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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Dave Brunberg" <DBrunberg AT FBLEOPOLD DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <B16F3CCA7BDBD111AFC300805FC7294CF33F7F AT LEOMAIL1>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Install error on Windows 2000 professional
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:46:42 +0100
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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.


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