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 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:04:35 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation from locally stored packages Message-ID: <20031126200435.GD12280@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:43:47PM -0000, kevin.lawton@bt.com wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 26 November 2003 18:32 >> To: cygwin[DELETED] >> Subject: Re: Installation from locally stored packages Please do not include email addresses in plain text in the body of the text. >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08PM -0000, Vince Hoffman wrote: >> >Actually at least 1/2 of the mirror sites allow downloading via FTP. >> >(and some via rsync too) >> >> I'm sure that it is much more than 1/2 but it doesn't matter anyway. >> Just use wget or curl to download the files. > > - and 'wget' runs on ? Um, both run on linux, unix, and windows. This can't be too surprising given cygwin's purpose. We obviously don't develop specific tools for cygwin for this purpose. >> >if you know what you are doing and keep the directory structure its >> >entirely possible. have a google on site:cygwin.com cygwin install >> >from cd or similar to find previous discussions. >> >> Right. The initial poster couldn't have searched too hard if they >> couldn't find this since it seems to come up every couple of weeks. > >Really ? I must improve my lurking skills - I can't recall having seen a request for help downloading Cygwin via a Linux machine before. Maybe the OP's request isn't as unusual as I first thought ! As long as you are intent on improving your skills maybe you should work on your line wrap skills too... cgf -- 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/