Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

[Ken Brown]

On 10/6/2015 10:42 AM, kuaf wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I intended to install Cygwin/X server. Select package `xinit` as a
> package (The dependence packages, such as xorg-server, will be
> installed as well ).
> I came across error prompts as following:
>
>      Error writing file
>
>      Unable to extract
>      /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

This is due to a bug in setup.  See 
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00209.html for a workaround 
until a new setup is released.  Alternatively, see 
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00230.html for a link to my own 
build of setup with the bug fixed.

Ken


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