starting Cygwin in windows vista

[Bello Lawal]

Hello,
Pls. am getting difficulities in starting cygwin in windows vista. Pls. can some  one help?

Many thanks



     

[trihedraldoc]

Hi.
I used ns-2 on Cygwin on XP. Worked like a charm,
Now I am struggling with installing it on the newest cygwin running on vista home premium. However I am seeing some light after few trials.
here's my suggestions
1- Install every package Cygwin offers (do not "hide obsolete" packages. you need those since they include the xorg libraries that are vital to ns-2)
2- when you installed all packages of cygwin you will see in your Windows start menu two entries
    -Cygwin
    -Cygwin-x
  In Cygwin-x click on xwinserver and that opens the xterminal magically.

Good luck

Bello Lawal wrote:

Hello,
Pls. am getting difficulities in starting cygwin in windows vista. Pls. can some  one help?

Many thanks



     

[hakki]

Hi, I dowloaded all the packages in cygwin also `xinit`, however, while I have been trying to install ns-2, it gives a such error " Xfree86 package is not installed". I have never seen Xfree86 packages in setup of cygwin, I downloaded all the packages. What do you offer?

best
hakki


Hi.
I used ns-2 on Cygwin on XP. Worked like a charm,
Now I am struggling with installing it on the newest cygwin running on vista home premium. However I am seeing some light after few trials.
here's my suggestions
1- Install every package Cygwin offers (do not "hide obsolete" packages. you need those since they include the xorg libraries that are vital to ns-2)
2- when you installed all packages of cygwin you will see in your Windows start menu two entries
    -Cygwin
    -Cygwin-x
  In Cygwin-x click on xwinserver and that opens the xterminal magically.

Good luck

Bello Lawal wrote:

Hello,
Pls. am getting difficulities in starting cygwin in windows vista. Pls. can some  one help?

Many thanks



     

[trihedraldoc]

I don't think you did download all packages otherwise Xfree86 libraries would have been found.
Did you make sure you did not "Hide Obsolete packages"?
Sorry but I acnnot see any other reason why those libraries wouldn't be there.  


Hi, I dowloaded all the packages in cygwin also `xinit`, however, while I have been trying to install ns-2, it gives a such error " Xfree86 package is not installed". I have never seen Xfree86 packages in setup of cygwin, I downloaded all the packages. What do you offer?

best
hakki

trihedraldoc wrote:

Hi.
I used ns-2 on Cygwin on XP. Worked like a charm,
Now I am struggling with installing it on the newest cygwin running on vista home premium. However I am seeing some light after few trials.
here's my suggestions
1- Install every package Cygwin offers (do not "hide obsolete" packages. you need those since they include the xorg libraries that are vital to ns-2)
2- when you installed all packages of cygwin you will see in your Windows start menu two entries
    -Cygwin
    -Cygwin-x
  In Cygwin-x click on xwinserver and that opens the xterminal magically.

Good luck

Bello Lawal wrote:

Hello,
Pls. am getting difficulities in starting cygwin in windows vista. Pls. can some  one help?

Many thanks



     

[hakki]

Thanks  for everyting, I downloaded them however, while I have been installing ns-2 I faced an error message such that "tclcl-1.15 make failed". And I don't know how can I solve this.

best
hakki


I don't think you did download all packages otherwise Xfree86 libraries would have been found.
Did you make sure you did not "Hide Obsolete packages"?
Sorry but I acnnot see any other reason why those libraries wouldn't be there.  


Hi, I dowloaded all the packages in cygwin also `xinit`, however, while I have been trying to install ns-2, it gives a such error " Xfree86 package is not installed". I have never seen Xfree86 packages in setup of cygwin, I downloaded all the packages. What do you offer?

best
hakki

trihedraldoc wrote:

Hi.
I used ns-2 on Cygwin on XP. Worked like a charm,
Now I am struggling with installing it on the newest cygwin running on vista home premium. However I am seeing some light after few trials.
here's my suggestions
1- Install every package Cygwin offers (do not "hide obsolete" packages. you need those since they include the xorg libraries that are vital to ns-2)
2- when you installed all packages of cygwin you will see in your Windows start menu two entries
    -Cygwin
    -Cygwin-x
  In Cygwin-x click on xwinserver and that opens the xterminal magically.

Good luck

Bello Lawal wrote:

Hello,
Pls. am getting difficulities in starting cygwin in windows vista. Pls. can some  one help?

Many thanks