Cygwin Execution Problem

Thu Jun 12 14:52:00 GMT 2008

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:25:41AM +0000, Mark Geisert wrote:
>sunil kumar writes:
>>I downloaded and installed the latest Cygwin from site. But after
>>installation while executing Cygwin, i got the following error.
>>>>"This application has failed to start because cygncurses-8.dll was not
>>found, Re-installing the application may fix this problem."
>>>>What may be the cause?
>>Let's leave that for later. Somebody else may chime in with the
>answer. For now:

? Isn't the answer excruciatingly obvious? You're missing something
with the name "ncurses" in it so you have to install a package which
contains that file. Use http://cygwin.com/packages to find the file.
>>After that i downloaded the specified DLL file from one site and put it
>>in cygwin\bin folder. After this step, i got another problem which is
>>saying that
>>I wonder which site it was. But in any case:

Yeah, probably the same site which somehow caused the libncurses8 not
to be installed.
cgf
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