Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: ncftp current release won't run - missing CYGREADLINE5.DLL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:41:28 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Gord Wait" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g34Dfh817051 > -----Original Message----- > From: Gord Wait [mailto:Gord_nospam_123_Wait@netscape.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:48 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: ncftp current release won't run - missing > CYGREADLINE5.DLL > > > > Sorry Robert, > I lost the last word on the subject line when I posted the > email you read. > > It turns out, no you can't just re run setup.exe on an > already installed cygwin and expect it to work. It might > delete a dll or two for you due to an install bug. Care to send in your log files? We know of a specific bug which DOES NOT affect the current setup.exe. (There was a race condition when packages got renamed, and we now do all uninstalls before all upgrades before all new installs to prevent this (or 99% of cases - it may not be perfect)) > The faq offers the solution of hunting down which packages > contain the dll files you are missing and re installing them. And that aspect of the FAQ is still very useful, but for other causes - ie if you chose to remove some packages for some reason, and then find out that they where needed! > I found it much easier last night to just wipe out the old > cygwin install, and local download storage (where you ran > setup from) completely and doing a full install. That is about the hardest way around. A much easier way is simply to change the little arrow beside "all" until the action is "reinstall", and watch setup reinstall everything inplace, preserving all your settings. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/