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Date: | Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:49:07 -0600 |
From: | "Morgan Gangwere" <0 DOT fractalus AT gmail DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista |
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On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent <brian(a)dessent.net> wrote: > "Michael D. Adams" wrote: > > > The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the > > *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So > > for example this sequence works: > > > > set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% > > setup.exe [Snip] > That would be pretty brain dead if Vista did not allow programs to > modify the PATH. That would cause about a million failures in Cygwin > and various programs. its UAC - User Acess Control. users can change variables that belong to THEM. you can turn OFF UAC and run Setup.exe then as Administrator. thats what I do at school. we use some x tools for the science lab. > > OS: Vista Home Premium > > Setup.exe Version: 2.510.2.2 (run without administraitor permission) run as Admin always.especially now because of the UAC stuff. [Snip] -- Morgan gangwere "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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