On 1/27/2020 7:38 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2020-01-26 21:33, aimedtech wrote: >> Okay, this is a complaint. I've spent the past few days trying to download >> the Cygwin system and gotten nowhere. I've tried several download >> environments, using different protocols, nothing works. >> >> And this is beyond being a pain, this is getting to be a real problem for >> me. No, that's not right -- it is a problem for me, NOW. >> >> I remember, I downloaded, installed it and used it, this was about a decade >> ago. Then, the area for naming the machine download sites would fill in >> automatically; Today, no. I chose a couple and tried them, one at a time. >> Neither worked >> >> I'm not sure if this message is to just tell you that your install is very >> broken and goodbye or if I'm asking for help. >> >> I am willing to send someone a USB 1TB drive and pay $50 bucks to load it >> and send it back. If that's what I do I want everything. The works. > This is an all-volunteer project and mirrors are donated by the server owners. > > Weekends are busy times for backups and security upgrades on publicly > accessible > free servers, and if there are problems, support may not be available until > the > next work day, after serious production issues are dealt with. > > Similarly for answers and support from here. > > The world has changed and Cygwin has become larger in the last decade (148GB > according to the Mirrors page). > > You *MUST* download the latest x86/_64 installer from the home page > setup-x86/_64.exe links to get the latest active mirrors and use the current > key: > > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe > > Selection from the latest active mirrors to use is easiest by browsing the > linked Mirror Sites page: > > https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html > > and you should see if you can recognize nearby sites which are likely to have > big servers and fast pipes. > > You may find your closest site(s) overloaded, slow, and connectivity > intermittent, depending on the site ownership, day of week, time of day, > network > path to you, other users on the site and on your local ISP feeds. > > Avoid evenings and weekends, when many others nearby are downloading the > newest > Amazon Prime, Apple+. Disney+, Netflix, etc. series to binge watch, and your > ISP > is also throttling retail customers, to free up bandwidth for their business > customers doing offsite streaming backups. > > Searching for an unofficial mirror at a nearby local university or (Unix) User > Group publicly available on the internet may give you better results. > > Sometimes the closest mirrors may not be the fastest or most reliable, and ftp > sites nowadays are slower, less available and reliable than http/https sites, > as > web sites get the big bucks, servers, memory, and pipes, but ftp sites may be > kept around only as long as nothing goes wrong with their old server. > > Ping, traceroute, simple adhoc bandwidth and throughput tests will give you an > idea of the best performance, and experience will tell you about reliability. > > Start by downloading only the base packges or upgrading what you have > installed, > and be patient during postinstall steps, as rebasing all the DLLs, and > rebuilding updated pages in the man DB, can take a while with large upgrades > or > outdated installs. >
If you are planning to install Cygwin on many hosts, using apt-cacher-ng or alike might be of interest to you. -- John Doe -- 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
