Is there any way I can go back and install a older version of Cygwin?
Say I want the 1.7.9 version, but the setup.exe in the Cygwin website always point to the latest release?
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe will always point to the latest release. The only previous release available at cygwin.com is the 'setup-legacy' file, which is version 1.5.25 and is compatible with older versions of Windows. Downloading older versions of Cygwin is discouraged because of incompatibility with the latest available packages.
That said, if you are certain you want an older version of setup.exe, the only way to get it would be to find the file mirrored elsewhere. Simply google the specific version you want, and you should be able to easily find what you are looking for. download.cnet.com, for example, has many previous releases: see for yourself.
In summary, there is no 'official' way to get previous Cygwin releases, so you will have to find a mirror of that specific release.
Yes, see this answer but ignore the parts about Postgres
https://serverfault.com/a/532412/123651
Install an old version if you have to. Someone maintains a historical archive of Cygwin versions.
Browse the time stamp of the setup.ini file you need: http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
Copy the address of the folder (not index.html)
Run /setup-x86.exe -X with the -X option to ignore setup signatures (they aren't archived).
Paste the address into the dialog to choose your download site. You will then see a snapshot of packages available during that time.
Then pick the Cygwin base package to get an older version.
Download any setup version from https://cygwin.com/setup/
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Hi we are currently using Quickbuild for our Automation Jobs,apparently as we tried to deploy some changes we are unable to proceed due to this:
Does anyone know how to fix this? I have tried updating our git version to the latest, and I have also tried to install a cygwin latest version, none of this has solved our problem.
https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings
4.45.
How do I fix find_fast_cwd warnings?
Older Cygwin releases asked users to report problems to the mailing list with the message:
find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report
this problem to the public mailing list cygwin#cygwin.com
Recent Cygwin releases changed this to the message:
This typically occurs if you're using an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows.
Please update to the latest available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/.
If the problem persists, please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html.
This is not serious, just a warning that Cygwin may not always be able to exactly emulate all aspects of Unix current directory handling under your Windows release.
Unfortunately some projects and products still distribute older Cygwin releases which may not fully support newer Windows releases, instead of installing the current release from the Cygwin project. They also may not provide any obvious way to keep the Cygwin packages their application uses up to date with fixes for security issues and upgrades.
The solution is simply downloading and running the Cygwin Setup program, following the instructions in the Internet Setup section of ``Setting Up Cygwin'' in the Cygwin User's Guide.
Please exit from all applications before running the Cygwin Setup program. When running Setup, you should not change most of the values presented, just select the Next button in most cases, as you already have a Cygwin release installed, and only want to upgrade your current installation. You should make your own selection if the internet connection to your system requires a proxy; and you must always pick an up to date Cygwin download (mirror) site, preferably the site nearest to your system for faster downloads, as shown, with more details to help you choose, on the Mirror Sites web page.
The Cygwin Setup program will download and apply upgrades to all packages required for Cygwin itself and installed applications. Any problems with applying updates, or the application after updates, should be reported to the project or product supplier for remedial action.
As Cygwin is a volunteer project, unable to provide support for older releases installed by projects or products, it would be helpful to let other users know what project or product you installed, in a quick email.
i have trouble finding the right version for my OS.
it seems that after 2018 there is no support for 32 bit in newer versions
Jetbrains download version only provides the last 3 releases
it there a way to download older versions ?
please help !
you can the last version but ones with JR8 Bundled
in jetbrains download page, below the main version download area
here is the picture
https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnpre.png
but if you really want to download older versions use this
https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIU-2018.3.6.tar.gz?_ga=2.47016871.1424988563.1577291372-1484722978.1577291372
you can change the version
you can change the app name (to webstorm,phpstorm or else)
you can change the type of the file (to .exe or else)
Anybody know how to get the .MSI installer for an older version of Typescript - the download at the offical URL for version 0.9.1.1 is no longer available.
It seems newer version 1.0 or 1.0.1.0 is available, but that version is incompatible with my client's software which I am attempting to support.
Any idea how to get the specific version I need?
OK - found it. After some digging, there is a reference in the bowels of the Microsoft Download Center for many old versions of TypeScript.
Expand the 'Details' section and scroll down, click 'Download' link on desired version...
I customize Linux (RHEL) Operating Systems releases for specific platforms/customers, etc... (and windows). We do kickstart installs, customize the branding, install specific packages, customize partitioning, etc...
I need suggestions on better ways to version control these OS's. Currently, we use SVN to Control the base installs (i.e. RHEL 5.6, 6.1, etc...) We don't upload the base RPMS to the Subversion server as they bloat the repo quick, only custom elements. We have YUM repos for each of the versions. A script gets run after checking out the base OS version which then performs a grab from the YUM repo for the specific package versions needed. I have been unable to find any other posts/guides doing exactly what I need to do.
We basically have to version control the package list for each OS release and do goofy things to get the packages into the base OS to create the final OS image which then gets installed via kickstart (different process for windows).
I find this cumbersome and leads to potential errors. There must be a better way! I've looked into an Artifact Repository for the non-modified components but not sure if this will significantly help me.
PS: Version control for each custom release is critical, I can't even just say RHEL 6.2 is RHEL 6.2, I have to be able to prove the custom release is the correct custom release somehow (as SVN would do).
ANY suggestions are appreciated!
Have you considered using Pulp? You can create a repository for each "release" that you want to track.
A beginner's Cygwin question here - I'd like to install a newer version of Cygwin (the latest, which is 1.7.9) on a few Windows 2008 Server boxes which currently have rather an old version (1.5.25). I need to do an offline, silent install, and I'm currently deciding whether to do some sort of manually produced list of changed/added/removed files, or just replace the old install with the new. The install is quite big (80 odd megs), so just doing the differences might make sense here. It looks like there is nothing in the way of registry servering or so on required to install Cygwin -you just copy the files somewhere, add it the the path and you're good to go.
One problem, though, is that looking at what's changed between old and new reveals that some of the files the most recent install has used are actually older versions that what we've already got. Ie cygintl-8.dll, envsubst.exe, gettext.exe. Surely you can't mix and match versions?
I'd appreciate it if a more experienced Cygwin user could reply with a few hints as to the best approach here.
There's always an official config.ini file that lists a recommended version of each package, plus often both newer and older versions than the recommended one. When you do an installation with setup.exe, you can elect to use the bleeding edge versions for some or all of the packages. Perhaps your 1.5.25 version was installed with all the bleeding-edge packages, and the 1.7.9 just accepted the defaults. It's not unlikely that some sets of old/current/new packages hadn't changed between those two cygwin versions.
In general, you can mix and match a lot of things, just as you can on Linux. You can't take an old version of the core cygwin1.dll library and expect new packages to run against it; but not all the packages have to be in lockstep.