Install apt-cyg for Cygwin

For a more convenient installer, you may want to use apt-cyg as your package manager.

1. apt-cyg

   Its syntax similar to apt-get, which is a plus. For this, follow the above steps and then use Cygwin Bash for the following steps

   wget raw.github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
   chmod +x apt-cyg
   mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin
   

   Now that apt-cyg is installed. Here are few examples of installing some packages

   apt-cyg install nano
   apt-cyg install git
   apt-cyg install ca-certificates
   

2. Alternatives

   Cygwin's setup accepts command-line arguments to install packages from the command-line.

   setup-x86.exe -q -P packagename1,packagename2
   setup-x86_64.exe -q -P packagename1,packagename2
   

   Above command to install packages without any GUI interaction ('unattended setup mode').

   See the package list.