Hi Valerio, Have you tried using the "-B" command line option when running setup-x86_64.exe ?
Thank you. On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:33 PM Valerio Messina via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > hi, > I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non > supported path: > D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64 > /cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64 > and worked like a sharm for years, with a quite complex env. > > Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot > proceed. > I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time, > but this is impractical. > > 1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like: > D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64 > /cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64 > let me update the distro without admin right? > > I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with: > $ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 > installedPackages2021-12.txt > I never tryed to restore the backup with: > $ setup -M -P package1,package2, ... > > 2) Someone know if that work well ? > > thank you, > -- > Valerio > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
