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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 21 2004 - 12:20:36 CDT

Hi Peter,
  Yeah, Cygwin seems to leave a program named "setup" in the global
Windows path, which can interfere with self-extracting installers such
as the Winzip installer used by VMD. A workaround to this problem is to
use Winzip to manually unzip the vmd182.exe file into a directory, and
then double-click on the setup.exe program in that directory, which should
invoke the correct installer. :-)

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:55:02AM -0500, Peter Freddolino wrote:
> I am trying to install VMD on a windows computer (fortunately a
> temporary problem ;-), but when I run the installer, it initially
> finishes extracting everything (status bar goes all the way to the
> right), but then hangs and opens the cygwin installer. I've tried
> canceling out of the cygwin installer or letting it go all the way
> through, but either way, nothing ends up getting installed, and the
> installer just ends up sitting there at the end. Am I doing something
> wrong, or is this an unforeseen interaction between cygwin and vmd?
> Thanks,
> Peter 

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