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-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:29:30 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: Shyamal Mitra cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Empty /usr/local/bin in Release 1.5.5-1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Shyamal Mitra wrote: > I just installed Cygwin 1.5.5-1 on my Windows XP machine. I > cannot find vi or gcc. > > There is nothing in /usr/local/bin. > /usr/local/bin is normally empty after an install. It is for locally (ie. you) installed software, not software that shipped with the distro. > Is there something that I should have done during setup that I did not > do? > Yes, see: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC13 and http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC14 > How do I change to C or T shell? > Edit /etc/passwd and change the shell field just like on *NIX. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/