Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

[Bob Kline]

  I finally had to replace my ancient Windows XP box, and ended up with 
a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system.  If I run setup.exe to install a 
fresh cygwin, it succeeds as long as I don't touch the X11 set, leaving 
it at Default (which is to say, don't install anything in the set).  If 
I change Default to Install for X11, I get a dialog box which says:

Cygwin Setup - Running postinstall scripts
Postinstall script errors
     The following errors occured executing postinstall scripts
Package: gcc4-core
     gcc4-core.sh exit code 126
Package: libglade2.0_0
     libglade2.0.sh exit code 2
Package: xinit
     xinit.sh exit code 8
Package: No package
     gcc4-core.sh exit code 126
     libglade2.0.sh exit code 2
     xinit.sh exit code 8

When I click Next, I get an error message saying the installation won't 
work properly unless I correct the failures which occurred, and tells me 
to look in the log file.  The log file doesn't have anything beyond what 
appears in the dialog box as far as the errors are concerned, and 
there's no clue anywhere telling me how I'm supposed to go about 
correcting the errors.  I've tried many times, clearing away the 
c:\cygwin tree each time and starting fresh (don't know about the 
registry, though: there isn't an uninstaller for cygwin in the 
add/remove programs database).  I've googled, but haven't found anything 
I could use to get past these failures.

Versions:
cygwin installer, version 2.708
gcc4-core, version 4.3.4-3
libglade2.0_0, version 2.6.4-1
xinit, version 1.2.1-1

I'm running the setup program as administrator.  I downloaded it 
multiple times to make sure I wasn't working a corrupted installer.

Could I please have some assistance figuring out how to correct the 
errors?  What other information do I need to supply?

Thanks!

-- 
Bob Kline
mailto:bkline@rksystems.com
http://www.rksystems.com


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