Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?
Lex Ein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL X. Setup.exe won't stop trying to snag unnecessary components. What file(s) to I have to edit manually to make this happen? What can I manually delete? It's a remote system, so I can't uninstall Cygwin without losing control. I had this same problem (seemed to appear along with Xorg replacing Xfree but I could be wrong). I examined every application I had installed for requiring X and couldnt' find anything. Unfortunately the only way I managed to fix it was to completely remove cygwin and reinstall. If you can't uninstall cygwin, I suggest you do a install from local directory rather than install from internet - that way you can control what files are available. You would of course have to manually update any files from an ftp server.. It setup had a column required by that listed what each package was a dependancy of - that would make it easy to find these kind of issues. (that or a dependancy tree). Regards, Errol btw, it would be great if SETUP.EXE would cache setup.bz2. That way it could check the server for a newer version and not download it if not required (date/filesize matched or similar). (hey, even 70k takes a while on a modem!) -- 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/
Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:20:34PM -0700, Lex Ein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nine days ago, this was Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus. Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL X. Setup.exe won't stop trying to snag unnecessary components. What file(s) to I have to edit manually to make this happen? What can I manually delete? It's a remote system, so I can't uninstall Cygwin without losing control. Little help? On Fri, 07 May 2004 19:16:54 -0700, Lex Ein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If there exists a sensible method for trimming the bulk of an existing Cygwin installation on a running disk-limited REMOTE system accessible only via ssh, I'd love to know it. I've completely lost patience. On a remote system, I've been trying to uninstall large chunks of Cygwin (x, db). Using Setup.exe to do this is like playing Whack-a-Mole, and is extremely frustrating. The Keep | Reinstall | Source | Version1 | Version2...| Uninstall click-to-rotate control forces dependancies both far and near while I'm trying to _reach_ Uninstall. Uninstall LEAVES THOSE DEPENDANCIES ACTIVATED. Without a way to select Uninstall without clocking through all the other dependancy activators, it's impossible to remove features and all their dependancies stickily. In fact, the very process of trying to do this piece by piece has resulted in masses of other crap being installed which I don't need. It's rather disturbing, as I'm running out of space on the remote system. Toggle to the Partial view and turn off the dependancies you don't want? -- 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/
Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 09:20, Lex Ein wrote: Nine days ago, this was Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus. Setup is only bringing in X because something you have installed requires it. It's possible that there is a circular dependency loop within the X programs themselves, and if so you may (at least Right Now) be out of luck for your uninstallation needs. However, the partial view as another poster has suggested is probably the best way to tackle this. And I'd suggest you compare what you want installed vs what you have installed with the setup.ini from the mirror you are using - you should be able to spot the culprit that is dragging the X packages in. My WAG is that a package you *want* wants X. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?
Hi All... I ran into a circular dependency with X as well. I temporarily installed something that wanted it and then later removed the original package. I tried a couple of times to remove X and gave up. (It doesn't take that much disk to worry about and I'll take care of it on my next clean install.) HTH, ...Karl From: Robert Collins To: Lex Ein CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave? Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:49:45 +1000 On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 09:20, Lex Ein wrote: Nine days ago, this was Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus. Setup is only bringing in X because something you have installed requires it. It's possible that there is a circular dependency loop within the X programs themselves, and if so you may (at least Right Now) be out of luck for your uninstallation needs. However, the partial view as another poster has suggested is probably the best way to tackle this. And I'd suggest you compare what you want installed vs what you have installed with the setup.ini from the mirror you are using - you should be able to spot the culprit that is dragging the X packages in. My WAG is that a package you *want* wants X. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. signature.asc _ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://youroffers.msn.com -- 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/
Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?
On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:20:34 -0700, Lex Ein wrote: Nine days ago, this was Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus. Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL X. You need to figure out the package(s) installed depending on X. Attached is a list of packages that have the string XFree or xorg in their requires: line in setup.ini Save the list to a file, say, xlist.txt Then, run the following command to see installed packages depending on X: $ cut -d' ' -f1 /etc/setup/installed.db | comm -12 - xlist.txt -- A. Alper Atici OpenPGP KeyID: 0xB824F550 GraphicsMagick ImageMagick TeXmacs WindowMaker X-start-menu-icons X-startup-scripts XFree86-base XFree86-bin XFree86-etc XFree86-f100 XFree86-fcyr XFree86-fenc XFree86-fnts XFree86-fscl XFree86-fsrv XFree86-html XFree86-lib XFree86-lib-compat XFree86-man XFree86-nest XFree86-prog XFree86-prt XFree86-vfb XFree86-xserv Xaw3d cgoban ddd emacs-X11 fvwm gd ghostscript-x11 gnuplot grace gv lesstif libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick0 libMagick-devel libMagick6 libXft libXft-devel libXft1 libXft2 libgd-devel libgd2 libungif nedit openbox tcm tetex-x11 transfig x2x x3270 xemacs xfig xfig-base xfig-bin xgraph xorg-x11-base xorg-x11-bin xorg-x11-bin-dlls xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-etc xorg-x11-f100 xorg-x11-fcyr xorg-x11-fenc xorg-x11-fnts xorg-x11-fscl xorg-x11-fsrv xorg-x11-libs-data xorg-x11-nest xorg-x11-vfb xorg-x11-xwin xorg-x11-xwin-gl xterm xwinclip xwinwm -- 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/
