Re: Installing Cygwin-32

2024-09-06 Thread Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:40 AM Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > > For exactly one particular purpose I still use 32-bit Cygwin. > Can I confirm that the appropriate setup exe file, with qualifiers, is > setup-x86_32.exe > --allow-unsupported-windows > --site > http://ctm.crouchingtiger

Re: Installing Cygwin-32

2024-09-04 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 04/09/2024 07:19, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: For exactly one particular purpose I still use 32-bit Cygwin. Can I confirm that the appropriate setup exe file, with qualifiers, is setup-x86_32.exe --allow-unsupported-windows --site http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/

RE: Installing Cygwin-32

2024-09-03 Thread Fergus Daly via Cygwin
>> For exactly one particular purpose I still use 32-bit Cygwin. >> Can I confirm that the appropriate setup exe file, with qualifiers, is >> setup-x86_32.exe --allow-unsupported-windows --site http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457 >> and that

Installing Cygwin-32

2024-09-03 Thread Fergus Daly via Cygwin
For exactly one particular purpose I still use 32-bit Cygwin. Can I confirm that the appropriate setup exe file, with qualifiers, is setup-x86_32.exe --allow-unsupported-windows --site http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457 and that the exe file

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-27 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Martin Wege! > On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 7:35 PM Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> Greetings, Martin Wege! >> >> >> Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a >> >> > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? >> >> > >> >> > Also, can this be don

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-27 Thread Roland Mainz via Cygwin
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? > > Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like > to test multiple Cy

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-27 Thread Martin Wege via Cygwin
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 7:35 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Martin Wege! > > >> Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a > >> > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? > >> > > >> > Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-26 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Martin Wege! >> Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a >> > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? >> > >> > Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like >> > to test multiple Cygwin versions in parallel.

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-26 Thread Martin Wege via Cygwin
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 2:14 AM Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM Martin Wege wrote: > > Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a > > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? > > > > Also, can this be done for mo

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-25 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Martin Wege! > Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? Yes, and there's no such thing as "standard location". > Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like > to

Re: Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-25 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM Martin Wege wrote: Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a > nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? > > Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like > to test multiple Cygwin versions

Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

2024-05-25 Thread Martin Wege via Cygwin
Hello, Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)? Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like to test multiple Cygwin versions in parallel. Thanks, Martin -- Problem reports:

Re: Error in installing cygwin

2019-11-25 Thread cygwinautoreply
> 2 [main] bash 12628 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD >pointer. Please report this problem to >the public mailing list. https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Error in installing cygwin

2019-11-25 Thread khushbu kumari
2 [main] bash 12628 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

RE: Issue installing Cygwin in quite mode

2019-04-26 Thread Calder, Christopher
Hello, I would like to install Cygwin via an install shield as part of a third party app for my main windows application. To do this I am using the command "-- quite mode", which is working to a point. The issue is that the last part of the Cygwin installation (that does not require user input)

RE: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Zuowei Wang
ng authority file /home/xp902121/.Xauthority" So far, I still couldn't solve the problem. If you have any suggestions, that will be very appreciated. If needed, I may send separate email to the mailing list. Many thanks, Zuowei From: Zuowei Wang Sent: 02 August 2018 15:17 To: cygwin

Re: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 02.08.2018 um 16:17 schrieb Zuowei Wang: Dear Marco, Thank you very much for the suggestions. Concerning your questions: 1. What system and AV do you have ? System type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor (Intel(r) Core(tm) i7-6700CPU @3.40GHz) Operating system: Windows 10 Enter

RE: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Zuowei Wang
dll Many thanks, Zuowei From: Zuowei Wang Sent: 02 August 2018 11:10 To: cygwin@cygwin.com<mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: RE: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created Sorry to both again. Below is what I got when running the command in the Cygwin terminal : $

Re: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Zuowei Wang wrote: > Sorry to both again. Below is what I got when running the command in the > Cygwin terminal : > > $ /etc/postinstall/xinit-1.3.4-14.sh > 1 [main] bash 4160 child_info_fork::abort: > C:\cygwin64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll: Loaded to different addr

