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: <61f6f43905042605533fff9f49@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:53:02 -0400 From: Jim Drash Reply-To: Jim Drash To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: beginner's questions In-Reply-To: <20050426112112.13801.qmail@web30009.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050426112112.13801.qmail@web30009.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j3QCufa9003094 > 1) I want to know if some software is installed in my > cygwin. "whereis" and "urpmi" does not work. So how > can i do this? > > 2) No login is required before connection. Am i root > by default? > 1) "urpmi" is a specifc wrapper on rpm that is used in Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) Linux systems. Since Windows is not Linux and not Mandriva, urpmi is not present. "whereis" (and many others) is provided by the util-linux rpm on Mandrake. Again, since CygWin is not Linux, this command is not included 2) You are not root but are the Windows user that you logged in as (On Win 9x, there is no user) Again since this is not Linux "root" can be moot (can be mapped to the Windows Administrator account), -- 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/