Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Peshansky writes: > I haven't looked at it in detail: does cyg-apt properly run preremove and > postinstall scripts? No. If running on Cygwin, it will run .sh scripts. > Besides, it can use the same replace-on-reboot mechanism as setup > uses -- is there a similar API for python? If it is

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-21 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 1/20/06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > $ cyg-apt install lilypond > > to install: > > libXft1 libXft2 ghostscript-base libreadline6 findutils xorg-x11-bin > > pcre pango-runtime libncurses8 glib2-runtime pcre-doc libintl fontconfig > > x

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Joshua Daniel Franklin writes: > Jan, cyg-apt appears to be able to install packages on Cygwin as > well as Linux. Yes. > Do you know if it has regularly been used in such a manner? I'm using it, but I haven't had any success or bug reports. >The biggest concern would be that if running under

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 1/20/06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > $ cyg-apt install lilypond > to install: > libXft1 libXft2 ghostscript-base libreadline6 findutils xorg-x11-bin pcre > pango-runtime libncurses8 glib2-runtime pcre-doc libintl fontconfig > xorg-x11-base xorg-x11-fnts openssl097 python xterm X-startup-scr

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
William A. Mahaffey, III writes: > Would you have a tutorial on using it :-) See below. The download command does not resolve dependencies, use install instead. Jan. $ cyg-apt setup error: /home/janneke/tmp/cygwin/root no root dir 21:59:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ mkdir -p /home/janneke/tmp/c

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
William A. Mahaffey, III writes: >>http://lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt > > This looks intriguing, I just downloaded it. I am *NOT* a python guy, > would this work under regular Linux to do all the downloading ? That's what I use it for. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-19 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: William A. Mahaffey, III writes: ? Better yet, is there a Linux version of setup.exe ? TIA Cyg-apt is a python script to install cygwin packages that can keep your cross compile root up to date http://lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt Jan. Thi

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-19 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Alexander Gottwald escribe: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > is there a Linux version of setup.exe ? > > I had run setup.exe in wine. This worked very well (last tried > about a year ago) I tried once exactly that with no success. I am sure that it will work nicely in

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > is there a Linux version of setup.exe ? I had run setup.exe in wine. This worked very well (last tried about a year ago) bye ago -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
William A. Mahaffey, III writes: > ? Better yet, is there a Linux version of setup.exe ? TIA Cyg-apt is a python script to install cygwin packages that can keep your cross compile root up to date http://lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:17:43PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> I searched the main cygwin archives & found a thread on installing >> Cygwin using Linux. ... > >I'm curious -- why would you want to install Cygwin on GNU/Linux when most >GNU/Linux distribu

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I searched the main cygwin archives & found a thread on installing > Cygwin using Linux. It recommended just WGET-ing or FTP-ing the whole > release directory along w/ setup.exe & setup.ini & get on with it. > However I poked around o

RE: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread David Christensen
William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I searched the main cygwin archives & found a thread on installing > Cygwin using Linux. ... I'm curious -- why would you want to install Cygwin on GNU/Linux when most GNU/Linux distributions already include GNU tools? David -- Unsubscribe info: http

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2006-01-18 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
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Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
I searched the main cygwin archives & found a thread on installing Cygwin using Linux. It recommended just WGET-ing or FTP-ing the whole release directory along w/ setup.exe & setup.ini & get on with it. However I poked around on ftp.ale.org & observed that there were usually 2 copi