Re: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 02.08.2018 um 12:10 schrieb Zuowei Wang: Sorry to both again. Below is what I got when running the command in the Cygwin terminal : $ /etc/postinstall/xinit-1.3.4-14.sh 1 [main] bash 4160 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x3

RE: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Zuowei Wang
August 2018 10:19 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created Dear Marco, Thank you very much for the suggestion! I have run the command line as you suggested and got the output of xinit-1.3.4-14, but nothing else happened. Is there

RE: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Zuowei Wang
script: /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh{.done} It belongs to the package $ cygcheck -f /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh xinit-1.3.4-14 You can run it again by the cygwin terminal. From: Zuowei Wang Sent: 02 August 2018 09:28 To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Win

Re: Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
icons created either on Desktop or Start menu. I have followed the installation instructions precisely and read through many posts about installation of Cygwin/X, but couldn't find any solutions. To give some more background: I have been installing Cygwin and Cygwin/X many times on diff

Problem with installing Cygwin/X on Windows 10 PC: no icon created

2018-08-02 Thread Zuowei Wang
have followed the installation instructions precisely and read through many posts about installation of Cygwin/X, but couldn't find any solutions. To give some more background: I have been installing Cygwin and Cygwin/X many times on different windows PCs and never had such a problem befor

Re: Error when installing cygwin software

2018-07-24 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 24.07.2018 um 13:39 schrieb Ngọc Anh Phạm: Hi,I'm install cygwin 2.35 and now I am getting the following error: Hi Phạm, there is no version 2.35 as last one is 2.10.0-1 So I suspect you are installing something else or a very old version, or you are confusing the version fo cygwin setup wi

Error when installing cygwin software

2018-07-24 Thread Ngọc Anh Phạm
Hi,I'm install cygwin 2.35 and now I am getting the following error: + Bash 872 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. I am using windows 10 I tried reinstalling I tried againg uninstalling and installing in a different directory Can you give me a way to solve this problem? Than

Re: Installing Cygwin on XP-SP3 with setup-x86.exe 2.874

2016-11-07 Thread Lee
On 11/6/16, Tom P wrote: > Hi all, first time posting. > > I first installed Cygwin a few months ago on my XP SP3 machine, don't > know much about Linux but wanted to use ddrescue to image some disks > and I found it to work great! Thanks for this great solution! > > The other day I wanted to add

Installing Cygwin on XP-SP3 with setup-x86.exe 2.874

2016-11-06 Thread Tom P
Hi all, first time posting. I first installed Cygwin a few months ago on my XP SP3 machine, don't know much about Linux but wanted to use ddrescue to image some disks and I found it to work great! Thanks for this great solution! The other day I wanted to add the lsblk command, which I tried by ru

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > On 10/18/2015 1:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> I think it's now fixed and sorry for the trouble. > > Thanks for the quick fix. All the problems I reported seem to be gone. Great. Thanks to you and David for letting me know what exactly you were operating from and how, since oth

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/18/2015 1:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: I think it's now fixed and sorry for the trouble. Thanks for the quick fix. All the problems I reported seem to be gone. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Robert Pace writes: > I did install an older version of Cygwin which I had downloaded back > in January 2015 without issue. Indicating that there is an issue with > the latest cygwin setup application. I think it's now fixed and sorry for the trouble. The signature check has been changed to not

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > ./http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/x86/setup.ini > ./http%3a%2f%2fsanibeltranquility.com%2fcygwin%2f/x86/setup.ini > ./myrepo/x86/setup.xz I've checked again what exactly --mirror-mode does: if it's set, then it basically tells setup to believe the ini f

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/18/2015 9:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/18/2015 9:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Are you saying you've never tested local installs without the -m switch? No, I'm saying that the "-m" switch should reduce the possibility of setup doing something unwanted, because it eliminat

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread David Stacey
On 18/10/2015 12:47, Achim Gratz wrote: David Stacey writes: Same here. I maintain a local mirror and use my own setup.ini files (created with genini); these do not have 'sig' files. Directory structure is as follows: cygwin-2015-10-16 /cygwin /x86 /x86_64 /cygwinports /noa

