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The interface is badlyДesigned in that it is very confusing. There are also some view options at the top. If you made too many clicks and you forgot what is the original, you can click on Cancel button to exit the installer and restart again. It does not hurt to click the cycle icon, but you have to be careful, because if you click without paying good attention, you may get yourself installing older version, or uninstalling your software.

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Clicking on it cycles you thru вЂњSkipвЂќ, then older version, then other older versions if available, then back to вЂњSkipвЂќ, and each click update the checkboxes as appropriate. Clicking on it cycles you thru the choices of, and will toggle the checkboxes if apropriate.ДЇor packages you have not yet installed, it shows вЂњSkipвЂќ by default. Click it does several things, and what it does depends on whether you already have that package installed.ДЇor packages you have already installed, it shows вЂњKeepвЂќ by default. To toggle the checkbox, you have to click on that circular arrow icon to the left of the вЂњSkipвЂќ or вЂњKeepвЂќ word.

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When a check is marked, that means you are telling Cygwin to install that package. One is for installing binary, the other is source.

For each program, there are 2 check boxes. To understand it, first, understand about the check boxes (shown as вЂњn/aвЂќ by default). The Select Packages dialog has a very confusing interface. The Select Packages dialog in Cygwin installer.

Here's what to do when the Select Packages dialog comes up. It does not point out what setup.ini is doing or how it is used, or if installer is relying on the one on my drive or the mirror site, or if the installer is going to do a copy from the mirror site to my disk then use the one on my disk. If it means the file on my hard drive is older than the one on mirror site, then, it is not clear why should i care. If it means the one from the mirror site, then of course it will be older than the one on my hard drive. It is not clear which setup.ini it is talking about. I accepted it a few times that resulted in reinstalling lots of packages, and that often screwed up things that i ends up deleting the whole Cygwin dir and reinstall everything. The installer may give you a warning: вЂњThis setup.ini is older than the one you used last time you installed Cygwin. Here's a list of unix tools you might want to install: Accept the same defaults, in particular, try to stick with the mirror site you used before. For example, Cygwin does not install ssh by default.

Now, find out what other programs you need. That means bash is running, and you've installed Cygwin successfully. When finished, you can test run Cygwin by clicking the icon on desktop, and the Cygwin terminal should come up. If this is your first time, i highly recommend you follow this. Once you done installation of the base packages, you can come back to it and install other packages you need. When in the dialog to choose what programs to install, simply accept the default. Accept the default parameters, unless you really have a need to change things.

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# CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 xah-PC 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 19:34 i686 Cygwin Cygwin Base InstallationДЇirst, download the Cygwin installer вЂњsetup.exeвЂќ.

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(make sure you quit all Cygwin processes first) How to find Cygwin version? You can simply delete the whole Cygwin dir. This page is a short guide on installing Cygwin on Microsoft Windows (Vista).Д¬ygwin homepage is at: How to uninstall Cygwin?

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