Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! >> I'm a bit late to the discussion... My problem is exactly as of the OP, I >> can't uninstall X components, they keep eachother enabled. > Yep, I think it's clear from all the previous discussion that this is a > problem. Indeed it was. :) >> I just have to ask

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 5/1/2010 2:56 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Dave Korn! But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful thing to do. Well, I am. The problem described by the title of the this thread is that you can't uninstall a bunch of stuff easily, because as you click you

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Greetings, Dave Korn! >> But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful >> thing to do. > Well, I am. The problem described by the title of the this thread is that > you can't uninstall a bunch of stuff easily, because as you click your way > through the spinner you

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Norton Allen writes: > So what you want setup to do is remember whether a package was > selected by the user or simply included to satisfy a dependency. Then > when a package is deselected, the dependencies can be reevaluated. That's what the Debian package management system has been doing for m

FW: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:29:11 +0100 > From: dave > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only) > > On 11/04/2010 07:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful >> thin

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 11/04/2010 07:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > But the thing is, I'm not sure that just adding a drop-down is a useful > thing to do. Well, I am. The problem described by the title of the this thread is that you can't uninstall a bunch of stuff easily, because as you click your way through

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Dave Korn writes: > On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote: > >> For >> instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', >> suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying >> this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then, suppose I merely cycle through >> the

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 05:09:55AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote: > >> For >> instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', >> suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying >> this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then,

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 11/04/2010 04:21, Paul Bibbings wrote: > For > instance, if I click on the view button and select `Not installed', > suppose I select a package that I don't have - for example (I'm trying > this now), aspell-dev 0.60.5-1. Then, suppose I merely cycle through > the Views and come back to `Not

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Norton Allen writes: > On 4/9/2010 5:56 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: >> If by "add a right-click context menu to the spinner" you intend to >> retain the current problematic behaviour of the spinner but add the >> context menu by way of avoiding the noted problems of cycling through >> `uninstall', t

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 4/9/2010 5:56 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: > If by "add a right-click context menu to the spinner" you intend to > retain the current problematic behaviour of the spinner but add the > context menu by way of avoiding the noted problems of cycling through > `uninstall', then I would, as a user, see t

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:57:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 9 11:00, Csaba Raduly wrote: >>On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, >>>that would be a lot of work. ?So far you can't even select a

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Apr 9 09:19, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, April 09, 2010 4:43 AM > >Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, > >that would be a lot of work. So far you can't even select a package for > >further action. But

RE: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, April 09, 2010 4:43 AM >Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, >that would be a lot of work. So far you can't even select a package for >further action. But I'm sure everybody would applaud the person who adds >keyboard su

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Apr 9 11:00, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, > > that would be a lot of work.  So far you can't even select a package for > > further action.  But I'm sure everybody would app

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Dave Korn writes: > On 09/04/2010 02:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a >> right-click context menu to the spinner, so that you can directly choose >> "Uninstall" without traversing the entire cycle. Rinse and repeat on >> all the items

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, > that would be a lot of work.  So far you can't even select a package for > further action.  But I'm sure everybody would applaud the person who > adds keyboard support t

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Apr 9 09:35, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 09.04.2010, 07:31 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > > >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:07:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >>On 09/04/2010 02:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> > >>>Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a > >>>right-click

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Am 09.04.2010, 07:31 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:07:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 09/04/2010 02:52, Charles Wilson wrote: Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a right-click context menu to the spinner, so that you can directly choos

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:07:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> I am writing a patch to add a right-click context menu to the spinner :) >>more news in the next couple of days. > > As long as you're doing that, how about just getting rid of

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:07:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 09/04/2010 02:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a >> right-click context menu to the spinner, so that you can directly choose >> "Uninstall" without traversing the entire cycle.

