Another concern that just occurred to me is the installation of a BASIC
Cygwin installation. Does that mean that the files that I have
transferred from the old system and tuning that I have already done will
have to be redone? Can I do your cygstart step on my current
configuration? Again many thanks for your help. Lou
On 1/3/2021 4:03 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-01-03 12:18, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
On 1/3/2021 1:41 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
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!
Another question, if I may: does your procedure install both Fortran and
Dislin which are installed on the T1600? I do not see them in
cygwin-packages-picked.txt.
The Cygwin Fortran package is gcc-fortran (gfortran/f95 symlink): you
should see this unless you have been using a proprietary closed source
compiler.
It looks like Dislin is a proprietary closed source plotting package
which you will have to find, acquire, install, and configure
separately, or migrate settings from your old system.
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