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RE: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line
- From: "Thrall, Bryan" <bryan dot thrall at flightsafety dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:48:53 -0500
- Subject: RE: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line
DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01 PM:
> On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to
>> know if there is a command line tool to install some of this
>> packages.
>
> setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of
> automate things.
>
> Command Line Options:
> -D --download Download from internet
> -L --local-install Install from local directory
> -s --site Download site
> -R --root Root installation directory
> -q --quiet-mode Unattended setup mode
> -h --help print help
> -l --local-package-dir Local package directory
> -r --no-replaceonreboot Disable replacing in-use
> files on next reboot.
> -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop
> and start menu shortcuts
> -N --no-startmenu Disable creation of start
> menu shortcut
> -d --no-desktop Disable creation of desktop
> shortcut
> -A --disable-buggy-antivirus Disable known or suspected
> buggy anti virus software
> packages during execution.
> Ending cygwin install
Note that --local-package-dir is a little broken; specifically, it gets
overridden by whatever the user selected last time they ran setup.exe
(at least, this was the case as of setup.exe version 2.510.2.2). The
problem has been fixed in CVS, but there doesn't seem to have been a
setup.exe release since then...
There might also have been another buggy command-line switch, but I
can't recall what it was at the moment.
--
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
Bryan.Thrall@flightsafety.com
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