Re: Install Cygwin 3.5 from command line?

On 03/01/2024 06:49, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: Hello! Can someone give me precise instructions on how to install Cygwin 3.5 (setup.exe with Testing+Sync checkboxes selected) from the Windows command line? If I try, I only get Cygwin 3.4. What have you tried? For a fresh install, this shou

Re: How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line

ygwin/2022-August/252146.html This was very helpful and was able to re-install everything. inetutils-server balked at how the permission on /var were set, but once I corrected those, it also finished installing. Thank you! Now we'll see if a re-install fixed my issues :-) ... EM --

Re: How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line

Eliot Moss wrote: I've not been able to find a way to get setup, when used from the command line, to *re*install an existing package, so as to repair any brokenness. For context, I had my disk get trashed and restored from a cloud backup. However, that tool is not entirely competent

Re: How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line

Eliot Moss writes: > I've not been able to find a way to get setup, when used from the command > line, to *re*install an existing package, so as to repair any brokenness. If it's not been broken in the years that passed by since I implemented it initially, telling setup to both re

How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line

Dear Cygwiners - I've not been able to find a way to get setup, when used from the command line, to *re*install an existing package, so as to repair any brokenness. For context, I had my disk get trashed and restored from a cloud backup. However, that tool is not entirely competent

Re: Install seems broken

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:54:19PM +, TPI.Slingshot wrote: > I was running Cygwin 3.3.1 on a windows 10 pc. > > When I update to 3.3.4, I couldn’t run Cygwin on this hardware anymore. > > The installer says “cygwin1.dll” can’t run on this hardware. This sounds like the known problem with 3.3

Re: Install Problem texlive

On 1/27/2021 4:04 AM, Graf, Ingbert (HPE Pointnext Global Shared Delivery DACH) via Cygwin wrote: Hi, I’m having trouble running tex after installing the latest updates. /etc/postinstall/zp_texlive_finish.dash stops with the following error: fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini -jobname=xmlt

Re: install cygwin x86 version with --site parameter

On 22/09/2017 13:02, Lynn wrote: hi , we are using cygwin command line to install cygwin on x86 win7 machine ,there is one parameter we are using --site $setup-x86.exe --site "http://username:password@{ip address} is this supported (username:password)? per our observation ,it can't res

Re: install cygwin on windose xp

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Peter Lazar wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Please advise: what is the way to install Cygwin on XP (for example: > (i) how to install version 2.5.2; (ii) how to obtain/download > setup.exe for 2.5.2?) the "cygwin time machine" http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#c

Re: Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing

Thank you Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 08/04/2016 02:13, REBSTOCK, ROLAND wrote: >> All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can >> start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no > > I guess you are star

Re: Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing

On 08/04/2016 02:13, REBSTOCK, ROLAND wrote: All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no I guess you are starting the X server directly, rather than using startxwin? longer have a option to start a xte

Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing

All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no longer have a option to start a xterm.  What I found is I have to access CygwinX via start menu and then click on xterm which then starts up a new X applicatio

Re: Install Cygwin on mounted drive for multiple concurrent users on multiple machines?

On 19. 11. 2015 23:52, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > I didn't see this in the Cygwin FAQ (perhaps I didn't look carefully > enough or perhaps it is too obvious a question). > > Instead of installing Cygwin on each Windows machine, is it > advisable to install it once on a public mounted dr

Re: Install Bug on Windows XP

Greetings, Thomas Dineen! > Gentle People: > When I install the newest Cygwin 32 on Windows XP the > install process hangs on cmake-debuginfo-3.3.2-1. > The system seems to hang in an infinite loop with > setup.exe drawing 99% of the CPU. > Please note that the download and SHA checksum

Re: Install Bug on Windows XP

Yaakov: Yes on the disk space. Is there a way to manually finish the install? Thomas Dineen On 10/22/2015 7:25 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:52 -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: When I install the newest Cygwin 32 on Windows XP the install process hangs on cmake-

Re: Install Bug on Windows XP

On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:52 -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: > When I install the newest Cygwin 32 on Windows XP the > install process hangs on cmake-debuginfo-3.3.2-1. > The system seems to hang in an infinite loop with > setup.exe drawing 99% of the CPU. > > Please note that the download and

