Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/11/12:17:12
Sorry, I don't understand your reply, either.
To put it very simply: To intstall the snapshot:
(1) Where do I put the downloaded snapshot files?
(2) Do I run the 4 listed commands from a Windows command prompt,
or instead from within Cygwin.
I will greatly appreciate straightforward answers to these perfectly
simple and straightforward questions.
Dave Korn wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately, the instructions in FAQ # 2.15 "How do I install
>>snapshots?" is not completely clear. It says that one should first
>>close all Cygwin applications and shells. But then it says to "run" a
>>sequence of commands:
>>
>> cd /
>> tar .......
>> cd /tmp
>> tar ......
>>
>>Now given that I was supposed to exit Cygwin, presumably these commands
>>are to be run from a Windows command prompt.
>>
>>But then to what does root directory "/" refer? To the Cygwin root?
>>And if so, where should I have put the downloaded
>>cygwin-inst-YYMMDD.tar.bz2 ? And if "/" does not refer to the Cygwin
>>root, to what does it refer?
>>
>>If the commands are to be run within Cygwin, on the other hand, then
>>that would seem to contradict the first instruction, namely, to close
>>all Cygwin applications and shells.
>
>
> The instructions say
>
> [... Few paras of intro ...]
> 1. Download the snapshot, and run [... series of commands ...]
> 2. After closing all cygwin apps, [ .... do something ...]
>
> Just because the intro section at the top refers in advance to one of the
> steps of the procedure doesn't mean you're supposed to do the steps of the
> procedure out-of-order!
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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