I just found info on command-line options for the Cygwin setup program in
section 2.3 of the Cygwin FAQ at
http://cygwin.com/faq/
I didn't check whether the options below are in this list.
At 09:54 AM 1/29/2009, you wrote:
Hi.
Actually there is an alternative method to doing the manual way you suggested.
I got annoyed yesterday with the hole gui thing, and wrote to the cygwin
packages list explaining the issues blind people face.
I got a very interesting e mail response back which I have pasted below.
very interesting I am sure you will agree.
Fortunately, the latest version of setup for 1.7 allows
package selection from the command line.
This is a _huge_ (ok maybe not that big) deal for users
exactly like you.
You can do things like:
setup -q -n -D -L %SITE% %LOCALDIR% %PACKAGES%
if you set up environment variables for SITE, LOCALDIR, and
PACKAGES.
Note that PACKAGES should be a comma separated list of packages
you want to install with NO SPACES between entries.
All the dependencies ar looked after automagically.
Good luck!
first off, does anyone no what that first lot of command line switches do
before the % bits where you have to enter the various options?
also, rightly or wrongly, I have tried entering the info about the
packages I want to download into a shortcut I created to the cygwin setup
on my desktop, along with all the info for the mirror site I want to use,
and the local folder. the setup runs, and it seems to download the base
set of packages no problem, but it completely ignores the list of custom
packages I have entered. does anyone have any thoughts why this might be?
Thanks for your help.
Alex.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Cygwin question
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?
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