Re: Install OpenMPI in cygwin

On 26/06/2014 06:53, Yue Guan wrote: Hi, I’m a student in UCLA. I want to infall OpenMPI on Cygwin64. Do you have a tutorial webpage for that? Thank you. Look forward to your reply. Best wishes, Yue Guan Hi Yue, nothing special on cygwin64 compared to other "Unix" Use cygwin setup-x86_64.ex

Re: Install older version of sshd

On 3/31/2014 4:57 PM, Curtis wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help on my last question about sshd. :) Now, another question -- I would like to test an older version of openssh; the 5.9 release. What's the best way to go about installing that? I see a couple repos with older versions of openssh still

Re: Install packages (-P option) listed in a file?

> My Google-fu seems to be weak this morning. > > Does the -P option to the installer support reading packages to be installed > from a file instead of directly from the command line argument? If so, what's > the syntax (I tried -P@filename). Remember this has to run in a Windows cmd > shell,

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin fails

(GMail won't let me stick a References: header in; the thread here was from [1].) > Bash 4.2 is *still* using the old and long deprecated > cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path function. It should long have changed > the call to use the cygwin_conv_path or cygwin_create_path function. > > Eric? Any ch

Re: Install packages without documentation

On 1/15/2014 6:45 AM, BGINFO4X wrote: Hello everybody, I'm trying to build a "small release" ... Normally /usr/share contains at least 50MB: folders like "doc", "man", "info", ... Is there any way to install cygwin packages without the documentation ? No, not really. Observe: $ cygcheck -f

Re: Install Failure - Cygwin 1.7.27 on Windows XP

ravi r writes: > I could not find any other cygwin1.dll. The only cygwin1.dll is the > one that was copied as part > of the install > C:\>dir /s cygwin1.dll > Volume in drive C has no label. > Volume Serial Number is 2C06-B85F > > Directory of C:\Temp\tmp2\cygwin\bin > > 12/09/2013 05:57 AM

Re: Install Failure - Cygwin 1.7.27 on Windows XP

Tried reinstall again, got same error about another cygwin1.dll and all postinstall scripts terminating with code of -6. I could not find any other cygwin1.dll. The only cygwin1.dll is the one that was copied as part of the install C:\>dir /s cygwin1.dll Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Se

Re: Install Failure - Cygwin 1.7.27 on Windows XP

On 21/12/13 01:12, ravi r wrote: Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path This could well be the cause of the problem: there is another 'cygwin1.dll' somewhere in your path. Correct this (by removing the offending entry from your path), then try your installation again. If you

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin fails

On Dec 11 11:10, Javier Murillo Márquez wrote: > I tried to install bash 4.2 but I get this error when I write "make" > > rm -f bash.exe > gcc -L./builtins -L./lib/readline -L./lib/readline -L./lib/glob > -L./lib/tilde -L./lib/sh -L./lib/termcap-g -O2 -o bash.exe > shell.o eval.o y.tab.o gene

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 07:56:16PM +0100, Javier Murillo M?rquez wrote: >Hello > >Then, is not possible install bash 4.2 on CygWin?. I can not >understand if there is some way for it. We have a program called setup-*.exe which installs programs. If you don't see bash 4.2 there then it is not avai

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

Hello Then, is not possible install bash 4.2 on CygWin?. I can not understand if there is some way for it. Thanks :) 2013/12/6 Peter Rosin : > Hi! > > Sorry about that, I knew the 64-bit version was newer and was convinced > it was 4.2-something. So convinced that I didn't check before writing.

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

Hi! Sorry about that, I knew the 64-bit version was newer and was convinced it was 4.2-something. So convinced that I didn't check before writing. Cheers, Peter On 2013-12-06 16:30, Javier Murillo Márquez wrote: > Is it available for 64-bit? I installed CygWin and searched the > package for bash

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

Is it available for 64-bit? I installed CygWin and searched the package for bash 4.2 and I just found Bash 4.1. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bash&arch=x86_64 2013/12/6 Peter Rosin : > Javier wrote: >> Hello!! >> >> Is possible install bash 4.2 on cygwin? Is there some patch or

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

Javier wrote: > Hello!! > > Is possible install bash 4.2 on cygwin? Is there some patch or update for it? It is available for 64-bit. Not 32-bit though, we're still waiting for that update (with the WORDEXP_OPTION enabled to fix wordexp(3) and enabled support for loadable builtins)... You could

