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 Message-ID: <0b3501c227a1$8975c590$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Paul Butcher" , References: Subject: Re: Setup.exe problem from local directory Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:37:06 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Butcher" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: Setup.exe problem from local directory > (Tried to post this to cygwin-apps as requested by mailing list home page but > cannot as this is a controlled list.) Did you try to subscribe? Thats what the warning message would have said to do! > I've had a problem with the latest setup.exe V2.249.2.5 installing from local > directory which I've never seen before and can't seem to get around: > > I downloaded several packages that I wanted to update into a local directory > (as I always do) then run setup.exe - I selected all the packages to update - > it then uninstalled the old versions OK BUT then tried to uninstall the new > versions too! Of course it reported 'null' files for each and I ended up > with all these packages uninstalled! Setup.exe shouldn't have let you update the packages if it couldn't read the files in advance. How did you download the packages? Did > Now rerunning setup it won't show any package in setup.ini except those I've > already got installed so I can't select installation of any new packages. Even in the 'full' list? Sounds like it's not finding your setup.ini in your local package dir. 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/