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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>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Install error on Windows 2000 professional
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:21:00 +0100
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Dave Brunberg wrote:
> Attached is the setup.log.full file... not much info here.

You have run setup since the install, and its overwritten the interesting
log.

There might be some useful info in the less verbose, but appended rather
than overwritten, setup.log.

Otherwise, try a clean install, and save the setup.log.full file.


Max.


> > 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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