“unable to get setup.ini” error during Cygwin installation

Question

While installing cygwin I'm getting the following error

unable to get setup.ini

What is the reason?

I'm newly studying Unix. So Please guide me in this.

Answer 1

Try -X on the command line to setup.exe, worked for me.

The "Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings" did not work for me.

Answer 2

The setup.exe installer lets you select one of several dozen download locations (mirrors). The setup.ini file is downloaded from the mirror you select. If that fails, the first thing I'd try is to pick a different mirror.

It's also possible that you need to change the proxy settings (direct connection vs. IE proxy settings), as others have mentioned.

Answer 3

I was having this problem when running setup.exe from a network drive. When I copied setup.exe to my local drive, it ran correctly.

Answer 4

I was getting the same problem, when I selected "Direct connection to internet", then I did change it to "Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings" and it worked so good... try and let me know..

Answer 5

What is the URL that follows that message ? Is there any ?

Doing a quick search on google I found that broken URLs causes that message.

See, for instance: http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/cygwin.html

If you get the error message Unable to get setup.ini from http://prc-tools[...], check the URL you added and add it again if necessary. Most people who have encountered this message have eventually found that it was caused by a mere typo, such as the addition of a trailing space to the URL.)

Try to download the URL directly in a browser. If you get 404 error, then you found the problem, and you should pickup another mirror download site on cygwin.

Also, I would really recommend installing Ubuntu sideways with Windows, if you're going to really study *nix systems.