linux install problem?

Posted in 1999

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Platform-Specific Issues

Brent Waldrop — Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:31:50 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

HI, i am trying to install informix on linux and i do the following rpm -iv --prefix $INFORMIXDIR *.RPM and i get the following error: rpm: only one of --prefix or --relocate may be used. if anyone could give me any insight to what is going on would they please email me at waldrop_brent@hotmail.com thanks Brent

↪ replying to Brent Waldrop

Jonathan Leffler — Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:10:14 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Brent Waldrop wrote: > > HI, i am trying to install informix on linux and i do the following > rpm -iv --prefix $INFORMIXDIR *.RPM and i get the following error: > rpm: only one of --prefix or --relocate may be used. > if anyone could give me any insight to what is going on would they please > email me at waldrop_brent@hotmail.com RPM appears to have added a new option --relocate since the RPM book was written. And it is being used by Informix. Anyway, use: rpm -ivh --relocate /opt/informix=$INFORMIXDIR *.RPM -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>