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RE: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate
- From: "David Christensen" <dpchrist at holgerdanske dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "'Paul August'" <paulaugust2003 at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:09:17 -0700
- Subject: RE: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate
- References: <667530.80890.qm@web58402.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Paul August wrote:
> This what I did:
> 1. Log on as Administrator.
> 2. Remove my existing Cygwin directory
> 3. Download Cygwin Setup to C:\Downloads
I download Cygwin Setup to C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe and packages under
C:\cygwin\setup. It probably doesn't matter, but I recall that when I
tried to share a single Cygwin setup/ download directory across multiple
machines via the network, things broke. Are you trying that? If so,
don't -- you want a dedicated Cygwin setup/ download directory for each
machine. I think Cygwin Setup stores machine-/ installation-specific
metadata in there.
> 4. Run Cygwin Setup. Accept the default package selections (e.g.
> base) and also get OpenSSH package.
I have found that if I select anything in addition to the base/ default
packages on the very first run of Cygwin Setup, things break. So, now I
do two (or more) runs of Setup -- the first for base/ defaults *only*,
and subsequent runs for additional goodies. Please try again with two
passes.
>> 3. Run "cygcheck" per http://cygwin.com/problems.html and save
>> cygcheck.out.
> It is attached to this message.
Thank you. Perhaps other people will spot a clue in there.
HTH,
David
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