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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com, rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com
Subject: Re: libUSB-Win32
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0af076c5-40c4-991c-f9ae-78c12d69afb3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a64dedce-5128-a139-6a6c-887f5ae09eb3@gmail.com>

On 13/06/2017 01:18, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Never run into this before.  Running Win7 and installing cygwin via
> setup-x86_64 v2.879.
>
> I kept running into categories I couldn't install due to a missing
> libUSB-W32 driver.  Some of the categories are
>
> Devel
> Math
> Net
> Publishing
> Python
>
> I get an error about libusb0, says I need to install this driver. Does
> anybody know;
>
> What this is?
> What it does?
> What uses it?
> Why it isn't part of the cygwin packages apparently?

Because it need an external software driver.

Are you trying to install all of devel category and more ?
Very bad choice, there are more than 7000 packages and I doubt
anyone need more than 2000

Limit your installation to what you really need.
You can always add missing packages later.

Regards
Marco

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-06-12 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-12 23:18 libUSB-Win32 Chris Johnson
2017-06-12 23:33 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]

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