On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:28 -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> I was trying to use http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ information to
> use setup to install ports packages. As setup runs, it generates an
> error telling me that  ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports - the
> site that the sourceware page says to use during setup - doesn't have
> the files being sought by setup .
> 
> Being new to cygwin-ports, I am a bit baffled at what I need instead.

First, please make sure you are using the latest setup.exe from
cygwin.com.  After that, you're probably best off trying the cygwinports
directory of a sourceware mirror:

http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html

HTH,


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports



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