Feb 13, 2012 · Is there a tool in the Cygwin package similar to apt-get on Debian or yum on redhat that allows me to install components from the command line?

There is no package management in Cygwin outside of the setup program. The setup only applies updates to your current installation, it does not overwrite packages that what you already have …

Apr 21, 2009 · What is Cygwin? Cygwin is a compatibility layer that makes it easy to port simple Unix-based applications to Windows, by emulating many of the basic interfaces that Unix-based operating …

Mar 19, 2009 · 80 I need an offline installer with most of the utilities commonly needed. Somehow the default installer confuses me with all its package selection. I installed Cygwin but I can't find the diff …

213 I'll add something that helps me out a lot with cygwin. Whenever setting up a new system, I always do this ln -s /cygdrive/c /c This creates a symbolic link to /cygdrive/c with a new file called /c (in the …

Nov 10, 2017 · $ uname -r 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) I don't have the gcc or the g++ command on my path after I install cygwin. What packages do I need to install to get this command?

Sep 24, 2018 · Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer that runs on top of the Win32 subsystem. It has approximately nothing to do with Linux; it can broadly be treated as "just another Unix-like" where …

Nov 25, 2010 · To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup.exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things. Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's …

Apr 1, 2013 · Sure. On my (pretty vanilla) Cygwin setup, bash is in c:\cygwin\bin so I can run a bash script (say testit.sh) from a Windows batch file using a command like: C:\cygwin\bin\bash testit.sh ...

Cygwin brings Linux to Windows, I just wish it would "Officially" bring the benefits of command line package management, not GUI installation only methods : (