Jordan Bortz wrote > It does nt work at all..Like...it refuses to download the list of mirrors; > if I install from a local disk, it shows hardly any packages in the > avaialble list. > > When it attempts to install something, what it usually install is just the > directories. > > I could go on and on and screenshots and etc...The bottoms line is it doesnt > work, (on my machine) if you want to believe it works on every machine, > fine. > > I've given up on cygwin but I'm letting you know fwiw that the installer > seems incredibly broken.
It's not at all clear what you hope to achieve by this message. setup.exe works just fine for most people (thousands or more). It's clear you are having a problem with it, but unless you give more information there is little anyone can do to help you. If you want to give up on Cygwin that's your choice - but if instead you could try to help people diagnose and solve the problem you have it may benefit others as well as yourself. We need to know exactly where setup failed, exactly what you did up to that point, and exactly what happened when it failed - any error messages or other output which you wre not expecting or did not understand. Are you behind a firewall? Being unable to download the mirror list suggests you have a fundamental problem with your internet access. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/