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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:11:28 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Fergus on Linux <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Blindly running setup.exe to update Cygwin
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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




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