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 09/04/2010 02:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a > right-click context menu to the spinner, so that you can directly choose > "Uninstall" without traversing the entire cycle. Rinse and repeat on > all the items you want to remove... I

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 4/8/2010 8:13 PM, Steven E. Harris wrote: > I think the problem here is that the cycle goes from > > Default -> Install -> Reinstall -> Uninstall > > Upon that first transition to Install, all the packages in that category > are requested for installation, along with all their > dependencies

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

"Steven E. Harris" writes: > "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > >> Choose the "Category" view and select the cycling arrow widget by "X11" >> until it shows "Uninstall". > > When I try that, I then see the following warning: I think the problem here is that the cycle goes from Default -> Instal

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > Choose the "Category" view and select the cycling arrow widget by "X11" > until it shows "Uninstall". When I try that, I then see the following warning: "Warning! Unmet Dependencies Found" Here are the first few: , | font-bitstream-dpi75 | required by x

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

On 4/8/2010 2:57 PM, Gary . wrote: Manually parsing the setup.ini aside, is there any way to uninstall (say) Cygwin/X all in one blow? I spent what felt like hours last night clicking through various packages to "uninstall", only for some later package, when cycled through "reinstall" on the way

How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

Manually parsing the setup.ini aside, is there any way to uninstall (say) Cygwin/X all in one blow? I spent what felt like hours last night clicking through various packages to "uninstall", only for some later package, when cycled through "reinstall" on the way to "uninstall", to reset it. -- Prob

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 11:16 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: On 9/29/2009 6:06 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/29/2009 07:47 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: fwiw, are you aware that the 1.7 FAQ at http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html does not have a link to http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html ? I se

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 9/29/2009 6:06 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 09/29/2009 07:47 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: >> >> fwiw, are you aware that the 1.7 FAQ at >> http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html does not have a link to >> http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html ? > > I see it in the second link, "Setting u

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 07:47 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: On 9/29/2009 4:33 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: i looked and did not notice any uninstall information in the 1.7 FAQ. is the recommended 1.7 uninstall procedure the same as 1.5?

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 9/29/2009 4:33 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: >> >> i looked and did not notice any uninstall information in >> the 1.7 FAQ. is the recommended 1.7 uninstall procedure >> the same as 1.5? > >

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: On 9/29/2009 1:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that cygwin was ever installed? <h

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 9/29/2009 1:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: > >> how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i >> re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that >> cygwin was ever installed? > > <http:/

RE: completely uninstall cygwin

> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:40:15 -0400 > From: lh > Subject: Re: completely uninstall cygwin > >> has anyone created an automated procedure that will >> completely remove cygwin? > > Not that I'm aware of. > I believe Microsoft has. :-) But a complete r

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that cygwin was ever installed? <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>. i assuming there are some registry br

completely uninstall cygwin

how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that cygwin was ever installed? i assuming there are some registry branches i might need to remove. has anyone created an automated procedure that will completely remove cygwin? thanks, david

Re: How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter "umount" for this purpose?

it > on my computer. > However, since then some other programs did not function properly any > more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this. > Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin. > I read on the pages of cygwin.com, that in order to do this I need to > enter the comm

Re: How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter "umount" for this purpose?

few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it > on my computer. > However, since then some other programs did not function properly any > more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this. > Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin. > I read on the pages of c

Re: How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter "umount" for this purpose?

Ghuoargh schrieb: A few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it on my computer. However, since then some other programs did not function properly any more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this. Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin. I read on the pages of

RE: How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter "umount" for this purpose?

On 03 May 2007 18:41, Ghuoargh wrote: > Dear Cygwin people! > > A few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it > on my computer. > However, since then some other programs did not function properly any more > and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this. Nope. It

How can I uninstall Cygwin? -- Where must I enter "umount" for this purpose?

Dear Cygwin people! A few days ago I have downloaded Cygwin from cygwin.com and installed it on my computer. However, since then some other programs did not function properly any more and it may be that Cygwin is responsible for this. Therefore I want to uninstall Cygwin. I read on the

Cannot uninstall cygwin-doc ?!?

