Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH To: david@carter.net Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:43:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: problems installing perl-5.6.1-2 Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3B8D53FF.28587.747684D@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010829171759.9960.cpmta@c000.snv.cp.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) > david@carter.net schrieb am 2001-08-29 10:17: >When I attempt to update perl via cygwin's setup.exe, >I get a series of dialog boxes like "unable to write to file >d:/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Getopt/Long.pm". There are several of these under >/lib/perl5, and also some under /bin, like /bin/pod2man, etc. > >I then used setup.exe to uninstall perl, and tried the install again. I still >get these messages. Closer investigation shows that uninstall does not delete >perl stuff in /bin/ and in /lib/perl5 -- should it? Yes it should. >relevant portion of setup.log is as follows: [...] > > >I will try the obvious - uninstall perl via setup.exe, manually delete the >things it leaves behind, and then run install. After makeing a backup (if you need it as archive), you may delete the whole /lib/perl5 tree and the binaries as well. >Any ideas as to why this is happening? Sorry, no. If there are some modules left from previous installations, they won't be clobbered. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/