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On 6/21/2009 12:36 PM, Mark Harig wrote:
> During the post-installation of emacs 23.0.92-10, the following error
> messages are written to /var/log/setup.log.full:
> 
> 
> Visited: 68 nodes out of 1460 while creating dependency order.
> 
> Dependency order of packages: base-cygwin base-passwd cygwin libiconv2 
> libintl8 alternatives alternatives libgmp3 libintl3 texinfo 
> _update-info-dir gawk tzcode coreutils terminfo0 libncurses8 
> libreadline6 bash ash libaspell15 aspell aspell-doc aspell-en findutils 
> sed base-files libbz2_1 bzip2 libpopt0 cygutils groff gzip terminfo 
> libncurses9 less man cygwin-doc libintl2 diffutils editrights 
> xemacs-emacs-common emacs emacs-el libexpat1 libexpat1-devel expat 
> gcc4-runtime libgcc1 libpcre0 grep ipc-utils libdb4.2 libgdbm4 libproj0 
> login openssl tcltk zlib0 zlib-devel zlib python Numeric rebase run rxvt 
> tar termcap which
> 
> 2009/06/21 11:19:21 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc 
> --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/emacs.sh
> /etc/postinstall/emacs.sh: line 9: /usr/bin/update-desktop-database: No 
> such file or directory
> /etc/postinstall/emacs.sh: line 10: /usr/bin/update-mime-database: No 
> such file or directory

These errors are harmless and just indicate that you haven't installed 
the packages containing /usr/bin/update-desktop-database and 
/usr/bin/update-mime-database.  Emacs doesn't need those packages.

Ken

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