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 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: downloading cygwin from linux Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:37:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D022F5189@exchange.timesys.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robb, Sam" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j3JGfvcs010366 > From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:33 PM > To: community help > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: downloading cygwin from linux > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, community help wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I tried to download cygwin from a linux machine but > > with no success. Is there any way to download every > > thing at a time and install it later on a windows > > machine? > > I'm trying to download cygwin from work where i have a > > linux system and i want to install it at home where i > > have windows but no internet connection. > > > > PS: executing setup.exe in linux does not work. So > > there must be an other way. > > Two possibilities immediately spring to mind: WINE or BEER (bring > everything employing rsync). Both are untested. > Igor You could also try mkcygwget: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00704.html I use it under Linux, and it works just fine. -Samrobb -- 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/