How to remove those previously downloaded packges?
Christopher Faylor
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Tue May 4 13:53:00 GMT 2010
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:59:33AM +0000, hzgmaxwell@sohu.com wrote:
>>Every time when I was installing a cygwin, I run the setup twice.
>>The first time is to download only, then the second is to install from local directory.
>>
>>To doing like this is to keep the installed packages under a specified
>>directory, then later on I can re-install from there if only I need to
>>install cygwin again.
>
>It sounds like you're going to extra, unneeded work. You can just
>install the packages using the default "Install from Internet". The
>files will still be in the download directory when you're done.
Sorry. I stopped typing too soon. I meant to mention this:
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.disk-space
cgf
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