From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14917 invoked by alias); 24 Dec 2008 00:26:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 14901 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Dec 2008 00:26:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ns2.prospeed.net (HELO mail.prospeed.net) (64.25.80.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:25:48 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (lhall.prospeed.net [64.25.83.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.prospeed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE5E280173BF for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:25:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <49518151.3050309@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:26:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081120 Remi/2.0.0.18-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.18 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is it possible to install cigwyn application passing the setup? References: <103A4650-C8DA-4C81-962A-813C2A283ED5@gmx.at> <000301c96556$f8ca4c50$ea5ee4f0$@net.ru> In-Reply-To: <000301c96556$f8ca4c50$ea5ee4f0$@net.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-12/txt/msg00589.txt.bz2 Alexander M. Batishchev wrote: > Hi. Hello. Please don't commandeer someone else's threads for your own use. If you have a new question for this list, just send a new message. > Is it possible to install an application from cigwyn via any method, except > setup? > What for is there Cygwin Package List search, if the result for example > 'uname' contains nothing about 'where a package or file lives in the Cygwin > release'? > Maybe I'm wrong, please tip me how to do that. 'setup.exe' is the supported way to install any Cygwin package. While one could certainly find another way to properly install a package, it wouldn't be supported by this list and you'd miss out on all the fun of installing it through 'setup.exe'. ;-) The 'Cygwin Package List' page, , is used to find out what package a particular utility is in. The intent is that a user that knows what utility he/she wants but not which package has it can find this out. Armed with the package name of the desired utility, the user can then use 'setup.exe' to install that package. Using your example, if I simply type in 'uname' to the search, it returns a number of hits. Installing all of these packages will get you 'uname' but that would be overkill (especially since some of the packages returned from this simple search are source. ;-) ) If you instead use '/bin/uname', you'll see you get a much smaller list and that you're pointed to the 'coreutils' package exclusively. Installing 'coreutils' with 'setup.exe' gets you 'uname'. FWIW, 'cygcheck -p /bin/uname' will get you the same information, if you have an active Internet connection at the time that you initiate the command. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/