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Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours
- From: Don MacDougall <dmacdoug at usc dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:27:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours
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>> ...if there is a way (to begin again to install default packages) without
>> starting over
>> from scratch I'd be interested in a pointer to any documentation on it.
>
> Since you've already downloaded the packages, you can just remove the
> installed directory (don't remove setupXXX.exe or mirror copies! Only the
> directory where you've it installed) and restart setup in "install from
> local directory" mode.
> That'd be the fastest way. You'll just have to re-run setup afterward to
> update installed components from internet.
Thank you for the advice. I moved the installed directory (29 GB) aside and
restarted the
install, carefully avoiding changing any of the default settings, and this
time it finished in
a couple of minutes and the install directory is only 158 MB and I find a
cygwin terminal
and am able to do routine bash commands, so I presume that all is working.
So, why the
postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for
me.
Thanks again for the help.
Don MacDougall
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