I am in the process of installing 1.7.1 on my computer that already had 1.5.25. I have had many issues with the installation, and I've resolved several of them at this point. However, I believe most of them point back to a basic underlying problem:
I am convinced that cygwin did an incomplete install. What I want: A complete install (all options selected and included) What I got: Several important packages missing: /etc/profile not installed, /usr/bin/vim not installed, ... What I did: I selected the option "reinstall" at the highest level. I did this because I have the impression that that is the best way to ensure that the previous installation settings are ignored an everything in the current install package is installed. How should I proceed? Should I delete the directory c:\cygwin? Should I use the setup file to uninstall cygwin before installing 1.7.1? Are there registry setting I can eliminate to make the installer think it is the first copy installed? Is there an install option that is supposed to do what I want? Thanks, -Kevin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
