Re: cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe does not work

On 18/04/2026 09:24, Vladimir Kurguzov via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello Brian, thank you for the answer.
> 
> To participate in this discussion I just sent an email to [email protected],
> I use the browser MS Edge Version 109+ 32 bit.
> 
> You say:
> 
> "Your subject says does not work but your post says cannot download - which
> is it?"
> 
> I mean that is a link to download a file that does not work.
> 
> "What ISP or org and system are you connected to and/or logged in on for
> these operations?"
> 
> It is just an ordinary public ISP for citizens. I am not opening its name
> because of I think it is not important for my problem.
> 
> "What are the symptoms and text of any message outputs that leads you to
> believe the operation/s does/do not work?"
> 
> The file does start a download process in the browser but when the download
> is about 50 - 100 kb of the whole date it stops and then nothing matters.
> Other types of browser, Firefox for example, return the same situation. I
> cannot do anything more.
> 
> "I just downloaded and executed Cygwin Setup a few different ways with no
> problem, and all the files have the same hash and contents as that used for
> my last local upgrade of all Cygwin packages."
> 
> I don't know what you are talking about, I just want to know why the file
> from that link is broken for me.

We don't know!

I confirmed that I can also download and execute the file, with its 
expected size of ~1.6MB.

Since we are not inundated with people screaming about this, the obvious 
conclusion to draw is that this is some peculiarity of your computer, 
network, proxy or ISP causing a problem only for you.

As a workaround, you might try accessing the files via:

https://www.cygwin.com/install.html
https://cygwin.com/setup/

> сб, 18 апр. 2026 г. в 11:18, Vladimir Kurguzov <[email protected]>:
> 
>> I cannot download the file by this link placed on
>> https://cygwin.com/index.html
>> link: https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe
>> What the fuck?
>> I also had tried those online download services:
>> https://thunderbit.com/tool/url-extractor
>> https://onetoolstop.com/any-file-downloader/
>> And they approved that the file is broken.


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