Hi,

I'm trying to install RPMs on my FC3 system, but no matter what I try to install, I get a "/bin/sh is needed by <package>" error. I know that I have /bin/sh installed, however my RPM database got corrupted and I had to rebuild it; now RPM isn't aware of a lot of the packages I have installed.

Is there something I can do besides use rpm --nodeps to avoid the "/bin/sh is needed by <package>" errors? I need to know what dependencies I really am missing and need to install, but I don't want to have to use --nodeps all the time just to keep RPM from complaining about stuff that really is there.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

on most systems, /bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash


also look at the file /etc/shells and make sure /bin/sh is listed there.........

Hi!

I have had the exact same error message. I have /bin/sh and /bin/bash, but I did not have /bin/sh listed in /etc/shells, so I added it. I'm still experiencing the same problem. Is there more to it than just adding the /bin/sh line to the /etc/shells file?

Thanks!