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Package manager for CygWin
Posted: 8 Jan 2025, 10:31am - Wednesday

For a more convenient installer, you may want to use apt-cyg as your package manager. Its syntax similar to apt-get, which is a plus. For this, follow the above steps and then use Cygwin Bash for the following steps

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
chmod +x apt-cyg
mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin

Now that apt-cyg is installed. Here are few examples of installing some packages

apt-cyg install nano

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9260014/how-do-i-install-cygwin-components-from-the-command-line

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