X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5021620C.1080408@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:44:28 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fw: perl-libwin32 v. 0.28-3 installation fails with cryptic error message & crashes setup.exe References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Tue Aug 7 14:44:27 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override 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 On 8/7/2012 2:17 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: > When attempting to update cygwin package perl-libwin32 I get an error > message (dialog box) "Package file perl-libwin32 has a corrupt local copy, > please remove and retry." at which point setup exits. So setup.exe didn't crash. It told you what to do and then exited. Look for perl-libwin32-0.28-3.tar.bz2 in your Cygwin download directory, and delete it. Then rerun setup.exe. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple