Fresh installation issues Cygwin 1.7

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 06:22:00 GMT 2010


2010/1/14 Manish Agarwal:
> These are the packages/commands/features which I have been using with
> cygwin. I am unable to install them through a "fresh" setup.Reason for
> not being able to install: they no longer exist in the package select
> window.
>
> xdvi (I _have_ installed and using tetex, tetex-x11)
> uptime

xdvi actually is part of tetex-x11, and it should be installed in
/usr/X11R6/bin. Try reinstalling that package if xdvi isn't there.
Might also be worth checking your PATH.

You can search packages at http://cygwin.com/packages/.


> My apologies for sounding irate, it is just that like everyone I was
> in a middle of "something important" and I messed up something which I
> rely on for my bread and butter.

A great time for a major update on your production machine then.

Andy

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