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Re: Vim 6.0 install not complete


Sigh.

I am glad you were able to figure out a way to solve the problem -- as 
it happens, you discovered the correct solution (although I would 
recommend -- and have recommended -- that you use setup.exe to reinstall 
the libncurses5 package, instead of manually untar'ing the package...)

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00124.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg00163.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg00161.html

--Chuck

EarlE@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca wrote:

> CYGWIN_NT-4.0 PACEARLE 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
> 
> After updating on October 4, 2001 vim stopped working with an error that it
> could not find cygncurses5.dll. I found the ncurses directory from my temp
> directory and the libncurses5 directory contained libncurses5-5.2-1.tar.bz2
> which I then ran tar xvfj of this file:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x cwilson/None      0 2001-09-14 23:03:00 usr/
> drwxr-xr-x cwilson/None      0 2001-09-14 23:03:11 usr/bin/
> -rwxr-xr-x cwilson/None  46080 2001-04-24 22:36:41 usr/bin/cygform5.dll
> -rwxr-xr-x cwilson/None  26624 2001-04-24 22:36:41 usr/bin/cygmenu5.dll
> -rwxr-xr-x cwilson/None 159232 2001-04-24 22:36:42 usr/bin/cygncurses++5.dll
> -rwxr-xr-x cwilson/None 230912 2001-04-24 22:36:42 usr/bin/cygncurses5.dll
> -rwxr-xr-x cwilson/None  15360 2001-04-24 22:36:42 usr/bin/cygpanel5.dll
> 
> From here I moved all the contents of my local usr/bin to /usr/bin and vim
> worked again.
> 
> Good program, good work on cygwin.
> 
> Eric Earl
> Canadian Hydrographic Service
> 
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