RE: ncftp current release won't run - missing CYGREADLINE5.DLL

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gord Wait [mailto:Gord_nospam_123_Wait@netscape.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:48 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: ncftp current release won't run - missing 
> CYGREADLINE5.DLL
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry Robert,
> I lost the last word on the subject line when I posted the 
> email you read.
> 
> It turns out, no you can't just re run setup.exe on an 
> already installed cygwin and expect it to work. It might 
> delete a dll or two for you due to an install bug.

Care to send in your log files? We know of a specific bug which DOES NOT
affect the current setup.exe. (There was a race condition when packages
got renamed, and we now do all uninstalls before all upgrades before all
new installs to prevent this (or 99% of cases - it may not be perfect))
 
> The faq offers the solution of hunting down which packages 
> contain the dll files you are missing and re installing them.

And that aspect of the FAQ is still very useful, but for other causes -
ie if you chose to remove some packages for some reason, and then find
out that they where needed!
 
> I found it much easier last night to just wipe out the old 
> cygwin install, and local download storage (where you ran 
> setup from) completely and doing a full install.

That is about the hardest way around. A much easier way is simply to
change the little arrow beside "all" until the action is "reinstall",
and watch setup reinstall everything inplace, preserving all your
settings.

Rob

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