Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 11:22:45 +0200 From: Marcel Telka To: diboru@freenet.de Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: UNINTELLIGENT QUESTION about how to install ONE package without reinstalling everything else... Message-ID: <20020908112245.A4623@tortuga.etc.sk> References: <200209080548.HAA19939@www1.emo.freenet-rz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200209080548.HAA19939@www1.emo.freenet-rz.de>; from diboru@freenet.de on Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 07:48:46AM +0200 On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 07:48:46AM +0200, diboru@freenet.de wrote: > I know: this is NOT an intelligent question > but I am not an intelligent user either and still would like to use cygwin... > > Whenever I try to install only one package with the setup program > everything is installed again (and those packages which are not > part of the default are not there anymore). > Is it possible to install JUST ONE package with the setup program? > (It seems not to veryfy if there is already something existing - if I am right ) > > And - as there might be other non-intelligent users - > There is a "How do I uninstall individual packages?" entry in the FAQ > (which seems to reinstall everything else before unistalling the package?!? > one more unintelligent question) > but no "How do I install individual packages?" entry.... > How about adding one? > > One more problem: > It is most easy to "find" a package with http://cygwin.com/packages/ > but not so easy to locate the same packate in the setup program.... > Any hint? ... this in an unintelligent answer: In the Cygwin setup program, in "Select Packages" dialog box there is a little button named "_View". There are three types of the view: Category, Full and Partial. I hope this helps to you... Regards. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: marcel@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: marcel@jabber.sk | +-------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/