Problem using rpm on Windows 98.

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Do not know about rpm, but you can get rpm2cpio script
from http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ , extract the contents of rpm and
install it manually by copying the extracted files/directories to
the desired location.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of
> A.R. Burgers
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:31 PM
> To: cygwin mailing list
> Subject: Problem using rpm on Windows 98.
>
>
> Hi
>
> has anybody had any luck installing perl module rpm-s
> from Charles Wilson's site ( http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ )?
> I'm using Windows 98, 2nd edition.
> I try to install a module using the rpm command:
>
> rpm --install perl-DBI-1.13-1-cygwinb20.i386.rpm
>
> and get the response
>
> error:  perl-DBI-1.13-1-cygwinb20.i386.rpm  cannot be installed
>
> I installed rpm using the instructions and binary provided
> at http://cygutils.netpedia.net/
>
> rpm -i -vv perl-DBI-1.13-1-cygwinb20.i386.rpm
>
> returns:
>
> D: counting packages to install
> D: found 1 packages
> D: looking for packages to download
> D: retrieved 0 packages
> D: New Header signature
> D: Signature size: 68
> D: Signature pad : 4
> D: sigsize         : 72
> D: Header + Archive: 380280
> D: expected size   : 380280
> error: /tmp/perl-DBI-1.13-1-cygwinb20.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
> [exited with 1]
>
> I'm using stock B20.1 with the jan 15, 1999 cygwin1.dll
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Teun Burgers
>
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