cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing

2009-02-05 Thread Luca . Maltagliati
Dear all, sorry for the very newbie question. I installed cydwin (I have windows XP (SP3)) with the setup.exe, adding only the openssh to the basic. However The application has failed to start because cygreadline6.dll was not found. Searching the package list gave me back zero results and google

Re: cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing

2009-02-05 Thread Warren Young
luca.maltagli...@aero.jussieu.fr wrote: I installed cydwin (I have windows XP (SP3)) with the setup.exe, adding only the openssh to the basic. I don't suppose you tried, first, to install Cygwin 1.7, then later installed 1.5? If so, this and other bad things will happen. See:

Re: cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing

2009-02-05 Thread Norman Yamada
I'm seeing the same issue -- libreadline isn't in the package list at all on the search cgi-bin web page and my installation is dying on a fresh install -- and there's no libreadline6 (or any readline lib) in the package list. Help! -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing

2009-02-05 Thread Geraint Lloyd
I'm seeing the same issue -- libreadline isn't in the package list at all on the search cgi-bin web page and my installation is dying on a fresh install -- and there's no libreadline6 (or any readline lib) in the package list. Help! Me too! I tried an install to a completely clean newly

Re: cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Schutter
I can confirm this issue. I have never tried to install 1.7 on my machine. After a total wipe of Cygwin (using the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq.html section 2.17), I attempted to reinstall Cygwin. I used http://mirrors.xmission.com as the download site. I accepted the default set of