Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: marc DOT miller AT amd DOT com X-Server-Uuid: 02753650-11b0-11d5-bbc5-00508bf987eb Message-ID: <858788618A93D111B45900805F85267A047D64AA@caexmta3.amd.com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Locating bzip2 package Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:35:37 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-WSS-ID: 104984711613189-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Based on my web searches, I don't think I'm the only one thrown by this so I think it's appropriate I document it. The defacto standard answer to people trying to get bzip2 installed in a Cygwin environment seems to be, "it *is* there, did you install it?" I think the confusion is not that bzip2 isn't part of the default install, but rather it's not located where you expect. There's a nice "Archive" section in Cygwin Setup which owns the unzip and zip utilities. Most people would expect to find bzip2 with those packages. However, people looking for bzip2 will find it's located in "Utils" instead. I think it would make more sense to have it up there with the other archive utilities, but eh; what do I know? :-P Marc J. Miller Open Source Relations Engineer marc DOT miller AT amd DOT com 1-800-538-8450 x43325 -- 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/