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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:58:15 +0800
From:	Yin Ming <yinming AT mdc-ds DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: How to install a individual package
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:52:54 -0400 (EDT)
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Yin Ming wrote:
> 
> > HI, all
> >
> > Greeting to all mates. This is my first time here.
> >
> > I installed from a local downloaded directory. (Since I cannot access
> > Internet in my office), and after installed that, I found I missed vim
> > and w32api, these two tar.gz file were broken. So I downloaded them
> > individually, and copy them (the tar.gz package, the setup.hint and md5
> > files) into their directories. Then I started setup.exe again, but
> > cannot find these two packages in the list. Wow, how can I install them?
> 
> First off, Cygwin packages are distributed as .tar.bz2 files, not .tar.gz
> -- are you sure you got them from the right place?  
Emm. I wrote wrong words. It's bz2, but I download it from another site,
and the version is much newer than the installed one.

> Secondly, setup
> doesn't read the setup.hint and md5 files, it reads the setup.ini
> (setup.bz2) in the top install cache directory.  
Then I edited the setup.ini, add these new version packages inside, and
the md5 code.

> Thirdly, did you try the
> "Full" and "Not installed" views?
> 	Igor
OK, after that, I can see them now. Installation has been done, and
thank you, Igor.

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