Another question, if I may: does your procedure install both Fortran and
Dislin which are installed on the T1600? I do not see them in
cygwin-packages-picked.txt. Thanks again. Lou
On 1/3/2021 1:41 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-01-03 11:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-01-03 11:22, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
On 1/3/2021 12:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-01-03 09:44, Lou Umscheid via Cygwin wrote:
I would like to install Fortran on newly installed Cygwin64 on my
new LG laptop. I did this 9+ years ago for Cygwin32 on my Dell
T1600 which is now fading. The process 9 years ago was long and
hard over several weeks with many fallbacks and redo's. I am
competent in Fortran programming but have only a minimum knowledge
of Linux/Unix. Can anyone point me to a guide (I searched but
could not find any) to installing Fortran, including which files
to download, PATH, alias changes, etc. I know it is a lot to ask,
but ANY help would be appreciated.
To get a list of manually picked and installed packages in your
current Cygwin installation (excluding library packages except if
they are devel or doc packages) run the following command against
your current installation:
$ awk '$3 && ($1 !~ /^lib/ || $1 ~ /-(devel|doc)/) {print $1}' \
/etc/setup/installed.db | tee cygwin-packages-picked.txt
* transfer the file cygwin-packages-picked.txt to your new system
e.g. your Windows account Downloads folder on your new system,
* download https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe to e.g. your Windows
account Downloads folder on your new system,
* run setup-x86_64 on your new system with no selections to install
a basic Cygwin installation for you, then
* start a Cygwin shell in a terminal session, and
* rerun the Cygwin setup program with e.g.:
$ cygstart /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/setup-x86_64 \
-P "`cat
/proc/cygdrive/c/Users/.../Downloads/cygwin-packages-picked.txt`"
to start installing the manually picked packages you had on your
old system (dependencies will be automatically pulled in):
* you *MUST* exit your Cygwin shell and terminal, and ensure that
you have no other Cygwin processes still running, before allowing
the Cygwin setup program to proceed; and
* wait patiently for all the package downloads, installations, and
post-install scripts to run to completion, before trying to do
anything more under Cygwin on your new system.
wow; thanks for quick response. I tried running your first command
but got
the message:
awk: fatal: cannot open file ' /etc/setup/installed.db' for reading
(No such file or directory) >
The file seems to be there and I checked my input so I do not know
what when wrong. Any suggestions?
File name shown is ' /etc/setup/installed.db' - includes a leading
space - do not use any quotes or add spaces in file names - or just
paste the second line at the end of the first line, with an
(unquoted) space between if required.
...and remove any \ continuation escape if you paste the lines
together - that may well have been your issue!
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