Uninstalling windows octave destroyed my cygwin installation!

[Joshua Scholar]

G***D**M F***** Octave destroyed my cygwin installation for the second time.  It destroyed cygwin on install and destroyed my new cygwin installation AGAIN on uninstall.

 

The first time I installed the windows version of octave it took down my installation of cygwin.  Not only would octave not run but neither would any of the 50 packages I installed for cygwin.

 

So, after a month or two, I went to the house of a friend who has a high speed internet connection and made a new cygwin archive.

 

After installing it, the programs in the new installation seem to work although programs I installed separately like xemacs are still dead.

 

Octave still didn't work, so I uninstalled it... And it destroyed cygwin again.

 

I just reinstalled cygwin AGAIN.  It said that it didn't need to install anything and has restored registry settings so that it seems to work.

 

XEmacs is still an Octave casualty.

 

Joshua Scholar