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Re: [MiNT] SSH RPM?



On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:00:54PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Guido Flohr wrote:
> 
> > BTW, have you ever installed any package? If not you will most certainly
> > fail because rpm needs a bare minimum of packages like bash, info and so
> > on.  Without them you will continue to have problems.
> 
> Since there is no "basic" SpareMiNT distribution to get you
> started, you have to look somewhere else for those minimum
> packages.
> 
> Use something like Marc-Anton Kehr's distribution, then install
> the RPM bootstrap archive from SpareMiNT on top of that, making
> sure you have correctly initialized the RPM databse and read
> everything 10 times, before you start installing RPM's.
> 
> http://www.ndh.net/home/kehr/atari/MfD/mflii.htm

No, nothing against Marc-Anton's packages but KGMD should be
sufficient. Make sure that /bin/bash is linked to /bin/sh and you have the
directory structure as described in the MiNT.FAQ.  Should really 
be enough.