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Date: | Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:01:27 -0600 |
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Eliot Moss wrote on 2010-01-25:=20 > For some time now setup has been offering to > install tetex and glib, but apparently these > are obsolete -- the .tar.bz2 files are 46 > bytes long. I have tried deleting things out > of my setup file hierarchy, but I don't want > to "erase" its memory of everything else I > have installed. (And I do have tex/latex > installed, and their fonts, so this little > bz2 file is an odd loose end of some kind.) >=20 > Can someone instruct me, or point me to the > right corner of the documentation, to fix > up my installation? Everything *works* fine; > setup just keep offering these and somehow > never really installing / clearing them out. These packages are not obsolete (otherwise they would be in the _obsolete c= ategory); they are empty packages that are used to pull in the actual packa= ges that you want. For example, tetex pulls in tetex-bin and tetex-tiny. It is kind of annoying that setup doesn't remember that it has installed em= pty packages (and therefore keeps indicating that they are not installed), = though. > On another note, setup seems generally to > remember how I check the checkboxes and > radio buttons, but seems always to offer > to put an icon on my desktop, which I > never want to do. Is there a way I can stop > it from offering to do that? If it matters, > I tend to do downloading in one invocation > of setup and installing as a separate step. See the output of 'setup -h' for a workaround for this: <snip> -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start menu shortcuts -N --no-startmenu Disable creation of start menu shor= tcut -d --no-desktop Disable creation of desktop shortcut </snip> HTH, -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com =A0=20 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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