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RE: Problems with installation
- From: Adam Dinwoodie <Adam dot Dinwoodie at metaswitch dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:37:17 +0000
- Subject: RE: Problems with installation
- Deferred-delivery: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:37:00 +0000
- References: <CAFxRxC4oDEjtJ_K3KG9v-t3-bOkcr=0MCudxf3uun8LBGdexeA@mail.gmail.com>
Samantha Kolpak wrote:
> I tried installing the cygwin program on my laptop; however, my screen
> reads the following:
>
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that your
> gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd.
>
> The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>
> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group
>
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
What did you do to get your screen to read like that? Did you try following
these instructions? What happened?
> I am unable to compile any codes and when I tried re-downloading the
> program, I was unable to. What action steps should I take to fix this
> issue.
When you say you were "unable to", what do you mean? I assume you don't mean
your browser can't download Cygwin's setup.exe, as that's certainly not a
problem with Cygwin.
Please read through the problem reporting guidelines for advice on how to ask
for help usefully:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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