1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 22 12:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 21 15:01, Warren Young wrote:
> > The installation of 1.5 failed in several ways.  The way it failed makes me 
> > wonder if some part of the setup process was erroneously referring to stuff 
> > in c:\cygwin instead of c:\cygwin-1.5.
> 
> Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it
> finds setup files there, it will use them, even when you change the
> path.  That doesn't occur in the new setup-1.7.exe, but that doesn't
> help with installing 1.5 after 1.7, of course.
> 
> What you should do in this case, basically:
> 
> - Stop all 1.7 processes.
> - Rename C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin-foo

I forgot an important point here:

  - Remove the entire 1.5 installation and remove the registry keys
    "HKCU\Software\Cygnus Solutions" and "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions".

> - Start setup for 1.5
> - change the installation path to c:\cygwin-1.5
> - After the installation, rename C:\cygwin-foo back to C:\cygwin


Corinna

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