At 03:04 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: >I'm attempting to install Cygwin on a (rather wimpy - slow CPU & not much disk >space) PC, and I keep running into a problem: > >In short, somebody installed it on this machine earlier, and didn't do that >installation quite right. So, I decided to delete everything on the disk I >could find relating to Cygwin, and reinstall it from scratch. > >However, best I can tell, the installation script appears to be looking at >some >sort of installation log file (somewhere!) to decide what to install and >upgrade, rather than referencing the files actually present or not on the >disk. Again, best I can tell, because a long time ago all of the relevant >files were in fact installed, it appears to be concluding that nothing needs >to >be installed, even though I've deleted all of those files since then. > >Is there any way to tell it stop trying to do an incremental installation any >add or replace all files?
You're looking for '/etc/setup/installed.db' But you may just want to blow away everything and start fresh. If that's the case, see: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
