Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>]

Greetings, Ken Brown!

>>>> Surprized... It show nothing, although the setup.exe states that lynx 2.8.5-4
>>>> is installed.
>>>> And only lynx that could be installed is a Cygwin one, i'm not using any other
>>>> unix tools packages.
>>>> I think it's the time to reinstall it all... yet again...
>>>> I just did it when 1.7 came out, but seems it wasn't enough.
>>
>>> Since you're having problems, wouldn't it make sense to do a standard
>>> installation in C:/cygwin?
>>
>> It is installed in C:\Programs\Cygwin, which in turn located on the different
>> partition.

> I'm trying to guess what you did, based on your cygcheck output and the 
> path you showed in an earlier post.  It looks like you installed cygwin 
> in C:\Programs\Cygwin, then copied C:\Programs\Cygwin\bin into C:\bin, 
> and then put the latter at the beginning of your path.  Is that correct? 
>   If so, I'm not surprised that cygwin programs aren't working as you 
> expect and that cygcheck can't find your installed packages.

Didn't copied. But nevermind, it was all messy enough before upgrading.
Total uninstall and a manual cleanup of disk and registry, then reinstall.
It looks like it working as it should now.

> P.S. Please reply only to the list, not to both me and the list.

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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 16.06.2010, <15:09>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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