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 Message-ID: <41D022C0.70508@luc.ac.be> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:57:04 +0100 From: Michel Van den Bergh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin package management References: <200412271301.iBRD1kl10849@esds.vss.fsi.com> <41D01F3F.40801@luc.ac.be> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Michel Van den Bergh wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I am learning cygwin package management. Something I don't >>know how to do is how to install a binary package from >>***within cygwin***, i.e. the equivalent of rpm -i.. >> >>Can somebody enlighten me? >> >> > >Use the same 'setup.exe' tool that you used to install Cygwin. > Thanks for the quick reply! I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it? I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is executable from a script. >P.S. Please start a new thread if asking unrelated questions, instead of >following up to an existing thread (this applies to both of your >postings today). > Sorry about that! Regards, Michel -- 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/