Cygwin package management

[Michel Van den Bergh]

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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