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Tag Archives: cygwin

Mp3 tag manipulation in cygwin

I couldn´t find any mp3 tagging utility using the cygwin setup.exe. So I google a bit and found this post about installing id3.
To summarize, download id3 here and unpack it.

wget http://home.wanadoo.nl/squell/files/id3-0.78.tar.gz
tar xvzf id3-0.78.tar.gz
cd id3-0.78
sed -ibak -e ’s/^\(CFLAGS.*=.*$\)/\1 -mno-cygwin/’ makefile
sed -ibak -e ’s/\($(CXX)\) \($(OBJECTS:=.o)\)/\1 $(CXXFLAGS) \2/’ makefile
make
make install

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Cygwin/X: disappering mouse pointer

Remember to start the X system using startxwin.bat not startx. With startx I lose the mouse cursor/pointer when I´m over a X window.

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cygwin: setup.exe crashes when upgrading packages

I´ve run into a very strange problem.
Every time I run setup.exe and try to upgrade bash package

setup.exe crashes with the familiar “setup.exe has generated errors and will be close by windows. you will need to restart the program. An error log is being created”. The solution I found is for bash package but [...]

bash: clear: command not found

If your are getting “bash: clear: command not found” on you first install of cygwin you have to make sure that you include ncurses packages in your cygwin installation. clear.exe doesn´t come in the standard installation. You must include ncurses to get clear.exe in your system. If you are using bash you can use Ctrl-L [...]

Cygwin: Cannot read c: drive

If you are getting

ls: reading directory /cygdrive/c: No such file or directory

it’s probably because you installed Altiris Sofware Virtualization (SVS). The solution is to uninstall Altiris or use ProgramIgnoreList feature of Altiris. Read the following messages to the cygwin mailist list to know more.
original message
solution
Take a look to this altiris forum post also if [...]

Cygwin problem: Can’t access /cygdrive/c

I’ve lost my ability to see my c: drive from cygwin. when I do
cd c:
or
cd /cygdrive/c
all goes ok. But if I do
ls
then it complains
ecerulm@rlm-ecb4fe6cda1 /cygdrive/c
$ ls
ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
I found something at this forum and also here
So it seems that I screwed up permission (maybe it related to some automatic [...]