From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:31:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6ccba69-1aca-fe68-a05c-6e1333228001@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1FpuMLQjhM9-Sqz4sgu-dYd5qiiZsp89SnbnKPFFGvQJa=rQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
>>
>> Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes:
>>> The first error message occurred when I installed all pending packages
>>> this morning. I hoped to heal the problem by reinstalling the
>>> installed gnuplot packages. Now I get both the messages.
>>
>> If you look in /var7Log/setup.log.full you should be able to see what
>> error messages, if any, were recorded.
>>
>> The gnuplot related script should just set up the current alternative
>> for "gnuplot" to use, but something on your system seems to prevent
>> that from happening. You can also run the script in sh (you must tell
>> the shell to source it) and should get the same error (most likely).
>
> When I do that in an elevated shell:
>
> $ cd /etc/postinstall/
>
> $ cat gnuplot-base.dash
> /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnuplot gnuplot
> /usr/bin/gnuplot-base.exe 10
>
> $ . gnuplot-base.dash
> failed to read link /usr/bin/gnuplot: No such file or directory
> failed to link /usr/bin/gnuplot -> /etc/alternatives/gnuplot: No such
> file or directory
Something seems to be confusing 'alternatives'. Can you show a listing of
/etc/alternatives?
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-14 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-14 16:59 Doug Henderson
2021-07-14 19:02 ` Achim Gratz
2021-07-14 19:59 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-07-14 21:08 ` Doug Henderson
2021-07-14 22:31 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-07-15 1:20 ` Doug Henderson
2021-07-15 11:57 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-15 16:04 ` Doug Henderson
2021-07-15 16:18 ` ASSI
2021-07-16 3:59 ` Andrey Repin
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