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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Silver Zachara <silver.zachara@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: More cygwin installations
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14910411119.20160925111705@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad7eaf08-3b69-bdbb-b62c-6c9b48de9b53@gmail.com>

Greetings, Silver Zachara!

> can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g.
> c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2

> I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar.
> Or there have to be only one cygwin installation?

You MAY use multiple parallel installations. But it is least advisable for
people unfamiliar with environment, clashes may occur and you would have a
hard(-er) time figuring them out.
If you indeed need test installations, a virtual machine is the better route,
IMO.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, September 25, 2016 11:15:17

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-25  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-24 14:17 Silver Zachara
2016-09-24 22:40 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-25 10:57 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-09-25 11:00   ` Silver Zachara
2016-09-25 16:58   ` marco atzeri

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