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RE: minimal installation
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wefwef wefwef
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:59
> Subject: minimal installation
>
> I am trying to do a minimal cygwin install plus vi, ssh, 7z,
> ping, and rsync.
>
> The reason it has to be minimal is that I want to deploy it
> to several pc's that don't have internet access - and are in
> a different country (ie slow transfer) - to deploy the full
> 500mb default would be too slow.
>
> I have tried installing only base plus the packages mentioned
> by setting all categories to uninstall and then setting base
> to default.
Those procedures seem overly complicated.
Hmm, do the machines have Cygwin on them and this is an upgrade or is this a
fresh install.
No previous cygwin case:
Run Setup.exe
Leave all on default except the chosen packages. Install... Done.
Previous cygwin installed case:
Remove cygwin.
Run Setup.exe
Leave all on default except the chosen packages. Install... Done.
Special case cygwin installed with packages user wants to keep:
User runs setup.exe (on user's time)
Changes no options (upgrades all installed cygwin)
Run Setup.exe
Leave all as is except the chosen packages (if not installed). Install... Done.
> Then switching to full view, and selecting the extra
> packages. I deployed this to one of my remote pc's, and
> installed from the local directory. I noticed that at this
> point even when I selected Install at the top to get a full
> install from the local directory, it still left out the extra
> packages, and I have to change these by hand from skip to the
> version number.
>
> When it was all installed, I tried running ssh and got the error
> message: error while loading shared libraries: cygssp-0.dll:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
>
> I suspect what has happened is that cygwin has got confused
> about what packages I already have. Since I?already?have a
> full local cygwin installation, it is possibly skipping the
> needed libraries since it thinks I have them?already. Well, I
> do, but they are not in the local directory that I am going
> to deploy to my remote pc.
>
> Does anyone know how to do a minimal installation (ie sub
> 60mb) that works?
>
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