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[Andreas Seidl <address@hidden>]

> I just tried to install it on a fresh computer with Windows
> following your guidelines. After a lot of work, I got things
> working, but the explanations are certainly not sufficient for
> a novice user. Here is what I did:
> 
> 1) Run setup.exe from the Cygwin site.
> 2) Select all default settings for every question.
>    This installed only the Linux core for me.
> 3) Run setup.exe again.
> 4) Add your site and select it to install from there.
> 5) Select the TeXmacs package and install.
>    At this point, I do have TeXmacs, but none of
>    the dependencies were installed.
> 6) Rerun setup.exe and ... manually select all dependencies
>    using the information from texmacs.org. Install all this.
>    After some experimenting, this did the trick...

No! Half of the point of a Cygwin package is, that you do not have to
select the dependencies manually (the other half is that you do not have
to compile). On the third run of setup.exe, selecting an official mirror
should have sufficed!

Thinking back to my recent trial installation, installation worked for me 
even in two runs, as described on the installation instructions on my 
page, which puzzled me now for a moment. The reason why it worked in two 
runs was: it seems I selected two mirrors, one offical full mirror and my 
package server at the same time. Indeed, This page about setup.exe 
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html explains, that one can 
select multiple locations by holding down the CRTL key.

I'll do a full reinstallation, and write more fool-proof instructions.  
Alas, this will have to wait one day.

Andreas.
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