Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup

["Natalia M. Belfiore" <nmb at berkeley dot edu>]

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply and suggestions. I'm sorry I didn't read to the 
bottom of the reporting problems page. My mistake.

1. I did try switching to full mode and everything disappeared in the menu 
of choices.
2. sorry to be unclear. By "setup folder" I do mean the local directory 
that setup asks for. It seems that there's a setup.exe file and 2 other 
files that are created. If there's something else I should delete, please 
let me know.
4. I have attached a text file of the cygcheck -svc output.

Thank you,
Tasha


At 06:04 AM 4/18/2006, you wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Natalia M. Belfiore wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > I am a relatively new cygwin user and very new to programming. I have
> > successfully installed and run cygwin and perl and some unix utilities
> > on one of my PCs. I recently tried to install it on another pc (my
> > laptop) but I do not seem to have the option of installing packages.
> > Every single choice in the expanding menu of packages says "skip".
>
> Try switching to "Full" mode (click the button in the top right corner).
>
> > I have tried deleting the setup folders and redownloading it 4 times,
>
> Which setup folders?  You mean the "local directory" that setup asks for?
>
> > and every time I get the same thing. I tried installing whatever it will
> > install anyway, and then opening the cygwin window and asking it to show
> > me the available packages (with the cygcheck -p command) and for kicks,
> > to tell me the perl version that's installed, and each time it confirms
> > that there is nothing.
>
> Well, how about following the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
> <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and attaching (as an uncompressed text
> attachment) the output of "cygcheck -svr"?
>
> > Is anyone aware of what conditions might cause this to be the case? I
> > ostensibly have Windows XP professional running on both computers, but I
> > notice that some things run differently on my laptop than my desktop, so
> > perhaps there is something set differently. If anyone can suggest things
> > I can check, I am happy to do that.
>
> Without the output of "cygcheck -svr", there isn't much we can do...
>         Igor
> --
>                                 http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
>       |\      _,,,---,,_            pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com
> ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_            Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!)
>      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'           old name: Igor Pechtchanski
>     '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL     a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!
>
> "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte."
> "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in
> that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Natalia (Tasha) Belfiore, PhD
Visiting Research Fellow
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 VLSB #3160
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720

tel: (510) 643-0986
fax: (510) 643-8238

Attachment: cygcheck.out
Description: Text document

--
Unsubscribe 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/