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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:45:53 -0600
From: Dave Trollope <dave DOT trollope AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC: Alex BATKO <abatko AT milquetoast DOT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: updating packages/utilities
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Hi Larry, Alex.

I tend to agree with Alex, its not obvious to newcomers that is the way
to upgrade cygwin. The web pages all state download the setup to install,
it never mentions it for installing additional packages. It would be good
if someone could clarify this on the webpages.

As a newcomer to cygwin it took me a while to realise thats what I needed
to do, however its been very rewarding since...!

Cheers
Dave

"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:

> At 04:42 PM 2/13/2002, Alex BATKO wrote:
>
> >I can't find anything in neither the documentation, nor the FAQ
> >about how to update a Cygwin package or Cygwin utility, or about
> >how to install a package AFTER Cygwin has already been installed.
> >
> >If anyone knows a link to such documentation, please reply.
>
> Sorry I don't.  But didn't you use setup.exe to install?  That's what
> you should use to update.
>
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