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Subject: RE: bash: tar: command not found
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:14:30 +0100
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On 12 April 2007 17:10, Cheney, Christian wrote:

>>> Did you even try typing /usr/bin/tar at any point?

> I thank you all for your help.  Tar.exe does not exist in the /bin
> directory, or anywhere else under C:\cygwin.  Winzip may have created
> the /usr/bin folder, but it didn't put anything in it.  It gave me an
> error.  Even when I tried to drag and drop the file onto the desktop, it
> said that it couldn't find the file.

> I tried this, but to no avail.  I guess I'm back to starting from
> scratch.  Thanks, again.


  It should suffice just to blow away the bad version of tar-1.16.1-1.tar.bz2
from your local package directory and redownload-and-install using setup.exe.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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