RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Dave Korn
acmeinc wrote on 31 October 2008 16:59: > Unfortunately setup.exe is not a viable command. Does it need to be > enabled > somehow? > > $ setup.exe -h > bash: setup.exe: command not found http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.not-found cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread acmeinc
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/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cy

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Dave Korn
Ralph Hempel wrote on 31 October 2008 15:04: > One thing nagging in the background is whether or not you can/should > update your cygwin installation while any Cygwin processes are running. Well, there's obviously going to be a bash process running if you do things that way, but hopefully that

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Ralph Hempel wrote on Friday, October 31, 2008 10:04 AM: > Thrall, Bryan wrote: > >> For example (untested), to install vim and bc: >> >> setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s 'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/' >> -l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc > > I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is onl

Re: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Ralph Hempel
Thrall, Bryan wrote: For example (untested), to install vim and bc: setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s 'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/' -l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is only available in the 1.7 setup. The -D and -L options are not specified in y

RE: Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-31 Thread Thrall, Bryan
acmeinc wrote on Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:27 PM: > I'm trying to install Cygwin apps via the Cygwin shell rather than opening > and running the setup.exe via the windows interface. > > I figure there must be a way, similar to FreeBSD ports tree, to install > Cygwin/Unix apps via the Cygwin sh

Cygwin setup.exe via the cygwin shell

2008-10-30 Thread acmeinc
apps remotely as I have OpenSSH setup. Please let me konw if you any information regarding installing and setting up Cygwin via the Cygwin shell. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe-via-the-cygwin-shell-tp20259653p20259653.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing