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RE: Newbie Needs some Help.
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:17:18 -0400
- Subject: RE: Newbie Needs some Help.
At Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:48 PM, Howard Rifkind wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have loaded down the setup.exe and ran it.
>
> However, I can't figure out which packages I need to install and
> should I load it down and install from the internet. I'm only going
> to install it on one machine.
>
> I guess this would also apply to the KDE as I would like to install
> that too but there are a ton of files and I don't know which to
> choose.
>
> I have never used UNIX before ... some for this needs clearing up.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Howard M. Rifkind
It depends what you want to do. Asking for just xorg-x11-base should give
you a working X installation, which is needed for KDE. ("Cygwin/X is a port
of the X Window System to Cygwin. Base package used to select enough
packages for a working installation.")
Note that this is the wrong list to ask questions about getting Cygwin/X
working. See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/lists.html for info on the
cygwin-xfree list. Also, KDE is not available via setup so you will
probably have to go to http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ to get KDE/Cygwin
and may need to ask your KDE questions there.
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