apt for cygwin

As we are using apt for installing softwares in Ubuntu and other Debian linux. We also can install softwares in cygwin using similar command. For that we need to use cyg-apt which is mostly similar to apt and makes installing cygwin packages more friendly. Though this is not coming with cygwin. You need to install cyg-apt.

To install cyg-apt on cygwin follow the steps given:

1) Open Cygwin

2) type cd /bin

3) type wget http://www.lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt

4) type chmod a+rx cyg-apt

5) type cyg-apt setup
6) type cyg-apt update

And you are done.

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