Cygwin install apt-cyg

1. UPDATE CYGWIN

First of all you will need to ensure that Cygwin has the necessary binaries required for apt-cyg. This is achieved via the use of the Cygwin setup executable via the Windows command prompt.

C:UsersadminDownloadssetup.exe -q -P  wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim

2. INSTALL APT-CYG

Next download and install apt-cyg from within Cygwin.

$ svn --force export http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /bin/ 
$ chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg

3. SYNTAX

"apt-cyg install <package names>" to install packages 
"apt-cyg remove <package names>" to remove packages 
"apt-cyg update" to update setup.ini 
"apt-cyg show" to show installed packages 
"apt-cyg find <pattern(s)>" to find packages matching patterns 
"apt-cyg describe <pattern(s)>" to describe packages matching patterns 
"apt-cyg packageof <commands or files>" to locate parent packages

4. EXAMPLE

$ apt-cyg install rsync
 Working directory is /setup
 Mirror is ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin
 --2011-05-09 06:44:24-- ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/setup.bz2
 => `.listing'
 Resolving mirror.mcs.anl.gov (mirror.mcs.anl.gov)... 2620:0:dc0:1800:214:4fff:fe7d:1b9, 146.137.96.15, 146.137.96.7
 Connecting to mirror.mcs.anl.gov (mirror.mcs.anl.gov)|2620:0:dc0:1800:214:4fff:fe7d:1b9|:21... failed: Connection timed out.
 Connecting to mirror.mcs.anl.gov (mirror.mcs.anl.gov)|146.137.96.15|:21... connected.
 
 !! Output Omitted !! 
 
 2011-05-09 06:45:16 (131 KB/s) - `rsync-3.0.8-1.tar.bz2' saved [272248]
 
 Unpacking...
 Package rsync requires the following packages, installing:
 libgcc1 libiconv2 libpopt0 cygwin
 Package libgcc1 is already installed, skipping
 Package libiconv2 is already installed, skipping
 Package libpopt0 is already installed, skipping
 Package cygwin is already installed, skipping
 Package rsync installed

5. REFERENCES

https://www.fir3net.com/UNIX/Linux/cygwin-package-installation.html