{"id":3081,"date":"2013-08-08T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:10:25","slug":"cygwin-installation-problem-unable-to-get-setup-ini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3081","title":{"rendered":"Cygwin Installation Problem – “Unable to get setup.ini”"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those people who work between Windows and Unix environments (like Solaris, Linux and etc.), Cygwin and Cygwin-X is like a godsend. Cygwin-X allows the PC to work in the X-windows environment with ease. Most of the Unix X-windows applications can be “hosted” under Cygwin-X running on MS Windows, making it a seamless extension of the Unix OS.<\/p>\n

During one of the Windows 7 update, my Cygwin app environment got wiped out, probably because I installed the 32-bit version of the Cygwin-X, while my Windows 7 is 64-bit. So I had to re-install it from Cygwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I downloaded the “setup.exe” from the website and kept encountering the “Unable to get setup.ini” error message (see below) after switching to many other mirror download sites.<\/p>\n

\"Cygwin_setup_init\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To spare you of the pain I went through, I downloaded and ran the setup-x86_64.exe from Cygwin.com<\/a> directly. Voila, the problem was fixed. I was able to install all of the Cygwin apps without any issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those people who work between Windows and Unix environments (like Solaris, Linux and etc.), Cygwin and Cygwin-X is like a godsend. Cygwin-X allows the PC to work in the X-windows environment with ease. Most of the Unix X-windows applications can be “hosted” under Cygwin-X running on MS Windows, making it a seamless extension of … Continue reading Cygwin Installation Problem – “Unable to get setup.ini”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}