Where can I download an offline installer of Cygwin

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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 utility after the installation

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Perhaps this description helps you in your task   http   www cygwin com ml cygwin 2003-09 msg00041 html

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There is another solution to creating an offline Cygwin installer  which is using  pmcyg   http   www sourceforge net projects pmcyg   If you give pmcyg a list of Cygwin packages you d like to have available  it will automatically download all of them  their dependencies  and the setup exe into a folder that you can then burn onto a cdrom

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I maintained rsync copy of the repository in the past  It wasn t that big  To reduce the sync size I used rsync option --exclude  like I don t need texlive or ruby and they are not essential for base system   Check   https   cygwin com mirrors html  most support HTTP FTP but some include rsync   Than you host this mirror via HTTP FTP for local or organization installs  setup exe -p emacs --site http   localhost cygwin

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Not a direct answer to your question  but you can get the most commonly used utilities from  http   www mingw org  without having to jump through the hoops with that horrible Cygwin installer   Here is a slightly more informative link http   sourceforge net apps mediawiki cobcurses index php title Install-MSYS

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You can download from below link  ftp   ftp comtrol com dev mstr sdk other 1800136 tar gz After downloading just extract the image and install

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Pick a mirror server closest to you from http   cygwin com mirrors html  Choose any FTP or HTTP mirror  Download the whole mirror maintaining exact file tree structure of the cygwin directory in the mirror   Edit  How to download the whole mirror   wget -m  lt ftp-mirror-url gt   Execute setup exe  amp  choose source as local directory and browse to the release directory    Now you have the Offline Cygwin Installer   Update  Use Babun  It s based on cygwin and more user friendly  Get Babun

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Here are instructions assuming you want to install Cygwin on a computer with no Internet connection  I assume that you have access to another computer with an Internet connection  Start on the connected computer    Get the Cygwin install program   setup exe    Direct download URL  x86 or x86 64  When the setup asks  Choose a download source   choose Download Without Installing Go through the rest of the setup  choose download directory  mirrors  software packages you want  etc  Now you have a Cygwin repository right there on your hard disk  Copy this directory  along with the  setup exe  program  over to your target computer  it does not need to be on a network   On the target computer  run  setup exe  When the setup asks  Choose a download source   choose Install From Local Directory Complete setup as usual  No Internet access is required

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Install Babun instead -  https   babun github io index html It contains Cygwin

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If all you want is the UNIX command line tools I d suggest not installing Cygwin   Cygwin wants to turn your Windows PC into a UNIX Workstation which is why it likes to install all its packages   Have a look at GnuWin32 instead   It s Windows ports of the command line tools and nothing else   Here is the installer for the GnuWin32 diff exe   There are offline installers for all the common tools      You asked for offline installers but in case you ever want one later there is a tool which will download and install everything for you    Method 2  make an offline install zip file for cygwin   Don t mess with saving packages because the installed directory for cygwin can be canned in a zip file and expanded whenever you need it on any computer    Download Cygwin installer pick packages you want installed from gui  hit install and wait a really long time for everything to download  zip up the C  Cygwin folder   Now you have your offline zip file for installing cygwin on any machine   Unzip this file on whatever computer you like   set cmd exe paths appropriately to point to cygwin bin directory under windows control panel

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I m not a big fan of Cygwin  It is good if you have some Unix code that requires a full POSIX system  I suppose  Even then  using it renders your programs GPL  due to the GPLed DLL   unless you pay Red Hat for a different license   Most people should be using MinGW  and MSYS  instead  This gives you the Unix shell and utilities  even compilers  if you want them  without the purposely infectious DLL  Most of the folks using GNU compilers on Windows are using MinGW  although some don t realise it    Just as importantly for your purposes  you can download the parts separately  rather than use the re-downloading installer   The SourceForge download page is here  I d suggest starting with the MSYS Base System package  which will give you the coreutils  Bash  make  tar  etc  If there s other stuff you need  you can pick and choose from the list of packages

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may this post can solve your problem   see Full Installation Answer on that  What is the current full install size of Cygwin

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