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Re: cygwin quite mode install with non default packages


Hi Larry,

Thanks for the reply. It works... Also it installs the packages when I
add the package in "misc" category.

Thanks,
Shaick.

On 4/23/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> shaick mohamed wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to install cygwin in quite mode with selecting few packages
> > like unzip/zip (which by default won't be sected for install). Is
> > there any way I can achive this.
> >
> > I tried by downloading the needed package, now the setup.ini has all
> > the packages I want to install and the release folder contain all the
> > binary files. But when I try to install from the local directory it is
> > not installing the needed packages like unzip. So I run the setup.exe
> > with interactive mode and found that again by default the unzip
> > package is not marked for install. So Can somebody give light on this.
> >
> > Any short of help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, I believe the simplest and easiest way to do what
> you want to do is to simply edit your local setup.ini to put the packages
> you want into the "Base" category.  Everything in "Base" is automatically
> installed.  There are other ways to achieve something similar, such as
>
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-04/msg00039.html>
>
> or
>
> <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>
>
> But if you just want to do this once, editing the setup.ini file is probably
> the easiest thing to do.
>
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