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 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 05:44:25 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn AT ellixia Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Michael Ribbons cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rm and ln not present during install In-Reply-To: <002501c32f09$90957170$0500a8c0@fredv2bbyy3npx> Message-ID: References: <002501c32f09$90957170$0500a8c0 AT fredv2bbyy3npx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Michael Ribbons wrote: > Hi, I'm attempting to install cygwin under Windows XP. > I downloaded all of the packages. When setup gets to the post install > scripts, most of the scripts say > rm not found > ln not found > > When I run the cygwin shell I'm able to use pwd and cd but I can't do ls > mkdir, rm, or ln. setup.log doesn't indicate any problems, and I'm not sure > what to search for in setup.log.full. > > Any suggestions? Yup. If your looking for a file or program, the best place to check first is . A search for 'ln.exe' will reveal the fileutils package, and `cygcheck -c fileutils' will reveal whether or not the package is installed. Either way, installed or not, you may need to re-run your postinstall scripts in /etc/postinstall $ for i in /etc/postinstall/*.sh.done; do $i; done to create an required symbolic links etc. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney (mailto:spambot AT is DOT ubertales DOT co DOT uk) Systems Administrator ABCtales.com / Ubertales.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/