X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:34:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: bash: tar: command not found In-Reply-To: <014a01c77d17$0206ac20$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> 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=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > [snip] > This means that tar.exe has been unpacked into C:\cygwin\usr\bin. > That's why setup thinks it's installed. Not quite. Setup only uses /etc/setup to find out what packages are installed. I suspect a corrupt package instead. That is not to say that WinZip should ever be used to install Cygwin packages, or course. > The fix would be to go into your C:\cygwin\usr directory, using a DOS > shell or windows explorer, and delete the bin dir. Or go to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr from a Cygwin shell and use Cygwin to do this. :-) > Then re-run setup.exe, telling it to "install from local directory", > just click on ok to everything all the way through, and it should > reinstall everything that you deleted to the correct place. To the OP: you will need to tell setup to reinstall the tar package (preferably from a different mirror than you've used in the past). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/