RE: Install puts home in /c/Users

Would the ability setting environmental variable in /etc/profile do the job? To expand on http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00977.html - Perhaps it would be useful to have a way to override any environmental variable provided by Windows via text file. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made he

Re: Install problem with latest cygwin

On 8/26/2013 12:46 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/26/2013 11:52 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 8/26/2013 5:05 AM, Allan Chandler wrote: >>> >>> I've been running CygWin on my Win7-64 laptop for some time and I >>> recently >>> decided to update to the latest packages, mainly because there'

Re: Install problem with latest cygwin

On 8/26/2013 12:46 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/26/2013 11:52 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2013 5:05 AM, Allan Chandler wrote: I've been running CygWin on my Win7-64 laptop for some time and I recently decided to update to the latest packages, mainly because there's a bucket load more s

Re: Install problem with latest cygwin

On 8/26/2013 11:52 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/26/2013 5:05 AM, Allan Chandler wrote: I've been running CygWin on my Win7-64 laptop for some time and I recently decided to update to the latest packages, mainly because there's a bucket load more stuff in there. I renamed my cygwin direc

Re: Install problem with latest cygwin

On 8/26/2013 5:05 AM, Allan Chandler wrote: I've been running CygWin on my Win7-64 laptop for some time and I recently decided to update to the latest packages, mainly because there's a bucket load more stuff in there. I renamed my cygwin directory to get it out of the way and downloaded/ran se

Re: install of whois reported error - update-desktop-database - update-desktop-database

On 5/28/2013 3:14 AM, Jay Eichelberger wrote: The setup.log.full says: -snipped-- 2013/05/28 02:17:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh" /etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh: line 1: /usr/bin/update-desktop-database: No such file or directory /etc/po

Re: Install Problem: No Shortcuts

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Try installing for "Just Me". That didn't solve the problem. But running setup.exe as an Administrator did fix the problem. When not running as administrator the desktop shortcut was not created and no error or warning m

RE: Install Problem: No Shortcuts

Scott Roland sent the following at Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:46 AM > >I tried to do a fresh install of Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. I have >attached the cygcheck.out. > >The only option I selected during the install was the mirror. The rest >I left as default, but no shortcuts were placed on my D

Re: Problem after re-install :(

Neat! Thank you. Andy On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:19:09 -0700, Tom Schutter wrote: > I have created a batch file that attempts to automate > faq.setup.uninstall-all. You can find it at > https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_uninstall.bat -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Problem after re-install :(

I have created a batch file that attempts to automate faq.setup.uninstall-all. You can find it at https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_uninstall.bat On Thu 2012-12-13 13:03, andy.grayb...@casanueva.com wrote: > > If you want to uninstall, see the FAQ link below: > > > >

Re: Problem after re-install :(

> If you want to uninstall, see the FAQ link below: > > > > The install should be obvious to you by now. :-) > > While setup.exe does recognize when you have in-use DLLs during an > update, the recovery from this does not seem to be f

Re: Problem after re-install :(

may operate incorrectly until you reboot. 2012/12/07 07:27:55 Ending cygwin install This is my full setup.log file: http://pastebin.com/BdxvekS8 I've rebooted, but doesn't work correctly any longer. I have my path set in XP environment settings and I have CYGWIN=ntsec tty One questi

Re: Problem after re-install :(

may operate incorrectly until you reboot. 2012/12/07 07:27:55 Ending cygwin install This is my full setup.log file: http://pastebin.com/BdxvekS8 I've rebooted, but doesn't work correctly any longer. I have my path set in XP environment settings and I have CYGWIN=ntsec tty One question

Problem after re-install :(

12/07 07:27:55 Ending cygwin install This is my full setup.log file: http://pastebin.com/BdxvekS8 I've rebooted, but doesn't work correctly any longer. I have my path set in XP environment settings and I have CYGWIN=ntsec tty One question I have is how to I fully uninstall cygwin and re-i

Re: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Aaron Schneider wrote: > On 25/07/2012 3:13, ping wrote: >> >> I'm trying to install App::Asciio in cygwin, but got following error, >> please advice, or what info are still needed to proceed, thanks! >> >> CPAN: Module::Build loaded ok (v0.3613) >> >>CPAN.pm: G

