Hi Steve,
something is fishy with your installation. I've performed the
same install many times in the past weeks on multiple different
Windows 7 machines, and they always worked fine (including tar).
Is it possible that you have a virus scanner that blocks certain
disk operations, or a restrictive security policy, or you are
trying to install to a very special location that might give
you problems (spaces in the directory names, network mount, ...)?
All the best,
Mario
On 10.03.2017 17:49, Steve Lorimer wrote:
> I've installed the latest version of msys2 from msys2.org <http://msys2.org>
>
> http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe
>
> I ran the upgrade instructions
>
> Update the package database and core system packages with:
>
> pacman -Syu
>
> If needed, close MSYS2, run it again from Start menu. Update the rest with:
>
> pacman -Su
>
> Following this I am unable to locate tar in the filesystem
>
> I have tried to run them again
>
> $ pacman -Syu
> :: Synchronising package databases...
> mingw32 319.8 KiB 911K/s 00:00 [#####################]
> 100%
> mingw32.sig 96.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [#####################]
> 100%
> mingw64 319.8 KiB 1767K/s 00:00 [#####################]
> 100%
> mingw64.sig 96.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [#####################]
> 100%
> msys is up to date
> :: Starting core system upgrade...
> there is nothing to do
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
> there is nothing to do
>
> $ pacman -Su
> :: Starting core system upgrade...
> there is nothing to do
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
> there is nothing to do
>
> Why is there no tar command?
> How do I install tar?
>
> TIA
> Steve
Viele Gruesse,
Mario Emmenlauer
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