Cygwin tutorial
Right Click on This PC, Click on Properties, and Look at your System type.
For me, System type: 64-bit Operating System, 圆4-based processor. On the Properties of This PC, you can see the System Type underneath System category. If you don’t have This PC on your Desktop, you can also use Windows’ search to look for “ This PC“, then right click the icon, and click on Properties. If you have Windows 8 or 8.1, right click on This PC on your Desktop, then click on Properties.
#Cygwin tutorial 32 bit
Step 1)Ĭheck whether your System type is 32 bit or 64 bit. With Cygwin, you can get a sizable Linux collection of GNU and Open Source tools including a terminal that supports POSIX interface on Windows.
#Cygwin tutorial install
I have a function sourced from my ~/.bashrc where I can use either apt or apt-get (with or without the install parameter, and it will just call cyg-get.bat with the programs I have specified to install.Cygwin provides the Linux feeling on Windows. I avoided it for a while because they only supported 32-bit installations, but I can confirm that Chocolatey now supports 64-bit installations of Cygwin, and the cyg-get package manager works perfectly with it. Feel free to comment, but cyg-get is now my Cygwin package manager of choice unless I'm running an older installation of Cygwin that was not installed by Chocolatey. I'm not sure if it only works for Chocolatey-installed Cygwin installations or not, as Chocolatey doesn't install Cygwin in the normal locations anymore by default.
#Cygwin tutorial code
I still just use the original version on Google Code that worked just fine the last I checked: Įdit: There has been a new Cygwin package manager out for awhile called cyg-get that can be installed via Chocolatey. It appears this version requires lynx to install.
It looks like the project has been picked back up and is under active development again: I don't use this method, because the last I checked, Chocolatey only supported 32-bit Cygwin installs, which is also what the cyg-get package looks for.Īpt-cyg may be abandoned, but it has yet to disappoint, and if I know what I'm looking for, I always prefer it over running the setup.exe for package installation. I don't really like this method, because it differs from apt-cyg in the fact that it actually uses the setup.exe and just automates the process so that you don't have to click anything. The syntax is a bit different - something like cyg-get git. There is also a similar alternative if you install Cygwin via Chocolatey package manager - you can also install cyg-get (I believe it's called). It also installs dependencies, just like the GUI setup.exe. It requires wget and subversion, but after the 30 seconds it takes to setup, you'd just run apt-cyg install git. apt-cyg is basically a shell script that will install your package directly from the command line, apt-get-style. There is also an abandoned project called apt-cyg that I still use religiously, especially on remote systems over SSH in order to avoid the GUI setup.exe. When you mark the Git package for installation, it will automatically download all dependencies, just like apt-get or any other *NIX package manager. It should automatically detect your current installation directory and package directory and previously-selected mirror. If you don't currently have Git installed in your particular Cygwin environment, just run setup.exe again and select the package. This is what the Cygwin setup file is specifically used for.
#Cygwin tutorial upgrade
From what you are saying, it sounds as if you had a single go-round with the setup file and then planned to never install any additional available packages or upgrade them in the future. There are thousands of packages available in the Cygwin repo mirrors. Cygwin was inherently designed with a setup.exe to be run multiple times when necessary. In the world of Cygwin, there is really no such thing as only installing a package AS you are installing Cygwin.