Re: Newbie question

--- Tim Heath <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to know if apt has been ported to cygwin and if someone can 
> actually create a .deb file deploy it to a web server and have it 
> install with apt-get install <package name> in cygwin.  

As far as I know, APT is not compiled, but dpk is. I have had problems
with dpkg because of the setroot. It is good for unpacking things, but
not installing them. 

>I tried to
> find 
> an answer to this by looking at the documentation but could not find
> it. 
Yeah, apt is a higher level, it has more dependancies than dpkg.

>  I am on linux and don't have administrative access on my other
> windows 
> boxes to try to test this to answer my own question.
You dont need admin access to install dpkg, just install cygwin, that
does not need admin (i dont think).

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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