Re: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

.gz with either perl 5.10 or perl 5.14. This is not the case for Ubuntu, for example, at least trying to install all cpan dependencies for App-Asciio-1.02.71. -- I was doing that but interupted it due to the long installation time (don't know why, I thought it just re-install a few dependen

Re: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

On 25/07/2012 3:13, ping wrote: I'm trying to install App::Asciio in cygwin, but got following error, please advice, or what info are still needed to proceed, thanks! CPAN: Module::Build loaded ok (v0.3613) CPAN.pm: Going to build N/NK/NKH/App-Asciio-1.02.71.tar.gz 0 [main] perl 6432

RE: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

ping wrote: >actually I tried...couldn't figure out how. the instruction from- >rebaseall is quite confusing... First, don't top post. Second, help yourself: did you try looking at the FAQ or Google? Third, help us help you: don't tell us you're confused, tell us what you're confused by. Don't m

Re: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

On 7/26/2012 9:33 AM, ping wrote: actually I tried...couldn't figure out how. the instruction from rebaseall is quite confusing... You missed some important bits: [ping@ping-new-laptop ~]$ rebaseall rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing Exit all Cygwin process

Re: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

actually I tried...couldn't figure out how. the instruction from rebaseall is quite confusing... [ping@ping-new-laptop ~]$ rebaseall rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all Cygwin services. Execute ash (or dash) from Start

RE: install package from cpan report "address space needed by ... is already occupied"

ping wrote: >I'm trying to install App::Asciio in cygwin, but got following error,- >please advice, or what info are still needed to proceed, thanks! > >CPAN: Module::Build loaded ok (v0.3613) > > CPAN.pm: Going to build N/NK/NKH/App-Asciio-1.02.71.tar.gz > > 0 [main] perl 6432 child_info_f

Re: Install Crashes Windows

On 7/17/2012 3:09 AM, Daniel Cowdery wrote: Thanks Larry, I run windows update fairly frequently, so I can't imagine that would be the cause, unless you think I need to update my drivers manually?? If Windows is up-to-date, then drivers are the next suspect (assuming it's not BLODA of some so

RE: Install Crashes Windows

Thanks Larry, I run windows update fairly frequently, so I can't imagine that would be the cause, unless you think I need to update my drivers manually?? Also please see my previous response (it didn't make it to the mailing list as I forgot to set as plain text. " Thanks Mark, I tested the

Re: Install Crashes Windows

On 7/16/2012 3:18 AM, Mark Geisert wrote: Daniel Cowdery writes: For starters, I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit. I run the Setup.exe file and select all the extra modules I require (on Suggestion: First limit yourself to the modules setup.exe installs by default. After that is working, you can

Re: Install Crashes Windows

Daniel Cowdery writes: > For starters, I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit. > I run the Setup.exe file and select all the extra modules I require (on Suggestion: First limit yourself to the modules setup.exe installs by default. After that is working, you can always run setup.exe again to pick up t

RE: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 02:14 > Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration > > So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If > I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

On 07/12/2012 09:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, LMH! Totally unnecessary. If you've maintained your installation for quite some time, updating regularly, then setup cache contains lots of obsolete packages. Would be much, much faster to just burn it and download new setup.exe when you n

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

> In the other thread, you asked me to not "top post". I'm not familiar > with that term, so I'm not sure exactly what I need to avoid. ..mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the install directory, will it figure out what packages are already installed? I suppose I could test this sort of thing, but I figure that someone already kno

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

Greetings, LMH! > I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to > completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current > settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re-install? Just pack up the installation directory, a

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

On 7/12/2012 5:04 PM, LMH wrote: If you do the old standard, mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l > /etc/group will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those directories now first? For these files, your above recipe will work. The location of the cygwin directory will

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

If you do the old standard, mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l > /etc/group will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those directories now first? The location of the cygwin directory will be the same. Is there a list of the windows registry entries for cygwin? I will

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

Not sure if the following will work, but couldn't you use something like: Old machine: cygcheck -cd package_list.log New machine: setup --packages < package_list.log You would have to copy your home directory and possibly massage the input data. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

On 7/12/2012 4:31 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things like local user and group accounts in '/etc/pa

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then > plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things > like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' that > will nee

