* Re: New install on Win XP, no rpm so can't intall anything

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Jim,

If you're got software distributed as an RPM, it's unlikely that it's a 
Cygwin package and hence there's no point trying to get it installed on Cygwin.

I suppose a source RPM might be useful.

Cygwin does include "cpio"--I think RPMs are in cpio format (GNU cpio, 
anyway), so you could extract their contents that way.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:00 2002-08-30, jim brown wrote:
> 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.

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