> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Currently on 1.5.25, possible to update setup.exe to get > python? > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:26:39AM -0800, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote: > >I'm currently on v1.5.25, but I don't want to upgrade yet. I just > need > >to install Python, which I believe is one of the packages. I tried > >running my old setup.exe that I used with 1.5.25, but it's now > >complaining about syntax errors in "setup.bz2". It looks like I'll > need > >to at least upgrade my setup.exe, but I need to know beforehand if > doing > >that will force me to upgrade anything else. If I download the latest > >setup.exe, will I be able to install the Python package that works > with > >1.5.25 without having to install anything else? > > Go to http://cygwin.com/ and follow the links to the legacy version of > Cygwin. The web site mentions "Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me" > but the link really just brings you to a version of setup (setup- > legacy) > which will update/install 1.5.x versions of the packages. These > packages > are, of course, no longer updated and offered as-is.
Thanks. That worked fine. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
