How to remove those previously downloaded packges?

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue May 4 13:41:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:59:33AM +0000, hzgmaxwell@sohu.com wrote:
>Every time when I was installing a cygwin, I run the setup twice.
>The first time is to download only, then the second is to install from local directory.
>
>To doing like this is to keep the installed packages under a specified
>directory, then later on I can re-install from there if only I need to
>install cygwin again.

It sounds like you're going to extra, unneeded work.  You can just
install the packages using the default "Install from Internet".  The
files will still be in the download directory when you're done.

cgf

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