On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:10:47PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 01/16/2010 08:03 PM, Sven K??hler wrote: >> Am 17.01.2010 01:07, schrieb Clinton Goudie-Nice: >>> 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 >> >> Same problem here. > >Try again with 2.677. It's out now. If you don't get it when you >download from cygwin.com, make sure none of your servers are >caching an old copy.
Right. There was a bad version of setup.exe installed (by me) which failed to install zero-length files like what you see in the alternatives package. It's fixed now. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
