apt-get for Cygwin

Question

Is there any apt-get-like program for use with Cygwin   I already tried cyg-apt but when I try I get this error   cyg-apt  downloading  http   cygwin mirrors pair com setup-2 bz2 cyg-apt  downloading  http   cygwin mirrors pair com setup-2 ini cyg-apt  bad URL http   cygwin mirrors pair com setup-2 ini  exiting

User · Answer

you can always make a bash alias to setup*.exe files in $home/.bashrc

cygwin 32bit

alias cyg-get="/cygdrive/c/cygwin/setup-x86.exe -q -P"

cygwin 64bit

alias cyg-get="/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/setup-x86_64.exe -q -P"

now you can install packages with

cyg-get <package>

User · Answer

This got it working for me   curl https   raw githubusercontent com transcode-open apt-cyg master apt-cyg  gt    apt-cyg  amp  amp  install apt-cyg  bin

User · Answer

Best I have ever used   apt-cyg package manager

User · Answer

No  The only officially supported tool for downloading and updating Cygwin packages is the setup exe file you used for the initial install  although that can be invoked with command line arguments to help the process    From that same page      The basic reason for not having a more full-featured package manager is that such a program would need full access to all of Cygwin s POSIX functionality  That is  however  difficult to provide in a Cygwin-free environment  such as exists on first installation  Additionally  Windows does not easily allow overwriting of in-use executables so installing a new version of the Cygwin DLL while a package manager is using the DLL is problematic

User · Answer

You can use Chocolatey to install cyg-get and then install your packages with it   For example   choco install cyg-get   Then   cyg-get install my-package

User · Answer

You can do this using Cygwin   s setup exe from Windows command line  Example  cd C  cygwin64 setup-x86 64 -q -P wget tar gawk bzip2 subversion vim  For a more convenient installer  you may want to use the apt-cyg package manager  Its syntax is similar to apt-get  which is a plus  For this  follow the above steps and then use Cygwin Bash for the following steps  wget rawgit com transcode-open apt-cyg master apt-cyg install apt-cyg  bin  Now that apt-cyg is installed  Here are a few examples of installing some packages  apt-cyg install nano apt-cyg install git apt-cyg install ca-certificates

User · Answer

Update  you can read the more complex answer  which contains more methods and information   There exists a couple of scripts  which can be used as simple package managers  But as far as I know  none of them allows you to upgrade packages  because it   s not an easy task on Windows since there is not possible to overwrite files in use  So you have to close all Cygwin instances first and then you can use Cygwin   s native setup exe  which itself does the upgrade via    replace after reboot    method  when files are in use      apt-cyg  The best one for me  Simply because it   s one of the most recent  It works correctly for both platforms - x86 and x86 64  There exists a lot of forks with some additional features  For example the kou1okada fork is one of improved versions     Cygwin   s setup exe  It has also command line mode  Moreover it allows you to upgrade all installed packages at once   setup exe-x86 64 exe -q --packages bash vim   Example use   setup exe-x86 64 exe -q --packages  bash vim   You can create an alias for easier use  for example   alias cyg-get   cygdrive d path to cygwin setup-x86 64 exe -q -P   Then you can for example install the Vim package with   cyg-get vim

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