Reinstalling Cygwin

Fri Jan 30 20:33:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年1月30日, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Plager
> > Sent: 30 January 2004 18:44
>> > Since I've *really* messed up my cygwin installation, I
> > deleted the directory and the registry keys (a bit rash) and
> > want to install it again. The problem seems to be that it
> > always seems to "remember" my installation. Do you know what
> > I need to do so that it doesn't know about any previous
> > installations and installs as if it was never there before?
>> Yep. That is indeed the persistent state I was referring to. When you
> run the cygwin setup package, it asks you to select a "Local package
> directory", in the step just after choosing where you want cygwin installed.
> That's the place where it's keeping the details of your previous
> installation. Nuke it and start over.

No. The "local package directory" is just a cache, and doesn't store any
state. The setup state is stored in /etc/setup, and should have been
deleted when c:\cygwin was erased. At a guess, the remaining state on the
OP's machine is system mounts (Cygwin uses subkeys of both HKCU and HKLM).
	Igor
> For more info about the setup utility, see
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html
>> cheers,
> DaveK

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