hi every body

I got a very strange error

I am running redhat 7.3

When I try to install an rpm package, the rpm doesn't find /bin/sh and other programs, I am sure the programs are installed.
for instance:

rpm -ivh xforms-0.89-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by xforms-0.89-1
/bin/sh is needed by xforms-0.89-1
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libc.so.6 is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libm.so.6 is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libX11.so.6 is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by xforms-0.89-1
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by xforms-0.89-1
pub]# ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 24 13:10 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
pub]# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541096 Apr 12 2002 /bin/bash
pub]# echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
pub]#


where is the error

thanks

The problem is not that you don't have a /bin/sh -- it's that RPM doesn't have /bin/sh in its database. If you reinstall bash from an RPM, it should be happy. Or install 'ash' or 'dash' from RPM, so that there's a light-weight /bin/sh available.

Yes , but the problem how to install the rpm itself

for instance the following comand gives:

rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm

error: failed dependencies:
gawk is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
fileutils is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
textutils is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
mktemp is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
shadow-utils is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
popt = 1.6.4 is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
/bin/sh is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x.18

but for example, gawk exists , is installed


pub]#gawk
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ...
Usage: gawk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ...


To report bugs, see node `Bugs' in `gawk.info', which is
section `Reporting Problems and Bugs' in the printed version.



thank for help

Check that the rpm your trying to install is for the version of redhat that your using.