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During the latest months, the following Software Package is undownloadable from the mirrors that I have tried.
Does anybody know what to do in order to fix this issue?
The Cygwin Software Installation usually finishes, but not in a perfect way (with a null exit status).
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This Issue has been solved by itself, as it is usually happening these days.
The idea to discuss this Issue with the Administrators and with the Moderators of the Cygwin Mailing List might have led to an Instructive Experience. However, I have not asked anybody else anything related to the possible causes of this Issue.
I can imagine that the Cygwin Environment has been updated in the meantime. The Software Package that was nowhere to be found must have been correctly added to the Installation Scripts. No Issue is now raised regarding the Downloading Process.
The Full Software Installation of the Cygwin Environment now finishes almost perfectly. I am getting a known error that I was getting before encountering this Issue that is described in this Question.
Package: _/Unknown package
x3270.sh exit code 1
I can imagine that this kind of errors may appear in time when the Software Installation gets a little bit corrupted.
Anyway, I would like to thank everybody for their interest in this Issue.
I can recommend the following pieces of advice to anyone who might ever get interested in performing a Full Software Installation of the Cygwin Environment, which Size is greater than 100 GigaBytes:
Dedicate a Software Partition for the whole C:\CygWin\ Folder that contains the actual Software Installation.
Dedicate a Software Partition for the whole C:\CygWinKit\ Folder where the Downloaded Software Packages reside.
Since there is no Uninstallation Procedure for the Cygwin Environment, one may easily wipe out everything from the Partition where the C:\Cygwin\ Folder that contains the actual Software Installation resides and then may go on to cleanly reinstall everything in the same place.
Update: (12-March-2018)
I am happy to report that I have been able to find a solution for the last error message at the following Uniform Resource Locator:
Kenneth Wolcott writes:
Every time I update the 64-bit Cygwin the following happens:
Package: _/Unknown package
x3270.sh exit code 1Just curious, is this an obsolete/orphaned package?
Neither. You seem to have had that package installed at one time, but then either the /etc/setup/x3270.lst.gz file went missing or the uninstall didn't clean up the post-install script for whatever reason. If you just want to get rid of that message, simply remove
/etc/postinstall/x3270.sh
If you want to clean up everything, install the package x3270, then remove the packages x3270 and suite3270. I'm assuming that you have other packages that will still need libopenssl100, libX11_6, and libXaw7. If not, then you could remove those, too.
Regards,
Achim.
I assume you have tried to update your repository sources? – Ramhound – 2018-01-17T18:52:32.587
Why didn't you ask on the cygwin mailing list? => https://cygwin.com/lists.html -> "cygwin" or even the IRC-channel => https://cygwin.com/irc.html
– Hannu – 2018-01-17T19:05:43.787@Ramhound I have tried several mirrors. I have not found the
js-mathjax-2.6.1-1.tar.xzSoftware Package anywhere. – None – 2018-01-17T19:32:12.057@Hannu True. True. I shall look at their Mailing List. – None – 2018-01-17T19:32:42.800
@Hannu I have tried five times to send them an Electronic Mail Message, but their Filtering Robot is difficult to avoid. – None – 2018-01-17T19:53:38.237
do not use HTML message. See guidance on https://www.cygwin.com/ml/
– matzeri – 2018-01-17T20:01:22.060Related: https://www.mathjax.org/cdn-shutting-down/
– Ramhound – 2018-01-17T21:23:12.913@matzeri - It is much eviler than that. I guess that System Administering may simply become inhuman. Check this paragraph out: If you have tried all of the above techniques and are still unable to send email to a mailing list, then send email to the postmaster at this site. Be prepared to be mocked, if any of the above needs to be repeated to you, however. – None – 2018-01-17T21:52:30.540
@Ramhound - Still, the word Cygwin does not appear on that Web-Page. – None – 2018-01-17T21:53:34.067
So? It was still applicable to your situation to the fact your downloading an older release. Anyways: http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/installation.html
– Ramhound – 2018-01-17T22:27:30.250@Ramhound - I am not interested in the Latest Release of that Software Package. I just want to perform a Full Software Installation of the
CygwinEnvironment. I do not intend to debug this Issue. I was just curious whether anybody else has stumbled upon it. – None – 2018-01-18T16:12:59.027To be able to send an email to a mailing list, you must first JOIN it. – Hannu – 2018-01-18T20:44:45.873
@Hannu - True. True. I have been there. I have done that. Somehow, the Electronic Mail Address must have been Black-Listed. I should contact their System Administrators, but I do not want to go further than that. I just wanted a simple check whether anybody knows anything about this issue, not to troubleshoot the whole
CygwinEnvironment. – None – 2018-01-19T09:44:45.547