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Re: Some help with [re-]installation please


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:10:18AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > Since none of this is really specific to Cygwin/X, I've redirected
> > this thread to the main cygwin list.
> >
You really should configure your mailer to honor the Reply-To header.  I
set it to the main Cygwin list so this off topic discussion wouldn't
continue on the Cygwin/X list.

> > Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > >     Once you have an existing Cygwin installation, the setup.exe chooser
> > >     is also used to manage your Cygwin installation. Information on
> > >     installed packages is kept in the /etc/setup/ directory of your Cygwin
> > >     installation; if setup.exe cannot find this directory it will act just
> > >     like you had no Cygwin installation. If setup.exe finds a newer
> > >     version of an installed package available, it will automatically mark
> > >     it to be upgraded. To Uninstall, Reinstall, or get the Source for an
> > >     existing package, click on Keep to toggle it. Also, to avoid the need
> > >     to reboot after upgrading, make sure to close all Cygwin windows and
> > >     stop all Cygwin processes before setup.exe begins to install the
> > >     upgraded package.
> > >
> > > What on earth does "To Uninstall, Reinstall, or get the Source for an
> > > existing package, click on Keep to toggle it.", mean???
> > >
> > Did you try it?  Clicking on Keep transitions it to Uninstall, Reinstall,
> > Source, etc.
> >
> No it doesn't, this still confuses me, there are Keep, Prev, Curr and
> Exp and you can select each but I have no idea what they do.  Clicking
> on Keep doesn't toggle it, it just selects it.
>
You are (or I was) confusing the radio buttons at the top for Keep, Prev,
Curr, and Exp (maybe they should be Keep, Revert, Upgrade, and
Experimental?  Does that help?) that apply to all packages, with the "New"
column for each individual package (an override of sorts) that transitions
through Keep, Reinstall, Source, Current version (Upgrade), Uninstall.

HTH, but I'm obviously not a setup wizard.

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Brian Ford
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VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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