transcode-open/apt-cyg
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Apt-cyg, an apt-get like tool for Cygwin
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-01-04 · latest 2017-09-14
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…write open source software because I enjoy it, not so I can get involved in meaningless conflicts. https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/blob/master/status... I looked but I couldn't find any details.
comment by hacking_again · 2017-09-14 · in Windows for Linux Nerds -
apt-cyg: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
comment by flukus · 2017-09-14 · in Windows for Linux Nerds -
…package, just run the setup.exe, click through the 5-10 pages and that's about it :) Or use this: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg (I haven't needed so far, but I've read good reviews about it) Regarding "crash prone", it used to…
comment by oblio · 2017-04-12 · in What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console -
You can't apt-get in cygwin, but you can apt-cyg: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
comment by meandthebean · 2016-05-30 · in Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows? -
There's also Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/ and for Cygwin, apt-cyg https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg and even cyg-fast https://github.com/lambdalice/cyg-fast
comment by drKarl · 2015-03-24 · in Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows -
…apt-get of course, but "apt-cyg install something" takes care of the most important use case. 1: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg EDIT: changed to github url
comment by Maakuth · 2015-03-12 · in Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without drivers or modification -
…an upgrade of the Cygwin DLL, they can be installed / removed from inside Cygwin itself. [1] https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
comment by Anthony-G · 2015-01-04 · in Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak