Can't find cygwin setup.exe file?

Question

I am trying to add the subversion packet to cygwin and to do this I need to run setup.exe but I can't find it anywhere in my cygwin folder. Where would this be located?

Answer 1

It's not in the cygwin folder, it's wherever you left it last time you installed (which may well have been the trash can or a temporary directory). You download it separately since you need it before you download/install the packages themselves.

I tend to create a cyginst directory into which I put setup-x86.exe and then download the entire repository there (without installing). Then I install from local. That way I have a local repository available for other machines without having to download again (it's about 6G so easily fits on most of my USB sticks). And I can always get the local repository updated with setup as needed (it only downloads changes).

The setup executable can be downloaded from the CygWin site but keep in mind its name has changed from setup.exe - there's now a 32-bit and 64-bit version.