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RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:41:14 -0500
- Subject: RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
> >After the install completes..
> >
> >"Your cygwin install is now ready to use. Please run setup.exe again
> >if you want to Install new packages, Remove installed packages, or
> >Update your install with the latest versions of your installed
> >packages."
>
> I like it. Apparently it is extremely confusing to many
> people that running
> "setup.exe" again is how you update your system, Microsoft
> conventions not withstanding.
You might consider adding a Start menu item for "Cygwin Update"
as part of the regular Cygwin menu entries. That's something
I do on systems I maintain, just so I have an easy way to start
setup.exe.
-Samrobb
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