I have created a batch file that attempts to automate faq.setup.uninstall-all. You can find it at https://github.com/tschutter/AppData/blob/master/bin/cygwin_uninstall.bat
On Thu 2012-12-13 13:03, andy.grayb...@casanueva.com wrote: > > If you want to uninstall, see the FAQ link below: > > > > <http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all> > > > > The install should be obvious to you by now. :-) > > > > While setup.exe does recognize when you have in-use DLLs during an > > update, the recovery from this does not seem to be fool-proof. My > > guess is your problems stemmed from this. Since you'll be installing > > from a clean system, things work fine. The best thing to do in > > the future is make sure no Cygwin processes are running when you do > > an update. > > Awesome thank you! > > Andy > > > > > -- > 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 > -- Tom Schutter -- 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