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/18/2015 9:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Are you saying you've never tested local installs without the -m switch? No, I'm saying that the "-m" switch should reduce the possibility of setup doing something unwanted, because it eliminates the possibility of it switching into a

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > Are you saying you've never tested local installs without the -m > switch? No, I'm saying that the "-m" switch should reduce the possibility of setup doing something unwanted, because it eliminates the possibility of it switching into ad-hoc mode (where it searches the subdirs

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/18/2015 7:47 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: David Stacey writes: Same here. I maintain a local mirror and use my own setup.ini files (created with genini); these do not have 'sig' files. Directory structure is as follows: cygwin-2015-10-16 /cygwin /x86 /x86_64 /cygwinports /n

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-18 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: > Same here. I maintain a local mirror and use my own setup.ini files > (created with genini); these do not have 'sig' files. Directory > structure is as follows: > > cygwin-2015-10-16 > /cygwin > /x86 > /x86_64 > /cygwinports > /noarch > /x86 > /x86_64

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/17/2015 10:31 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Ken Brown! 1. Download setup-x86.exe from the Cygwin website, and put it in an empty directory c:/download-test. 2. Run setup-x86.exe. Choose "Install from Internet". Choose "download only". Makes the test simpler. I tried that firs

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ken Brown! > 1. Download setup-x86.exe from the Cygwin website, and put it in an empty > directory c:/download-test. > 2. Run setup-x86.exe. Choose "Install from Internet". Choose "download only". Makes the test simpler. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, October 18, 2015

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/17/2015 5:14 PM, David Stacey wrote: On 17/10/15 13:13, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/17/2015 3:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Could you check if the setup.ini.sig file is just not stored to disk and that setup would commence installing if you downloaded it manually and put alongsi

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread David Stacey
On 17/10/15 13:13, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/17/2015 3:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Could you check if the setup.ini.sig file is just not stored to disk and that setup would commence installing if you downloaded it manually and put alongside the setup.ini file? Is there a new req

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > OK, doing it that way works. But if I add setup.ini alongside > setup.xz and setup.xz.sig, then setup complains about not finding > setup.ini.sig. It shouldn't, at least not without complaining about a missing setup.xz.sig first. Does it make a difference if you use the "-m"

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/17/2015 1:06 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: I maintain my own small repository at a remote site and mirror it on my local machine. It contains, for each architecture, setup.ini, setup.xz, and setup.xz.sig. Installation from the remote site works fine. If I try to install from

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> I maintain my own small repository at a remote site and mirror it on my local >> machine. It contains, for each architecture, setup.ini, setup.xz, and >> setup.xz.sig. Installation from the remote site works fine. If I try to >> install from my local mirror, setup complains

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/17/2015 8:13 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/17/2015 3:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Could you check if the setup.ini.sig file is just not stored to disk and that setup would commence installing if you downloaded it manually and put alongside the setup.ini file? Is there a new

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/17/2015 3:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Could you check if the setup.ini.sig file is just not stored to disk and that setup would commence installing if you downloaded it manually and put alongside the setup.ini file? Is there a new requirement that a local repository has t

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Nicolas Roche
> You can always tell it to not check the signature (--no-verify / -X), > but if the directory you set it upon looks like a mirror and has a setup > file, then it will by default want to check the signature (belonging to > the actual suffix used: .xz, .bz2 and lastly .ini). > Even with -X the in

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> Could you check if the setup.ini.sig file is just not stored to disk and >> that setup would commence installing if you downloaded it manually and >> put alongside the setup.ini file? > > Is there a new requirement that a local repository has to have a > signature file? And do

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Robert Pace writes: > I can verify that the setup.ini.sig is not stored in the download > folder. I earlier today downloaded the setup.ini.sig from the mirror > site and put that file in the mirror folder and it complained that the > setup.ini was corrupt. Can you put both setup.ini and setup.ini

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/16/2015 4:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Robert Pace writes: I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a mirror from the list, and

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Pace
I can verify that the setup.ini.sig is not stored in the download folder. I earlier today downloaded the setup.ini.sig from the mirror site and put that file in the mirror folder and it complained that the setup.ini was corrupt. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Robert Pace w

