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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:07:12 +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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But, the version of vim package is too new, it's 6.3-1, but my cygwin is
only 1.9.10-1 ( the version of cygwin package ). Must I update the whole. 

And, from my home, it's very slow to download packages via setup.exe, is
there a fast http/ftp url to download the whole package ?

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:58:15 +0800
Yin Ming <yinming AT mdc-ds DOT com> wrote:

> 
> 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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