missing telnet, solution

[Harold Hunt]

Phil,

I updated the User's Guide to say that most users will find the default
package list sufficient, but that you want to make sure that openssh and
inetutils are selected if you wish to use telnet or ssh.

Hope that helps.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Phil Burk
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:49 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: missing telnet, solution
>
>
> I followed all the steps to install Cygwin/XFree from the user guide.
> Everything worked great until I got to the part about telnet. It
> was missing
> from my installation. I spent about two hours looking over the Cygwin site
> trying to figure out how to get and install telnet. I noticed in
> this forum
> that other folks had the same problem but no working solution was offered.
>
> I finally figured it out. Here's how:
>
> - re-run the SETUP.EXE program that you used to install Cygwin,
>
> - select "Install from Internet" option,
>
> - select same install directory as before,
>
> - choose a download site as before,
>
> - when you get a list of packages, click the '+' next to the
> "Net" category,
>
> - select the "inetutils" package and the "openssh" package,
>
> - continue downloading.
>
> Your installation will be updated with those new packages.
>
> Perhaps the Cygwin/XFree86 User Guide could be modified to make
> sure telnet
> and ssh get included in the installation the first time. It
> currently tells
> people to leave the default settings alone but the default does
> not include
> telnet.
>
> Phil Burk
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