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Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:36:05AM -0600, Bradley, Mike wrote:
>cgf wrote:
>>So, after being told that Cygwin remembers your previous installation
>>and to just run setup.exe, you removed your previous installation and
>>are surprised that Cygwin doesn't remember it.
>
>What I did was re-run setup.exe. XWin would still not startup. Then I
>Deleted the cygwin install (except for the package directory).
>Setup.exe Did not recall/remember/read the package directory, it did a
>default install.
I guess what you're not getting is that the list of installed packages
is located within the cygwin installation itself. If you wipe out then
setup.exe won't know what's installed.
>The good news is XWin works now. The bad news is I must
>remember/find/set the
>Various packages I need in addition to the default.
>
>I'm confused as to why the notion of setup.exe to leave a
>bread-crumb-trail of what was installed for-the-purpose-of driving a
>subsequent installation is such a controversial issue....
It's not controversial since setup.exe already does that. You just
chose to wipe out the record of what's installed. If you wanted to just
reinstall X you could have just chosen "Reinstall" and not gone through
the pain of wiping out everything.
cgf
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