Re: Fortran Installation

[Lou Umscheid <umscheid@verizon.net>]

Another question, if I may: does your procedure install both Fortran and 
Dislin which are installed on the T1600? I do not see them in 
cygwin-packages-picked.txt. Thanks again. Lou

On 1/3/2021 1:41 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> 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!
>