To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup.exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things.
Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's command line directly? Like apt-get tools do.
cygwin;updates
To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup.exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things.
Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's command line directly? Like apt-get tools do.
Best Answer
Take a look here:
Aside from the other things, it gives the following list of options to
setup.exe
:So
setup.exe -P <package name>
should do the job. Don't have cygwin right here, so test it to confirm it works as expected.To search for a package, per:
you can use
cygcheck -p
:which produces output like (example from above site):