wget runs now <was, Re: wget does not run>

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-02-26 16:42, Charles Perkins via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2/24/2025 9:51 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2025-02-24 15:54, Charles Perkins wrote:
>>> I tried to use wget.  Here's the result:
>>> $ wget -r --tries=10 https://a.nice.website/newsletters/ -o log C:/cygwin64/ 
>>> bin/ wget.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared 
>>> object file: No such file or directory
>>> So, I re-ran setup-x86_64.exe, wondering if something had not been properly 
>>> installed before.  I got the following:
>>> Package: _/Unknown package
>>>      gtk3.sh exit code 127
>>> I re-ran the setup more than once, always the same result.
>>> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
>> That appears to be the least of your problems.
>> You appear to have installed far too many Cygwin packages, possibly all, or at 
>> least as many as worked, before failures prevented further attempts?
>>
>> As a result, your attachments exceed allowed sizes, so your email did not make 
>> it onto the list, or into the list archives.
>>
>> Many packages appear not to be installed properly, and a number appear to be 
>> empty, as the contents have not been installed.
>>
>> Such installations are unlikely to work because of components missing due to 
>> installation failures, address space conflicts between installed components, 
>> and Cygwin Setup failure to complete all installation processes without errors.
>>
>> Please try creating a new Cygwin base installation on your system, with only 
>> default packages, and allow all Cygwin Setup postinstall processes to complete 
>> properly, with no c:/...cygwin.../bin/ processes running, and no errors 
>> showing in /var/log/setup.log.full.
>> Then rerun Cygwin Setup to add a reasonable number of packages, and allow all 
>> Cygwin Setup postinstall processes to complete properly, with no 
>> c:/...cygwin.../bin/ processes running, and no errors showing in /var/log/ 
>> setup.log.full.
>>
>> When your `cygcheck -hrsv` shows no Incomplete packages or Missing files, your 
>> installation is setup properly and should be working with no problems.
>>
>> Otherwise wipe and repeat until successfull.
 > I removed my Cygwin files and started with a fresh installation from scratch.
 > Now wget is working. There was no need to mess with the registry.
 > I had no idea that installing too many Cygwin packages was courting failure.
 > Live and learn!

Glad that works now.

 > Many thanks for helping.  Maybe sometime soon I will once again try to get
 > Xwindows to work.

Install xinit to get X.org server and base X clients, and add any other X client 
apps you want to have available.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry