[CIG-MC] Installing CitcomS - Cygwin
Walter Landry
wlandry at caltech.edu
Tue Jun 12 07:47:55 PDT 2012
Lester Anderson <lester_anderson1963 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> I will have to check again when I get home, but I did set a new home variable
> in Winows that Cygwin reads as the home path:
> Need to see if the .bashrc is there etc but that should not be a problem (I
> would have thought)?
>
> Should the HOME be /home/username to work properly?
>
> What I can try is to copy the tar file again and install into /home/anderson
> and see if that does anything different. To be sure I will start the home
> directory structure again, and go via mkdir /home/anderson and create the
> .bashrc (and .bash_profile) in there.
It sounds like you have a non-standard Cygwin setup. That makes it
very difficult to know what will work. Try creating a completely new
user and doing everything in that account.
Cheers,
Walter Landry
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