Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

[JZA]

Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if there is a command line tool to install some of this packages. I wonder if there is something like apt-get for cygwin or maybe is cygget. Anyhow can someone give me input into this.

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if
> there is a command line tool to install some of this packages.

setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of automate things.

Command Line Options:
 -D --download                          Download from internet
 -L --local-install                     Install from local directory
 -s --site                              Download site
 -R --root                              Root installation directory
 -q --quiet-mode                        Unattended setup mode
 -h --help                              print help
 -l --local-package-dir                 Local package directory
 -r --no-replaceonreboot                Disable replacing in-use files on next
                                        reboot.
 -n --no-shortcuts                      Disable creation of desktop and start
                                        menu shortcuts
 -N --no-startmenu                      Disable creation of start menu shortcut
 -d --no-desktop                        Disable creation of desktop shortcut
 -A --disable-buggy-antivirus           Disable known or suspected buggy anti
                                        virus software packages during
                                        execution.
Ending cygwin install

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[JZA]

DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if
> there is a command line tool to install some of this packages.

setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of automate things.

Command Line Options:
 -D --download                          Download from internet
 -L --local-install                     Install from local directory
 -s --site                              Download site
 -R --root                              Root installation directory
 -q --quiet-mode                        Unattended setup mode
 -h --help                              print help
 -l --local-package-dir                 Local package directory
 -r --no-replaceonreboot                Disable replacing in-use files on next
                                        reboot.
 -n --no-shortcuts                      Disable creation of desktop and start
                                        menu shortcuts
 -N --no-startmenu                      Disable creation of start menu shortcut
 -d --no-desktop                        Disable creation of desktop shortcut
 -A --disable-buggy-antivirus           Disable known or suspected buggy anti
                                        virus software packages during
                                        execution.
Ending cygwin install

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Thanks for your response. Is this switcher for DOS or BASH (within Cygwin).

[Thrall, Bryan]

DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01 PM:

> On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to
>> know if there is a command line tool to install some of this
>> packages.
>
> setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of
> automate things.
>
> Command Line Options:
>  -D --download                          Download from internet
>  -L --local-install                     Install from local directory
>  -s --site                              Download site
>  -R --root                              Root installation directory
>  -q --quiet-mode                        Unattended setup mode
>  -h --help                              print help
>  -l --local-package-dir                 Local package directory
>  -r --no-replaceonreboot                Disable replacing in-use
>                                         files on next reboot.
>  -n --no-shortcuts                      Disable creation of desktop
>                                         and start menu shortcuts
>  -N --no-startmenu                      Disable creation of start
> menu shortcut
>  -d --no-desktop                        Disable creation of desktop
> shortcut
>  -A --disable-buggy-antivirus           Disable known or suspected
>                                         buggy anti virus software
>                                         packages during execution.
> Ending cygwin install

Note that --local-package-dir is a little broken; specifically, it gets
overridden by whatever the user selected last time they ran setup.exe
(at least, this was the case as of setup.exe version 2.510.2.2). The
problem has been fixed in CVS, but there doesn't seem to have been a
setup.exe release since then...

There might also have been another buggy command-line switch, but I
can't recall what it was at the moment.

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[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thrall, Bryan wrote:

> DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01 PM:
> > On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to
> >> know if there is a command line tool to install some of this
> >> packages.
> >
> > setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of
> > automate things.
> >
> > Command Line Options:
> >  -D --download                          Download from internet
> >  -L --local-install                     Install from local directory
> >  -s --site                              Download site
> >  -R --root                              Root installation directory
> >  -q --quiet-mode                        Unattended setup mode
> >  -h --help                              print help
> >  -l --local-package-dir                 Local package directory
> >  -r --no-replaceonreboot                Disable replacing in-use
> >                                         files on next reboot.
> >  -n --no-shortcuts                      Disable creation of desktop
> >                                         and start menu shortcuts
> >  -N --no-startmenu                      Disable creation of start menu shortcut
> >  -d --no-desktop                        Disable creation of desktop shortcut
> >  -A --disable-buggy-antivirus           Disable known or suspected
> >                                         buggy anti virus software
> >                                         packages during execution.
> > Ending cygwin install
>
> Note that --local-package-dir is a little broken; specifically, it gets
> overridden by whatever the user selected last time they ran setup.exe
> (at least, this was the case as of setup.exe version 2.510.2.2). The
> problem has been fixed in CVS, but there doesn't seem to have been a
> setup.exe release since then...

<http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots>.

> There might also have been another buggy command-line switch, but I
> can't recall what it was at the moment.

The setup snapshot versions may also support more command-line switches --
run "setup --help" and read the resulting setup.log file for details.
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[Thrall, Bryan]

Igor Peshansky wrote on Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:48 PM:
>> Note that --local-package-dir is a little broken; specifically, it
>> gets overridden by whatever the user selected last time they ran
>> setup.exe (at least, this was the case as of setup.exe version
>> 2.510.2.2). The problem has been fixed in CVS, but there doesn't
>> seem to have been a setup.exe release since then...
>
> <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots>.

True, and thanks for pointing that out. I guess my point was more that
the standard setup.exe linked from the front page of cygwin.com didn't
have the fixes yet; certainly there are ways of getting the fixed
version if you know what to look for!

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