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Re: How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter "umount" for this purpose?


erm... there ARE other 3pp apps that have detrimental effects after
installation of Cygwin. one of them is (of all things) Irssi, the IRC
client.

Cygwin does some mangling of the fs, setting up mount points in
certain places it needs.

On 5/6/07, Reini Urban <rurban(munumanah)x-ray.at> wrote:
Ghuoargh schrieb:
> A few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it
> on my computer.
> However, since then some other programs did not function properly any
> more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this.
> Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin.
> I read on the pages of cygwin.com, that in order to do this I need to
> enter the command "umount" (several times) somewhere and uninstall by
> this procedure all mount points which are listed when I enter "mount"
> alone (this procedure is correct, or?).

Please read
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

mount points are just registry entries which do no harm to other
programs and are deleted by step 6 of the FAQ entry.


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