On 2021-01-03 11:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-01-03 11:22, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
On 1/3/2021 12:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-01-03 09:44, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
I would like to install Fortran on newly installed Cygwin64 on my new LG
laptop. I did this 9+ years ago for Cygwin32 on my Dell T1600 which is now
fading. The process 9 years ago was long and hard over several weeks with
many fallbacks and redo's. I am competent in Fortran programming but have
only a minimum knowledge of Linux/Unix. Can anyone point me to a guide (I
searched but could not find any) to installing Fortran, including which
files to download, PATH, alias changes, etc. I know it is a lot to ask, but
ANY help would be appreciated.
To get a list of manually picked and installed packages in your current
Cygwin installation (excluding library packages except if they are devel or
doc packages) run the following command against your current installation:
$ awk '$3 && ($1 !~ /^lib/ || $1 ~ /-(devel|doc)/) {print $1}' \
/etc/setup/installed.db | tee cygwin-packages-picked.txt
* transfer the file cygwin-packages-picked.txt to your new system e.g. your
Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
* download https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe to e.g. your Windows account
Downloads folder on your new system,
* run setup-x86_64 on your new system with no selections to install a basic
Cygwin installation for you, then
* start a Cygwin shell in a terminal session, and
* rerun the Cygwin setup program with e.g.:
$ cygstart /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/setup-x86_64 \
-P "`cat /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/cygwin-packages-picked.txt`"
to start installing the manually picked packages you had on your old system
(dependencies will be automatically pulled in):
* you *MUST* exit your Cygwin shell and terminal, and ensure that you have no
other Cygwin processes still running, before allowing the Cygwin setup
program to proceed; and
* wait patiently for all the package downloads, installations, and
post-install scripts to run to completion, before trying to do anything more
under Cygwin on your new system.
wow; thanks for quick response. I tried running your first command but got
the message:
awk: fatal: cannot open file ' /etc/setup/installed.db' for reading (No such
file or directory) >
The file seems to be there and I checked my input so I do not know what when
wrong. Any suggestions?
File name shown is ' /etc/setup/installed.db' - includes a leading space - do
not use any quotes or add spaces in file names - or just paste the second line
at the end of the first line, with an (unquoted) space between if required.
...and remove any \ continuation escape if you paste the lines together - that
may well have been your issue!
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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