/usr/bin directory empty

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Mani, Greg SPAWAR wrote:
> I installed the cygwin tools for the first time today.  When I tried to
> run the "man" command, for example "man ls", I got the message:
> 
> sh:  /usr/bin/gunzip:  No such file or directory
> fgets:  No such file or directory
> Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
> No manual entry for ls
> 
> I looked in /usr/bin and the directory is completely empty.  I also
> could not find gunzip (or gzip) in my cygwin directory structure.  My
> man page directories are populated and I did find
> /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this will be appreciated.


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