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

On 7/12/2012 4:10 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, LMH wrote: I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, LMH wrote: > I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to > completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current > settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re-install? > > I was t

best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re-install? I was thinking of just copying my cygwin_install directory that has

Re: install issue: have attached error logs

On 3/8/2012 10:29 AM, Kyle Wonderly wrote: To anyone who can help: I have tried multiple times to install cygwin without success. I cannot seem to find any online information about people doing recent installs or having any recent problems. I have watched videos of people installing cygwin and d

Re: install issue: have attached error logs

Did you run setup.exe from the command line and choose mirror sites, or use the GUI? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: Install crash

On 1/5/2012 1:24 AM, Michal Janik wrote: In article<4f048930.20...@cygwin.com>, you say... On 1/4/2012 6:44 AM, jamich - Post wrote: Marco, do you know how to install previous version of cygwin? Is there any way how to do it? As Marco mentioned, setup.exe is a user-space program, not a kerne

Re: Install crash

In article <4f048930.20...@cygwin.com>, you say... > > On 1/4/2012 6:44 AM, jamich - Post wrote: > > Marco, > > do you know how to install previous version of cygwin? Is there any way > > how to do it? > > As Marco mentioned, setup.exe is a user-space program, not a kernel one. > Therefore, it is

Re: Install crash

On 1/4/2012 6:44 AM, jamich - Post wrote: Marco, do you know how to install previous version of cygwin? Is there any way how to do it? As Marco mentioned, setup.exe is a user-space program, not a kernel one. Therefore, it is not possible for it to be crashing your system. If you are experienci

Re: Install crash

Marco, do you know how to install previous version of cygwin? Is there any way how to do it? Michal On 1/4/2012 12:02 PM, jamich - Post wrote: > Marco, >I have nod32. I turn off it and install cygwin again. My attempt finished > by restarting windows. > I use cygwin and nod32 for 2 ye

Re: Install crash

On 1/4/2012 12:02 PM, jamich - Post wrote: Marco, I have nod32. I turn off it and install cygwin again. My attempt finished by restarting windows. > I use cygwin and nod32 for 2 years without any problems. I updated cygwin several times without any >problem. Newest version caused me these pr

Re: Install crash

Marco, I have nod32. I turn off it and install cygwin again. My attempt finished by restarting windows. I use cygwin and nod32 for 2 years without any problems. I updated cygwin several times without any problem. Newest version caused me these problems. Do you have any idea? Is there any log d

Re: Install crash

On 1/4/2012 11:08 AM, jamich - Post wrote: I have a problem. I downloaded cygwin setup and run on my pc with windows xp. I let all setting in default state. I selected source of binaries and I installed it. During installing binaries on my pc it was suddenly restarted. Installation was not succ

How to re-install X server icon ?

cygwin where not there anymore. Running the installer did restore the cygwin icons on my Desktop, but there where no Cygwin/X icons on either the desktop or the start menu. I tried to explicitly re-install, with setup.exe, the xwin-icons package (in the X11 group), and still I only got icons for

RE: Install all packages from local repository?

Oleksandr Gavenko sent the following at Monday, October 31, 2011 3:49 PM >31.10.2011 19:48, Jim Garrison ?: Though I have no experience with it, I believe that one can create an empty dummy package that "requires" what you want. Try Googling < site:cygwin.com "setup.ini" requires dummy packag

Re: Install all packages from local repository?

31.10.2011 19:48, Jim Garrison пишет: I need to create a "standard" Cygwin setup for a group of developers, containing the defaults plus a customized selection of additional non- default packages to be installed (ssh, vim, etc, about 70 total). $ cat setup.bat @echo off setup.exe --local-inst

Re: Install all packages from local repository?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: ... > > As far as I can tell, the only way to do this currently is to > explicitly list all the packages on the command line with the -P > option.  Is this the only way? If it is being scripted, what is wrong with this option? -- Problem repo

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Corinna Vinschen wrote: then ! rebase "${Verbose}" -s "${Mach}" -T "${TmpFile}" else ! rebase "${Verbose}" -s "${Mach}" -b "${BaseAddress}" -o "${Offset}" -T "${TmpFile}" fi ExitCode=$? Ouch, that's probably a residue of my testing. Fixed in CVS. tha

