On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Natalia M. Belfiore wrote: > Hello > I am a relatively new cygwin user and very new to programming. I have > successfully installed and run cygwin and perl and some unix utilities > on one of my PCs. I recently tried to install it on another pc (my > laptop) but I do not seem to have the option of installing packages. > Every single choice in the expanding menu of packages says "skip".
Try switching to "Full" mode (click the button in the top right corner). > I have tried deleting the setup folders and redownloading it 4 times, Which setup folders? You mean the "local directory" that setup asks for? > and every time I get the same thing. I tried installing whatever it will > install anyway, and then opening the cygwin window and asking it to show > me the available packages (with the cygcheck -p command) and for kicks, > to tell me the perl version that's installed, and each time it confirms > that there is nothing. Well, how about following the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and attaching (as an uncompressed text attachment) the output of "cygcheck -svr"? > Is anyone aware of what conditions might cause this to be the case? I > ostensibly have Windows XP professional running on both computers, but I > notice that some things run differently on my laptop than my desktop, so > perhaps there is something set differently. If anyone can suggest things > I can check, I am happy to do that. Without the output of "cygcheck -svr", there isn't much we can do... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
