Mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin # move somewhere to PATH Just download it (or clone the repository), make it executable and copy it somewhere to the PATH: chmod +x apt-cyg # set executable bit For example, the kou1okada fork is one of the improved versions, which is really great.Īpt-cyg is just a shell script, there is no installation. There are a lot of forks with more or less additional features. It works correctly for both platforms - x86 as well as x86_64.
It doesn’t use Cygwin’s setup.exe, it rather re-implements, what setup.exe does. Simply because it’s one of the most recent. It looks like the owner of the repository issued the DMCA takedown on his own repository and created a new project called Sage (see bellow). Update: the repository was disabled recently due to copyright issues ( DMCA takedown). Some package managers for Cygwin: apt-cyg So it would simply fail if it cannot overwrite them. I don’t think any of package managersĮxcept of Cygwin’s setup.exe implements any method to overwrite files in use, Should be completely without any hassles.
Your computer to actually apply the changes. Therefore, it’s better to closeĪll Cygwin processes before updating packages, so you don’t have to reboot Overwriting of in-use executables so installing a new version of the CygwinĭLL while a package manager is using the DLL is problematic."Ĭygwin’s setup uses Windows registry to overwrite executables which are in useĪnd this method requires a reboot of Windows. Additionally, Windows does not easily allow That is, however, difficult to provide in a Cygwin-free environment, such asĮxists on first installation. Such a program would need full access to all of Cygwin’s POSIX functionality. "The basic reason for not having a more full-featured package manager is that There is also this note on the Cygwin Installation page: Cygwin DLL or any package which contains the currently running executable from the Cygwin itself. But updating is a pain since Windows doesn’t allow you to overwrite an executable, which is currently running. Installing or removing packages is fine, each package manager for Cygwin can do that. But it’s important to know, that they always will be quite limited, because of.ehm.Windows.
There exist some scripts, which can be used as simple package managers for Cygwin.
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