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Subject: Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>peterpan1616 wrote:
>>I re do all the procedure that I can summarize: 1) from www.cygwin.com
>>I download setup.exe on the PC_A 2) Using PC_A I download all the
>>distribution fron HEANET.IE in the temp dir c:/temp_cygwin 3) On the
>>PC_B I erased all related to cygwin (file, directory and using regedit
>>all releted to registry with cygwin and cygnus 4) I copied setup.exe
>>and temp_cygwin from PC_A to PC_B 5) Using setup.exe I installed cygwin
>>on PC_B.  6) I created the environment variable HOME equal to
>>c:\cygwin\home
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This
>step is not a requirement.  I don't recommend it.
>
>>7) I created the home directory parallel to bin lib etc
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This step is also
>not a requirement.  I don't recommend it.

Both of these might be the cause of the problem.  They shouldn't be
necessary.

I should have picked up on this before.

cgf

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