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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 13:22:39 -0500
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From: Lou Umscheid via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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wow; thanks for quick response. I tried running your first command but 
got the message:

awk: fatal: cannot open file ' /etc/setup/installed.db' for reading (No 
such file or directory)

The file seems to be there and I checked my input so I do not know what 
when wrong. Any suggestions?

Lou

On 1/3/2021 12:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-01-03 09:44, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>> I would like to install Fortran on newly installed Cygwin64 on my new 
>> LG laptop. I did this 9+ years ago for Cygwin32 on my Dell T1600 
>> which is now fading. The process 9 years ago was long and hard over 
>> several weeks with many fallbacks and redo's. I am competent in 
>> Fortran programming but have only a minimum knowledge of Linux/Unix. 
>> Can anyone point me to a guide (I searched but could not find any) to 
>> installing Fortran, including which files to download, PATH, alias 
>> changes, etc. I know it is a lot to ask, but ANY help would be 
>> appreciated.
>
> To get a list of manually picked and installed packages in your 
> current Cygwin installation (excluding library packages except if they 
> are devel or doc packages) run the following command against your 
> current installation:
>
> $ awk '$3 && ($1 !~ /^lib/ || $1 ~ /-(devel|doc)/) {print $1}' \
>     /etc/setup/installed.db | tee cygwin-packages-picked.txt
>
> * transfer the file cygwin-packages-picked.txt to your new system e.g. 
> your Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
> * download https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe to e.g. your Windows 
> account Downloads folder on your new system,
> * run setup-x86_64 on your new system with no selections to install a 
> basic Cygwin installation for you, then
> * start a Cygwin shell in a terminal session, and
> * rerun the Cygwin setup program with e.g.:
>
> $ cygstart /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/setup-x86_64 \
> -P "`cat 
> /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/cygwin-packages-picked.txt`"
>
> to start installing the manually picked packages you had on your old 
> system (dependencies will be automatically pulled in):
> * you *MUST* exit your Cygwin shell and terminal, and ensure that you 
> have no other Cygwin processes still running, before allowing the 
> Cygwin setup program to proceed; and
> * wait patiently for all the package downloads, installations, and 
> post-install scripts to run to completion, before trying to do 
> anything more under Cygwin on your new system.
>
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