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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:09:14 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours
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On 10/20/2014 6:38 PM, Don MacDougall wrote:
> I downloaded Setup.exe version 2.850 (32 bit) on Oct 18, 2014 and used it to
> install cygwin from scratch on an Asus Eee notebook with Atom N455 cpu.  I
> tried to install only the default packages but it seems like that took about
> 8 hours to download overnight.  The install went okay until it came to the
> /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh which seemed to hang for at
> least 12 hours.  Thinking it was hung I canceled the install, but then I
> found this longish thread going back several years, so I restarted the
> install and let it run for at least 24 hours and see no more happening.  It
> sits the whole time on this script.  The "Total:" line shows 99% done and
> the "Package:" line shows zero progress the whole time.
>
> Is there a way to install Cygwin without installing this package, which
> seems to have been included in the default selection?

I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected 
some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose.  There are no 
texlive packages in a default installation.

Ken


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