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Date: | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:44:43 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: How to update cygwin and installed packages? |
From: | Jeff Gold <jgold AT esclat DOT net> |
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Is there a way to install and update cygwin packages from the command line? Something resembling yum on Fedora and apt on Debian and Ubuntu would be extremely helpful, particularly for setting up a new system. Manually picking through a list of packages is tedious and error prone, while a command line with a list of packages can be reliably pasted from a web page. I've been trying to find the answer in web searches and the mailing list archives. The closest I've come is a brief exchange between Pawan Taparia and Larry Hall which concludes with a reference to setup.exe, but as far as I can tell that tool only operates in a graphical mode. Giving it options like -h, --help or /h doesn't seem to provide any documentation. Have I missed something? (I've adopted the same subject in case that helps.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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