Greetings, Cygwin 1.7.1 is failing to install on a relatively clean Windows 7 x64 box. I installed this box today, applied the updates and installed a minimal amount of other software (MS office 2007, WHS client, the gimp, inkscribe, pidgin, flash, and acrobat reader). I applied all of the windows updates to bring the box current, then I tried to install cygwin.
The cygwin installer hangs at /var/lib/alternatives/.keep-alternatives for alternatives-1.3.30c-10 When I look in c:\cygwin\var\lib\alternatives, I can see this file being created and deleted as quickly as possible. If I exclude (skip) alternatives from my install (and ignore the associated dependency problems) a similar problem will surface with /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac/mm/locale. This file is also being created and deleted as frequently as possible. If I exclude groff from my install and also ignore the dependency issues, the install completes without problem and appears on the surface to be functional. I noted that some other people on the list had a similar issue with .keep-alternatives, and through a combination of running as an administrator, disabling UAC, disabling a dell dll, or disabling windows defender were able to get past this. This is not a dell box and I have not installed any dell apps. I had windows defender enabled and then later disabled windows defender. I tried running the installer with UAC disabled and then UAC enabled. I've run setup.exe as an administrator (right click->run as administrator) and as my regular user (that is also an administrator) None of this helped this issue. I finally disabled windows defender, disabled UAC, and booted Win 7 in safe mode with networking support, and ran setup.exe as an administrator. It still would not install these two packages. It's also worth nothing that after a successful install of cygwin without these two packages, attempting to add those packages to the install by running setup.exe again results in the same problems installing them. Attached is the cygcheck.out from cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out Thanks for your help, Clinton Goudie-Nice
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