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Robert Pace writes: > I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from > www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install > the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a > mirror from the list, and the download concluded fine. I then

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Robert Pace! > I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from > www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install > the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a > mirror from the list, and the download concluded fine. I

Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Pace
Hi all, I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a mirror from the list, and the download concluded fine. I then re-ran the setup ap

Installing Cygwin on Windows 8.1

2015-09-28 Thread Design-Discount
I want to install Cygwin on Windows 8.1 64bit but got no success using any variant. I tried: 1) I downloaded fresh setup-x86_x64 from cygwin site and then tried to install from Internet but got empty mirror list. 2) Then I tried manually add mirror from https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst (this f

Re: Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Sam Townsend
>>> It seems you are trying to install into the root directory of the C: >>> drive. Move it down a directory, maybe into C:\Freeware\Cygwin and >>> install there and I guess it will work. >> >> I tried installing to C:\sv\cygwin, and got the same problem. > > With that out of the way, the next mo

Re: Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Sam Townsend writes: >> It seems you are trying to install into the root directory of the C: >> drive.  Move it down a directory, maybe into C:\Freeware\Cygwin and >> install there and I guess it will work. > > I tried installing to C:\sv\cygwin, and got the same problem. With that out of the way,

Re: Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Sam Townsend
Hi Achim, > I've done multiple installs (for testing purposes) on just such a box, > both 32bit and 64bit and have had no such problems. I don't doubt that it has been tested to work, but I have no idea why I can't get it working on this box. > It seems you are trying to install into the root

Re: Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Sam Townsend writes: > I've been trying to install Cygwin on a Server 2012 R2 box, but the > install keeps failing. I am using the latest installer (2.850, > 32-bit), and I have tried multiple mirrors. I've done multiple installs (for testing purposes) on just such a box, both 32bit and 64bit and

Re: Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Sam Townsend
Hello Andrey, Thanks for your rather quick response. > man-db failures on a new install are a known issue. > There was some discoveries that might help the situation, once relevant > packages are reuploaded, but for now, you can try manually running update > command with -dc switch. What is the

Re: Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Sam Townsend! > I've been trying to install Cygwin on a Server 2012 R2 box, but the install > keeps failing. I am using the latest installer (2.850, 32-bit), and I have > tried multiple mirrors. > Relevant portion of setup.log.full: http://pastebin.ca/2836397 man-db failures on a new

Installing Cygwin on Server 2012 R2 failing

2014-08-28 Thread Sam Townsend
Hello, I've been trying to install Cygwin on a Server 2012 R2 box, but the install keeps failing. I am using the latest installer (2.850, 32-bit), and I have tried multiple mirrors. Relevant portion of setup.log.full: http://pastebin.ca/2836397 After the install, I have a broken cygwin. mintty

Re: Installing Cygwin problem??

2014-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/17/2014 08:10 PM, David Masterson wrote: I attempted to reinstall Cygwin on my system. The reinstall kept seeming to get locked up. So, after downloading all of Cygwin to a local directory, I moved the install directory out of the way and tried to install from (I guess) scratch. Cygwin s

Installing Cygwin problem??

2014-07-17 Thread David Masterson
I attempted to reinstall Cygwin on my system. The reinstall kept seeming to get locked up. So, after downloading all of Cygwin to a local directory, I moved the install directory out of the way and tried to install from (I guess) scratch. Cygwin seemed to always get stuck in the man-db.sh script

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Helmut Billig
Am 01.09.2013 21:47, schrieb Christopher Faylor: On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:17:21PM +0200, Helmut Billig wrote: I tried to update a well running cygwin installation from Cygwin 1.7.24 (64 bit release) to Cygwin 1.7.25 on W7. Setup (most recent version >from cygwin.com) didn't succeed because o

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:17:21PM +0200, Helmut Billig wrote: >I tried to update a well running cygwin installation from Cygwin 1.7.24 >(64 bit release) to Cygwin 1.7.25 on W7. Setup (most recent version >from cygwin.com) didn't succeed because of "incomplete download". This should be fixed by a

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: > Which mirror did you try? Did you try another mirror? I just checked > my private mirror and it shows fine. I primarily use ftp.heanet.ie, but I tried mirrors.kernel.org and a couple random mirrors, all of them show the same problem. For e

