X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:09:24 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: installer is really confusing to use Message-ID: <20080619010924.GA23128@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20080618235329 DOT GA17726 AT zoosmart DOT us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080618235329.GA17726@zoosmart.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:53:29PM -0400, alex wrote: >how do I just install a single package? It seems it wants to uninstall >then reinstall everything or some other option I don't want. The closest >I've been able to get is, select uninstall everything, download to disk first, >then install from disk once that's complete but even that is unreliable. Nearly every package in the system relies on some other package so you can't really just install one package without pulling in others. You really wouldn't want to do that because the single package wouldn't work right if it didn't have its dependencies anyway. -- 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/