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