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Re: packages
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:09:55PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > On 2008-07-18, r wrote:
>
> >> I'm new about cygwin, but I use from a lot SuSE and OpenSuSE
> >> can I install packages rpm from linux distributions on cygwin ?
>
>
> > No. First off, Cygwin doesn't use Red Hat's package manager, it
> > uses its own package manager, setup.exe. Secondly, binaries built
> > for Linux will not run under Cygwin--the binary interfaces to the
> > operating system are totally different.
>
> Er, what's the purpose, then, of 'rpm.exe' that can be installed
> with 'setup.exe'?
It has the same purpose as it does on a Debian installation - to handle
rpm files on a system for which it is not the native package manager.
cgf
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