Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Krzysztof Duleba" Subject: Re: text setup Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:43:35 +0200 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>>> I use Cygwin along with Win2k. Is it possible to update the software in >>>> text mode (access only via ssh)? >>> >>> There is currently no way to do a text-mode setup. There is, however, >>> a way to run setup unattended via ssh. Search the list archives for >>> "unattended setup". You'll probably need to configure the ssh service >>> to allow interaction with the desktop. >>> Igor >> >> Will it allow me to choose the packages to install? > > Don't know, you'll have to search for instructions I will. > or look at setup sources. Bad news. I don't have enough time to play with the sources. >> How would I see the result? > > If worse comes to worst, you can always take a look at > /var/log/setup.log{,full}. That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for help. Is any text-mode setup developed? Or at least planned? I would increase a lot the value of Cygwin. Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- 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/