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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 22:26:09 -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 10:09 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

Did you by any chance click on the word "Default" near the top of the 
screen?  If so, it would have changed to "Install", which means you've 
chosen to install everything.

Ken


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