problem with setup.exe

2008-09-04 Thread Bob's email
I am trying to upgrade my version of cygwin, 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01 i686 but I get the following error: Package file agetty has a corrupt local copy, please remove and retry Where is this file? Thanks, Bob Johnson -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: problem with setup.exe

2008-09-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bob's email wrote: I am trying to upgrade my version of cygwin, 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01 i686 but I get the following error: Package file agetty has a corrupt local copy, please remove and retry Where is this file? It's in your local download directory under the munged name of

A problem with setup.exe (?)

2007-08-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have observed this problem with setup.exe 2.575, 2.573.2.2 and 2.578 (but, perhaps it is not a stricly setup problem). Usually when one has some experimental package installed, setup, while installing some other package, tries to reinstall the 'Cur' package. So one should click to keep the exp

Re: A problem with setup.exe (?)

2007-08-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: So the question is: Should setup give a warning that the lst.gz file was corrupted, suggesting to remove it? But perhaps, the simplest solution should be to remove the 'Cancel' button from setup... Thanks for the report. Setup should neither fail to clean up after

Re: Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-06 Thread David Kastrup
cuicui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup a écrit : Hi, I have downloaded and non-installed a number of packages. Now I call setup.exe in a batch file with setup -n -N -d -A -L -q -R %CYGWIN_HOME% and this works in that it installs what is cached in the local directory, but!!!

Re: Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-06 Thread cuicui
David Kastrup a écrit : Hi, I have downloaded and non-installed a number of packages. Now I call setup.exe in a batch file with setup -n -N -d -A -L -q -R %CYGWIN_HOME% and this works in that it installs what is cached in the local directory, but!!! just the default minimal selection, not

Re: Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-06 Thread cuicui
David Kastrup a écrit : cuicui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup a écrit : Hi, I have downloaded and non-installed a number of packages. Now I call setup.exe in a batch file with setup -n -N -d -A -L -q -R %CYGWIN_HOME% and this works in that it installs what is cached in the

Re: Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-06 Thread Dave
David Kastrup wrote: cuicui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup a écrit : quite a nuisance. Is there any way to tell setup.exe what else to install when it _is_ already cached? Just add a virtual package in your setup.ini in the Base category that depends on the packages you need.

Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-05 Thread David Kastrup
Hi, I have downloaded and non-installed a number of packages. Now I call setup.exe in a batch file with setup -n -N -d -A -L -q -R %CYGWIN_HOME% and this works in that it installs what is cached in the local directory, but!!! just the default minimal selection, not what I have additionally

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-04 Thread Jeremy Davis-Turak
Yeah, thanks guys, it worked from home. Stupid firewall. On 7/3/07, Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Jeremy Davis-Turak
Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Firewall issue? Thanks a lot, Jeremy -- Unsubscribe

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. You forgot to try one thing. Have you tried downloading from another

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Carlo Florendo wrote: Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: snipped No, unless you provide more details. Perhaps it's a firewall issue. In any case, downloading setup.exe WJJFM. ^ Sorry, I meant, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM Thank you very much. Best

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Firewall issue? Make sure

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me?

Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. I started the installation with administrator

RE: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. I

Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-30 Thread Dave
Dave Korn wrote: On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) The download process worked well an the installation began. After the installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it. The dos box told me that it can't

Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 05/30/2007, Dave wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) The download process worked well an the installation began. After the installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on

RE: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:12 +0100) On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe

Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-30 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Korn (Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:12 +0100) On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. My OS is

Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

2007-05-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Bogler
Hello all, I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through the installation

Re: A problem with setup.exe

2005-12-07 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 petro wrote: I've been an off and on user of Cygwin for a long time, and over the years the setup program (and process) has incrementally gotten better. I'm not all that great at development, and I really hate whinging about free software that

A problem with setup.exe

2005-12-05 Thread petro
I've been an off and on user of Cygwin for a long time, and over the years the setup program (and process) has incrementally gotten better. I'm not all that great at development, and I really hate whinging about free software that more-or-less works because basically I can't do any better, but

Problem building setup.exe (zlib.h not found)

2005-04-17 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
I'm trying to build setup.exe from source. I ran into the same problem mentioned by a thread back in 2003 where using a windows cvs.exe instead of the cygwin one caused configure to fail, and I made it past that, but now make is failing because it can't find zlib.h. This is the first cygwin

Re: Problem building setup.exe (zlib.h not found)

2005-04-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Daniel Einspanjer wrote: I'm trying to build setup.exe from source. I ran into the same problem mentioned by a thread back in 2003 where using a windows cvs.exe instead of the cygwin one caused configure to fail, and I made it past that, but now make is failing because it can't find zlib.h. This

Re: Problem building setup.exe (zlib.h not found)

2005-04-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Daniel Einspanjer wrote: troubleshoot why g++ can't find zlib.h (obviously, I double checked to make sure the zlib package is installed). setup is a mingw program, you need mingw-zlib and mingw-bzip2. (the source for these libraries used to be bundled, but if you're using a recent CVS

Re: Problem building setup.exe (zlib.h not found)

2005-04-17 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks muchly. :) On 4/17/05, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Einspanjer wrote: troubleshoot why g++ can't find zlib.h (obviously, I double checked to make sure the zlib package is installed). setup is a mingw program, you need mingw-zlib

