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Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 Setup.exe version 2.676 fails to install on Windows 7 x64


On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:10:47PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 01/16/2010 08:03 PM, Sven K??hler wrote:
>> Am 17.01.2010 01:07, schrieb Clinton Goudie-Nice:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Cygwin 1.7.1 is failing to install on a relatively clean Windows 7 x64
>>> box. I installed this box today, applied the updates and installed a
>>> minimal amount of other software (MS office 2007, WHS client, the
>>> gimp, inkscribe, pidgin, flash, and acrobat reader). I applied all of
>>> the windows updates to bring the box current, then I tried to install
>>> cygwin.
>>>
>>> The cygwin installer hangs at /var/lib/alternatives/.keep-alternatives
>>> for alternatives-1.3.30c-10
>>
>> Same problem here.
>
>Try again with 2.677.  It's out now.  If you don't get it when you
>download from cygwin.com, make sure none of your servers are
>caching an old copy.

Right.  There was a bad version of setup.exe installed (by me) which
failed to install zero-length files like what you see in the
alternatives package.

It's fixed now.

cgf

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