X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:04:55 +0100 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <933607.56165.qm@web57211.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 * D (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:56:03 -0700 (PDT)) > --- Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we > > know how to uninstall the program? > > > A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you > > issue this command and why does it not uninstall the program? > > > > On the other hand it really doesn't matter: the command just removes > > all the fontforge files. Why don't you do it by hand? It would take > > about two minutes of your precious time. > > When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the program he indicated > that the problem was not with fontforge, but with Cygwin, so that is why I came to this > user group to find out how to fix the problem. You still haven't told us what your problem is. > If on the other hand all I have to do is > just manually remove the program, I did not know that was possible because I was under > the assumption that since I used cygwin to install the program I would need (cygwin) to > uninstall the program. You did *not* use Cygwin to install the program. The Cygwin installer is Setup.exe and you did not use that. > Do I just go to the directory that it is located in and delete > the file and that is it. Or is there more that I would need to do? I have no idea. The snippet you showed us does that. On the other hand there is no reason why the uninstall script wouldn't work. 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/