skip preamble screens in cygwin?

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Not unrarely I'll want to isntall a new package in cygwin. When I launch the installer, I have to go through a few screens where I specify the mirror host, the download directory, and all that. Is there a way just to skip all that preliminary stuff, and go straight to the package selection screen?

user13743

Posted 2010-12-06T20:56:06.233

Reputation: 1 571

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Yep:

setup -M

A shortcut is a convenient way to invoke setup.exe like that: just add the -M to the shortcut target. Also see setup --help for more command line options. You might be interested in the -P option for specifying the packages to install on the command line.

ak2

Posted 2010-12-06T20:56:06.233

Reputation: 3 387

This isn't listed in the switched in the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli Anyway setup doesn't launch when I try to the -M switch.

– user13743 – 2010-12-07T19:16:17.613

Are you using a recent version of setup? – ak2 – 2010-12-07T20:11:23.593

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