I´m doin a unattended cygwin installation and I was wondering if there will occure any problems without a setup.ini.
Following: my "install-folder" includes a setup.exe and a subfolder release (within all the packages packed).
I´m starting the setup silent (with Nsis) and install the packages. In NSIS I define the Root, the location of the packages etc.
I think it works so far (I´m not sure because i´ve got a curious error in cmake). There are many instructions how to modify the whole setup for an offline installation. But I don´t get the point why I have to modify it at all.
I hope anyone has got experience with this issue!
#Daniel Le cygwin installs the packages without the .ini (all of them). And there has nothing to be downloaded because the packages are on the local machine.
I believe the setup.ini is essential to the setup process, as it indicates which packages to be downloaded and installed.
The Ini file is so far only a description for file locations and paths to be set as default. It is not necessary to have the ini file if you wanna install some packages!
That´s my conclusion.
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Internet research indicates that one can remove the Cygwin package files to save space. Within the Cygwin installation folder, I have a subfolder (say) http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f reflecting the mirror site. The file http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/x86_64/setup.ini seems to contain all the information about installed packages. The only other folders/files are in the following two folder trees:
http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/noarch/release/*
http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/x86_64/release/*
Can I remove everything in the http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f folder tree except http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/x86_64/setup.ini and still have the installer know what I have installed, what needs updating, and what needs downloading for a re-install?
The information about installed package is stored in
/etc/setup/installed.db
the cache in http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f
is only needed during installation or re-installation of any package.
See info in the Cygwin User Guide
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-localdir
After installing Cygwin, the cache is no longer necessary, but you may
want to retain the packages as backups, for installing Cygwin to
another system, or in case you need to reinstall a package.
I'm packaging a PyQt application for Linux as a .deb package, following the Debian maintenance guide.
The manual does a good job describing how to build the python binaries with debuild -b, and install global data files in /usr/share/<package>/ through the debian/install file. However, I don't see any mention of installing user settings files - cache files or files for configuration changes that the current user running the program might want to save.
As far as I understand, other programs usually save these in a hidden directory on the users home path - eg atom's user data in /home/<username>/.atom/.
The manual does mention conffiles. However these seem to be globally installed. I'm also not sure if they're suitable for config files that change frequently as a result of user actions, since package updates will attempt to solve conflicts between new and existing conffiles.
Some other documentation mentions postinstall scripts, but this seems potentially too complicated for something that should be common to many debian packages?
Hello experts and thank you for taking your time to answer the question:
Can I remove the .rpm files after having installed the program?
EXAMPLE:
I have installed the rar.rpm file and now I have the rar.rpm in a directory where I downloaded the file and want to know if I could remove that file without disrupting the rar program's function in centos.
Regards
Sam
Yes, you can.
Though you may want to keep it in case you need to install it again.
Also, in general, you shouldn't be (and shouldn't need to) use randomly downloaded .rpm files.
You should usually be using yum or similar tool to install a package from the configured repositories on the system.
I installed tcl to learn it, however, I installed all the files in the wrong location. I am trying to uninstall it, But the uninstall file does not work. I am trying to carry out the instructions form their website:
To uninstall ActiveTcl, run the "uninstall.tcl" script that is located in the directory where you extracted the ActiveTcl archive. Note that you must use the "wish" in the distribution you wish to uninstall. For example:
% /path/Tcl/bin/wish /path/Tcl/lib/ppm/log/ActiveTcl/uninstall_ActiveTcl.tcl
stored, by default, in the directory /lib/ppm/log/ActiveTcl. You must use the wish interpreter from the distribution you wish to uninstall. Ensure that you do not run the uninstall script from a directory that will be removed during the uninstallation.
For example:
% /path/Tcl/bin/wish /path/Tcl/lib/ppm/log/ActiveTcl/uninstall_ActiveTcl.tcl
Note: if you are uninstalling both ActiveTcl and Tcl Dev Kit, uninstall Tcl Dev Kit before uninstalling ActiveTcl.
There is no uninstall_ActiveTcl.tcl. I do see an "uninstall" file but it does not have an extension, and I do not know how to run it.
Any help is appreciated
Thank you
Try editing the file to a uninstall.tcl file and see if that works. Take a back-up first though. Because we might need that file later
I re-installed it in a new location, compared the files that were installed between the old and the new location and deleted the file sin the old location. Unfortunately I could not delete many of the hidden files, as I did not know if they were there originally or if they belonged to Tcl. I am really surprised and disappointed there is no easy way to uninstall tcl properly.
I strongly suspect that you should uninstall ActiveTcl as follows:
Open a command prompt
Change directory to where you found the install file - e.g.
$ cd path_to_Tcl_installation/bin
Run the file
$ ./uninstall
On linux systems, you don't need any particular file extension in order to be able to run a file.
I don't know CentOS but a little googling led me to a forum thread that describes how to open a command prompt.
Good luck
I am trying to install mod_java on ubuntu.
I have installed the latest java(1.6).
I have configured freeswitch with mod_java module enabled in module.conf.xml
then when i run the make file, it says:
freeswitch_java.h:5:17: error: jni.h: No such file or directory
I have searched through the java installtion folders, but did not find any include folder or jni.h.
Can anyone help, what is being the problem here.
Thanks for reading this question.
I had the same problem. The solution was to run configure with the option --with-java:
./configure --with-java=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/include/
I don't know if it makes any difference but I added mod_java after building freeswitch without it. It was disabled in my initial build in module.conf.xml but afterwards I ran the above command plus:
make mod_java-install
It worked for me on ubuntu with openjdk. Are you using the Sun JDK? Maybe in the version you have dont have the include folder which has the source files. Try installing the other JDK. Or try and see of ther are some other related packages in apt that will get you the include folder.
Type this linux command to locate your jni.h file on your filesystem.
locate jni.h
you should be able to get it somewhere
in /usr/lib/java directory or some other directory
depending upon your java home.
copy paste the jni.h in src/include folder of your freeswitch src.
It will throw you some more errors for different .h files
just copy all of them to your src/include folder.
in latest freeswitch, installing through Makefile, its not possible to configure as the Makefile downloads and installs. Its possible by modifying the Makefile.in file to add the include path
mod_java_la_CPPFLAGS
-I/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/include \