On 24/9/10 2:16 PM, "Warren Young" <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: > On 9/24/2010 10:54 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: >> Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's >> universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain "not installed - >> ever" on many people's systems, including mine. It is completely >> unacceptable that it is happy to install, but that you have to >> *manually* rip it out piece-by-piece if you ever want to uninstall it. > > You make Cygwin sound like some kind of malware that gets its hooks into > the system and has to be forced to let go. > > Effective uninstallation is easy. Stop any Cygwin services. (sshd, > crond, etc.) Stop X. Delete c:\cygwin. Delete icons. Done. > > That's a condensed version of this item from the Cygwin FAQ: > > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > > There are a few more things you could clean up, but they're all harmless > to leave laying around. > > An uninstaller would be nice, but it's not as desirable as for programs > that do scatter files all over the system, set up auto-runs, install > drivers, etc. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Which if necessary can all be done using a Batch or Windows Scripting Host script pretty easily. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Office: (408) 240-1239 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2453 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100924/459a8fa5/attachment-0005.p7s>