At 06:09 PM 12/11/2003, Matthew Wilson you wrote: >Hi - > >I have cygwin installed OK on my windows XP machine. I installed from a local >directory after running wget to grab everything I thought I would need. I >want to add perl to my cygwin environment, so I ran setup.exe again, watched >all the checksums go by, then selected perl in the package list and clicked >next. Almost immediately, the cygwin setup window crashed. > >The same thing happened when I tried to add python to my cygwin environment. >I also tried to add the base XFree86 packages and got the same result. > >Does anyone have any ideas? > >The only thing I can think of is that I'm somehow missing something the setup >program needs. I have a complete copy of everything starting at the cygwin >directory, except for the mail-archives. > >This is the exact syntax of the wget command I ran to pull down my copy: > >wget --passive-ftp --recursive --no-clobber --no-host-directories \ > --cut-dirs=2 -X/pub/cygwin/mail-archives -R '*-src.tar.bz2' \ > ftp://mirrors.umbc.edu/pub/cygwin > >Our work firewall+proxy setup made other install methods impossible for me. > >Does anyone know what is going on? > >Thanks for the help.
I expect it would be helpful to know what version of setup you're running. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
