* Dave Korn (Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:12 +0100) > On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200) > >> I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin. > >> > >> My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe > >> (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall. > >> I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through > >> the installation choosing: > >> > >> - Installation from Internet > >> - C:\cygwin as root path > > >> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the > >> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it. > >> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find > >> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory. > >> > >> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the > >> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory! > >> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that > >> the message above appears more than once). > >> > >> I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance! > > > > I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not > > Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und > > Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe - > > c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it? > > > Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin > directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all > the other directories ended up in the correct location.
"A small tool to merge several PDF files into one PDF file (based on Ghostscript). It has the following the features: Add/Remove PDF files; Adjust the order of the PDF files; Merge the PDF file based on ps2pdf." I guess PDFMerge brings its own small cygwin/bash/ghostscript installation with it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
