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 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 05:47:26 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Michael Ribbons Subject: Re: rm and ln not present during install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <002501c32f09$90957170$0500a8c0@fredv2bbyy3npx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Michael Ribbons wrote: > > > Hi, I'm attempting to install cygwin under Windows XP. > > I downloaded all of the packages. When setup gets to the post install > > scripts, most of the scripts say > > rm not found > > ln not found > > > > When I run the cygwin shell I'm able to use pwd and cd but I can't do ls > > mkdir, rm, or ln. setup.log doesn't indicate any problems, and I'm not sure > > what to search for in setup.log.full. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Yup. If your looking for a file or program, the best place to check first is > . A search for 'ln.exe' will reveal the fileutils > package, and `cygcheck -c fileutils' will reveal whether or not the package is > installed. Either way, installed or not, you may need to re-run your postinstall > scripts in /etc/postinstall After you have (re)installed the findutils package. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney (mailto:spambot@is.ubertales.co.uk) Systems Administrator ABCtales.com / Ubertales.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/