difficulty getting ddrescue to install properly

[Marilo]

I've used ddrescue in the past but I can't seem to install it now!

I ran https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe and installed ddrescue

In the dropdown under choose packages, I choose "full" so they all show and I choose "ddrescue" it's 1.25-1 and I click it so it installs so it shows "keep". And I click next and it claims to install. I haven't always looked at the version in the past but that kind of procedure has always installed that and things in the past.


But then here I can't get ddrescue to run!

I'm on Win7.


C:\cygwin>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 4645-5DCE


 Directory of C:\cygwin


20/04/2020  22:48    <DIR>          .
20/04/2020  22:48    <DIR>          ..
05/11/2020  02:29    <DIR>          bin
14/03/2020  01:02            53,342 Cygwin-Terminal.ico
14/03/2020  00:59                88 Cygwin.bat
14/03/2020  01:02           157,097 Cygwin.ico
14/03/2020  00:59    <DIR>          dev
05/11/2020  02:29    <DIR>          etc
22/04/2020  10:00    <DIR>          home
20/04/2020  22:48    <DIR>          lib
14/03/2020  00:35    <DIR>          pk
20/04/2020  22:48    <DIR>          sbin
20/04/2020  22:46         1,352,723 setup-x86_64.exe
14/03/2020  00:59    <DIR>          tmp
14/03/2020  00:58    <DIR>          usr
14/03/2020  00:58    <DIR>          var
               4 File(s)      1,563,250 bytes
              12 Dir(s)  29,747,658,752 bytes free


C:\cygwin>cd bin


C:\cygwin\bin>dir dd*
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 4645-5DCE


 Directory of C:\cygwin\bin


03/02/2017  19:40            83,987 dd.exe
03/04/2020  16:17           118,291 ddrescue.exe
03/04/2020  16:17            59,411 ddrescuelog.exe
               3 File(s)        261,689 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  29,747,593,216 bytes free


C:\cygwin\bin>

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/blah


user@hp-probook1 ~
$ ddrescue
-bash: ddrescue: command not found


user@hp-probook1 ~
$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin


user@hp-probook1 ~
$ ddrescue
-bash: ddrescue: command not found


user@hp-probook1 ~
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/blah:/usr/bin


user@hp-probook1 ~
$

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ PATH=$PATH:/bin

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/blah:/usr/bin:/bin

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ ddrescue
-bash: ddrescue: command not found

user@hp-probook1 ~
$

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ which ddrescue
which: no ddrescue in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/blah)

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ echo  $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/blah

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ PATH=$PATH:/bin

user@hp-probook1 ~
$ which ddrescue
which: no ddrescue in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/blah:/bin)

user@hp-probook1 ~
$

user@hp-probook1 /bin
$ cd /bin

user@hp-probook1 /bin
$ ls dd*
dd.exe

user@hp-probook1 /bin
$

user@hp-probook1 /bin
$ cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin

user@hp-probook1 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin
$ ls ddrescue
ddrescue

user@hp-probook1 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin
$ ddrescue --help
-bash: ddrescue: command not found

user@hp-probook1 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin
$ ./ddrescue --help
ddrescue: Both input and output files must be specified.
Try '/usr/bin/ddrescue --help' for more information.

user@hp-probook1 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin
$ ls /usr/bin/ddrescue
ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/ddrescue': No such file or directory

user@hp-probook1 /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin
$