I am a new Windows 10 user and am trying to install Cygwin for the first time (no prior Cygwin installation experience). I didn't find similar questions asked either on Cygwin or on StackOverflow.
Here is the problem: 1. Running Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.51) on a new laptop with lots of disk space. My account has administrator privileges. 2. Downloaded setup-x86_64.exe (version 2.874) from https://cygwin.com/install.html. 3. Turned off firewall (McAfee LiveSafe) before running setup.exe. (Just in case it helps; I am still running ByteFence) 4. Using http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com (I have tried others and tried using multiple mirrors at once) 4. I am accepting all the default packages plus some basic developer stuff (gdb, make) and check "Select required packages (RECOMMENDED)". 5. Cygwin setup works for maybe a minute and then gives the first of many, many pop-up messages "IO Error Opening file....._autorebase/binutils/cygwin/grep/mintty etc. Do you want to skip this package?" When I browse to indicated directory I find a *.tmp file in that location (e.g. base-files-4.2-4.tar.xz.tmp 44KB) and that the full file was never fully downloaded. I can abort setup.exe with the TaskManager and then re-run it again and sometimes get a little bit further before getting the "IO Error Opening file" message but, so far, I am unable to install an operable Cygwin. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Jenny PS: I have recently installed several unrelated programs from the Internet without incident (e.g. git bash, notepad++). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple