Removing cygwin
Some time ago I successfully installed cygwin on both my Windows 2000 PC and my windows XP laptop. However, space is getting a little tight now on my laptop, and I would like to remove cygwin for the time being. Is there a special procedure I should follow, or can I simply delete the cygwin directory? Thank you. Herbert Eppel -- www.HETranslation.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Removing cygwin
This has nothing specific to Cygwin/X. Redirecting to the main list. Please remove cygwin-xfree from replies. On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Herbert Eppel wrote: Some time ago I successfully installed cygwin on both my Windows 2000 PC and my windows XP laptop. However, space is getting a little tight now on my laptop, and I would like to remove cygwin for the time being. Is there a special procedure I should follow, or can I simply delete the cygwin directory? If you plan to simply back up Cygwin and restore it at some later point, then the mount information won't harm you, and you might as well just delete the directory. Same applies if you plan to reinstall later but keep the directory structure the same. Keep in mind that if plan to reinstall and have set up certain things (like ssh user identity files, etc) that are referenced by some external entities (for example, the ssh authorized_keys file on a remote machine), you should either keep those around, or expect to transfer them again when you reinstall (since the identity files will be regenerated by a new installation). If you really do want to delete all of Cygwin, see the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all. FWIW, if all you want is to get some disk space, the following FAQ entry might help: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.disk-space. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Looking for Cygwin/X maintainer
Christopher Faylor wrote: Our Cygwin/X maintainer seems to have disappeared so it looks like we, once again, are looking for volunteers to be the go to person for Cygwin/X. That would mean building new releases, handling problems in this mailing list, and keeping the cygwin-xfree web site up-to-date. I've been working on packaging modular X11 for the last few weeks. I've finished everything relevant in util, proto, lib, data, and most of app; all that's left now is the rest of app, fonts, docs, and xserver. I don't want to commit to this yet, until I manage to get everything packaged and running, but you should know that it's being worked on. You can check my progress at: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/X11/ Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Looking for Cygwin/X maintainer
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:54:16PM -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Our Cygwin/X maintainer seems to have disappeared so it looks like we, once again, are looking for volunteers to be the go to person for Cygwin/X. That would mean building new releases, handling problems in this mailing list, and keeping the cygwin-xfree web site up-to-date. I've been working on packaging modular X11 for the last few weeks. I've finished everything relevant in util, proto, lib, data, and most of app; all that's left now is the rest of app, fonts, docs, and xserver. I don't want to commit to this yet, until I manage to get everything packaged and running, but you should know that it's being worked on. You can check my progress at: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/X11/ Thanks for the update. I look forward to the day when this void will be filled. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
