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 …

Sep 13, 2009 · I'm a blind computer user that uses Cygwin. The installation program isn't very accessible: upgrading, installing, and removing specific packages is quite hard to do since you …

Possible Duplicate: upgrading and installing packages through the cygwin command line? I'm looking for a "yum"-link method to install additional Cygwin packages from the command-line. …

Nov 25, 2010 · Caveat: if the update replaces cygwin1.dll, Cygwin programs will start to misbehave, and the Cygwin documentations recommend a reboot. So it's best to close all …

Dec 1, 2021 · I've seen so many cyg prefixed things like cygstart, cygpath, cygwin etc., but what exactly does this prefix mean?

Oct 6, 2017 · C:\Users\Chloe>choco uninstall cyg-get Chocolatey v0.10.8 Uninstalling the following packages: cyg-get cyg-get v1.1.0 Skipping auto uninstaller - No registry snapshot.

Jan 29, 2016 · Each time apt-cyg tries to connect to its server, it just can't get response and gets stuck with connecting to it. Since I'm there via SSH, how do I change the download mirror …

I have a modified apt-cyg that runs the installer from the local archive. It really should be submitted as a patch, but never had the time to clean it up, so here goes. Features Offline …

I'm new, so I've run out of links, but this answer has apt-cyg info, and also how to do command-line installs with setup.exe. Upgrading and installing packages through the Cygwin command …

Apr 14, 2019 · The dependencies used by this guide - made up of the MinGW-w64 cross-compile toolchain itself, all packages installed by apt-cyg and all packages compiled from source - will …