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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZeC+qgsplEa1mJMWvowl2wPkWqFoCa6017sCihMxX8e4NQ1/DyilOo Message-ID: <3F311F92.5030308@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:32:34 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Balazic CC: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Less fails with link error References: <600B91D5E4B8D211A58C00902724252C01BC02B7@piramida.hermes.si> In-Reply-To: <600B91D5E4B8D211A58C00902724252C01BC02B7@piramida.hermes.si> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Balazic wrote: > If I try to run less from bash, I get a dialog saying : > > less.exe - Entry Point Not Found > > The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic > link library cygwin1.dll. > > [OK] You've installed some test packages but you're not running the test cygwin package. Rerun setup, make sure you *don't* change the default "Curr" to "Exp" and let it install anything it needs to. Try it again. > > I would give you the "less" version number , but "rpm -q less" gives : > > $ rpm -qa > error: db4 error(13) from dbenv->open: Permission denied > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13) > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > no packages > > > Doesn't anything work in cygwin ? :-) No, nothing does. You shouldn't use it. Try Windows apps and O/Ss. They _always_ work. Did you install 'less' via 'rpm'? If you did, you want to inquire at the site that provided 'less' as an RPM file for assistance. If you did not install 'less' via 'rpm', why are you surprised that it's not in the RPM DB? BTW, 'cygcheck -c less' always provides package version information if you install via setup.exe. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/