problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

Ryan Johnson ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Fri May 3 16:27:00 GMT 2013


On 03/05/2013 11:48 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote:
>> Hi Piotr,
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak  wrote:
>>> Could anyone help me with this problem?
>>> I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response.
>>> When installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the other hand
>>> when trying to install:  everything ("install" option) or  some parts of the cygwin package
>>> the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours.
>> (snip)
>>> Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be?
>> Don't do it :)
>>
>> For setup.exe to to install everything it has to download everything,
>> checksum everything, unpack everything, install everything, rebase
>> everything. This takes time, regardless of which mirror you use.
>>
>> Why do you want to install everything? I doubt there is a single
>> person on Earth who has used every single Cygwin program.
> But, if they did, I'd give them a gold star for their efforts.
Define "use" ...

for f in /usr/bin/*.exe; do $f --help; done

 >:)

Ryan


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