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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00b301c3035d$d59046b0$0156893e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Dave Brunberg" , References: Subject: Re: Cygwin Install error on Windows 2000 professional Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:46:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Dave Brunberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem installing cygwin on windows 2000 professional. I've > successfully installed cygwin on win [95,98,NT4] and have not run into this > sort of problem before. > > Short version: > > I run setup.exe, "Download from Internet" I choose All->Install and let it > download from the ftp.nas.nasa.gov mirror. > After all has been dl'd, I run setup.exe as Administrator and choose > "Install from Local Directory" > I choose All->Install, and let 'er rip. > After all files are copied, etc., the setup script fails by not finding a > multitude of dlls, including cygiconv-2.dll, cygintl??.dll, and a few other > ones which appear to be more or less required. The PATH is ok, and the > directories in the specified PATH exist. > The install script fails at every step which runs a program (sed is one > major one) that requires one of the missing dlls. > > I check the installed C:\cygwin tree, and lo and behold, those files are not > to be found, in the PATH nor elsewhere. I can open a bash shell, but even > simple things like 'ls' give me "command not found". > > Then I deleted the installed tree, the Cygnus registry keys, and tried to > install the bare bones cygwin, but I have the same problems with missing > libraries. > > This is all done with the latest version of cygwin that I dl'd two days ago. > > Can anyone offer me some advice? Is there anything special about win2k I > should know to install cygwin? How strange. Please attach the setup.log.full logfile that setup produces (in the /var/log directory under the Cygwin root). Max. -- 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/