I downloaded Setup.exe version 2.850 (32 bit) on Oct 18, 2014 and used it to install cygwin from scratch on an Asus Eee notebook with Atom N455 cpu. I tried to install only the default packages but it seems like that took about 8 hours to download overnight. The install went okay until it came to the /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh which seemed to hang for at least 12 hours. Thinking it was hung I canceled the install, but then I found this longish thread going back several years, so I restarted the install and let it run for at least 24 hours and see no more happening. It sits the whole time on this script. The "Total:" line shows 99% done and the "Package:" line shows zero progress the whole time.
Is there a way to install Cygwin without installing this package, which seems to have been included in the default selection? Now that I seem to have it included can I take it out without breaking something that is too important to do without? When I restarted the install everything said "default" and I didn't change anything. Since it doesn't ever finish I don't see any log file, or indeed, ever a log directory. Thank you, Don MacDougall -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-texlive-postinstall-takes-10-hours-resending-due-to-cygwin-bounce-tp92260p112040.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
