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Re: How do I install own packages found on the net?
thanks :)
"Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin@exposure.org.uk> wrote in message
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> > I did not found the utility I wanted on the cygwin site, so I went
> searching
> > on the net and found a package that had what I wanted. Its a binary bz2
> > archive and a source tar.gz archive. So I know that running setup should
> be
> > only the way to install packages so I want setup to recognize my
package!
> I
> > don't know how :(
> >
> > I looked in setup.ini and added it to it, but no change.
> > Please help me
>
> You only have to (or are encouraged to) use setup.exe with Cygwin packages
> from the net release. If you've found binary packages on the internet then
> you install them as you would on UNIX/Linux (untar them). Make sure that
the
> binary package you have is designed for Cygwin (ie., Win32 PE) and are not
> Linux binaries.
>
> Elfyn
>
>
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