How to Install Cygwin. Cygwin (pronounced as SIG-win) = GNU + Cygnus + Windows. The mother site for Cygwin is www.cygwin.com. According to the developers, 'Cygwin is a Open-source Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
Installing and Updating Cygwin for 64-bit versions of Windows
- Cygwin is: a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows. A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality.
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- We provide a package for installing Cygwin on the Download page. IMOD 4.9 should also run reliably on more current versions of Cygwin, even on 64-bit Windows. When using IMOD without Cygwin, everything in IMOD will work except a few specialized C-shell scripts, but subtomogram averaging with PEET will not work without Cygwin.
- To use Cygwin or MinGW debugging features, the debugger path must be set manually in the launch configuration (launch.json). To debug your Cygwin or MinGW application, add the miDebuggerPath property and set its value to the location of the corresponding gdb.exe for your Cygwin or MinGW environment.
- The -mno-cygwin option is supported for compiling programs that are independent of cygwin1.dll Support is provided for compiling and linking to dlls with g95 g95-Cygwin.exe.
Run setup-x86_64.exe any time you want to update orinstall a Cygwin package for 64-bit windows. The signature for setup-x86_64.exe can be used to verify the validity ofthis binary.
Installing and Updating Cygwin for 32-bit versions of Windows
Run setup-x86.exe any time you want to update orinstall a Cygwin package for 32-bit windows. The signature for setup-x86.exe can be used to verify the validity ofthis binary.
Signing key transition
The key used to sign setup binaries has been updated. During the transitionperiod, signatures are made using both old (676041BA) and new (1A698DE9E2E56300)public keys here.See thismail for more details.General installation notes
When installing packages for the first time, the setup programdoes not install every package. Only the minimal base packagesfrom the Cygwin distribution are installed by default, which takes up about 100 MB.
Clicking on categories and packages in the setup program package installationscreen allows you to select what is installed or updated.
Individual packages like bash, gcc, less, etc.are released independently of the Cygwin DLL, so the Cygwin DLL version is notuseful as a general Cygwin release number. The setup programtracks the versions of all installed components and provides the mechanismfor installing or updating everything available from this site forCygwin.
Once you've installed your desired subset of the Cygwin distribution,the setup program will remember what you selected, so re-running itwill update your system with any new package releases.
On Windows Vista and later, the setup program will check bydefault if it runs with administrative privileges and, if not, will tryto elevate the process. If you want to avoid this behaviour and installunder an unprivileged account just for your own usage, runsetup with the --no-admin option.
Q: How do I add a package to my existing Cygwin installation?
A: Run the setup program and select the package you want to add.
Tip: if you don't want to also upgrade existing packages, select 'Keep' at thetop-right of the package chooser page.
Q: Is there a command-line installer?
A: Yes and no. The setup program understandscommand-linearguments which allow you to control its behavior and chooseindividual packages to install. While this provides some functionalitysimilar to such tools as apt-get or yum it is not asfull-featured as those package managers.
Q: Why not use apt, yum, myfavourite package manager, etc.?
A: The basic reason for not using a more full-featured package manager is thatsuch a program would need full access to all of Cygwin's POSIX functionality. Thatis, however, difficult to provide in a Cygwin-free environment, such as exists onfirst installation. Additionally, Windows does not easily allow overwriting ofin-use executables so installing a new version of the Cygwin DLL while a packagemanager is using the DLL is problematic.
Q: How do I install everything?
A: You do not want to do this! This will install an enormous number of packagesthat you will never use, including debuginfo and source for every package.
If you really must do this, clicking on the 'Default' label next to the'All' category to change it to 'Install' will mark every Cygwin package forinstallation. Be advised that this will download and install tens of gigabytesof files to your computer.
Q: How do I verify the signature of setup?
A: e.g.
Q: What's the hash of setup?
A: See here
Q: How do I help improve setup?
A: See the setupproject page for more information.
Cygwin is a free software to provide Linux and Unix environment, tools, and libraries in Windows operating systems. Cygwin is also called an emulator because it translates Linux system calls into Windows type systems calls. Cygwin generally used to run Linux tools like ssh, SCP, bash, X11, GCC in the Windows environment. Cygwin support following operating systems
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2016
Installation
Download Installation Files
We will download installation files from Cygwin site. There is two type of installation files
32 bit – x86
32 bit installation file can be downloaded from following link.
64 bit – x86_64
64 bit installation file can be downloaded from following link.
Start Setup Of Cygwin
We will start installation by clicking the downloaded files. To install we need Administrator privileges.
In this screen we see information about installation like version, architecture.
Installation Method
We have three option to get installation files.
Install from Internetwill get files from repositories and installDownload Without Installingwill only get files and do not installInstall from Local Directorywill get files from local disk and start installation.
Choose Installation Directory
We need to choose the installation directory. Default path is good but we can change to the Program Files too. There is also an option to chose which users can use Cygwin.
Download Directory
We will chose where to save the downloaded Cygwin packages.
Select Internet Connection Type
We will select the connection type. For regular network connections Direct Connection is enough but if we use proxy we should provide related parameters with the other options.
Choose Download Site
We will choose the site for downloading packages. Prefer physically near sites for faster download.
Update Package Repository Information
Then the package and repository information will be updated from previously selected site.
Select Packages
Now we are here to select applications, tools, libraries, groups to install.
We can search package name with the Search box or select from the list directly. Packages are grouped according to their functionalities like Admin , Database , GNOME etc. We can select the whole group or single package from the group.
Install SSH
For simplicity we have searched ssh to installation. After search operation the dependencies are resolved and we will click Next
Installation
We install ssh by downloading dependencies packages. Also this is the first installation so the Cygwin will install base packages those are used by a lot of other applications, tools.
Add New Package or Tool
We will install ssh from Net group. We search and select package named openssh.
Run Ssh With Cygwin
After the ssh installation is completed we can access the ssh from the Cygwin command line. Cygwin shortcut is created on the desktop. Open it by clicking. And type ssh like below.
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Run Bash With Cygwin
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The default shell is bash. We can check the current shell with the env command which will list environment-related variables. We will search for SHELL line and variable like below.