Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

Robb, Sam sam.robb@timesys.com
Sat Feb 15 17:42:00 GMT 2003


> >After the install completes..
> >
> >"Your cygwin install is now ready to use.  Please run setup.exe again
> >if you want to Install new packages, Remove installed packages, or
> >Update your install with the latest versions of your installed
> >packages."
> 
> I like it.  Apparently it is extremely confusing to many 
> people that running
> "setup.exe" again is how you update your system, Microsoft 
> conventions not withstanding.

You might consider adding a Start menu item for "Cygwin Update"
as part of the regular Cygwin menu entries.  That's something
I do on systems I maintain, just so I have an easy way to start
setup.exe.

-Samrobb

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