RE: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thrall, Bryan wrote:

> DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01 PM:
> > On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to
> >> know if there is a command line tool to install some of this
> >> packages.
> >
> > setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of
> > automate things.
> >
> > Command Line Options:
> >  -D --download                          Download from internet
> >  -L --local-install                     Install from local directory
> >  -s --site                              Download site
> >  -R --root                              Root installation directory
> >  -q --quiet-mode                        Unattended setup mode
> >  -h --help                              print help
> >  -l --local-package-dir                 Local package directory
> >  -r --no-replaceonreboot                Disable replacing in-use
> >                                         files on next reboot.
> >  -n --no-shortcuts                      Disable creation of desktop
> >                                         and start menu shortcuts
> >  -N --no-startmenu                      Disable creation of start menu shortcut
> >  -d --no-desktop                        Disable creation of desktop shortcut
> >  -A --disable-buggy-antivirus           Disable known or suspected
> >                                         buggy anti virus software
> >                                         packages during execution.
> > Ending cygwin install
>
> Note that --local-package-dir is a little broken; specifically, it gets
> overridden by whatever the user selected last time they ran setup.exe
> (at least, this was the case as of setup.exe version 2.510.2.2). The
> problem has been fixed in CVS, but there doesn't seem to have been a
> setup.exe release since then...

<http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots>.

> There might also have been another buggy command-line switch, but I
> can't recall what it was at the moment.

The setup snapshot versions may also support more command-line switches --
run "setup --help" and read the resulting setup.log file for details.
	Igor
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