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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>,
	Matt Pettis	<matt.pettis@thomsonreuters.com>
Subject: RE: Perl not completely downloading for cygwin
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43AF2422@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> (raw)

Matt Pettis sent the following at Thursday, November 17, 2011 4:58 PM
>
>I am trying to download perl 5.10.1-5 for cygwin through setup.exe, but
>it usually ends up at around 99% complete and then throws the error
>"download incomplete. Try again?" I've tried a couple of different http
>repositories, but I get the same error on the ones I tried. I do have
>Windows versions of perl on here (ActiveState and Strawberry), but I
>want this one mostly so that I can just run `ack' with other unix-like
>tools on my windows box. Does anybody know if there is a known issue
>with this?

You might try splitting it up into two operations.
1. "Download Without Installing".
2. "Install from Local Directory".

Good luck,

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-18 23:37 UTC|newest]

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2011-11-18 23:37 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] [this message]
2011-11-19  2:22 ` matt.pettis
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2011-11-17 21:58 matt.pettis

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