I clicked on the setup.exe on the http://cygwin.com page, and tried installing cygwin on a Vista system. The installation seemed to go fine, but I got an error message at the end.
Still, the cygwin icon appeared on the desktop, and when double clicking on the desktop I got a bash prompt. However, I didn't find any other programs. I've tried re-running the setup.exe as administrator three times. The first time I got the same error message at the end. The second time I didn't recreate the start menu entry, and the desktop icon, and got no error message at the end. The third time I recreated the desktop icon and start menu entry, but got no error message. But the behaviour didn't change: no applications were found. echo $PATH revealed that /bin was not in the PATH. What's the simplest way to fix that? Also, the desktop shortcut set no working directory. Is this normal? Shouldn't the working directory be whatever is the working directory of the user. The user account I created the cygwin installation under originally, and am trying to use it under, is a domain user that is local administrator on the vista machine. All hints, tips, etc appreciated! Thanx! - Steinar -- 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/
