How to install Cygwin packages from the command line

One of the greatest challenges in utilizing Cygwin is using the setup GUI program to view, install or uninstall packages. The syntax “apt-cyg”, can helps in installing and removing Cygwin packages. Here is how to install Cygwin packages from the command line using “apt-cyg”.

Note: Before proceeding with these steps, test if you can run these commands on the fly, (to install and uninstall). If this does not work, then you can proceed with the following steps below.

To install “apt-cyg”, first install the subversion and wget packages using the setup program as shown below

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
$ install apt-cyg /bin

You are now ready to use apt-cyg, which is actually a Bash shell script.

• apt-cyg update
• apt-cyg show
• apt-cyg install krb5-workstation
• apt-cyg remove

Here is an example below on how to install packages via apt-cyg

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