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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:00:15 -0700
From: jim brown <jim DOT brown AT smartarrays DOT com>
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Subject: *  Re: New install on Win XP, no rpm so can't intall anything
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Max,
Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that cygwin doesn't use rpm.
What do I do if I want to install a package that is delivered as a
".rpm" file?
What's the alternative?

I went to the rpm web site to see if I could get a version there but
they are
all distributed as ".rpm" files - catch 22.


jim brown wrote:
> I did a brand new clean install of cygwin from the internet.
> I installed all the packages.
> rpm fails with
> bash: rpm: No such file or directory
>
> I searched for anything named rpm and got this:
>
> $ find -name rpm*
> ./lib/mc/extfs/rpm
> ./lib/mc/extfs/rpms
>
> switching to /lib/mc/extfs/ and executing
> ./rpm -i xxx.rpm produces nothing (there is no package xxx.rpm)
>
> What have I done wrong?

Nothing - except assume Cygwin uses rpm. It doesn't. There has been a
little
discussion about maybe-possibly using rpm in the future, but no more
than that.

Max.




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