Re: Cygwin package management

[Michel Van den Bergh <vdbergh at luc dot ac dot be>]

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

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