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

Marc Girod wrote: > > Sorry. This made a difference on the command line, but not in the file. > Is there something wrong in redirecting xauth's stderr to /dev/null? It complains that the file doesn't exist, and indeed just made sure to remove it... trap "rm -f '$xserverauthfile'" HUP INT Q

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

On Oct 23 16:05, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/23/2011 3:57 PM, Marc Girod wrote: > > > > > >Marc Girod wrote: > >> > >>To be honest, I find that cygcheck too behaves strangely: > >> > >>... > >>~> cygcheck -l rebase-3.0.1-1 > >> > >OK: my mistake (Thanks Marco): > > > >~> cygcheck -c rebase > >Cyg

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

On Oct 23 19:36, scow...@ckhb.org wrote: > > this new release of rebaseall has an error at lines 217 and 219. > the version i just downloaded erroneously assumes invocation of the > utility from the current directory. if i missed any previous > mention of this in the list, i apologize for the dup

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

this new release of rebaseall has an error at lines 217 and 219. the version i just downloaded erroneously assumes invocation of the utility from the current directory. if i missed any previous mention of this in the list, i apologize for the duplication. and thanks to Marco Atzeri for the

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

Marc Girod wrote: > > It seems that xauth doesn't like the double-quote around the filename... > Sorry. This made a difference on the command line, but not in the file. Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Install-error-with-rebase-4.0.0-1-tp32705124p32705441.html Sent

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

Thanks again Marco, marco atzeri-4 wrote: > > As workaround with rebase-4.0.0-1 you can, from ash, > > mkdir /usr/etc > rebaseall > > the database will be created as > /usr/etc/rebase.db.i386 > I did, and it worked. As for the xauth error, it is in /usr/bin/startx: ~> xauth -q -f "$xservera

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

On 10/23/2011 3:57 PM, Marc Girod wrote: Marc Girod wrote: To be honest, I find that cygcheck too behaves strangely: ... ~> cygcheck -l rebase-3.0.1-1 OK: my mistake (Thanks Marco): ~> cygcheck -c rebase Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus rebase

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

Marc Girod wrote: > > To be honest, I find that cygcheck too behaves strangely: > > ... > ~> cygcheck -l rebase-3.0.1-1 > OK: my mistake (Thanks Marco): ~> cygcheck -c rebase Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus rebase 3.0.1-1OK ~> cygche

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

Thanks Ken, Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > This looks like a packaging bug. The rebasedb file is supposed to go in > /etc, not /usr/etc. I suspect that Jason forgot to specify > --sysconfdir=/etc when configuring. See > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-09/msg00025.html > However, there

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

On 10/23/2011 9:29 AM, Marc Girod wrote: Hello, I just ran setup, but could not run rebaseall: this one (4.0.0-1 iirc) failed to access a rebasedb file (under a non-existing /usr/etc directory). I reverted to 3.0.1-1. This looks like a packaging bug. The rebasedb file is supposed to go in /

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:48:50PM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: >>On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, LMH  wrote: >>> Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about >>> setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal an

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:48:50PM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: >On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, LMH wrote: >> Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about >> setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal and not cmd? Can you link me >> to something? > >I have a shortcut

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:10 PM, LMH wrote: > Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about > setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal and not cmd? Can you link me > to something? I have a shortcut with the following target, on my desktop: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

Well key shortcut copy and past would be very nice. How do I go about setting up bash to run with the mintty terminal and not cmd? Can you link me to something? LMH Csaba Raduly wrote: 2011/8/20 LMH wrote: So I guess this is resolved, but I suppose I should look in to running the mintty ter

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

2011/8/20 LMH wrote: > So I guess this is resolved, but I suppose I should look in to running the > mintty terminal. What are the basic advantages of this compared to running > in cmd? * Resizable * Easier copy & paste (and consistent with xterm etc.) * Much wider font selection Csaba -- GCS a+

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

Thank you for all the clarification on shells and terminals, I have always used the terms interchangeably, which I guess was not correct. A few replies, > Is there any religious taboo that would prevent you from opening the > batch script in an editor and see that you're wrong? No, I did this

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

On Aug 19 21:19, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:31 PM, LMH wrote: > > (Please don't top-post) > > I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having > > those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned > > about the health of the insta

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:31 PM, LMH wrote: (Please don't top-post) > I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having > those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned > about the health of the install. The health of the Cygwin install should be u

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