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Re: download script
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>, Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: download script
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 06:12:39 -0700 (PDT)
--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:08:15PM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote:
> > Download latest/byacc/byacc.tar.gz failed
>
> I also had a similar experience as Neil's when I used the "Install from
> Internet" option. Using setup 2.19, I installed Cygwin on a Windows
> 98 machine for the first time. The installation appeared to succeed
> without any problems. But, when I executed commands like cat, I got a
> "command not found" error message from bash.
>
> When I checked my setup.log, I discovered that about 5 packages failed
> to download. When I re-ran setup, it downloaded the missing packages
> successfully this time.
>
> Note that I am installing from a local mirror on our Intranet, so I
> don't think that the download really failed. Maybe setup thinks that
> the download "failed" when it actually succeeded?
>
I have two things to say:
Use the source, Luke (TM).
Patches gratefully considered (TM).
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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