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Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems (such as Gnu/Linux, BSD, and UNIX systems) to Windows.

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How can I set up Cygwin to automatically update and download without the GUI?

How can I set up Cygwin to automatically update itself? How can I get Cygwin to download a package without having to go via the GUI thing?
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An equivalent to OS X's "open" in Cygwin?

I know this may be a slightly strange question, plus the fact that I'm asking it here. The reason is that whenever I ask Windows-people about this, or even regular Cygwin-users, they don't seem to understand why I need this functionality. For those…
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Cygwin XWin server: How to disable the creation of the "panel" window?

A couple of months ago, I re-installed Cygwin on my Win7 machine. Since then, when clicking the XWin Server entry in the Start Menu, it not only starts the (familiar) X tray icon along with a xterm window (this is running in "rootless" mode), but…
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cygwin displays rectangles instead of characters

I have a bit of a problem in cygwin, When I use make utility in cygwin, it prints rectangles instead of text. Also when text is not english, i.e. polish or russian I see rectangles instead of characters. But when I print those symbols I see them.…
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Which cygwin package contains ip command?

I need the ip command in cygwin. I discovered that it's part of the iproutes2 package. But cygwin doesn't have that package?? I what cygwin package can I find ip command? (I need to find the gateway, and I don't want to use Windows' ipconfig command…
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Execute bash script using CygWin

How do you execute a bash script using CygWin? I am trying execute a bash script as part of a build.xml. This is the code snippet,
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Installing source package has no effect

I am trying to install libgmp sources as I am trying to build some other source that requires gmp.h. In Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe I Search for gmp and it finds the libgmp line which says "6.1.2-1 Keep" on the left, "n/a" under "Bin?" , and empty…
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Cygwin: Open a file in default windows text viewer even if extension is otherwise associated

I would like to open a file from Cygwin into Windows' configured text viewer, even if that file type is not associated with the text viewer already (i.e. Windows doesn't consider it a text file). For my specific case, I use Notepad++ for general…
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can't launch .lnk files with cygwin and git-bash

I have a problem where I can't do my vagrant up in cygwin, because cygwin can't understand non-POSIX style paths like C:\, which the vagrantfile uses. I use git-bash to start vagrant, because it can understand the non-POSIX paths. To make my life…
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CygWin: MD5 sum did not match, exiting

cyg-get install lzop gave: MD5 sum did not match, exiting I tried: cyg-get update rm /setup/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/lzop/lzop-1.03-1.tar.bz2 That did not help. How do I fix that?
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Using "cygcheck" to "find the package to which FILE belongs"

According to my Cygwin setup program "setup-x86_64.exe", I have package texlive-collection-latexextra version 20220321-1. The Cygwin package search page says that this package should contain usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/changes/changes.sty, whch…
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Which package contains cygisccfg-163.dll

I get: C:/cygwin64/bin/host.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygisccfg-163.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I tried removing bind-utils and re-installing it. But no luck. It seems there is a dependency that…
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cygwin64 scons version issue

Cygwin currently provides two versions of scons package in its built-in package library: 2.3.4-1 and 2.4.0-1. (https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/scons-src.html) However, I am now trying to compile an external C++ library with Cygwin terminal on…
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How to select a line in Cygwin

I am unable to select a line in cygwin, atleast by using the traditional windows method of clicking and dragging the mouse curser across the line that i would like to select. Is there a specific package that i need to install to be able to select a…
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Cygwin: installing Seismic Unix - error during make install

I am trying to install the software "Seismic Unix" for Cygwin on Windows. Under normal circumstances the issue described below would probably be fixed with downloading Cygwin again and doing just a simple reinstallation of all packages - the problem…
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