clean uninstall

clean uninstall

[mike]

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

[Ken Brown]

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

[mike]

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

[mike]

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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