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I've had this problem with my installation as well and solve it by using the
Windows XP Service Pack 2 compatibility mode (selectable in the Properties
window of the Cygwin setup.exe executable).

It installs fine now... hope it works out for you too.


Kevin Hilton-3 wrote:
> 
> Being using cygwin for years with XP, however when attempting to
> install everything (every package as I usually do) on new Vista
> computer, the installation script gets stuck during the post install
> step.
> 
> During /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh the process hangs.  Anyone else
> find a problem with this???
> 
> Ive even cancelled the installation, manually deselected the gnuplot
> package, but same thing happens.
> 
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