X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <465E04B0.5000009@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:11:44 -0600 From: morgan gangwere <0 DOT fractalus AT gmail DOT com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created References: <000e01c7a2a3$d45a38c0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Dave Korn (Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:12 +0100) >> On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) >>>> I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. >>>> >>>> My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe >>>> (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. >>>> I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through >>>> the installation choosing: >>>> >>>> - Installation from Internet >>>> - C:\cygwin as root path >>>> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the >>>> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it. >>>> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find >>>> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory. >>>> >>>> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the >>>> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory! >>>> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that >>>> the message above appears more than once). >>>> >>>> I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance! >>> I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not >>> Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und >>> Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe - >>> c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it? >> >> Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all the other directories ended up in the correct location. > > "A small tool to merge several PDF files into one PDF file (based on > Ghostscript). It has the following the features: Add/Remove PDF files; > Adjust the order of the PDF files; Merge the PDF file based on > ps2pdf." > > I guess PDFMerge brings its own small cygwin/bash/ghostscript > installation with it. > > > > -- > 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/ > > yep SAME with irssi and such - you gotta take them out totally before you can do much else. and yes its a bunch of 3pp who did this - i just remember to take "c:\program files\irssi\bin\" or whatever out of my PATH. also, cygwin1.dll apparently does something to the registry? where it lives, it thinks that that is bin/ gah. hope that helps :) - -- Just a Thought Morgan Gangwere For those who want my PGP key: http://pengunassasin.kicks-ass.org/pgpKey.html ******* Wisdom for the day ******* * Dont rawquote - it gives * * spammers free bait! * ********************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXgSwCF9T/dUsmAgRAmPZAJ0bXE1ZEdsD3LPc+MDwnEx2QbtE3wCeKzih bJM3tiuVaqbdr5sq5xQ00yg= =2lkB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/