apt-cyg
apt-cyg is a Cygwin package manager. It includes a command-line installer for
Cygwin which cooperates with Cygwin Setup and uses the same repository.
github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
Operations
install
Install package(s).
remove
Remove package(s) from the system.
update
Download a fresh copy of the master package list (setup.ini) from the
server defined in setup.rc.
download
Retrieve package(s) from the server, but do not install/upgrade anything.
show
Display information on given package(s).
depends
Produce a dependency tree for a package.
rdepends
Produce a tree of packages that depend on the named package.
list
Search each locally-installed package for names that match regexp. If no
package names are provided in the command line, all installed packages will
be queried.
listall
This will search each package in the master package list (setup.ini) for
names that match regexp.
category
Display all packages that are members of a named category.
listfiles
List all files owned by a given package. Multiple packages can be specified
on the command line.
search
Search for downloaded packages that own the specified file(s). The path can
be relative or absolute, and one or more files can be specified.
searchall
Search cygwin.com to retrieve file information about packages. The provided
target is considered to be a filename and searchall will return the
package(s) which contain this file.
Quick start
apt-cyg is a simple script. To install:
lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin
Example use of apt-cyg:
apt-cyg install nano