Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3BBF8FA0.2040207@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:11:28 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fergus on Linux CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Blindly running setup.exe to update Cygwin References: <000501c14e9e$fea96c40$4c7b1f3e AT leper> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fergus on Linux wrote: > Sorry: I too returned from a week away and updated Cygwin by blindly running > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe, installing all updates without reading any > associated announcements. So I broke vim (and maybe other components > besides). Such a curse: I've had a trouble-free highly robust system for > months now, and regularly but mutely congratulate the developers on this > splendid, clean OS and its hassle-free update procedure. > > Q1. OK: what to do? Apparently the cure is "Just reinstall the 'libncurses5' > package" which will be just fine, when I discover how to do it. I'm afraid > I've only ever used setup.exe, which is now just showing "Nothing to > re-install". Please will somebody just tell me what to do, to achieve this > necessary re-installation? Once you get to that page, click on the "Full/Part" button (which stands for "Show FULL List/Show only PARTial list". Scroll down to the libncurses5 package, and click on the word "Keep" until it changes to "Reinstall" > > Q2. Actually, what I did was this: I wiped the whole system, including all > mentions of "Cygnus Solutions" from the registry, re-booted, and then > re-installed from ground zero, using setup.exe. I had kind of thought that > somehow the whole issue of {FIRST ncurses THEN terminfo, libncurses5, > libncurses6} would in this way be correctly addressed. But it wasn't and [as > far as I can tell] I've ended up in the identical situation, broken vim and > all. !!!! That should not happen. Do you still have the setup.log file from that run of setup.exe, or have you already run setup again since then? Also, send you /etc/setup/installed.db file, please. > So: it appears to me that a new user installing Cygwin *today* would > necessarily find themselves with a system that's "broken" in the way > described. Is this really so? I hope not. > And is the recovery procedure still "Just > reinstall the 'libncurses5' package"? Yes. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/