Sunday, August 19, 2007

Installing cygwin on Vista.

I've got new Dell with Vista installed on and tried to install Cygwin today. It didn't worked... Installer stuck at gnuplot.sh...

In order to move over this point I've had to use the get Sysinternals' Process Explorer to kill this sh process, than it stuck on tetex-tiny.sh, killed again, than post-texmf.sh killed. After that setup finished, I had to do some magic though:

> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group


so, command line worked...
I added C:\cygwin\bin to Windows PATH
and had to do magic again to get X client running...


ash from cmd.exe
than ran rebaseall


seems to be working at least so far...

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