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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "jim brown" <jim DOT brown AT smartarrays DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <3D6FA7BE DOT 34D3AD21 AT smartarrays DOT com>
Subject: Re: New install on Win XP, no rpm so can't intall anything
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:47:55 +0100
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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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