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Re: /usr vanished


Greetings, Septimus Stevens!

> (This is my first post to cygwin.  Kudos to cygwin dvelopers -- I've
> been using it for 9 months and am amazed how well it works.)

> But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr'
> but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that.  ( /bin and /lib are still
> there)

> Any idea how this could happen?

> Suggestions on remedy? Instead of complete reinstall, could someone
> send me or direct me to just a tarball of a "standard" /usr if there
> is such a thing?

There's no such thing, and you should be able to reinstall your cygwin
somewhat effortlessly.
All the packages you've downloaded through previous setup are stored somewhere
around there.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 22.04.2013, <02:32>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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