Installation of CygwinX (X-Windows software; 8-29-05).

Prior to the Install -- Unless already done recently, please note the following:

It must be OK for you to do the installation on the machine of interest and you must be logged on with a username that will permit you to do the installation.

No problems or difficulties are anticipated. However prior to installing any software it is a good idea to consider the following question: Has the machine been recently backed up and what would be the consequences if the machine became unusable?

Also, it is recommended that you create a “restore point” prior to the installation. In addition, it is probably a good idea to reboot the system prior to installing the software. This latter action helps to verify that the system does not have some pre-existing problem that should be dealt with first.

Install

Unless otherwise noted, the defaults will be selected.

1. Go to http://www.cygwin.com/ and click on “Install or update now! (using setup.exe)”

2. Click “Run” and if a security warning says “Unknown Publisher”, click “Run” again.

3. Close Internet Explorer and any other programs that you have open such as “Microsoft Word” etc. Then click “next”.

4. Select the defaults such as “Install from Internet”, “c:\cygwin” as the root installation directory, “all users”, “unix”, the default given for the local package directory and “Direct Connection”.

5. For the mirror, “http://plantetmirror.com” is suggested. Then click “next”.

6. Under the packages to be selected, all of them should be left as is except for “X11”. This should be changed from “Default” to “Install” by clicking on the word “Default”.

7. After clicking “next”, the install will begin. This may take 20 minutes or so.

8. On the desktop, create a shortcut to startxwin.bat which has the full path of:

C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat