This is off topic for this list. You should look for links to email help at
http://cygwin.cjb.net which is not related to Cygwin other than supplying
supported packages by some external porter.
Cheers,
Earnie.
--- Andreas Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I wanted to install add on software using rpm format.
>
> I followed the instructions under http://cygwin.cjb.net/,
> downloaded and installed the rpm 3.0.6 binary using
> cd /; tar xvzf ...
>
> Did a rpm --initdb
>
> Now after trying to install the forst package, rpm complains
> about the following and core dumps:
>
>
> andreas@AKLEMM ~
> $ rpm -i /dos/software/cygwin/mktemp-1.5-1.i386-cygwin.rpm
> failed to open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
> assertion "fd && fd->magic == FDMAGIC" failed: file "rpmio.c", line 428
> 0 [sig] rpm 792 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to rpm.exe.stackdump
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> Any idea why ? Or is perhaps rpm not recommended ?
>
> Andreas ///
>
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