On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:25:50PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Jon TURNEY wrote: > >> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: >> >> *** xorg-server-1.10.3-1 >> *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.3-1 > >---- > How can I install 'just' those packages (from the command >line).... > > The GUI has no option to only install 1 package -- >it selects ALL, (100's of my packages want updates, but when I tried I >tried it last, I ended up with a completely non-function cygwin setup >(no bash, nada..., thank goddess I had a backup...) > > So now now, I tried going through and unselecting, but there >were too many and my wrists gave out.....and of course the GUI has >not KB-accelerators like shift-minus to unselect all, that I could find. > > Any easy way to cherry pick packages to install rather than being >forced fed entire updates all at once? > >the cmd line 'setup' claims to allow you to install, one package, but >then it went through the whole gui process and still had all the other >default packages installed!....
If you ran setup.exe and it deleted bash then there is something very seriously wrong with either your system or setup.exe. I know where my money would go if I was betting on which of the above was more likely. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/