How do I install cURL on cygwin?

Question

I just encountered this.

1) Find the cygwin setup.exe file from http://cygwin.com/ and run it.
2) Click/enter preferences until you reach the "Select Packages" window. (See image)
3) Click (+) for Net
4) Click the entry for curl. (Make sure you select the checkbox for the Binary)
5) Install.
6) Open a cygwin window and type curl.exe (should be available now).

In the Cygwin package manager, click on curl from within the "net" category. Yes, it's that simple.

Nobody said how to install apt-cyg

in cygwin

lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin

now you can

apt-cyg install curl

For more, see the official github repository of apt-cyg.

apt-cyg is a great installer similar to apt-get to easily install any packages for Cygwin.

$ apt-cyg install curl

Note: apt-cyg should be first installed. You can do this from Windows command line:

cd c:\cygwin
cygwinsetup.exe -q -P wget,tar,qawk, bzip2,vim,lynx

Close Windows cmd, and open Cygwin Bash.

$ lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg install apt-cyg /bin
$ chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg