Risposta al messaggio di Marco Atzeri : > Dear Sandro, > the cygwin-1.7 can not install the package as > the Macaulay repository miss the setup-2.ini file. > The workaround is to install from a local directory. >> You need to create on your "Local Package Directory" > a directory called >> http%3a%2f%2fwww.math.uiuc.edu%2f >> Then copy the file >> http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/Repositories/cygwin/setup.ini >> in it and rename it "setup-2.ini" >> then create a subdirectory "Macaulay2" > and copy in it the package >> http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/Repositories/cygwin/Macaulay2/Macaulay2-1.3.1-1.tar.bz2 >> In this way you have created the expected structure. >> Now run setup-1.7 and choose "Install from Local Directory". >>> Regards > Marco Marco, thank you very much for your reply, I have followed your instructions but I not see the package, I see files: http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/6760/cygwin.png If I download locally other packages from default repositories I see packages listed correctly, only in this case I don't see the package but that strange entries :-? If this is not possible, I continue to use it from the /foo/usr/bin path, no problem :-) Ciao Sandro -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple