[PMX:#] Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue May 4 12:22:00 GMT 2010


On 5/4/2010 7:31 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Ken Brown!
>
>>> But I've tried to move Cygwin folders earlier in Path...
>>>
>>> [C:\]$set PATH&&   lynx
>>> C:/bin;C:/usr/sbin;C:\WINDOWS/system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS/System32/Wbem;C:/usr/4nt;C:/usr/Delphi/vbroker/bin;C:/usr/Delphi7/Bin
>>> ;C:/usr/Delphi7/Projects/Bpl;C:/usr/sbin/svn-win32/bin;C:/PROGRA~1/WINRAR;C:/usr/ARH/7ZIP;C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin;C:/usr/ut
>>> il;C:/DRWEB;C:/USR/BP/BIN;C:/d/REINST/ROOT/DOOM;C:/d/REINST/ROOT/UTIL;C:/usr/ARH;C:/USR/VP21/BIN.W32
>
>> Your path indicates that you have a lot of non-cygwin software inside
>> your cygwin installation (under C:/usr).  That seems like a bad idea to me.
>
> Wasn't an issue to now, not to mention, it's not installed in cygwin folders,
> rather, in their own places. It's just easier for me to keep track of all
> tools I need to migrate when reinstalling system.
>
>>> Error opening terminal: cygwin.
>>>
>>> [C:\]$
>>>
>>> And the same when trying to start it from bash command prompt:
>>>
>>> bash-3.2$ lynx
>>> Error opening terminal: cygwin.
>>> bash-3.2$
>>>
>>> Meh... Any good idea what to delete in attempt to fix this?
>
>> As cgf said, maybe you aren't running cygwin's lynx.  Did you install
>> cygwin's lynx package?  What does 'cygcheck -c lynx' show?  What does
>> 'which lynx' show?
>
> Surprized... It show nothing, although the setup.exe states that lynx 2.8.5-4
> is installed.
> And only lynx that could be installed is a Cygwin one, i'm not using any other
> unix tools packages.
> I think it's the time to reinstall it all... yet again...
> I just did it when 1.7 came out, but seems it wasn't enough.

Since you're having problems, wouldn't it make sense to do a standard 
installation in C:/cygwin?

Ken

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