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Re: Updating Cygwin without X
Dai Conrad wrote:
> I had used lilypond ages ago under linux, and installed it hoping to
> get back into it, but never found time. I thought that it ran
> "headless", transforming text files into sheet music files, without
> any graphical display, and didn't realize that it requires pango,
> pango-runtime, libXft2, xorg-X11-bin-dlls, etc. Similarly, I thought
> jasper was like other graphics libs, and didn't realize it would
> require freeglut, xorg-X11-bin-dlls, etc.
Recent snapshot versions of setup.exe have a dependency checker that
will give you a list of any broken dependencies. Using this you could
deselect the X libs, press Next, and it would show you a list of "pango:
required by lilypond ; xorg-x11-bin-dlls: required by pango" and so on.
It's slightly better than having to read setup.ini manually but still
perhaps not as intuitive as it could be.
> It was a bit tricky uninstalling these things. For instance, with
> libXft, libXft1, and libXft2 all installed, any one of them you click
> on to set it to "Uninstall" sets the other two to "Keep". I
> ultimately had to run setup ten or twelve times to uninstall
> everything because of all the items that were "sticky" like that. If
> there isn't a way to make it less aggressive in forcing the selection
> of dependent items, it might be a good addition.
Yes indeed, uninstalling X11 is currently quite an annoying task to do
with setup. There should definitely be a way to make this easier but
SHTDI.
Brian
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