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Robert Pendell
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Alexey Borzenkov <> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:38 PM, nu774 <> wrote: >> Same experience here. >> I once pushed "continue" on the "incomplete download" error dialog by >> mistake, that resulted in uninstalling of the selected packages for updates, >> including

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:38 PM, nu774 wrote: > Same experience here. > I once pushed "continue" on the "incomplete download" error dialog by > mistake, that resulted in uninstalling of the selected packages for updates, > including cygwin (except for cygwin1.dll). Did the same thing, in my case e

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Helmut Billig
Am 01.09.2013 18:47, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, nu774! I tried to update a well running cygwin installation from Cygwin 1.7.24 (64 bit release) to Cygwin 1.7.25 on W7. Setup (most recent version from cygwin.com) didn't succeed because of "incomplete download". I tried severel different mi

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, nu774! >> I tried to update a well running cygwin installation from Cygwin 1.7.24 >> (64 bit release) to Cygwin 1.7.25 on W7. Setup (most recent version from >> cygwin.com) didn't succeed because of "incomplete download". I tried >> severel different mirrors, everytime the same problem.

Re: Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread nu774
Same experience here. I once pushed "continue" on the "incomplete download" error dialog by mistake, that resulted in uninstalling of the selected packages for updates, including cygwin (except for cygwin1.dll). (2013/09/01 22:17), Helmut Billig wrote: Hello, I tried to update a well running

Problem installing Cygwin 1.7.25 64 bit on W7 and W8

2013-09-01 Thread Helmut Billig
Hello, I tried to update a well running cygwin installation from Cygwin 1.7.24 (64 bit release) to Cygwin 1.7.25 on W7. Setup (most recent version from cygwin.com) didn't succeed because of "incomplete download". I tried severel different mirrors, everytime the same problem. Then I removed th

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread Alan Thompson
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > > On 03/05/2013 2:28 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: >> >> P.S. I have had to run "rebaseall" each time I do an install or upgrade over >> the past year.not sure why as this never used to be a problem. > > That's very strange, because setup.exe

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2013 2:28 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: P.S. I have had to run "rebaseall" each time I do an install or upgrade over the past year.not sure why as this never used to be a problem. That's very strange, because setup.exe started running rebaseall automatically just over a year ago [1].

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread Alan Thompson
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Piotr Cieplak wrote: > > Could anyone help me with this problem? > I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. > When installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the > other hand > when tr

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything ("install" option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. (snip) Is anyone

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: >Hi Piotr, > >On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak wrote: >> Could anyone help me with this problem? >> I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. >> When installing cy

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Piotr, On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak wrote: > Could anyone help me with this problem? > I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. > When installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the > other hand &g

Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-03 Thread 1xx
Hi Piotr ! 2013/5/3 Piotr Cieplak : > Could anyone help me with this problem? > I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. > When installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the > other hand > when trying to install: eve

problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

2013-05-02 Thread Piotr Cieplak
Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything ("install" option) or some parts of the

Re: Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2013 10:01 AM, Alan wrote: The first problem comes when I try to install the rxvt package. Running the installer again with that package selected results in an error. Package: rxvt rxvt.sh exit code 3 rxvt is a very old, practically deprecated package of a dead code-line. If you must

Re: Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-25 Thread Alan Thompson
Hi - I'm not sure if this will help your problem, but in the past I have had to install Cygwin to a number of non-networked machines. For me, the easiest way was to use setup.exe with the option of "save files but don't install". You can copy the saved folder and setup.exe onto a CD and take it t

Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-25 Thread Alan
I have downloaded and installed cygwin on one machine and would like to install it on a second machine which is non-networked and for which I don't have administrator rights. However, I am running into some issues which are described below. I have created a Mapped Network Drive (X:) for the folder

Re: Installing Cygwin C and C++ compilers for NetBeans IDE 7.2

2012-07-29 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi, On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:06 PM, nososo wrote: > My question is : Which exact packages do i install using the Cygwin > setup.exe installer so that i can create C & C++ projects using Netbeans IDE > 7.2? and what other steps do i have to take note to ensure complete > successful installation?

