From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 115098 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2016 10:57:42 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 115066 invoked by uid 89); 25 Sep 2016 10:57:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:952, certainty, H*RU:!192.168.1.100!, Hx-spam-relays-external:!192.168.1.100! X-HELO: mail-wm0-f46.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f46.google.com) (74.125.82.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:57:40 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f46.google.com with SMTP id l132so101827793wmf.1 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:57:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8WhIfhOl1gDqIQ04KTvhSL1FYLlR+o7xkj/idkPuxYs=; b=h7KC8Bsub9Yt7QId/7S+wTgR37wzGnJJE3WVxvAIOkFX+st3/ZX2TkHSykBlXdooUV NtUnifipqLO/Iy6O1YyQFEFBOkYAee8I7YDddWSzAK+ixz8Lg7SddFYF+Id2cr0cuuaq 2ePfeaP6A2wX4ixjFFnaaVvu2r+EdFDK5zdX+VKhma5QXipPXeoSy2YTv8hlL7bzy93X ZUBdZ+DbDhiwrPvsDNzJBX8cUxc88wnSAtr6TCj40rywWiVVMvwv9WgSV2VZQh3AkBuP vXCqayi+wCQ1w1xi1vuigFXSgr9QtTun0gS9hXIgmv1zqGhs3SpVd1JOgOFQM8gwLVT9 pRxg== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwMoSsfs6A1HfeDCWwDSkxY8kgp3F4qv2Et4Mi04NnTw+0zS5N0Bfg5sC9LdoudKwQ== X-Received: by 10.194.228.3 with SMTP id se3mr15984037wjc.132.1474801057823; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([31.192.95.87]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i78sm5399630wmc.13.2016.09.25.03.57.36 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 25 Sep 2016 03:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: More cygwin installations To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <14910411119.20160925111705@yandex.ru> From: Silver Zachara Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:00:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14910411119.20160925111705@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00319.txt.bz2 I went this path yesterday, it's clearer solution from my view, I think that cygwin have to be adjusted for parallel installations and I don't know if he does. As you wrote, it will work in more cases, but there can be some edge cases, when there can be some problem, may be some services, wm is certainty :-) On 25.09.2016 10:17, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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. > > -- 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