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Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54


The first attempt to install Cygwin using the 2.54 setup was over an
exisitng install, I had downloaded all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs to
just one directory and launched setup from there. The reason I choose to
reinstall was all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs showed up as new again.
The method installed into a random directory name (file then openssh) in the
directory where the Cygwin binaries tarballs are, even though I always
choose C:\Cygwin\.
It also caused the /usr/bin and /usr/lib mounts to be removed and didn't
restore those 2 mounts on the second setup attempt.

The last attempt was a clean fresh download and install from the internet
which caused most of the executable and dll files (*.exe and *.dll) to be
installed in /usr/bin instead of /bin.. I had also deleted the Cynus
Solution registry keys from the Software sectiond of Local Machine and User
sections of registry first before attempting this clean install.

The final problem was the when I run Cygwin setup again after an
installation and choose to show all packages, not all of the installled
packages offer an uninstall option. Several still only offer the option of
skip and the version number of the package (Reinstall?).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Keener" <bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com>
To: "Travis Howell" <kirben@optushome.com.au>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54


> Travis,
>
> Are these clean installs that you are doing or are you upgrading an
existing
> installation.  Also if you are upgrading are you making sure the packages
you
> do not want to instal are set to 'keep'.
>
> Really need to know if this is a new install or and upgrade to pursue this
> further.
>
> Chris - I haven't looked yet (and only ask because at first thought I
thought
> of the change we made for the cygpath and the mount points and was
thinking of
> the executable 'cygpath' as opposed to a function in setup) but the change
you
> made for the mounts where it uses cygpath to determine file paths and the
mount
> points would that be affected by new installs versus an upgrade.
>
> bk
>
>
>
>
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