| 259 | | === Install the Cygwin package - Windows with [http://cygwin.com/ Cygwin] installed === |
| 260 | | |
| 261 | | Starting with CVS snapshot 2005-11-15, smartmontools is part of the [http://cygwin.com/packages/ Cygwin distribution]. |
| 262 | | A list of available smartmontools packages and their contents is |
| 263 | | [http://cygwin.com/packages/smartmontools/ here]. |
| 264 | | |
| 265 | | To update your installation, click on the "Install or update now!" |
| 266 | | link on the [http://cygwin.com/ Cygwin web page]. |
| 267 | | This downloads {{{setup.exe}}} to your system. |
| 268 | | Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. |
| 269 | | Select smartmontools package in the "Utils" category. |
| 270 | | |
| 271 | | The optional source package ({{{smartmontools-*-src.tar.bz2}}}) |
| 272 | | can be used to build both the Cygwin and the Windows binary packages |
| 273 | | on Cygwin. Refer to the file {{{/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/smartmontools-*.README}}} |
| 274 | | for details. |
| 275 | | |
| 276 | | ---- |
| 277 | | |
