From: Lou Umscheid <jrsy.angl@verizon.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Lou Umscheid <umscheid@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Fortran Installation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 13:22:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db4e20f9-6d00-b682-b444-447ecaadbac6@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b42ca71f-feec-d782-fb18-c007b906cbab@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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?
Lou
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.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-03 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <b3d295a7-b7d9-9b33-0391-cc33bb39c029.ref@verizon.net>
2021-01-03 16:44 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 17:11 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-04 0:19 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-04 8:42 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-05 14:18 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 17:20 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 17:28 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 18:22 ` Lou Umscheid [this message]
2021-01-03 18:27 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-03 18:37 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 18:41 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 18:58 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 19:18 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 21:03 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-03 21:42 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-03 22:59 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-04 0:29 ` Lou Umscheid
2021-01-04 6:04 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-04 6:48 ` David Billinghurst
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