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Re: How to update cygwin and installed packages?
- From: Jeff Gold <jgold at esclat dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:44:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: How to update cygwin and installed packages?
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.)
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