Batch installation, possibly without setup.exe?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if I want to install a version of Cygwin without user interaction
> (optimally just dropping a bunch of files via unzip), is that
> feasible?
> 
> In particular: does setup.exe fiddle with the registry or other files
> that can't be just overwritten as a whole?
> 
> Obviously, one might want to have PATH adjusted, but apart from that?


Your only supported approach is to use 'setup.exe'.  See
<http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2007S/Readings/prepost.html>
for more.

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