So I was not able to get the gui to work on 63, so I "uninstalled" it from my
computer. So then I wanted to back to 62 thinking that it may be more
stable as far as the gui is concerned. But now for some reason I cant even
get past the cygwin download. But it is not the cygwin part that is
failing. Fore some reason I can not download the file setup.ini...I have
tried severl attempts, several versions, and several sites, but I continue
to get the same error message. I have attached a screen shot ot the error
message.
Someone please help. I have no clue why this is happening.
So I was not able to get the gui to work on 63, so I "uninstalled" it from my
computer. So then I wanted to back to 62 thinking that it may be more
stable as far as the gui is concerned. But now for some reason I cant even
get past the cygwin download. But it is not the cygwin part that is
failing. Fore some reason I can not download the file setup.ini...I have
tried severl attempts, several versions, and several sites, but I continue
to get the same error message. I have attached a screen shot ot the error
message.
Someone please help. I have no clue why this is happening.
No clue, sorry, but why not use the native (i.e. without Cygwin) winGRASS installer which works quite well nowadays ?
Well, I was trying to get a "bug free" version...
they were recommending 62 or 63 on cygwin.
notice that the error message came up for "setup.ini.sig".
IIUC that is an encryption signature file -- it ensures that the binaries you are downloading are the ones that the packager prepared and not some evil trojaned version.
We don't sign our cygwin packages, so we don't have that. I wonder if the newest version of cygwin has some new requirement which makes third party packages harder to install?
if so, you might try the manual install method given at the end of the cygwin download page.
you are the first to see this error, if it is a new cygwin thing I guess that others will soon by reporting the same message.
or maybe there is some "install trusted packages only" checkbox somewhere which needs to be unchecked.
Well, I was trying to get a "bug free" version...
they were recommending 62 or 63 on cygwin.
notice that the error message came up for "setup.ini.sig".
IIUC that is an encryption signature file -- it ensures that the binaries
you are downloading are the ones that the packager prepared and not some
evil trojaned version.
We don't sign our cygwin packages, so we don't have that. I wonder if the
newest version of cygwin has some new requirement which makes third party
packages harder to install?
if so, you might try the manual install method given at the end of the
cygwin download page.
you are the first to see this error, if it is a new cygwin thing I guess
that others will soon by reporting the same message.
or maybe there is some "install trusted packages only" checkbox somewhere
which needs to be unchecked.
good luck,
Hamish
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Yeah I think that I will do the manual install.. That will probably work.
So when I download the files is it a matter of just cutting the grass files
into the correct cygwin folder? Is anything else needed? Will cygwin
recognize the grass folders then automatically?
I have found the solution to why GRASS is being stopped during download
because of setup.ini.sig
setup.ini.sig will checks for and tries to validate a GPG signature file to
make sure the mirror site isn't malicious. and since the GRASS package is
not an official cygwin package it does not have the GPG sig and thus will
not download.
visit this link to see the replies i got on the cygwin mailing list and the
answers provided to me:
what you end up having to do is after you have downloaded the the setup.exe
file, run cmd shell, and use the -X flag to open the exe. This will turn
off the sig requirement.
which goes through the whole shpeel of why they have added this new file in
the Cygwin setup.
Hope this helps those who find the same problem.
Garret
Garret wrote:
So I was not able to get the gui to work on 63, so I "uninstalled" it from
my computer. So then I wanted to back to 62 thinking that it may be more
stable as far as the gui is concerned. But now for some reason I cant
even get past the cygwin download. But it is not the cygwin part that is
failing. Fore some reason I can not download the file setup.ini...I have
tried severl attempts, several versions, and several sites, but I continue
to get the same error message. I have attached a screen shot ot the error
message.
Someone please help. I have no clue why this is happening.
