I actually had the same problem just this week, but thought it was
Windows Vista specific since I hadn't heard of it before.
For some reason the postinstall scripts aren't running correctly, but
only sometimes. I know that I got lucky on my third reinstall after a
couple of days of attempting to troubleshoot my installation. The
packages are all being retrieved, and the directory structure is being
created with the exception of /home. Attempting to run the postinstall
scripts manually failed for me.
I initially got things working by creating the environment by hand
(creating /home/<user>, populating it with another installation's
.bashrc and .bash_profile) and setting the path to include <install
path>/bin.
That workaround felt dirty, so I deleted the local cygwin package cache
and used another mirror. Things worked fine this time. It is a weird
problem and I have no idea why that would fix it.
Hope that helps,
--Robert Peaslee
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:44:24PM -0700, Archana wrote:
I installed using setup.exe and installed numerous additional packages
in the hopes of getting ls on Windows XP.
After double clicking on the Cygwin Icon, pwd works but ls does not.
I expected ls to work as it is the most basic command available.
When I run cygcheck or uname I get the following:
bash-3.2$ cygcheck
bash: cygcheck: command not found
bash: uname: command not found
...which would indicate that, for some reason, your PATH environment
variable does not contain "/usr/bin".
Save the PATH and save the world.
cgf
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