Re: [Mingw-users] [ANNOUNCEMENT]: mingw-get GUI: pre-release snapshots available

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote:
> Keith Marshall writes:
>
>> MinGW Users,
>>
>> For the myriad of you who appear to have missed the announcement
>> just before Christmas, please see http://preview.tinyurl.com/ck2u95d
>
> Hello Keith,
>
> I'm having some problems trying to install it.  With a seemingly updated
> mingw-get:
>
> $ mingw-get upgrade mingw-get-bin
> upgrade: mingw-get-0.5-mingw32-beta-20120426-1-bin.tar.xz
> mingw-get.exe: *** INFO *** package mingw-get-0.5-mingw32-beta-20120426-1-bin.ta
> r.xz is up to date
>
> Trying to install the GUI gives:
>
> $ mingw-get install --start-menu mingw-get-gui
> mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** mingw-get-gui: unknown package
>
> I have run "mingw-get update" several times today.
>
> Any ideas?

You need to extract the zip file to the directory where you have MinGW
installed.  For example if you have MinGW installed in C:\MinGW then
extract the zip file into it.

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