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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:23:45 -0400
To: Gary Morrison <gary DOT morrison AT freescale DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Can't Seem to Make a Non-Incremental Installation of Cygwin
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At 03:04 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote:
>I'm attempting to install Cygwin on a (rather wimpy - slow CPU & not much disk 
>space) PC, and I keep running into a problem:
>
>In short, somebody installed it on this machine earlier, and didn't do that 
>installation quite right.  So, I decided to delete everything on the disk I 
>could find relating to Cygwin, and reinstall it from scratch.   
>
>However, best I can tell, the installation script appears to be looking at some 
>sort of installation log file (somewhere!) to decide what to install and 
>upgrade, rather than referencing the files actually present or not on the 
>disk.  Again, best I can tell, because a long time ago all of the relevant 
>files were in fact installed, it appears to be concluding that nothing needs to 
>be installed, even though I've deleted all of those files since then.
>
>Is there any way to tell it stop trying to do an incremental installation any 
>add or replace all files?


You're looking for '/etc/setup/installed.db'  But you may just want to blow
away everything and start fresh.  If that's the case, see:

  <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>



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