X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:51:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: "Natalia (Tasha) Belfiore" Subject: RE: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <006c01c66337$63d348a0$b6922080 AT Tasha> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > [snip] > Huh? You must be talking about something other than Cygwin setup... Did > you get it by clicking on the "Install Now" link at ? > If so, please start that program; click "Next" once; choose "Install from > Internet" on the next screen and click "Next"; choose the installation > directory (I recommend keeping the defaults) and click "Next"; choose > "Direct Connection" on the next screen and click "Next"; choose > "ftp://mirrors.kernel.org" as your download site and click "Next". This > should get you to the package selection screen, "Category" view. Click on > the "View" button until it changes to "Full" (should be once). Now > maximize the window. You should see the list of all packages available as > part of Cygwin, sorted alphabetically. Forgot to add that most of the above information is in the Cygwin User's Guide at . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/