From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.spocom.com (mail.spocom.com [206.63.224.240]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0107A385840C for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:17:23 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 0107A385840C Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=spocom.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=spocom.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; d=spocom.com; s=mail; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:x-operating-system :user-agent; b=V6brAYKaCLct9XdIudfAjfurqyjhV6ZAWHwezhE5xA0JJdBgLuaYtMSYLXp9ygifZ CSfhn3moINHsTQiUnmRgg== Received: from localhost (174-31-104-35.spkn.qwest.net [174.31.104.35]) by mail.spocom.com with SMTP; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:17:08 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:18:06 -0700 From: Gary Johnson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer Message-ID: <20220319231806.GE10070@phoenix> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <79540473-1c96-9a9a-0c19-3c5ecded6b27@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <3517a7e4-8b44-d45c-1647-a6b4b19488a8@cs.umass.edu> <9fdcbc14-becc-bfdd-5e06-8a621c1cc592@claytoncramer.com> <6e01a2e1-63e0-dbe7-678c-21fb13eb98d8@cs.umass.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.32-74-generic GNU/Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 23:17:25 -0000 On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: > On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >You have to select packages explicitly. > > > >It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, > >and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. > I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. When you run the Cygwin Net Release Setup Program, a.k.a. Setup, and after clicking Next a number of times, you should come to a full-screen page titled, "Select Packages". In the upper left corner of that page is a drop-down list labelled View and with a default setting of Pending. Change that setting to Full. To the right of the View selection is the Search box. Enter into that box just the two letters bc You should see at the top of the resulting list of packages the bc package. The New column (the third column) for the bc package probably says Skip. Click on the arrow in that field and select the newest package number, which should be 1.06.95-2. At the bottom of that page, click on Next and follow whatever instructions follow. That should install bc as /usr/bin/bc. HTH, Gary