GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 762233
Improve Cerbero README
Last modified: 2016-02-18 09:53:58 UTC
=============================================================================== cerbero must be run in the MingGW shell, which is accessible from the main menu. The last step is making python and git available from the shell, for which you will need to create a .profile file: $ echo "export PATH=\"\$PATH:/c/Python27:/c/Git/bin\"" > ~/.profile Note that inside the shell, / is mapped to c:\Mingw\msys\1.0\ =============================================================================== should IMHO be explained as: cerbero must be run in the MingGW shell, which is accessible from the desktop/main menu as "MinGW Shell" (if you don't have it, you did not install the bash lnk" package). Once you run the shell, you need to make python, MinGW and git available from the shell, for which you will need to create a .profile file: If you use 64-bit Windows: echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/c/Python27:/c/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin:/c/MinGW/bin/"' > ~/.profile if you use 32-bit Windows: echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/c/Python27:/c/Program Files/Git/bin:/c/MinGW/bin/"' > ~/.profile Note that inside the shell, / is mapped to c:\Mingw\msys\1.0\ =============================================================================== There are two issues fixed besides more explanation: - Git is now installed in Program Files, not in c:\git; and - msys shell for some unknown reason does not have mingw in path, so once you start cerbero it couldn't find mingw-get and fails.
Also it is worth mentioning somewhere that cerbero is invoked as 'cerbero-uninstalled', not as 'cerbero'.
Can you provide a patch against the README with your changes? Sounds good to me except for the lnk" typo
Created attachment 321567 [details] [review] Patch against HEAD readme
Review of attachment 321567 [details] [review]: Looks good except for one minor detail, thanks! ::: README @@ +70,3 @@ +On Windows cerbero is used as-is without installation, and is invoked as 'cerbero-uninstalled'. +So please replace 'cerbero' with 'cerbero-uninstalled' in the examples below. Not only on Windows but everywhere. Nobody should use cerbero-uninstalled. Want to change all the references to cerbero? :)
Created attachment 321571 [details] [review] Version 2, now with cerbero-uninstalled Here it is.
commit 69ebb3def89113ec655209a2bd5beef11af6552e Author: George Yunaev <gyunaev@gmail.com> Date: Thu Feb 18 11:51:28 2016 +0200 README: Update Windows instructions and mention cerbero-uninstalled instead of cerbero https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762233