Installation of Cygwin For Moshell
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Installation of Cygwin for Moshell for Ericsson
Date: 29-September-2019
Go directly to step 10, MoShell Installation, if you have already installed and configured Cygwinpreviously.
3. Root Directory C:\cygwin (It is not recommended to choose a different directory, especially if itcontains spaces).
4. Choose a Download Site. For instance http://sourceware.mirror.tds.net is known to work well butprobably others work fine
too.
5. In the "Select Packages" View menu, choose "Category", then add the following packages:
optional: under Editors select vim (if you want to be able to edit files with vi)
http://newtran01.au.ao.ericsson.se/moshell/cygwin_install.txt). .
A DOS window opens. At the DOS prompt, execute the following commands:
c:
cd cygwin
bin\perl.exe cygwin_install.txt
c:/cygwin/home/youruserid/.bashrc, c:/cygwin/home/youruserid/.minttyrc,
c:/cygwin/home/youruserid/.inputrc.
If those files already exist, they are automatically moved to the folder c:/cygwin/tmp/installbackup.
9. Open a new cygwin terminal window. The window should be black with white text and the promptshould like this: [~]$
If not, then go through all the steps again and make sure you haven’t missed out anything.
More info about Cygwin installation issues can be found at: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
10. Moshell installation. Follows these steps if you already have a working Cygwin environment.
unzip -o moshellxxx.zip
bash moshell_install
When prompted to enter the directory where you want to install moshell, it is recommended to specifyyour HOME directory ( ~).
If you have executed moshell_install from your home directory then you can press the enter key and thecurrent
directory is selected.
If a previous moshell installation already exists, it is recommended to install in the same directory as theold one. This way,
all your custom files (jar/xml files, site files, etc.) get copied across to the new revision and the oldrevision gets moved to a
If you have set the PATH variable correctly in your ~/.bashrc file, you should be able to run moshell fromany directory. E.g:
moshell <ip-address>
