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Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times


peterpan1616 wrote:
I re do all the procedure that I can summarize:

1) from www.cygwin.com I download setup.exe on the PC_A
2) Using PC_A I download all the distribution fron HEANET.IE in the
temp dir c:/temp_cygwin
3) On the PC_B I erased all related to cygwin (file, directory and
using regedit all releted to registry with cygwin and cygnus
4) I copied setup.exe and temp_cygwin  from PC_A to PC_B
5) Using setup.exe I installed cygwin on PC_B.
6) I created the environment variable HOME equal to c:\cygwin\home
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This step is not a requirement.  I don't recommend it.

7) I created the home directory parallel to bin lib etc
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This step is also not a requirement.  I don't recommend it.

8) I launched the icon on the desktop
I obtained a window where the prompt is bash-3.2$ where I can't run any command.

From your cygcheck output, I have to conclude that 'setup.exe' didn't run its postinstall scripts. You can verify this by looking in 'c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall' for any scripts without a '.done' suffix. My guess is you'll see allot of those. Why that would happen in your case, I cannot say. One common occurrence that can result in this is <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda>. If you have any of the listed software or similar AV/anti-spam/anti-spyware, you might try uninstalling it for the purposes of the Cygwin installation. If you don't have any BLODA, then you may be able to solve your problem by just rerunning 'setup.exe'. This should cause the postinstall scripts to be run. If that doesn't work, you can invoke 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash' directly, cd to '/etc/postinstall' and run each of the scripts yourself. This is brute force but should be enough to get your new installation properly configured.

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