On 12/19/2013 10:08 AM, Valerie Livina wrote:
Dear Prof. Ken Brown, I apologise, I just sent the email unfinished - I continue it here. I found your email in Cygwin mailing lists, and I understand that you are an expert in TeXLive packages in Cygwin. I would be very grateful if you could help me in my installation problem, or advise me who could I contact regarding this.
Your mail should have gone to the Cygwin mailing list. Please send any followups there.
I have cygwin32 installed on my computer (running Window7 64-bit). I installed cygwin32 because I need to use xmgrace, which is not yet available in the 64-bit version. I compile a tex-file with some glossary using fonts that are not available in the default TeXLive package and get error message, which is disccussed here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97123/problem-finding-metafonts-at-compilation I understand that I have to install additional fonts, so I run again Cygwin installer and add the recommended packages, texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended I add these two packages in the Cygwin installer and then it suggests me to choose a server for installation.
Are you running setup-x86.exe from the Cygwin website? It should ask you to choose a mirror very early in the process, not after you've selected packages.
I have spent two days already trying to get access to most of the servers in the list, and none of them allows me to perform installation. The status bar gets stuck in the middle of Progress, and after some time the installer says that I have to choose another server. It keeps going like this without installing the packages, as if theres is some general problem with installation. Would you please advise how can I solve this problem?
At what point does the installation get stuck? Is it during the download? And what's the exact error message that you get?
By the way, I don't think your problem has anything to do with TeX Live, except that the packages you're trying to install are moderately large. Do you generally have problems downloading large files?
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