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Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times


Thanks for your feedback.
I looked in the postinstall directory and all the file have .done how
you can see in the attached file
Only the joe-manifest.lst do not have .done but there is joe.sh.done

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> peterpan1616 wrote:
>>
>> I re do all the procedure that I can summarize:
>>
>> 1) from www.cygwin.com I download setup.exe on the PC_A
>> 2) Using PC_A I download all the distribution fron HEANET.IE in the
>> temp dir c:/temp_cygwin
>> 3) On the PC_B I erased all related to cygwin (file, directory and
>> using regedit all releted to registry with cygwin and cygnus
>> 4) I copied setup.exe and temp_cygwin  from PC_A to PC_B
>> 5) Using setup.exe I installed cygwin on PC_B.
>> 6) I created the environment variable HOME equal to c:\cygwin\home
>
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This step is not a requirement.  I don't recommend it.
>
>> 7) I created the home directory parallel to bin lib etc
>
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This step is also not a requirement.  I don't recommend it.
>
>> 8) I launched the icon on the desktop
>> I obtained a window where the prompt is bash-3.2$ where I can't run any
>> command.
>
> From your cygcheck output, I have to conclude that 'setup.exe' didn't run
> its postinstall scripts.  You can verify this by looking in
> 'c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall' for any scripts without a '.done' suffix.
> My guess is you'll see allot of those.  Why that would happen in your
> case, I cannot say.  One common occurrence that can result in this is
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda>.  If you have any
> of the listed software or similar AV/anti-spam/anti-spyware, you might
> try uninstalling it for the purposes of the Cygwin installation.  If
> you don't have any BLODA, then you may be able to solve your problem
> by just rerunning 'setup.exe'.  This should cause the postinstall
> scripts to be run.  If that doesn't work, you can invoke
> 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash' directly, cd to '/etc/postinstall' and run each
> of the scripts yourself.  This is brute force but should be enough to
> get your new installation properly configured.
>
> --
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> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> A: Yes.
>> Q: Are you sure?
>>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
>
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