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: do         


        

Answer 1

You can do this using Cygwin’s setup.exe from Windows command line. Example:

cd C:\cygwin64
setup-x86_64 -q -P wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim

For a more convenient installer, you may want to use the apt-cyg 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 rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin

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

apt-cyg install nano
apt-cyg install git
apt-cyg install ca-certificates