MORGAN Marc <Marc.MORGAN <at> csem.ch> writes: > Even running just "setup-x86.exe -h" gives a "setup-x86.exe has stopped working" pop up message after > having displayed the help message.
That message comes from Windows when it thinks that the application terminated in an unusual way. > I'm trying to use it to do a quiet install of all packages from my local package directory which installed > interactively correctly on another Windows XP PC. > Setup starts by asking for my password to validate admin rights. Then it gives 2 fail messages about missing > files: /etc/setup/installed.db and /etc/setup/timestamp > Nonetheless, the installation process runs: adding dependencies, extracting files and running > postinstalls. But I get 2 "setup-x86.exe has stopped working" pop up messages in this case (close to the > beginning and end of the installation run) That sounds like some other process inserts itself into the start and termination of setup-x86.exe. Try renaming it to something that doesn't have "setup" in it and/or check that you haven't earlier set the application to run in some "compatibility" mode. > PS: and BTW the answer on the Cygwin web site about "Q: Is there a command-line installer?" does not make > sense to me. "[...] The basic reason for not having a more full-featured package manager is that such a > program would need full access to all of Cygwin's POSIX functionality. That is, however, difficult to > provide in a Cygwin-free environment, such as exists on first installation. [...]" If setup can install > Cygwin interactively from a Cygwin-free environment, what should keep it from doing it from the DOS > command line too? You've read the question wrong and misinterpreted the answer as a result: setup.exe is not a Cygwin application and it has limited functionality to keep it manageable. You can do an install from the command-line with it, but it requires a lot more preparation than a proper package manager and it still runs as a Windows GUI program. Regards, Achim -- 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
