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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to get setup to *re*install a package from the command line
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 10:31:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b59dff95-ff2b-1f8a-2a9d-b417570140ed@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bba88f8c-7e63-2bfd-c596-4703fd6d88e5@t-online.de>

On 9/8/2022 2:00 AM, Christian Franke wrote:
> Eliot Moss wrote:

> If data in /etc/setup is still intact, a quick way with the GUI should be run to the recent 2.921 RC 
> release of setup, select the "Up To Date" view and then press and hold Ctrl+R.
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2022-August/252146.html

This was very helpful and was able to re-install everything.
inetutils-server balked at how the permission on /var were set,
but once I corrected those, it also finished installing.

Thank you!

Now we'll see if a re-install fixed my issues :-) ...  EM

      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-08 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-08  2:54 Eliot Moss
2022-09-08  5:28 ` ASSI
2022-09-08  6:00 ` Christian Franke
2022-09-08 14:31   ` Eliot Moss [this message]

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