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Samantha Kolpak wrote:
> I tried installing the cygwin program on my laptop; however, my screen
> reads the following:
>
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that your
> gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd.
>
> The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>
> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
>
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.

What did you do to get your screen to read like that?  Did you try following
these instructions?  What happened?

> I am unable to compile any codes and when I tried re-downloading the
> program, I was unable to.  What action steps should I take to fix this
> issue.

When you say you were "unable to", what do you mean?  I assume you don't mean
your browser can't download Cygwin's setup.exe, as that's certainly not a
problem with Cygwin.

Please read through the problem reporting guidelines for advice on how to ask
for help usefully:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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Adam Dinwoodie

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