On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote:
George R Nelson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
^^^
. Thanks.
George R Nelson wrote:
As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a
number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get
this problem? The error I get is:
Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from
http//cygwin.com failed to verify.
I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat.
So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the
prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you
want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that,
stick with 'setup.exe'.
I downloaded setup.exe from the cygwin site - my apologies as I
presumed that was assumed. This failed as described with the signature
error.
From http://cygwin.com/:
The signature for setup.exe can be used to verify the validity of this
binary using this public key.
Sounds like your download didn't work for some reason. Try again.
See the link below for background:#
I have tried again and again and again. Each time I use the
setup.exe from the cygwin site it fails due to a signature error. This
is the purpose of this request - to find out why that was happening
which is why I went to Redhat to try to get a version of Cygwin I
could download See comment below.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-08/msg1.html
I then downloaded setup.exe from the Redhat site and that
worked on the Redhat site. The setup.exe from Cygwin did not work on
the Redhat site or any of the mirrors I tried.
Cygwin != Red Hat. Use Cygwin's site for Cygwin and support from this
site.
Did I ever say Cygwin = Redhat. I think if you read carefully that I
said I downloaded Cygwin from the Redhat site (following a link on the
Cygwin home page - third link down on the left-hand column). The
Redhat site has a version of setup.exe that presumably was built from
the Cygwin setup.exe sources but customised for Redhat. From the User
Guide, chapter 2: Choosing packages there is a link to the setup.exe
home page which takes you to - oh wait -
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html! But then maybe
you glossed over what I said.
Since I had no idea how
to select a site from the list of sites I had added, I wasn't able to
check if the Redhat setup.exe worked on other systems. It was only
while making this request that it occurred to me that I might be able
to select one from the list by highlighting it.
From http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-mirror:
Since there is no way of knowing from where you will be downloading Cygwin,
you need to choose at least one mirror site. Cygwin mirrors are
geographically distributed around the world; check the list at
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html to find one near you. You can select multiple
mirrors by holding down CTRL and clicking on each one.
On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the
download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you
wish to use?
There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if
you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the
edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it
from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list.
The setup.exe I downloaded had an empty download list. I added
cygwin.com and got the error described. I then added a mirror from the
list on the ctgwin site and that too produced the same error. Likewise
any mirror I picked from the site displayed the same signature error.
The Redhat setup.exe had their own site added to the list already.
Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the
build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a
and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed
libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in
these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in
differently named libraries. Can anybody help?
Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the
problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having
problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below.
I have read the submission guidlines and the installation
documentation as well as searching the FAQ before submitting. I could
find no details on the steps carried out by setup.exe or any
explanation of the error I was getting. I have read the relevant
portions of the user guide and all other links that I could follow
from the initial description of how to get cygwin but could find
nothing that described how to select a URL from the list that I had
created.
See the User's Guide
