Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-30 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:43:20AM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 28.10.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Duncan Roe: > >As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to > >*reinstall* > >everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted > >I > >don't know what.

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-29 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 28, 2015, at 8:49 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> I only wanted to *reinstall* >> everything I had installed previously > > Solution is to run `cygcheck --check-setup` and manually select any packages > reported incomplete for reinstall. This solution and Achim Gratz’ assume your Cygwin inst

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 28.10.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Duncan Roe: As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to *reinstall* everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted I don't know what. One way to do that (if you really want to re-install instead of running cyg

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Duncan Roe! > As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to > *reinstall* > everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted I > don't know what. > I configured AVG to never look at C:\cygwin64 in future but was that the best > I > co

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread t s
x27;next' on the screen at; http://cpm86.com/sdcard-new-1.jpg this would choose 'default' packages on the top right hand side, from "keep / curr / exp" I should choose "curr" ? thanks for your advice From: Andrey Repin Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 9:03 A

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:05:06AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > > > From: Warren Young > >> > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > >>> > >>> Q: How do I install everything? > >>> A: You do not want to do this! > >> > >> I explain this

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Csaba Raduly! > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Warren Young wrote: > (snip) >> >> This is why you don’t go telling Cygwin to install *everything*. You don’t >> want everything. > You can't have everything. Where would you put it? :) That's easy - I'd put it everywhere. -- With

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Warren Young wrote: (snip) > > This is why you don’t go telling Cygwin to install *everything*. You don’t > want everything. You can't have everything. Where would you put it? :) Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > You just asked setup.exe to install a whole bunch of software you do not > actually need, so when it starts asking you questions about what you want > done with this software, you are lost, because you don’t even know what the > software *i

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Warren Young >> >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: >>> >>> Q: How do I install everything? >>> A: You do not want to do this! >> >> I explain this in more detail here: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 > > For the

RE: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Warren Young > > On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > > > > Q: How do I install everything? > > A: You do not want to do this! > > I explain this in more detail here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 For the hell of it I decided to check out this hidden feature. What I got

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > > Q: How do I install everything? > A: You do not want to do this! I explain this in more detail here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, t s! > I am making a fresh install of Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. > The installation is to a 256 GB memory stick. I understand, you're wishing to use it as portable install? > Should I format the memory stick as NTFS? It may be necessary, depends on the packages you want to use.