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From: "Tim Prince" <tprince AT computer DOT org>
To: "David Monk" <david AT purplebear DOT net>,
   "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <001301c1475b$1b1ee490$391e10ac AT dmonknt>
Subject: Re: problem with updating via setup.exe
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:07:19 -0700
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no such problem with ftp://mirrors.rcn.net and W2K on laptop
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Monk" <david AT purplebear DOT net>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:48 AM
Subject: problem with updating via setup.exe


> I just went through the process of upgrading my installation to
the latest
> python and vim packages using setup.exe No bash windows open.
No cygwin
> related services running. Absolutely nothing cygwin related
running at all.
> I launch setup, after downloading the new packages and what
not, and I get
> an error extracting the python package. Particularly it could
not write
> C:\cygwin\bin\libpython2.1.dll I tried 2 times to get it to go,
ensuring all
> processes were stopped. Finally, I had to manually delete
> /bin/libpython2.1.dll that already existed, then rerun setup to
get it to
> complete the update.
> I got around it, but I thought the maintainers should know.
>
> I am running the latest cygwin, 1.3.3, on NT 4 SP 6a
workstation.
>
> David Monk
>



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