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Natalia M. Belfiore wrote:

> Hello
> I am a relatively new cygwin user and very new to programming. I have
> successfully installed and run cygwin and perl and some unix utilities
> on one of my PCs. I recently tried to install it on another pc (my
> laptop) but I do not seem to have the option of installing packages.
> Every single choice in the expanding menu of packages says "skip". I
> have tried deleting the setup folders and redownloading it 4 times, and
> every time I get the same thing. I tried installing whatever it will
> install anyway, and then opening the cygwin window and asking it to show
> me the available packages (with the cygcheck -p command) and for kicks,
> to tell me the perl version that's installed, and each time it confirms
> that there is nothing.

"cygcheck -p <something>" searches the Cygwin repository (not your laptop) =
for
packages that include <something>, you probably want to use "cygcheck -s" t=
o see
what is installed (package names at the end of the output).

> Is anyone aware of what conditions might cause this to be the case? I
> ostensibly have Windows XP professional running on both computers, but I
> notice that some things run differently on my laptop than my desktop, so
> perhaps there is something set differently. If anyone can suggest things
> I can check, I am happy to do that.

If everything is marked as skip, then you probably have the full base
installation (unless someone messed with the setup.log files).  From there =
just
choose what you want to install, setup takes care of the dependencies.
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Ren=E9 Berber


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