James, First: wrong mailing list. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have redirected this email to the appropriate list, but please be careful to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you hit ``reply to all''.
Second: the Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide is out of date. Cygwin/XFree86 is now entirely installed via Cygwin's setup.exe. Just rerun setup.exe, expand the XFree86 category, and select at least the XFree86-base package. Harold James Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install xfree and I'm getting strange error > messages/results before the install starts. > > I've downloaded and installed the most current cygwin bits (as of > 7/9/02), and downloaded the must current > xfree bits. When I try to gunzip extract.exe.gz I get the error message : > gunzip: extract.exe.gz: Invalid arguement > When I look in the dir, the gunzipped file is there, with a permission > of rw------- . > > When I try and run the Xinstall it tells me: > > checking which OS you're running... > uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0' version '1.3.12(0.54/3/2)' architecture > 'i686'. > > chmod: changing permissions of 'extract': no such file or directory > ./extract: not found > extract doesn't work properly, renaming it to 'extract.bad' > mv: preserving times for 'extract.bad' : No such file or directory > mv: preserving ownership for 'extract.bad': No such file or directory > mv: cannot unlink 'extract': No such file or directory > mv: cannot remove 'extract': No such file or directory > chmod: changing permissions of 'extract': no such file or directory > ./extract: not found > extract.exe doesn't work properly, renaming it to 'extract.exe.bad' > > The versions of 'extract" and 'extract.exe' you have do not run > correctly. Make sure that you have downloaded the correct > binaries for your system. To find out which is correct, > run 'sh ./Xinstall.sh -check'. > > This appears to me to be a problem with the setup of cygwin rather than a > problem with xfree, which is why I've mailed to this list. I've checked > the archives > and either no one else has had this problem, or I've searched for the > wrong key words. > > Any pointers to resolving this problem would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > Jim Ballantine > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > >
