Greetings, Valerio Messina via Cygwin! > 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 Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot 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. Ask your administrator to move entire installation to a less guarded directory (s.a. C:\Cygwin64 ) and assign you write permissions to the tree. Then use `setup.exe --no-admin` switch to upgrade your installation (specify correct path of a new installation's location). > 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? Could just move entire directory. Safe within the same working environment. > 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 ? With some obvious reservations, the most simple solution will work just fine. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, December 14, 2021 20:47:05 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
