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From: Peter Rehley <peter AT rehley DOT net>
Subject: Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:20:24 -0700
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On Sep 17, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> luke<dot>kendall<at>cisra<dot>canon<dot>com<dot>au wrote:
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Tut-tut.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. ;-)
>
>>> It occurred to me, while trying to work out why ssh isn't working on 
>>> a
>>> laptop that we installed Cygwin on recently, to wonder whether the
>>> information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How do I 
>>> uninstall
>>> all of Cygwin?) could be a little more helpful.
>>>
>>> It gives good advice, but ends by saying:
>>>
>>>     It's up to you to deal with other changes you made to your
>>>     system, such as installing the inetd service, altering system
>>>     paths, etc. Setup would not have done any of these things
>>>     for you.
>>>
>>> This is true.  But for ssh, and other packages, is there any useful
>>> advice that could be given on how to uninstall?
>>>
>>> I'm wondering how I get the machine back into a pristine state to 
>>> try a
>>> re-install, since perhaps some of our post-install changes screwed
>>> things up.  (ssh normally works just fine.)
>>
>> Remove any services you might have installed ("cygrunsrv -R ssh") and
>
> FWIW, I have been thinking of implementing a --list option to cygrunsrv
> that would list all the Cygwin services installed with cygrunsrv.  At 
> this
> point I have no implementation, though.

Another feature that would be helpful is an option to show what program 
and the options associated with the program.  It would prevent hunting 
through the registry when debugging problems.

>
>> remove all entries from the mount table ("umount -a") and that should
>> pretty much do it, assuming of course you removed the main 
>> installation
>> directory as well.
>
> Well, one could always add an "Uninstall all" radio button to 
> setup.exe's
> action screen.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> :-)
> 	Igor
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