How to get the Full Cygwin Installation (about 1GB)

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I want to install Cygwin Full (about 1GB) but I cannot find any site offering it anymore. There was one but the Internet Archive did not back it up, after someone killed the site.

Some instructions about installation are here.

How can I get it and is there some trusted source with hashes to verify the dump?

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Thousands of packages.. Creating a static dump of them will be outdated in day. I know what you mean.. But the best bet is to do the effort once, keep them updated and backup before deleting again.

Cygwin installation guide says,

By default, setup.exe will install only the packages in the Base category and their dependencies, resulting in a minimal Cygwin installation. However, this will not include many commonly used tools such as gcc (which you will find in the Devel category). Since setup.exe automatically selects dependencies, be careful not to unselect any required packages. In particular, everything in the Base category is required.

So, if you know which packages you need, its not much of a trouble, because the most important ones will be installed by default. You can always install any package you want after you've installed Cygwin. There is no need to install them all at once go.

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Maybe following this guide will be enough for what you need: http://web.archive.org/web/20160409142417/http://www.tux.org/~mayer/cygwin/python/index.html

Download the desired version from http://www.python.org/ftp/python/. Here are the direct links: Python-2.7.1.tar.bz2, Python-2.7.2.tar.bz2, or Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2.

Download the matching patch Python-2.7.1-cygwin.patch.bz2, Python-2.7.2-cygwin.patch.bz2, or Python-2.7.3-cygwin.patch.bz2.

Unpack the sources, for example for 2.7.3:
tar -jxvf Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2

Patch the sources, for example for 2.7.3:
bzcat Python-2.7.3-cygwin.patch.bz2 | patch -p0

Configure the build. For example, you may want to install into /usr/local:
cd Python-2.7.3
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Compile the configured sources:
make

Install the compiled build:
make install

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I followed the instructions in the answer in this thread.

Excerpt:

For Windows XP.
To remove Cygwin sshd in the cleanest possible way:

Disclaimer

cygrunsrv -E sshd

cygrunsrv -R sshd

delete the folder c:\cygwin and all its sub-folders

remove the Environment Variable CYGWIN

edit the Environment path accordingly

Start...Run... regedit and delete these two registry trees

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER_Software_Cygnus Solutions"

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_Software_Cygnus Solutions"

Go to Control Panel, Category View, Performance and Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Computer Management.
or click Start...Run...compmgmt.msc
delete the sshd user if it exists in the "System Tools" - "Local Users and Groups" - "Users" section.
EDIT: These steps were originally for XP, and you may need to re-install cygwin afterwards.

Did a clean re-install of cygwin

And now it's working.

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