Setup...

Ralf Habacker kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:58:49 +0100


> I played with this for a bit yesterday and found two things.
> 1) When cutting and pasting the URL from a browser (Mozilla in my
> case), that I had to  delete and retype the last letter.  This
> ensured that a space did not slip in as the last character and what
> appeared to be non-printing character.
>
> 2) That UNLIKE what is posted on the web site.  The URL MUST end in a /
>
> Now it works for me.
>

I've tried http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/install a mirror url with and
without the trailing '/' with the current setup.exe and with the snapshot. It
works both.

I don't understand this. Perhaps Robert Collins can help us.

Regards
Ralf

>
>
> Message: 5
> From: Martin Fuchs <martin-fuchs@gmx.net>
> To: kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
> Subject: Re: Setup...
> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:16:34 +0100
> Reply-To: kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
>
> On Wed 6. November 2002 20:47, Jason Boerner wrote:
>
> >> Does setup work for anyone else?
> >> Every time I run the setup I get a message that says:
> >> "Can't open /install/setup.bz2 for reading: No such file or directory"
> >> followed by
> >> "Can't open /install/setup.ini for reading: No such file or directory"
> >
> >
>
> I got the same error.
> Seems to me, the installer expexts a compressed version of setup.ini. Hov=
> ever=20
> on the ftp server there's only the uncompressed one.
>
>
> --=20
> Martin Fuchs
> martin-fuchs@gmx.net
>
>
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