Re: Problem building setup.exe (zlib.h not found)

2005-04-17 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
Max, sorry for not RTFMing closely enough. I knew I had bz2 and zlib libraries installed so I didn't click on the mingw prefix until Brian highlighted it. On 4/17/05, Daniel Einspanjer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks muchly. :) On 4/17/05, Brian Dessent [EMAIL

Problem building Setup.exe

2003-07-25 Thread Christian Gross
Hello I downloaded the Setup.exe program from the CVS sources. Then in order I did the following: ./bootstrap ./setup/configure -C --enable-dependencies --disable-shared --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin 'CC=gcc -mno-cygwin' 'CXX=g++ -mno-cygwin' --enable-maintainer-mode The

Re: Problem building Setup.exe

2003-07-25 Thread Christian Gross
Check that libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh is executable, if it is, sorry, I don't know. If it's not, to quote StarTrek TNG, make it so then start again from the setup/bootstrap.sh Yupe it is and was. I even downloaded a clean copy and did a chmod for good measure. Hope this helps! I've only just

Re: Problem building Setup.exe

2003-07-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Christian Gross wrote: Check that libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh is executable, if it is, sorry, I don't know. If it's not, to quote StarTrek TNG, make it so then start again from the setup/bootstrap.sh Yupe it is and was. I even downloaded a clean copy and did a chmod for good measure.

Problem with Setup.exe cont...

2003-07-25 Thread Christian (SerpentMage)
Hi To see if the problems with building of setup.exe is not isolated I decided to build setup.exe on another machine. This machine is fresh and is not cluttered. Same error occurs. Thanks Christian Gross

Re: Problem building Setup.exe

2003-07-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Christian (SerpentMage) wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Christian Gross wrote: Hello I downloaded the Setup.exe program from the CVS sources. Then in order I did the following: ./bootstrap ./setup/configure -C --enable-dependencies --disable-shared

Re: Problem building Setup.exe

2003-07-25 Thread Christian (SerpentMage)
At 12:39 25/07/2003 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Christian (SerpentMage) wrote: FYI, I was able to CVS checkout and build setup from scratch just now by using the command sequence below (with the exact output). I'm also attaching my cygcheck -c output, just in case, so

Problem with setup.exe (last version)

2003-06-19 Thread Miha Andrejasic
Hello! I would like to use cygwin at home. But I ahve slow connection so I downloades setup.exe and run at work. I downloaded packages to local directory and burned them to CD. At home I tried the instal but when I use Install from local directory and select from where and to where it produces

Re: Problem with setup.exe (last version)

2003-06-19 Thread Larry Hall
Miha Andrejasic wrote: Hello! I would like to use cygwin at home. But I ahve slow connection so I downloades setup.exe and run at work. I downloaded packages to local directory and burned them to CD. At home I tried the instal but when I use Install from local directory and select from where and

Problem with setup.exe

2003-01-14 Thread yann Bassing
Under win2000, the setup.exe fails to launch : setup.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows... What's wrong ? Help me please... -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

Re: Problem with setup.exe

2003-01-14 Thread Max Bowsher
yann Bassing wrote: Under win2000, the setup.exe fails to launch : setup.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows... What's wrong ? Help me please... Most odd. For some reason, setup.exe works perfectly for the majority of people, but a very few get bad misbehaviour. I suggest

Lesstif compilation problem and setup.exe

2002-11-11 Thread Mark Manning
I decided to try compiling the latest version of Lesstif to get my feet wet doing compilations of packages. Download and untaring went well. Compilation seemed to go ok also until I'd gotten about 3/4 of the way through. Then Cygwin refused to continue compiling. I was in fvwm2 at the time.

RE: Lesstif compilation problem and setup.exe

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Prive
-Original Message- From: Mark Manning [mailto:markem;ev1.net] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lesstif compilation problem and setup.exe snipped out your primary problem which I can't help with.. If you need a screen dump - let me know. I

Problem with setup.exe v 2.194.2.22 and setup.ini

2002-04-10 Thread Francois Contreiras
Hi I tried to upgrade to the latest release of cygwin. In order to do so, I have dowloaded the latest version of setup.exe as recommended. This new version is able to download the different package locally but when I want to install from my local directory I obtained the following error:

/usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe needs immediate investigation

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Is anyone investigating the problem with /usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe? w32api is being created in c:/cygwin/usr/lib/w32api rather than c:/cygwin/lib/w32api . cgf

RE: /usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe needs immediate investigation

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
I will check this tonight. -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe needs immediate investigation Is anyone investigating the problem

Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

2002-01-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And a question: Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on Reinstall, too? It doesn't do this already? Hmm. I would expect a reinstall to be equivalent to an uninstall/install, yes. cgf

Re: Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

2002-01-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:41:19PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And a question: Wouldn't it make sense to uninstall first on Reinstall, too? It doesn't do this already? Hmm. I would expect a reinstall to be equivalent to an

Preliminary patch for symlink problem in setup.exe

2002-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've found a problem in setup.exe which potentially results in two symlinks with the same name. As you know, the default setting for symlinks in Cygwin is using Windows shortcuts while setup.exe always creates symlinks as the old-style system files. Now imagine the following simple situation