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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, René Berber wrote:

> Natalia M. Belfiore wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > I am a relatively new cygwin user and very new to programming. I have
> > successfully installed and run cygwin and perl and some unix utilities
> > on one of my PCs. I recently tried to install it on another pc (my
> > laptop) but I do not seem to have the option of installing packages.
> > Every single choice in the expanding menu of packages says "skip". I
> > have tried deleting the setup folders and redownloading it 4 times,
> > and every time I get the same thing. I tried installing whatever it
> > will install anyway, and then opening the cygwin window and asking it
> > to show me the available packages (with the cygcheck -p command) and
> > for kicks, to tell me the perl version that's installed, and each time
> > it confirms that there is nothing.
>
> "cygcheck -p <something>" searches the Cygwin repository (not your
> laptop) for packages that include <something>,

...and actually has the same functionality as the Cygwin package search
page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.

> you probably want to use "cygcheck -s" to see what is installed (package
> names at the end of the output).

You meant "cygcheck -c", didn't you?

> > Is anyone aware of what conditions might cause this to be the case? I
> > ostensibly have Windows XP professional running on both computers, but
> > I notice that some things run differently on my laptop than my
> > desktop, so perhaps there is something set differently. If anyone can
> > suggest things I can check, I am happy to do that.
>
> If everything is marked as skip, then you probably have the full base
> installation (unless someone messed with the setup.log files).

Again, you probably meant "the /etc/setup directory", or "the setup
package database" -- setup doesn't look at the logs.

> From there just choose what you want to install, setup takes care of the
> dependencies.

	Igor
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