On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Yin Ming wrote: > > > HI, all > > > > Greeting to all mates. This is my first time here. > > > > I installed from a local downloaded directory. (Since I cannot access > > Internet in my office), and after installed that, I found I missed vim > > and w32api, these two tar.gz file were broken. So I downloaded them > > individually, and copy them (the tar.gz package, the setup.hint and md5 > > files) into their directories. Then I started setup.exe again, but > > cannot find these two packages in the list. Wow, how can I install them? > > First off, Cygwin packages are distributed as .tar.bz2 files, not .tar.gz > -- are you sure you got them from the right place? Emm. I wrote wrong words. It's bz2, but I download it from another site, and the version is much newer than the installed one. > Secondly, setup > doesn't read the setup.hint and md5 files, it reads the setup.ini > (setup.bz2) in the top install cache directory. Then I edited the setup.ini, add these new version packages inside, and the md5 code. > Thirdly, did you try the > "Full" and "Not installed" views? > Igor OK, after that, I can see them now. Installation has been done, and thank you, Igor. > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total > Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
