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From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: My Name <mname989@gmail.com>
Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:01:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5bzh8ujgvj.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5b1rm7mlpa.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin's message of "Mon\, 22 Jun 2020 11\:36\:17 +0100")

Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes:

> My Name via Cygwin writes:
>
>> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a
>> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do:
>
> No, the file is correct.  The following worked for me:
>
>  > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog
>  > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done

Argh, apologies, typo above, should be

 > chmod a+w /etc/xml/catalog

ht
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-22  2:48 My Name
2020-06-22  5:07 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-22  6:13   ` My Name
2020-06-22  7:47     ` My Name
2020-06-22 10:36     ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-06-23  9:01       ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
2020-06-23 13:07         ` My Name
2020-06-23 13:54           ` My Name

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