On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 12:39 AM Eliot Moss via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > On 11/22/2023 4:38 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 11:15 AM, Eliot Moss expressed: > >> > >> On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: > >> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > > [clip] > >> >> desktop. No Cygwin nor Cygwin-X folders were created on the Start menu. > >> >> The > >> >> original cygwin from the Win10 PC had X installed also. > >> >> > >> > > >> > I don't think "Install from Local Directory" means "reproduce same cygwin > >> > installation on a separate computer". > >> > >> In fact, it means to install using the package files in some local > >> directory, > >> i.e., "assume the packages are already downloaded". > >> > >> It would be reasonable to copy over downloaded packages. > >> > >> I believe there are commands / techniques that would then make it fairly > >> easy to install that specific set of packages "from scratch" (but from > >> the local copy of the packages). Copying *installed* file hierarchies > >> is trickier because of permission / ownership concerns. > > > > Thanks, Eliot. Hmmm... I would have thought that by now this process would > > have been thought of. > > Not saying it hasn't, but since I don't have a ready answer to your > question I was leaving that to other, more knowledgeable, folks to > jump in and ill the gap :-) ...
I'll also add my vote for "this should be easier." I've done it a half a dozen times over the years and I found that the fastest method was to take several screen shots of Cygwin setup showing what I have installed, take those to the new machine, and manually go down the list selecting the same things. It's stupidly low tech, but it's actually quite fast (~ 5 minutes) and I know that it will always work without annoying glitches. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
