>tell me what are the steps to do...
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>>thanks a lot
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>rpm == redhat package management
>I guess you could look into the rpm port, but not sure why you would
>want to do that. Do they either have the source available (ususally
>tar.gz file) or do either of these ports look like what you are looking
>for?
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>drk:drk:[12:39pm]:~> cat /usr/ports/www/amaya/pkg-descr
>Amaya is the W3C's testbed editor/browser for new HTML and CSS
>features.  It provides a WYSIWYG editing interface while generating
>documents that adhere to a DTD.
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>WWW: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
>drk:drk:[12:39pm]:~> cat /usr/ports/science/mayavi/pkg-descr
>MayaVi is a scientific data visualizer. It is written in Python and uses
>the
>Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the visualization. An easy to use GUI
>using
>Tkinter is provided. It is also cross platform and should run on any
>platform
>where both Python and VTK are available (which is almost any *nix, Mac
>OSX or
>Windows).
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>WWW: http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/
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I think he is probably refering to Maya, by Alias. its a 3D design 
suite. Though I didnt know it had a linux port.
http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/index.shtml

As far as installing it is concerned, if you are to have any luck you it 
you will need to install the linux compatability libraries and rpm of 
course. I suggest you google around to see if anyone has actually 
attempted this before. Hope this helps.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo