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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:48:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: John Smith cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [?] Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, John Smith wrote: > I am a first time user of cygwin. I recently downloaded the packages > which I would like to install to my HD but now I am confused as to how > to install the files on my system. > > So could some one give me some direction on how to accomplish this. I > have oppted not to use the automatic install which is allowed with the > setup.exe becuase I am planing on slipstreaming cygwin once I have > figuredout how to install the packages which I have selected. John, The cygwin setup.exe tool supports separate download and installation. You can either use setup.exe itself to first download packages and then install from a local repository, or, if you know what you are doing, use one of the alternative download mechanisms, the best known of which are probably the clean_setup.pl script and local mirroring using rsync. The clean_setup.pl script can be found on Google, and the local mirroring is documented in . It is highly recommended that you only use Cygwin's setup.exe to install Cygwin packages, unless you *really* know what you're doing. If setup.exe is not used for your installation, you can expect little support on this list. Hope this clarifies matters, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/