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Subject: Re: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates
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I thought is was that straight forward.  Consider the .bz2 file under bzip2:
    bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2
I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file "bunzip2.exe" 
which is corrupt.  Can't do
    tar -t file...
without getting the corrupt file error.  Maybe I just got a corrupt file 
but I thought I would check things out before continuing to really mess 
things up.

How can I re-get that one file without setup messing up my current system?

-paul

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Your dislike of setup does not translate into your getting support for
> installing packages without setup.
>
> This really falls into the category of "If you can't figure it out you
> probably shouldn't be doing it".  However, the files are just .tar.bz2
> files with some extra stuff which is referenced in
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html .
>
> Please don't expect a lot of support for some alternate, error-prone way
> of updating an installation.  It is not going to happen.
>
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