At Friday, July 4, 2014, 5:01:48 AM, Clare Sudbery wrote: > Hi
> I know this will seem a very facile question, but I have checked Google > and searched your archives, and I can't find the info I am looking for. > I am currently working through a Yeoman tutorial (here: > http://yeoman.io/codelab.html). > I am a .NET MVC Windows developer with JavaScript front end experience, > but I have never used Linux or Yeoman. > The tutorial recommends using Cygwin as a command prompt ("Most of your > interactions with Yeoman will be through the command line. Run commands > in the Terminal app if you’re on Mac, your shell in Linux, or Cygwin if > you are on Windows."). My guess is that they want consistency for their tutorial. For all I know they actually have bits of the tutorial that depend upon being in a Unix type shell. > I had never heard of Cygwin before, so I assumed it was just an enhanced > command prompt. I see from the home page that Cygwin is used to do Linus > dev in a Windows environment. I have no plans to do any Linux dev, but I > thought I may as well use whatever tools were being used in the Yeoman > tutorial. So I downloaded Cygwin... and it took several hours! It shouldn't take that long. I hope that you didn't download the whole thing. I would start with a base install, and add things if you find out that you need them. > At the very end of the Cygwin download, my anti-virus software (Avast) > blocked an infected file > (hxxp://box-soft.com//x86_64/release/imlib2/libImlib2_1/libImlib2_1-1.4.5-2.tar.bz2|libImlib2_1-1.4.5-2.tar|usr\lib\imlib2\loaders\tga.dll) > so I had to finish with "download incomplete". Sounds like a problem with your anti-virus software. You should disable it while installing Cygwin. > Nothing has been installed. After such a gigantic download, I am wary of > running the setup exe - given that I thought I was just installing a > command prompt. It shouldn't be a gigantic download. > Do I actually NEED Cygwin to use Yeoman? Can I just install a Cygwin > command prompt and leave the rest? I don't know the answer to the first question, but the answer to the second question is no. However, you can install just the base system. That's what I would recommend. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
