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RE: bash: tar: command not found
On 12 April 2007 17:10, Cheney, Christian wrote:
>>> Did you even try typing /usr/bin/tar at any point?
> I thank you all for your help. Tar.exe does not exist in the /bin
> directory, or anywhere else under C:\cygwin. Winzip may have created
> the /usr/bin folder, but it didn't put anything in it. It gave me an
> error. Even when I tried to drag and drop the file onto the desktop, it
> said that it couldn't find the file.
> I tried this, but to no avail. I guess I'm back to starting from
> scratch. Thanks, again.
It should suffice just to blow away the bad version of tar-1.16.1-1.tar.bz2
from your local package directory and redownload-and-install using setup.exe.
cheers,
DaveK
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