Unable to update/install cygwin

[Dave Korn]

Robert Pendell wrote:
> I was trying to update cygwin but every time I do I keep getting errors
> from setup-2.bz2.  The error starts as follows...
> 
> http://cygwin.elite-systems.org//setup-2.bz2 line 5591: syntax error,
> unexpected STRING, expected NL
> http://cygwin.elite-systems.org//setup-2.bz2 line 5591: unrecognized
> line 5591 (do you have the latest setup?)

  Probably caused by this unterminated ldesc string in the preceding entry?

  5570  @ lapack
  5571  sdesc: "Comprehensive FORTRAN library for linear algebra operations."
  5572  ldesc: "Comprehensive FORTRAN library for linear algebra operations.
  5573  Includes matrix inversions, least squared solutions to
  5574  sets of equations, eigenvector analysis, singular value
  5575  decomposition, etc. A very comprehensive and reputable
  5576  package that has found extensive use in the scientific
  5577  community.  Cygwin binary distribution includes a non-optimized
  5578  reference blas library.
  5579
  5580  category: Math
  5581  requires: liblapack liblapack0 cygwin
  5582  version: 3.1.1-2
  5583  install: release-2/lapack/lapack-3.1.1-2.tar.bz2 14
4059d198768f9f8dc9372dc1c54bc3c3
  5584  source: release-2/lapack/lapack-3.1.1-2-src.tar.bz2 10663566
fe5de3865313d781b35280b6ddcd287a
  5585  [prev]
  5586  version: 3.0-9
  5587  install: release-2/lapack/lapack-3.0-9.tar.bz2 14
4059d198768f9f8dc9372dc1c54bc3c3
  5588  source: release-2/lapack/lapack-3.0-9-src.tar.bz2 5035718
f5b3bbe56ec2db744884ba9f7b7bfc76
  5589

    cheers,
      DaveK