Can RPM packages be installed into Cygwin?

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Published on 2012-04-08T04:00:27Z Indexed on 2012/04/08 5:34 UTC
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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. I tried to search for the missing libs using the setup.exe of Cygwin. It seems that some of them were not present, such as 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_2.0) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.2) 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 libdl.so.2 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libm.so.6 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libnsl.so.1 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libpthread.so.0 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 librt.so.1 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libstdc++.so.6 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.5) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 libz.so.1 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(Archive::Tar) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(Digest::MD5) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(File::Temp) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(File::stat) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(Getopt::Long) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(Net::FTP) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(Pod::Usage) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(constant) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(strict) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3 perl(warnings) is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3

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