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setup 2.416 crashes when I try to install XFree86.
- From: Matthew Wilson <matt at overlook dot homelinux dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:02:38 -0500
- Subject: setup 2.416 crashes when I try to install XFree86.
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi -
I have cygwin installed OK on my windows XP machine. I installed from a
local directory after running wget to grab everything I thought I would
need. I want to use cygwin-xfree instead of Hummingbird Exceed to
connect to my department's linux server, so I started up setup.exe
(version 2.416) again and chose the XFree86-Base packages.
Then I clicked next, and the installer just disappeared. I've run this
several times on different computers and always gotten the same results.
Does anyone have any ideas?
The only thing I can think of is that I'm somehow missing something the
setup program needs. I have a complete copy of everything starting at
the cygwin directory, except for the mail-archives.
This is the exact syntax of the wget command I ran to pull down my copy:
wget --passive-ftp --recursive --no-clobber --no-host-directories \
--cut-dirs=2 -X/pub/cygwin/mail-archives -R '*-src.tar.bz2' \
ftp://mirrors.umbc.edu/pub/cygwin
I reran this script to refresh my local copy and I still had problems.
Our work firewall+proxy setup made other install methods impossible for
me. I have tried them already.
Does anyone know what is going on?
Thanks for the help.