Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/06/19:11:41
Fergus on Linux wrote:
> Sorry: I too returned from a week away and updated Cygwin by blindly running
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe, installing all updates without reading any
> associated announcements. So I broke vim (and maybe other components
> besides). Such a curse: I've had a trouble-free highly robust system for
> months now, and regularly but mutely congratulate the developers on this
> splendid, clean OS and its hassle-free update procedure.
>
> Q1. OK: what to do? Apparently the cure is "Just reinstall the 'libncurses5'
> package" which will be just fine, when I discover how to do it. I'm afraid
> I've only ever used setup.exe, which is now just showing "Nothing to
> re-install". Please will somebody just tell me what to do, to achieve this
> necessary re-installation?
Once you get to that page, click on the "Full/Part" button (which stands
for "Show FULL List/Show only PARTial list". Scroll down to the
libncurses5 package, and click on the word "Keep" until it changes to
"Reinstall"
>
> Q2. Actually, what I did was this: I wiped the whole system, including all
> mentions of "Cygnus Solutions" from the registry, re-booted, and then
> re-installed from ground zero, using setup.exe. I had kind of thought that
> somehow the whole issue of {FIRST ncurses THEN terminfo, libncurses5,
> libncurses6} would in this way be correctly addressed. But it wasn't and [as
> far as I can tell] I've ended up in the identical situation, broken vim and
> all.
!!!!
That should not happen. Do you still have the setup.log file from that
run of setup.exe, or have you already run setup again since then? Also,
send you /etc/setup/installed.db file, please.
> So: it appears to me that a new user installing Cygwin *today* would
> necessarily find themselves with a system that's "broken" in the way
> described. Is this really so?
I hope not.
> And is the recovery procedure still "Just
> reinstall the 'libncurses5' package"?
Yes.
--Chuck
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