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install of whois reported error - update-desktop-database - update-desktop-database


Greetings!

I had a problem installing "whois". "whois" was installed but there was an error message..

The setup.log.full says:
-----snipped------
2013/05/28 02:17:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh" /etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh: line 1: /usr/bin/update-desktop-database: No such file or directory /etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh: line 2: /usr/bin/update-mime-database: No such file or directory
2013/05/28 02:17:40 abnormal exit: exit code=127
2013/05/28 02:17:40 Changing gid to Administrators
2013/05/28 02:18:13 note: Installation Complete
2013/05/28 02:18:13 Ending cygwin install

limited debug:
1) /etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh   -- file does exist and permissions OK
2) Contents of /etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh:

$ cat cygutils.sh
/usr/bin/update-desktop-database
/usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

3) but
  /usr/bin/update-desktop-database  -- does not exist
  (( there is a 'updatedb', though.)
  and
  /usr/bin/update-mime-database    -- does not exist

other:
 setup.exe version 2.774
 http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.xmission.com%2fcygwin%2f

Thank you !!
Jay



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