Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

[marco atzeri]

On 4/8/2012 5:10 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
> On 2012-4-7 16:12, marco atzeri wrote:

> Thanks, Marco. I was not trying to run a native linux apps, and instead
> tried to rebuild the app from source. The BLAST software provides the
> Build.sh and Check.sh scripts under the dirctory of
> ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-src.tar\ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-src\c++\compilers\cygwin\.
> So I think it is possible to run the software under cygwin. However, the
> compilation stopped at "checking for python", even if python was
> installed. That's to say, I installed the latest python and the
> compilation could find it, but the compilation tried to search for
> python2.3 and 2.4 further, and stopped when searching for 2.4.
>
> What I am concern is that whether the i686.rpm indicates it is prepared
> for cygwin. As you know, when you run "uname -smo" , you can get
> something like this "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 i686 Cygwin". I think the package
> ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm is for Cygwin. Is that right? Has anyone
> ever succeeded in installing a RPM package into cygwin using "rpm -i *rpm"?
>
> Regards
> Dejian


i686.rpm is not the source package, is the binary for linux on 686 
processor.
On cygwin we do not use rpm for building packages so the source rpm
file will unlikely work.

The source for all platforms is

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-src.tar.gz



Regards
Marco




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