Re: missing Xorg DLLs: Setup bug?

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Allen H. Nugent wrote:

> Thanks, Igor & Alexander. I'm getting closer to the problem, but it's still 
> out of reach.
> 
> Setup actually did put "xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.7.0.0-4.tar.bz2" on my HDD, in 
> the folder 
> "ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.aarnet.edu.au%2fpub%2fcygwin\release\X11\xorg-x11-bin-dlls". 
> However, it did not install anything to "C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin".
> 
> I can't see how to make Setup install only this package. 

In the package listing screen click the button "View" until the text nearby
say "Partial". Now the packages are listed which are about to install. 
Deselect all but the xorg-x11-* packages.

If no xorg-x11-* packages are selected switch back to the "Category" view
and select the xorg-x11-* packages from the X11 category.

> I also tried to 
> unzip a copy of it in a temp folder, but nothing happened (I tried "tar x 
> xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.7.0.0-4.tar.bz2", but the command never terminated -- 
> had to use Ctrl-C).

You used tar the wrong way. Use tar xjf xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.7.0.0-4.tar.bz2

The option "j" enables bzip2 decompression. The option "f" tells tar to
extract from the given file not from stdin.

But using tar to extract cygwin packages is not advisable in general. The 
install scripts will not be started and the installation may be incomplete.

bye
	ago

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