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Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times


All considered, for debugging purpose I can erase again all, erase the
environment variable and I can rerun all again avoiding the creation
of the home dir?
More or less in 1 hour I can verify the result
What do you think about?


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:30:22PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>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.
>
> Both of these might be the cause of the problem.  They shouldn't be
> necessary.
>
> I should have picked up on this before.
>
> cgf
>
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