Re: Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2013 10:01 AM, Alan wrote: The first problem comes when I try to install the rxvt package. Running the installer again with that package selected results in an error. Package: rxvt rxvt.sh exit code 3 rxvt is a very old, practically deprecated package of a dead code-line. If you must

Re: Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-25 Thread Alan Thompson
Hi - I'm not sure if this will help your problem, but in the past I have had to install Cygwin to a number of non-networked machines. For me, the easiest way was to use setup.exe with the option of "save files but don't install". You can copy the saved folder and setup.exe onto a CD and take it t

Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-25 Thread Alan
I have downloaded and installed cygwin on one machine and would like to install it on a second machine which is non-networked and for which I don't have administrator rights. However, I am running into some issues which are described below. I have created a Mapped Network Drive (X:) for the folder