Hi, Just trying to update my cygwin-doc from 1.4-3 to 1.4-4. During the uninstall procedure setup.exe hangs at the point "Running preremove script ..." cygwin-doc Checking with cygcheck gives an OK, so the installation of 1.4-3 should be fine. Any idea? Thanks BSE -- "Feel free" - 10 GB

Re: uninstall cygwin

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Dave wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, f g wrote: > > > > > I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under > > > Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in > > > > You'll also want to delete the registry key, as outlined in the above > > in

Re: uninstall cygwin

Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, f g wrote: I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in You'll also want to delete the registry key, as outlined in the above instructions. Oh, and deleting the directory won't remove any s

Re: uninstall cygwin

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, f g wrote: > I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under > Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > > but I have several problems. > > Point 1) I type cygrunsrv -L at Cygwin prompt, but I ge

RE: uninstall cygwin

On 30 June 2006 10:23, f g wrote: > I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under > Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > but I have several problems. > > Point 1) I type cygrunsrv -L at Cygwin prompt, but I >

uninstall cygwin

Hello, I would like to uninstall a Cygwin installation under Windows XP: to do this I follow the instruction in http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all but I have several problems. Point 1) I type cygrunsrv -L at Cygwin prompt, but I get the message "bash: cygrunsrv:

RE: Uninstall Cygwin

> -Original Message- > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:21 PM > Subject: Re: Uninstall Cygwin > > > >> If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do > that? No icon > >> in Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know > ther

Re: Uninstall Cygwin

Gansta93 wrote: > If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? > No icon in Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know > there are values in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I > cannot delete thes values. > Is there one or more command

Re: Uninstall Cygwin

If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? No icon in Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know there are values in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I cannot delete thes values. Is there one or more command to uninstall Cygwin? Else, what can

Re: Uninstall Cygwin

Gansta93 wrote: If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? No icon in Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know there are values in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I cannot delete thes values. Is there one or more command to uninstall Cygwin?

Uninstall Cygwin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? No icon in Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know there are values in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I cannot delete thes values. Is there one or

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Peter Rehley wrote: > On Sep 17, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > FWIW, I have been thinking of implementing a --list option to cygrunsrv > > that would list all the Cygwin services installed with cygrunsrv. At this > > point I have no implementation, though.

RE: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: 17 September 2004 19:50 > > > FWIW, I have been thinking of implementing a --list option to > > cygrunsrv that would list all the Cygwin services installed with > >

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

On Sep 17, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 17 September 2004 19:50 FWIW, I have been thinking of implementing a --list option to cygrunsrv that would list all the Cygwin services installed with cygrunsrv. At th

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

On Sep 17, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: lukekendallcisracanoncomau wrote: ^^ Tut-tut. . ;-) It occurred to me, while trying to work out why ssh isn'

RE: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 17 September 2004 19:50 > FWIW, I have been thinking of implementing a --list option to > cygrunsrv > that would list all the Cygwin services installed with > cygrunsrv. At this > point I have no implement

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > lukekendallcisracanoncomau wrote: ^^ Tut-tut. . ;-) > > It occurred to me, while trying to work out why ssh isn't working on a > > laptop that we installed Cyg

Re: So how do you uninstall cygwin?

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:15:21AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How >> >>>and remove all entries from the mount table ("umount -a") >> >>The advice in the faq to delete >> >>"...The registry tree `Software\Cygnus Solutions'

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

Dave Korn wrote: > > > information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How > > > and remove all entries from the mount table ("umount -a") > > The advice in the faq to delete > > "...The registry tree `Software\Cygnus Solutions' under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER..." >

RE: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: 17 September 2004 06:00 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How > and remove all entries from the mount table ("umount -a") The advice in the faq to delete

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

On 16 Sep, Brian Dessent wrote: > > I'm wondering how I get the machine back into a pristine state to try a > > re-install, since perhaps some of our post-install changes screwed > > things up. (ssh normally works just fine.) > > Remove any services you might have installed ("cygrunsrv -

Re: So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It occurred to me, while trying to work out why ssh isn't working on a > laptop that we installed Cygwin on recently, to wonder whether the > information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How do I uninstall > all of Cygwin?) could be a little more helpful. >

So how do you uninstall Cygwin?

It occurred to me, while trying to work out why ssh isn't working on a laptop that we installed Cygwin on recently, to wonder whether the information at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 (How do I uninstall all of Cygwin?) could be a little more helpful. It gives good advice, but ends by sayi