You can repair by re-installing the package from setup.exe but in some cases, you may need to first locate all files from that package, remove using setup.exe, check it is removed from a command line (and remove if files remain) and re-install. Missing file: /usr/lib/gdbm/testndbm.exe from package gdbm Missing file: /usr/lib/gdbm/testgdbm.exe from package gdbm Missing file: /usr/lib/gdbm/testdbm.exe from package gdbm Will generate an extensive report - this how I did find that my package gdbm was corrupt - the report told specifically Verifying your cygwin installation integrity % cygcheck -l util-linux | grep bin # this will include bin and sbin But you may also check the executables it has installed just like this You can do the same for util-linux (the list is much longer so, will skip for this help). The -l command line option does this for you. OK, now you are curious and want to know what is installed from util-linux or the less package How do I list the files installed by a package? now, what is missing? The simplest is to re-install the package and try again.
Here is an example of a package I had corrupt In this case, the package is all fine and properly installed. Now that we know more.exe is part of the util-linux package, let us check if this package is properly installed.
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How to check if a package is properly installed? You may also use the '-v' command line option for the verbose mode (it shows the dll version information). If any is missing, it may stop working entirely. If any of those are updated, it may influence the behavior of your program. Important Note: cygcheck actually requires an outgoing network connection to the cygwin web site. Note the answer with -f would provide your installed package version as single answer
Only the less package has this program (two revisions shows up in the query as a regexp was used). Less/less-444-1Ě file pager program, similar to more(1) Less/less-436-1Ě file pager program, similar to more(1) In other words, the answer is not always straight forward. OK, several answers come above (since -p was used, a REGEXP on more.exe) but you may infer the package is util-linux (the rest are derivatives, xmore.exe for example is installed as /usr/X11R6/bin/xmore.exe and matches more.exe).
Xmore/xmore-1.0.2-1 X.Org plain text browser Xmore/xmore-1.0.1-2 X.Org plain text browser Util-linux/util-linux-2.17.2-1 Random collection of Linux utilities Util-linux/util-linux-2.14.1-1 Random collection of Linux utilities Util-linux/util-linux-2.13.1-2 Random collection of Linux utilities Qt4-qtdemo/qt4-qtdemo-4.5.3-1 Qt4 demos and examples The simplest isīut if you are not sure which more.exe need to be checked, you may want to use the following instead. A few examples are below: How to find from which package the program ' more.exe' belong to? The cygcheck program is a cygwin application allowing to gather information on files, packages or query package database. I always forget the commands so, a blog seem in order. Cygwin - finding dependencies, file and package information
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