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Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2000 04:48:52 +0100
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From:	Keith Fielding <keithf AT gaast DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:	[bug] Installation Problems
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Tom Hutto  writes:

> Problem summary from an ignoramus' viewpoint:
> 1. $HOME is wrong -- embedded blanks and no quotes
> 2. $USER is wrong -- embedded blanks and no quotes
> 3. /home/$USER was not created
> 4. The utility called info does not work as documented
> ... etc.

1, 2, 3: I hit the same problem. Cygwin created $USER from the W95 user
name (which contained embedded spaces) but cygwin clearly does not
support a user name which contains spaces. This can be a pain on W95 and
W98 systems which may well be configured to not prompt for a user name
on start-up. The way I got round this was:

a) From the "shutdown" tab of the start menu I selected "4. Close all
programs and log on as a different user". When prompted I entered a
different user name (without spaces).

b) I created the correct $HOME directory (using the new user name) by
hand.

I suspect that many W95 users may use their full name (including spaces)
as their Windows user name. Since this causes problems for cygwin it
would be nice if this could be automatically translated with white space
being replaced by underscores. Failing this, a prominent warning in the
installation instructions would be helpful.

4: Have you run "install-info"? Before info will work you need to do the
following:

cd /usr/info
for f in *.info ; do install-info $f dir ; done

This produces a couple of error messages relating to "gzip" and "time"
which must added to the dir file by hand. See the faq.

Again a note of this in the installation instructions would be helpful.

A further problem experienced by me (and several other installers to
judge by other posts) is that things (e.g. gcc) seem to be broken
because other required packages have not been installed. A dependency
list as part of the installation instructions would been nice.
-- 
Keith Fielding

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