Hi Larry, Thanks for the reply. It works... Also it installs the packages when I add the package in "misc" category.
Thanks, Shaick. On 4/23/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shaick mohamed wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to install cygwin in quite mode with selecting few packages > > like unzip/zip (which by default won't be sected for install). Is > > there any way I can achive this. > > > > I tried by downloading the needed package, now the setup.ini has all > > the packages I want to install and the release folder contain all the > > binary files. But when I try to install from the local directory it is > > not installing the needed packages like unzip. So I run the setup.exe > > with interactive mode and found that again by default the unzip > > package is not marked for install. So Can somebody give light on this. > > > > Any short of help will be greatly appreciated. > > > If I'm not mistaken, I believe the simplest and easiest way to do what > you want to do is to simply edit your local setup.ini to put the packages > you want into the "Base" category. Everything in "Base" is automatically > installed. There are other ways to achieve something similar, such as > > <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-04/msg00039.html> > > or > > <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html> > > But if you just want to do this once, editing the setup.ini file is probably > the easiest thing to do. > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
