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RE: additional setup information: still not working.
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "dave" <dmehler at siscom dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:09:43 +1000
- Subject: RE: additional setup information: still not working.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave [mailto:dmehler@siscom.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: additional setup information: still not working.
>
>
> Hello,
> I've just figured out some information on my setup
> problem. If i use the view button to change from catagory to
> partial without first selecting any packages the partial
Do you mean you get a 'no packages to display' in the chooser? Or an
empty list?
> listing is all i get. If i select a package, then go back to
> partial view that package shows up in the list, however when
> i try to download it it halts with setup nothing needed to be done.
> Any suggestions?
Did you have an old copy of cygwin on the system? This is the sort of
behaviour I'd expect from setup if you have a /etc/setup/installed.db
file.
Are you able to select 'reinstall' for any of the packages?
Rob
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