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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050822191027.03d3a388@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:29:30 -0400 To: bgk AT ieee DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: 1.5.18: Install Issues (Windows 2000) In-Reply-To: <430A1542.8070703@ieee.org> References: <430A1542 DOT 8070703 AT ieee DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:11 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote: >I am trying to install the latest Cygwin on Windows 2000 Professional. > >I do not have Administrator access as this is a work PC. > >I downloaded the Cygwin distribution and wrote it to a CD. I then >did an install from the CD to my machine at work. > >Here are the problems I ran into: > >1. The install runs smoothly all the way to the post install scripts. > Then, during the post install scripts, I get many pop-ups complaining > that it cannot locate 2 files: cygintl-2.dll and cygpopt-0.dll. > I just hit the OK button on each pop-up. > > More specifically, I found that the pop-ups show that gfconftool.exe and mkshortcut.exe can't find cygpopt-0.dll on post intstall actions. > Also, cmp.exe and rpmd.exe can't find cygintl-2.dll on post intstall actions. > >2. Where are the less and more commands? I cannot locate the 'less' and 'more' > commands. They don't seem to be anywhere in my path even though I installed > everything. The same goes for the 'clear' command to clear the screen. > >4. When I first ran vi, it could not find cygncurses7.dll. I copied d:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-8.dll to d:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll and then vi worked. I also had to copy cygintl-3.dll to cygintl-2.dll. > >5. Several commands seem to require cygpopt-?.dll. What package is supposed > to contain that library? > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Brian Kirkland Your installation is missing packages. This is either because the mirror you downloaded from did not contain them (for some reason), you unselected something accidentally (though this would have to have been more than one unselect), or 'setup.exe' had some sort of problem resolving all the dependencies. You can find out what packages contain a needed file at . This will help you track down packages that you need to install. If it's just a question of some packages weren't selected, rerun 'setup.exe' and select any remaining packages. However, if you suspect a 'setup.exe' problem, make copies of '/var/log/setup.log*' since running setup again will alter/overwrite these files. You'll want to look at the originals to see what 'setup.exe' had problems with. Before doing *any* of this, you'll want to *undo* any "fixes" you implemented (i.e. copying cygncurses-8.dll to cygncurses-7.dll). It may be easier just ot wipe the current installation and re-run it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/