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Re: Re-install of cygwin not possible via setup.exe
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, "Newcastle" <nwcastle at cais dot com>
- Subject: Re: Re-install of cygwin not possible via setup.exe
- From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:03:13 -0700
- References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409093412.00a6bff8@pop3.norton.antivirus>
If you deleted the entire tree under the Cygwin root (normally c:\cygwin),
then setup.exe should have no knowledge of your previous installation.
Did you also delete your previously downloaded archive (.tar.gz) files? If
you did both, you effectively have a brand new system as far as Cygwin is
concerned.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Newcastle" <nwcastle@cais.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:41 AM
Subject: Re-install of cygwin not possible via setup.exe
> I had installed cygwin 1.1.8 and it was working fine, except that I forgot
> to select "Install for: all" when I initially did it a month ago. Thus,
I
> followed your uninstall instructions by deleting the software. (I also
> removed the registry entries too since there was no add/remove entry
listed.)
>
> The problem: When I use your web page to "install now", it only shows me
> "CVS" as an option to download (because the CVS version had changed since
I
> first downloaded cygwin). Where is it recording that I have a
> previously-installed cygwin so that I can tell it to download everything
as
> if I had NEVER installed cygwin before? Is there a cookie on my machine
> that I can delete?
>
> Please advise because I am unable to download a full copy of cygwin until
I
> know why setup.exe won't show me the entire list of files so that I can
> download the latest of everything. P.S. This information would be most
> helpful in the "uninstall cygwin" documentation so that someone knows the
> secret to re-install if they want to.
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