I know that Cygwin is not really Linux; it involves the dreaded Windows.
In case anyone wonders what happens if you select Default in All categories
when doing the GUI install of Cygwin 1.5:
I'm using Window-Eyes 7.01 in Windows 2000 and downloaded the whole
enchillada yesterday. (I selected only current versions, not developmental
or obsolete versions).There are probably some additional files in my user
directory. But, from the Virtual View script of Window-Eyes, here are the
properties of the \cygwin directory after everything has been counted (wait
a minute or so for the reading to stabilize):
cygwin Properties (Property Sheet)
General (Tab Control)
QuickFinder (Tab Control) Sharing (Tab Control) Security (Tab Control)
cygwin (Edit Box)
Type: (Static Text) File Folder (Edit Box)
Location: (Static Text) C:\ (Edit Box)
Size: (Static Text) 3.07 GB (3,304,495,749 bytes) (Edit Box)
Size on disk: (Static Text) 3.49 GB (3,752,910,848 bytes) (Edit Box)
Contains: (Static Text) 175,917 Files, 10,245 Folders (Static Text)
Created: (Static Text) Today, January 29, 2009, 4:19:39 PM (Edit Box)
Advanced... (Button)
Attributes: (Static Text)
Read-only (Check Box)
Hidden (Check Box)
OK (Button) Cancel (Button) Apply (Button)
Since I only have an 80 GB hard drive, I plan to remove some of the
packages. Window-Eyes detects the Default button. I used to be able to
find the scroll bar in order to bring more than the first few categories
onto the screen for selection or deselection. So if you install everything
under 1.5, you eat nearly 4 GB of disk space.
At 09:16 AM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
Hi,
The short answer is "not really." It's possible to just click on the
"All" button to install every Cygwin package. If you want a nice
installer, that's as good as it gets. If you want not such a nice
install, you can manually install packages once the base system is
installed. This isn't recommended or really supported. You'll need to
make sure that bash, coreutils, tar and bzip2 are working. All are part
of the base system which is installed if you just go with the defaults and
don't change anything. It would also help to install an ftp client such
as ncftp, but the Windows ftp client would work. Go to a Cygwin mirror
such as ftp.osuosl.org and download the packages you want to
install. Make a temp directory and extract the archives within bash.
Manually move the files into the correct places, such as moving
mypkg/usr/share/doc to your c:\cygwin\usr\share\doc and mypkg/etc to
c:\cygwin\etc. Don't move files from the usr/bin directory to
cygwin\usr\bin because it won't work. Instead, just dump them into
\cygwin\bin. You should have a postinstall and possibly other scripts to
run. Make sure they're executable (they should be) and run them after
everything is manually in place. If you're lucky, it will actually
work. If not, just click on All from the installer and install
everything, allowing for about 2 GB of disk space.
Note that all of the above is for Cygwin 1.5. I haven't used 1.7. You
should try it and see if it's better. Note that 1.7 is still in testing
and won't run on anything less than XP or 2000. I would like to know if
1.7 is any better. Get http://cygwin.com/setup1.7.exe or setup-1.7.exe
instead of the usual setup.exe.
Tom Masterson wrote:
Does anyone know of an accessible way to install packages under cygwin?
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <http://www.loc.gov/nls>
HOME: <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>
The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent
those of NLS.
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