Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?

[Andy Civil <putmyfullnamehere at hotmail dot com>]

Larry Hall wrote:

> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=usr%2Fbin%2Fvi>

Thanks for the answer Larry. I'll be honest, I'm rather frustrated by
this because I can't install the package. This is what happens: I'm
doing it as a two-step process, downloading with one hard disk, and
installing on the other. When I try to download, the setup program
appears to think that vim does not need to be downloaded (1) however,
when I try to install it, vim is not there (2).

I notice that when I start the setup program, one of the files it does
an MD5 check on is called "vim", but only in "download" mode.

(1) When I restart the setup program in "download" mode, I note that vim
is tagged as "skip" in the "full" view. If I do a "partial" view, vim is
not there. In "not installed" it is listed. If I click on "skip" by vim,
it shows the version number, and is now listed in "partial" but not "not
installed". In either case, "up to date" says "nothing to download".

(2) When I switch C:/ drives to install the files (it's all stored on my 
D:/ drive) and start the setup program in "install from local" mode, vim 
is not there in any view. Actually the whole "editors" category is not 
there.

I've spent a couple of hours on this now playing around, but nothing I 
do will persuade "download" mode to download the package, because it 
insists it already has it, and nothing I do in "install" mode will allow 
me to install it, because it's simply not there.

Incidentally, I notice that there are directories for all of the 
packages I have installed (the base ones) EXCEPT vim. So it beats me 
what the setup program is doing an MD5 checksum of.

I think I'll delete the whole darn lot and start again, but check off 
vim right from the get-go.

Thanks

--
Andy





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