Hi, On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jørgen Steensgaard wrote: > After having installed a basic version of Cygwin I wanted to install X and a > few programs that depend on it. Using one mirror I thought I was doing > well, but no program X were found.
Under Cygwin, /usr/bin/X is a symlink to /usr/bin/XWin.exe : http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=xorg-server%2Fxorg-server-1.9.3-2&grep=XWin.exe > Somehow I got the information that xinit > was needed, but that I could not obtain from the mirror. So I found another > and lo-and-behold: I got xinit, X, and Xemacs. I find it hard to believe that downloading xinit would get you Xemacs. > From previous experience I knew that the X-server should be started somehow, > but I could not resist to call Xemacs right away. And believe it or not: it > could not start, and complained about a missing cygjpeg-62.dll. So back to > the provider to have a look for the package libjpeg-62, identified by a > lookup elsewhere. But neither of the two providers had such a package, but > instead some different libjpeg-*. After having downloaded all of these, the > complaint came back again. Did you use Cygwin's setup.exe? If yes, what version? > So: please give me some advice on where to find a provider of all packages Have you tried http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html ? Also, don't forget: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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
