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RE: installer bugs? packages tree
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:06:46 +0200
- Subject: RE: installer bugs? packages tree
on cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote:
> hi,
>
> i installed cygwin for the first time yesterday. when i got to the
> screen where i choose which packages, i went straight to the root
> item in the tree, and set it to "install". the tree seemed to update
> all its branches to "install" as well, so i thought "yay!". but when
> i clicked "next" button, it told me that i hadn't selected certain
> packages that were required for certain other selected packages.
> then i thought "huh?" because i had selected to install everything.
> i was anxious about what other packages had been missed, because i
> truly wanted a complete install.
>
> [b.t.w., as an experiment, i went back to the tree view, and
> laboriously set every branch to "install". when i clicked "next"
> this time, that message didn't occur.]
>
> later on, i wanted to start over and do a fresh install of cygwin. so
> (using setup.exe) i tried to uninstall all of it. strange stuff
> again. i set the root node to "uninstall" and click "next". again i
> get a message that i have chosen to install various packages without
> their dependencies. again i though "huh?" because i had chosen to
> uninstall everything.
>
> thanks,
> grant
This seems to apply still:
>Install only base packages first and everything additional later.
I've just recently started up (from scratch) a new Windows 2000 (removing
the preinstalled XP home) machine, one of the first things I did was to
install Cygwin - as indicated above, no problems occured.
/H
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