Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:19:09 -0700
From: Tom Schutter <t.schutter@comcast.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem after re-install :(
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I have created a batch file that attempts to automate
faq.setup.uninstall-all.  You can find it at
https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_uninstall.bat

On Thu 2012-12-13 13:03, andy.graybeal@casanueva.com wrote:
> > If you want to uninstall, see the FAQ link below:
> > 
> > <http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>
> > 
> > The install should be obvious to you by now. :-)
> > 
> > While setup.exe does recognize when you have in-use DLLs during an
> > update, the recovery from this does not seem to be fool-proof.  My
> > guess is your problems stemmed from this.  Since you'll be installing
> > from a clean system, things work fine.  The best thing to do in
> > the future is make sure no Cygwin processes are running when you do
> > an update.
> 
> Awesome thank you!
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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