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Re: Problem with cygwin setup
- From: jds <jds at interchange dot ubc dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 14:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Problem with cygwin setup
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Ok, I guess something else must've gone wrong because I don't have a cygwin.bat file. Thanks for your help, I'll try completely deleting everything and then re-installing it.
-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon May 02 13:57:35 PDT 2005
> From: "Brian Dessent" <brian@dessent.net>
> Subject: Re: Problem with cygwin setup
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>
> jds wrote:
>
> > Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something else? Thanks for your help, but I really didn't know what to do with that big thing that you copied for me.
>
> There should be a cygwin.bat in the directory you choose to install to;
> just run that.
>
> Alternatively, open a command prompt:
>
> cd \cygwin\bin # or whatever your location is
> bash -li
>
> To run any postinstall scripts that did not complete, do the following
> from the bash prompt:
>
> cd /etc/postinstall
> for F in *.sh; do . $F && mv $F $F.done; done
>
> Brian
>
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