Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020604173821.02e8c0c0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 17:40:41 -0400 To: David T-G , "CygWin Users' List" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: cygwin setup v2.218.2.9: does not display all available packages in local install mode In-Reply-To: <20020604205822.GN1231@justpickone.org> References: <1023223026 DOT 24296 DOT 64 DOT camel AT urkle> <1023223026 DOT 24296 DOT 64 DOT camel AT urkle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:58 PM 6/4/2002, David T-G wrote: >...and then Edward Rudd said... >% a related question to the problem is: >% Is there a way to MANUALLY install a package? (ie. through a command >% line installer?) > >This one I think I know... Just cd to / and tar xpfz (perhaps xpfj) >the package tarball to extract it; aside from some of the core stuff, >I believe that's all setup.exe has to do for all of the rest of the >packages. Actually, setup will do more. It handles running any post-install script too. While it's not recommended that someone try to install packages by a method other than setup.exe, it is possible to do if you know what you're doing. To answer Edward's question, however, there is not, at this time, a command- line version of setup. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/