https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40309
--- Comment #11 from super_man@post.com ---
I tried installing the official Debian Jessie Wine package which was version 1.6.2. Cygwin failed to install at all on it. Seemed to fail trying to untar each of the downloaded packages.
However, I tried just pulling in cygwin executables and it fails almost the same way as before, but not quite.
Can you share with me what kind of machine you were successful with installing cygwin on?
1.6.2 is just so outdated that it's no wonder it doesnt work. There has been no updates to that wine version around 2 years or something like that while the development versions has gained every 2 weeks new version status. There is a bug 34259, it's reported against 1.7.0. My understanding is that you really need some of the wine-staging patches.
I tried the installer with wine-git and I get
"AddAccessAllowedAce(, group) failed: 1337"
errors I don't know if that's something to worry about or not, but it still goes on installing stuff. I set everything as default I just changed the install path from default z to c.
I seem to get a crash too. Don't know the cause. It goes quite far installing stuff. update-info-dir.dash is the (file?) it hangs finally.
I tried the same procedure with wine-staging (deleted wineprefix before trying) and I can finnish the installer. I also get AddAccessAllowedAce(, group) failed: 1337 errors, but I wasnt able to spot a crash during install.
wine-staging version used was 1.9.5- Linux mint here.