On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, John Smith wrote: > I am a first time user of cygwin. I recently downloaded the packages > which I would like to install to my HD but now I am confused as to how > to install the files on my system. > > So could some one give me some direction on how to accomplish this. I > have oppted not to use the automatic install which is allowed with the > setup.exe becuase I am planing on slipstreaming cygwin once I have > figuredout how to install the packages which I have selected.
John, The cygwin setup.exe tool supports separate download and installation. You can either use setup.exe itself to first download packages and then install from a local repository, or, if you know what you are doing, use one of the alternative download mechanisms, the best known of which are probably the clean_setup.pl script and local mirroring using rsync. The clean_setup.pl script can be found on Google, and the local mirroring is documented in <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>. It is highly recommended that you only use Cygwin's setup.exe to install Cygwin packages, unless you *really* know what you're doing. If setup.exe is not used for your installation, you can expect little support on this list. Hope this clarifies matters, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
