Re: difficulty installing running Octave from CYGWIN

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Bob Green wrote:

> I tried startxwin.sh as well as startx (as recommended in your e-mail to 
> Andy Yip) & receive the same message -
>
> bash: startxwin.sh: command not found
>
> I am wondering whether I have CYGWIN installed properly.

It sounds like you don't have X11 installed.

I installed the entire Cygwin package (550 MB download, 2.3 GB installed) 
and that gave me everything - Octave, X, etc.  It all works.  To install 
all of Cygwin, click the top line where it says "default", wait a second 
and it should turn all "default"s to "install," then continue the 
installation and it will install the works.  I assume you are using the 
installer available here:

http://www.cygwin.com/

Mike



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