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Re: Installation problem with xfree86-prog
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote:
I know that problems with Xfree86-cygwin have a list of their own, but I
think this may be a packaging problem or something super-weird about my
Cygwin installation.
Lately, XFree86-prog is showing up among the packages to be updated. If
I allow setup to attempt this, every attempt locks up trying to install
a file <file://./usr/X11R6/include/X11/ap_keysym.h>. The setup control
^^^^^^^^
This is a packaging error. Should be "file://usr/X11R6/include/X11/ap_keysym.h".
Which mirror are you using? Which version of XFree86-prog are you trying
to install? Which version of setup.exe?
Um, my error - "//." is a WindozIsm for making a URI to a "file on this
machine." The Setup display is what you said.
Anyway, I had not looked deeply enough. Inside /usr/X11R6/include/X11/
was an "X11.lnk" I could never extract where the shortcut was pointing,
but I suspect it looped back to its own parent. In addition, the damn
thing has an ACL that I couldn't delete or modify even after donning my
Administrator cape and sacrificing the customary goat. I wound up
renaming the parent directory (original X11) and re-creating the
legitimate part of the directory tree. Then Setup ran fine with the
latest (x.y.z-12) version of X86Free-prog.
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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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