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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Uninstall/Reinstall a CygWin Package Advice Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:50:41 +0000 Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 241.119-84-212.ippool.ndo.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: goc-cygwin@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, I've never needed to uninstall a CyGwin package,so actually didn't know how. My zsh was never being updated even though I could see that it was being downloaded and installed, when I I ran setup.exe. First of all INSTALL/REINSTALL/UNINSTALL/KEEP is all controlled by SETUP.EXE from the (marvellous) "Select Packages to install" window REINSTALL should normally be enough HOWEVER in case of problems such as mine I would RECOMMEND. (first backup any config files eg in my case .zshenv) UNINSTALL then if/as necessary manually delete any lingering binaries (TAKE CARE) Then rerun setup.exe and select INSTALL zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrTfcbafbeROenzSZbbyranne%|:%s)[R-T]) )Ig|:norm G1VGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- 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/