Re: "Nothing needed to be installed" setup problem

[Tim Prince <tprince at computer dot org>]

On Sunday 24 March 2002 15:26, Phil Mitchell wrote:
> I have the latest version of setup.exe, but older versions of contrib and
> latest (from July of last year). I am trying to install cygwin on a machine
> without internet access, and that's what I've got on cdrom.
>
> I am installing from c:\temp into c:\cygwin. In setup, I click on the
> little circle arrows until it says "install", but then it finishes and
> tells me there was nothing to install. I also tried telling it to
> "reinstall" -- same result.
>
> Setup does not seem to leave a logfile any more, either.
>
> Thanks for your help...
>
> Phil
I've found that components left over from earlier versions are not recognized 
as being installed, so you must select them specifically the first time you 
want them refreshed.  A little more annoying is that an update install 
creates a new directory, with its own contrib and latest subdirectories.  I'm 
sure that we were supposed to have picked up the reasoning somewhere along 
the way from this list, but there seem to be enough net advantages to make up 
for the re-training.
-- 
Tim Prince

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