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Re: How to add a package to Cygwin from an external folder?


On 10/6/2013 9:37 AM, Alessandro Francesconi wrote:
I'm new on Cygwin environment and I'm wondering if it's possible to
"link"  a package that's already stored on my hard-drive, but it's out from the
default Cygwin folder. I'll be more precise:
My Cygwin environment is in C:\dev\cygwin, I need to manually install a
particular version of a package that's not available in the default remote
repository, for example libgimp2.0-dev (version 2.6.0)

You can access paths that aren't under the Cygwin root directory
(C:\dev\cygiwn in your case) using the '/cygdrive' path from Cygwin shells.
See the section about cygdrive in the Users Guide for more details:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive>


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