I'm trying to get ProFTPD installed, and I can't seem to pull down the package from the Cygwin repositories

[Achim Gratz]

marco atzeri writes:
> Ok, you forgot to highlight that, and it was not my first thought.
> This is clearly a weakness of the current setup implementation.
>
> As basic install
>
>   setup-x86.exe -P proftpd -q
>
> should install the package you are looking for, without the need
> of additional software.
> It works for me, just tested.
>
> I suggest to contact the chocolatey/cyg-get team
> to check any problem on their side

I've had a look at what cyg-get is and how it (likely) works.  The
problem with cyg-get is not that it doesn't use setup.exe, it is that it
has no way of listing the available packages.  That's even mentioned as
a bug somewhere.

So, to answer the original question, you'd first have to find out which
package (if any) provides proftpd (using the Cygwin package search, URL
below) and then give the package name thus obtained to cyg-get, which
will call setup.exe to install it.

http://cygwin.com/packages/
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=proftpd&arch=x86


Regards,
Achim.
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