Chuck sent the following at Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:26 PM
>
> I've been using cygwin and it's X11 package for years. I stumbled on
> cygwin ports by accident and wanted to install gedit and nautilus but am
> having problems. I followed the installation steps but when done with
> the last step - install from local directory - nothing gets installed in
> /usr/bin and if I enter gedit or nautilus I get "command not found". If
> I examine the packages list, the packages show up as installed. Also,
> cygcheck -c shows both nautilus and gedit as installed and ok.
>
> What did I do wrong and how do I fix it? TIA

You didn't do anything wrong.  Cygports installs to /usr/local/bin.  Add
it to your path and you should be ready to go.

That keeps /bin = /usr/bin reserved for the official distribution.

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