Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7

[Ryan Johnson <ryan dot johnson at cs dot utoronto dot ca>]

On 03/05/2013 11:48 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> > Hi Piotr,
> >
> > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak  wrote:
> > > Could anyone help me with this problem?
> > > I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response.
> > > When installing cygwin using "default" option - everything goes well. On the other hand
> > > when trying to install:  everything ("install" option) or  some parts of the cygwin package
> > > the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours.
> > (snip)
> > > Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be?
> > Don't do it :)
> >
> > For setup.exe to to install everything it has to download everything,
> > checksum everything, unpack everything, install everything, rebase
> > everything. This takes time, regardless of which mirror you use.
> >
> > Why do you want to install everything? I doubt there is a single
> > person on Earth who has used every single Cygwin program.
> But, if they did, I'd give them a gold star for their efforts.
Define "use" ...

for f in /usr/bin/*.exe; do $f --help; done

>:)

Ryan


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