Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:58:03PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>De-Jian Zhao wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I noticed that there is a command - rpm - under Cygwin 1.7. Does that 
>> mean RPM packages can be installed into Cygwin?
>> 
>> I tried to install ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm (see: 
>> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/ ) into 
>> Cygwin 1.7.13 with the command "install -i 
>> ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm". However, error message appeared as 
>> below. libc.so.6, 
>> libdl.so.2,  libm.so.6,  libnsl.so.1, and  libz.so.1. Where can I get 
>> these libs? Thanks!
>> 
>> $ rpm -i ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm
>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>         /usr/bin/perl is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
>>         libbz2.so.1 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
>>         libc.so.6 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
>>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
>>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
>>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
>
>.....
>On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:03:29PM +0800, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
>
> > It seems that the compilation under Cygwin is more complicated than
> > expected.
>==========================================================
>
>This has nothing to do with cygwin.

Please don't resurrect old messages.  This was all dealt with six days
ago.

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