Re: Installing Cygwin C and C++ compilers for NetBeans IDE 7.2

2012-07-28 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 06:06:16AM -0700, nososo wrote: > The installation took up a long time so i stopped after about 45 minutes or > so. I'd be surprised if something worked properly after having interrupted the installation process. Try reinstalling, let the process end its job this time, and

Installing Cygwin C and C++ compilers for NetBeans IDE 7.2

2012-07-28 Thread nososo
to be installed? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE EXACT NAMES AND THE VERSIONS FOR THE REQUIRED PACKAGES (NAMES AND VERSIONS DISPLAYED IN THE CYGWIN SETUP.EXE INSTALLER WHEN PROMPTED) NEEEDED FOR C & C++ PROGRAMMING USING NETBEANS IDE 7.2?? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/In

Re: Installing cygwin on new box, getting "cygwin1.dll is missing"

2012-05-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, KARR, DAVID! > Today I started trying to install Cygwin on a new Win7 box. It took a long > time to get to the end, which included many "Can't open (null) for reading: > No such file" dialogs along the way. Reinstall it using superadmin account and minimal set of packages for a start.

Installing cygwin on new box, getting "cygwin1.dll is missing"

2012-05-18 Thread KARR, DAVID
Today I started trying to install Cygwin on a new Win7 box. It took a long time to get to the end, which included many "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" dialogs along the way. When it finally got close to finishing, I got a dialog which just says: "The program can't start because

Re: How to run a bash script that calls a Win exe under Windows without installing Cygwin?

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/19/11 00:57, bagvian wrote: Basically, I can copy anything on that machine but I cannot install Cygwin. If you can truly copy "anything" on that machine then why not simply copy :C:\Cygwin to that machine? -- Andrew DeFaria Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. -- P

Re: How to run a bash script that calls a Win exe under Windows without installing Cygwin?

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
only adds a few things to the registry aside from copying files into place, and you can probably delete those registry entries after setup completes without affecting Cygwin itself. Actually installing Cygwin shouldn't adversely affect anything else on the system that isn't already aware

Re: How to run a bash script that calls a Win exe under Windows without installing Cygwin?

2011-10-19 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
19.10.2011 10:57, bagvian пишет: Dear all, I have gone through Cygwin FAQ and documentation, did some googling but could not find any answer to my cross system problem. I currently work under Win Vista and have a proper Cygwin installation running perfectly. I have to perform heavy tests on a W

How to run a bash script that calls a Win exe under Windows without installing Cygwin?

2011-10-19 Thread bagvian
Dear all, I have gone through Cygwin FAQ and documentation, did some googling but could not find any answer to my cross system problem. I currently work under Win Vista and have a proper Cygwin installation running perfectly. I have to perform heavy tests on a Windows console executable program s

Re: Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Robert Jacobson! >> Or rename setup.exe to foo.exe. > I'm both relieved and dismayed that it is so easy to bypass ... It's not THAT easy. In this regard, UAC is troubling more than helping. User with limited rights will not be able to affect system stability (except if using exploits

Re: Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-24 Thread Robert Jacobson
On 6/24/2011 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Or rename setup.exe to foo.exe. > Thanks! I'm both relieved and dismayed that it is so easy to bypass ... -- Robert Jacobson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 23 15:52, Robert Jacobson wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to let one of my users install cygwin as a normal > (non-admin) account. > > However, when they run setup.exe, they get a UAC prompt "Do you want to > allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to > your

Re: Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-23 Thread B. Ossia
I have tried to install Cygwin for Windows 7 but it failed to finish installation and stalls at 99% .No idea why but never was asked on allowing it to make changes to the computer. i am also using plain text format and hope this message go through for god sake! On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Ro

Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Jacobson
Hi, I would like to let one of my users install cygwin as a normal (non-admin) account. However, when they run setup.exe, they get a UAC prompt "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to your computer? To continue, type an administrator password, an

Re: how to use windres.exe without installing cygwin?

2011-05-17 Thread ironsand
bout it. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/how-to-use-windres.exe-without-installing-cygwin--tp31586006p31637190.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

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