Re: [postmaster@sourceware] continued installation problems

[Christopher Faylor <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:41:17PM -0700, Ted Lewis wrote:
>I 1st installed Cygwin 1.3.3 on a Win98SE machine as per instructions on the
>Cygwin and Cygwin/Xfree user manuals and FAQs & it seemed to work fine.
>In the "Cygwin Setup" program, I left all defaults as is.
>During 1st installation of Cygwin/Xfree, I got an error message saying
>"cygz.dll" is missing.  This was while extracting postscript fonts. I have
>used "find", and there is no cygz.dll on my HD.  Installation continued, and
>I extracted startup-scripts successfully.  However, when I opened
>startxwin.bat, I once again got the cygz.dll error.  The shells the .bat
>file attempted to open, but were not successful.
>
>I removed & reinstalled Cygwin.  After installation I manually added all
>files in zlib-1.1.3-6 to c:\cygwin\bat with WinZip (bad idea?).  I did this
>because a Google search turned this up:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg01685.html.

This message does not tell you to use WinZip.  It says that something went
wrong during your installation.

When you install using setup.exe, you should see a "zlib" package near the
bottom of all of the packages that you are installing.  If you rerun setup.exe
you may see this.  If you don't, click on the "Full/Part" button at the top
of the screen.  This will show all of the available packages.  Click on the
"Keep" or whatever shows up next to zlib until you get to "Reinstall".  This
will reinstall zlib on your computer.

Wrt to using WinZip to unpack, check out the caveats against doing that here:

http://cygwin.com/download.html

cgf