X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: RE: bash: tar: command not found Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:02:34 +0100 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <461D6DBB.1000301@cygwin.com> <461D7F29.10405@cygwin.com> <014a01c77d17$0206ac20$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Dave Korn (Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:26:57 +0100) > On 12 April 2007 16:19, Cheney, Christian wrote: > >>> Don't extract things using non-Cygwin tools unless you really know what > >>> you're doing (or have been told to do so). You can make a real mess doing > >>> this. > > I would've used CYGWIN, but, unfortunately, tar didn't work ;) > > You've destroyed your installation. > > See, we told you it was bad. > > Specifically, you've gone and created a real /usr/bin directory, when > normally it is only a mount point that mirrors /bin. That's because winzip > doesn't know about cygwin mountpoints. If it had been untarred by an earlier > cygwin tar, or by setup.exe which *does* respect cygwin mountpoints, it would > have ended up in the right place: /bin, and been *visible* in /usr/bin too. > > This means that tar.exe has been unpacked into C:\cygwin\usr\bin. That's > why setup thinks it's installed. But you can't find it in your $PATH or > anything, because when cygwin goes to look in /usr/bin (which is where tar.exe > has been put by winzip), it actually looks in your /bin dir. And doesn't find > it. > > That's why setup thinks it's installed but cygcheck reports "Not Found: > tar". > > The fix would be to go into your C:\cygwin\usr directory, using a DOS shell > or windows explorer, and delete the bin dir. \cygwin\usr\bin and \cygwin\usr\lib are /real/ directories created by the initial Cygwin installation routine. He shouldn't delete those directories - just keep them empty... Thorsten -- 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/