Puneet Singh Lamba writes: > When I installed Cygwin, I had used the view "Category" and clicked on > "Default" next to "All" at the root of the tree so that it would > change to "Install". > My understanding is that doing so should install everything available > on the mirror from which you are installing.
I've never done that but that does seem plausible. (I'm always trying for minimal installations.) > I performed the check you recommended. When I toggle the view to > "Uninstalled" I only see five obscure packages listed and the list > does not include "perl" or "util-linux". However, I do see these two > packages listed when I toggle the view to either "Category" or "Full". > And the "New" column is set to "Keep" in both cases. This seems to > suggest that these libraries are indeed installed. Do you agree? > If so, then it would appear as if somehow they are not on the PATH. That sounds correct, now that I know the background. But I can't recall ever having to set PATH explicitly for Cygwin though. It's just worked. I guess it's time to request the standard problem solving data as described on <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, which is to run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out then including that cygcheck.out file *as an attachment* on a reply to this email. ..mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
