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Subject: Re: Admin privileges
To: Phoenix Soul <phoenixlight101@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 23:24:13 -0400
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On 4/3/2020 9:55 PM, Phoenix Soul via Cygwin wrote:
 > The setup-x86_64.exe requires admin priveleges. Is it possible to put it
 > into a ZIP file for use?

Dear Phoenix -- While I'm not 100% sure what you're really asking, I think the
answer is "no".  Cygwin is not a single thing so much as a key library plus a
whole suite of programs ported from Linux and linked against that library.
You pick and choose which packages you want to install.  The "setup" program
is what you ue to do that, then it downloads and installs the packages.  You
also use it to update things as packages evolve (and sometimes new packages
are added).

If your underlying question is "Can I install Cygwin without using admin
privileges, and if so, how do I do it?", that is answered in the FAQ, here:

https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.noroot

Best wishes - Eliot Moss
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