Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX?

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jørgen Steensgaard  wrote:
> After having installed a basic version of Cygwin I wanted to install X and a
> few programs that depend on it.  Using one mirror I thought I was doing
> well, but no program X were found.

Under Cygwin, /usr/bin/X is a symlink to /usr/bin/XWin.exe :

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=xorg-server%2Fxorg-server-1.9.3-2&grep=XWin.exe

> Somehow I got the information that xinit
> was needed, but that I could not obtain from the mirror. So I found another
> and lo-and-behold: I got xinit, X, and Xemacs.

I find it hard to believe that downloading xinit would get you Xemacs.

> From previous experience I knew that the X-server should be started somehow,
> but I could not resist to call Xemacs right away.  And believe it or not: it
> could not start, and complained about a missing cygjpeg-62.dll.  So back to
> the provider to have a look for the package libjpeg-62, identified by a
> lookup elsewhere.  But neither of the two providers had such a package, but
> instead some different libjpeg-*. After having downloaded all of these, the
> complaint came back again.

Did you use Cygwin's setup.exe? If yes, what version?

> So: please give me some advice on where to find a provider of all packages

Have you tried http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html  ?

Also, don't forget:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Csaba
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