Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/17/09:53:53
I can't really offer much comment on this, as I do still use setup.exe to
actually install the packages. But one thing I have noticed recently, and
I'm sure someone reported it as a bug, is that setup regularly fails to
download all packages successfully. Once download is completed and we move
on to installing from local directory (I always do the process in 2 steps
due to maintaining a local copy of cygwin install set for my workplace),
then setup comes up with a few errors along the lines of 'Cannot locate
(NULL) package' (purely from memory, can't duplicate it without trying to
download the whole lot again).
My current solution is to use that wonderful wget script someone handily
provided to get the packages to a local directory, and then use setup to
install from there.
Could it be that people have encountered the same/a similar error, and
chosen to attempt a totally manual installation?
HTH,
Steve.
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