* clean uninstall
@ 2017-07-28 18:43 mike
2017-07-28 19:52 ` Ken Brown
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From: mike @ 2017-07-28 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hello
I have deleted all but var and dev from my C:\cygwin folder (which was
quite painful and time-consuming BTW) and then moved the cygwin folder
to my Documents folder and then deleted a Cygwin desktop icon and two
Cygwin folders from my Start > All Programs menu. Is that sufficient to
give me a clean uninstall so that I can do a brand new Cygwin install
without problems? I did it that way because I couldn't figure out any
other way of uninstalling Cygwin.
The reason that I want to do a clean re-install is because as per advice
from the list I now want to do a selective install rather than
installing whole Categories as I have before.
Thanks very much in advance for any help. I would appreciate replies
from multiple people to make sure that the advice I'm getting is
generally agreed upon.
Mike
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* Re: clean uninstall
2017-07-28 18:43 clean uninstall mike
@ 2017-07-28 19:52 ` Ken Brown
2017-07-28 19:58 ` mike
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From: Ken Brown @ 2017-07-28 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 7/28/2017 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have deleted all but var and dev from my C:\cygwin folder (which was
> quite painful and time-consuming BTW) and then moved the cygwin folder
> to my Documents folder and then deleted a Cygwin desktop icon and two
> Cygwin folders from my Start > All Programs menu. Is that sufficient to
> give me a clean uninstall so that I can do a brand new Cygwin install
> without problems? I did it that way because I couldn't figure out any
> other way of uninstalling Cygwin.
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Ken
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* Re: clean uninstall
2017-07-28 19:52 ` Ken Brown
@ 2017-07-28 19:58 ` mike
2017-07-30 22:12 ` mike
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From: mike @ 2017-07-28 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 28/07/2017 15:06, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/28/2017 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have deleted all but var and dev from my C:\cygwin folder (which
>> was quite painful and time-consuming BTW) and then moved the cygwin
>> folder to my Documents folder and then deleted a Cygwin desktop icon
>> and two Cygwin folders from my Start > All Programs menu. Is that
>> sufficient to give me a clean uninstall so that I can do a brand new
>> Cygwin install without problems? I did it that way because I
>> couldn't figure out any other way of uninstalling Cygwin.
>
> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
>
> Ken
>
Thank you Ken for your lightning fast reply. I did google for the
answer but couldn't narrow it down to what I was looking for. I am sure
that that is the definitive answer. Thank you very much. I will do it.
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* Re: clean uninstall
2017-07-28 19:58 ` mike
@ 2017-07-30 22:12 ` mike
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From: mike @ 2017-07-30 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 28/07/2017 15:13, mike wrote:
> On 28/07/2017 15:06, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/28/2017 9:58 AM, mike wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have deleted all but var and dev from my C:\cygwin folder (which
>>> was quite painful and time-consuming BTW) and then moved the cygwin
>>> folder to my Documents folder and then deleted a Cygwin desktop icon
>>> and two Cygwin folders from my Start > All Programs menu. Is that
>>> sufficient to give me a clean uninstall so that I can do a brand new
>>> Cygwin install without problems? I did it that way because I
>>> couldn't figure out any other way of uninstalling Cygwin.
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
>>
>> Ken
>>
>
> Thank you Ken for your lightning fast reply. I did google for the
> answer but couldn't narrow it down to what I was looking for. I am
> sure that that is the definitive answer. Thank you very much. I will
> do it.
>
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>>
>
I have deleted everything in C:\cygwin that I could figure out how to
and then moved the cygwin folder to my Documents folder. I managed to
delete everything before the move except for what became
C:\Users\Mike\Documents\cygwin\dev\nul and
C:\Users\Mike\Documents\cygwin\var\log\sshd.log. I can't for the life
of me figure out how to get rid of the dev folder which tells me when I
try to "Invalid MS-DOS function" or the var folder which tells me when I
try to "Try Again" and that the folder is shared. It's just two files
and a few nested folders.
I would be very grateful for any help. I'm trying to do this the right
way because I don't want to get bit again when I try to do the fresh
selective install because of something lying around from previous
installs. I want to start from scratch.
Thanks in advance
Mike
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