I also posted this question at Cloudy Nights forum and someone answered one key missing item. The sub-directory “opt” is not there by default and he said I would have to manually create the “opt” sub-directory. Is this correct?
This is what he said:
You will need to create the “/opt” directory by typing the following in your Cygwin shell:
cd /
mkdir opt
cd opt
tar zxvf /tmp/ansvr-0.12.tar.gz -C ./
Also, it’s not so simple to uninstall Cygwin because it does not have an uninstaller. It does not show up in my “Program and Features”. I found a FAQ about uninstalling and it was pretty cryptic but I was able to do it.
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
Thanks,
Peter