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 There are some issue with carriage returns when printing the tags on screen that you can fix with the instructions in here.

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.

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 I guess it also work for other packages as well After googling a bit I found the this mail thread . But there was no solution posted into the thread so I tried to contact the Mario Frasca (one of the participants in the mail thread) to see if he found any solution to the problem. Well, he did. He sent me a mail telling me that William Crosmun resolved his problem. ...

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 and get the same result though. UPDATE: ncurses is a cygwin package in libs category in Utils category. You can install it using the the Cygwin Setup utility (just run setup.exe again). See screenshot below ...

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 you need more information about the issue

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 windows update). So after checking my username and group are the right on with ...