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. 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