On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:51:54AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: >>The perplexing thing about this is that there is a setup.exe (somewhere >>under C:\Windows\system32) that pops up a little window to tell me I >>should use the control panel to do upgrades when I run it from bash >>(typing setup.exe to a bash prompt). However there is nothing I can >>see in the start->control panel for cygwin, nor anything under >>add-remove programs associated with cygwin. So, I'm not really even >>sure if that setup.exe is the one associated with cygwin. Perhaps the >>method I used to install it way back when (potentially 3-4 years ago) >>did not involve the new modern techniques? > >Cygwin's setup.exe isn't automatically installed anywhere. You can run >it directly by pointing your browser to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. >If you want it saved somewhere, you need to do that manually.
Right. Cygwin's setup.exe isn't automatically installed anywhere but other packages use the name "setup.exe" also. If you find a setup.exe in c:\windows\system32 then it undoubtedly has nothing to do with cygwin. cgf -- 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/
