Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:18:09 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't install rpm-packages Message-ID: <20030516071809.A13732@ns.helixdigital.com> References: <200305161356.h4GDuti09290@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200305161356.h4GDuti09290@mailgate5.cinetic.de>; from bselu@web.de on Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:56:55PM +0200 On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:56:55PM +0200, Eckehardt Luhm wrote: > Greetings! > > When trying to install an rpm (I tried a lot!), I get the following error: [snip error message] It looks like the rpm file you downloaded is corrupted. By the way, are you *sure* that the package you're installing will run on Cygwin? Cygwin cannot run Linux binaries, so unless the package you're trying to install was produced by another Cygwin RPM program, I very much doubt you want to be installing the rpm you referred to, anyway. The main purpose of RPM on Cygwin right now would be if you wanted to build your own local packages and manage them with /usr/bin/rpm. I doubt there are Cygwin rpm packages you'll want to install, anyway. Another point: no, there are no current plans for setup.exe to support rpm packages. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/