> -----Original Message----- > From: wefwef wefwef > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:59 > Subject: minimal installation > > I am trying to do a minimal cygwin install plus vi, ssh, 7z, > ping, and rsync. > > The reason it has to be minimal is that I want to deploy it > to several pc's that don't have internet access - and are in > a different country (ie slow transfer) - to deploy the full > 500mb default would be too slow. > > I have tried installing only base plus the packages mentioned > by setting all categories to uninstall and then setting base > to default.
Those procedures seem overly complicated. Hmm, do the machines have Cygwin on them and this is an upgrade or is this a fresh install. No previous cygwin case: Run Setup.exe Leave all on default except the chosen packages. Install... Done. Previous cygwin installed case: Remove cygwin. Run Setup.exe Leave all on default except the chosen packages. Install... Done. Special case cygwin installed with packages user wants to keep: User runs setup.exe (on user's time) Changes no options (upgrades all installed cygwin) Run Setup.exe Leave all as is except the chosen packages (if not installed). Install... Done. > Then switching to full view, and selecting the extra > packages. I deployed this to one of my remote pc's, and > installed from the local directory. I noticed that at this > point even when I selected Install at the top to get a full > install from the local directory, it still left out the extra > packages, and I have to change these by hand from skip to the > version number. > > When it was all installed, I tried running ssh and got the error > message: error while loading shared libraries: cygssp-0.dll: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. > > I suspect what has happened is that cygwin has got confused > about what packages I already have. Since I already have a > full local cygwin installation, it is possibly skipping the > needed libraries since it thinks I have them already. Well, I > do, but they are not in the local directory that I am going > to deploy to my remote pc. > > Does anyone know how to do a minimal installation (ie sub > 60mb) that works? > > -- > 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 > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. -- 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