Re: Fortran Installation

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2021-01-03 11:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
> 
> On 2021-01-03 11:22, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 1/3/2021 12:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2021-01-03 09:44, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> I would like to install Fortran on newly installed Cygwin64 on my new LG 
>>>> laptop. I did this 9+ years ago for Cygwin32 on my Dell T1600 which is now 
>>>> fading. The process 9 years ago was long and hard over several weeks with 
>>>> many fallbacks and redo's. I am competent in Fortran programming but have 
>>>> only a minimum knowledge of Linux/Unix. Can anyone point me to a guide (I 
>>>> searched but could not find any) to installing Fortran, including which 
>>>> files to download, PATH, alias changes, etc. I know it is a lot to ask, but 
>>>> ANY help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> To get a list of manually picked and installed packages in your current 
>>> Cygwin installation (excluding library packages except if they are devel or 
>>> doc packages) run the following command against your current installation:
>>>
>>> $ awk '$3 && ($1 !~ /^lib/ || $1 ~ /-(devel|doc)/) {print $1}' \
>>>     /etc/setup/installed.db | tee cygwin-packages-picked.txt
>>>
>>> * transfer the file cygwin-packages-picked.txt to your new system e.g. your 
>>> Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
>>> * download https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe to e.g. your Windows account 
>>> Downloads folder on your new system,
>>> * run setup-x86_64 on your new system with no selections to install a basic 
>>> Cygwin installation for you, then
>>> * start a Cygwin shell in a terminal session, and
>>> * rerun the Cygwin setup program with e.g.:
>>>
>>> $ cygstart /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/setup-x86_64 \
>>> -P "`cat /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/cygwin-packages-picked.txt`"
>>>
>>> to start installing the manually picked packages you had on your old system 
>>> (dependencies will be automatically pulled in):
>>> * you *MUST* exit your Cygwin shell and terminal, and ensure that you have no 
>>> other Cygwin processes still running, before allowing the Cygwin setup 
>>> program to proceed; and
>>> * wait patiently for all the package downloads, installations, and 
>>> post-install scripts to run to completion, before trying to do anything more 
>>> under Cygwin on your new system.
> 
>> wow; thanks for quick response. I tried running your first command but got
>> the message:
>>
>> awk: fatal: cannot open file ' /etc/setup/installed.db' for reading (No such 
>> file or directory) >
>> The file seems to be there and I checked my input so I do not know what when 
>> wrong. Any suggestions?
> File name shown is ' /etc/setup/installed.db' - includes a leading space - do 
> not use any quotes or add spaces in file names - or just paste the second line 
> at the end of the first line, with an (unquoted) space between if required.

...and remove any \ continuation escape if you paste the lines together - that 
may well have been your issue!

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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