Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-08 Thread E Shon
Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem to spot. It's nice that Cygwin is as popular as it is but it's a shame that this popularity can cause these kinds of conflicts. It would be interesting to know from where you got PDFmerge and whether source for it and the Cygwin DLL are available for it.

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-08 Thread E Shon
> If this isn't the problem, my WAG is that you have a version > of 'cygwin1.dll' already on your system, due to some previous install > or some other software that uses Cygwin surrepticously. If this is > true, remove all copies of 'cygwin1.dll' from your system and follow > the uninstall direct

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-07 Thread E Shon
- downloaded the default packages to C:\cygwin using setup.exe five separate times after completely erasing all occurences of the word cygwin on my harddrive before a fresh install, and have tried downloading from different mirrors It sounds like you are using the "download" rather than the "i

setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-05 Thread E Shon
I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel... Using the latest version of setup.exe 2.427 I can't even get bash started. The setup.exe seems to complete normally but none of the zipped packages seem