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Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:35:13AM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote:
>Bromly or not, note that I successfully downloaded via the redhat
>choice give in the setup wizard. There's no need to think about
>Bromly. Here's are the last few lines of the log from the redhat
>download:
>
> ...
> C:\Downloads_Programs\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net%2fcygwin%2f/release/zlib/zlib0/zlib0-1.2.3-3.tar.bz2
> 2009/04/21 00:26:19 Downloaded
> C:\Downloads_Programs\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net%2fcygwin%2f/release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00815-1.tar.bz2
> 2009/04/21 00:27:19 note: Download Complete
> 2009/04/21 00:27:19 Ending cygwin install
That's not a "redhat choice". It's the redwire mirror.
> The install ended, but am I installed to execute Cygwin? I see nothing on
> the Start->Run Programs menu about Cygwin, and nothing on the desktop.
>
> From the top few lines:
> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 Starting cygwin install, version 2.573.2.3
> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed
> 2 No such file or directory
> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror) failed
> 2 No such file or directory
> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection)
> failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2009/04/20 20:59:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed
> 2 No such file or directory
> ...
>
> What next?
If you don't see anything on the desktop it sounds like you chose the "Download"
rather than the "Install" selection in setup.exe.
cgf
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