how to install apt-cyg for Cygwin?

Question

taken form here - explaining how to install apt-cyg

Install apt-cyg

You may have heard of programs like apt-get (Ubuntu), yum/dnf (Fedora), pacman (Arch), or brew (Mac OS X)... .. .The analogous program for Cygwin is called apt-cyg.

Installing apt-cyg is simple. First, save this file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg . Then, use File Explorer to find the file in your Downloads folder and move it into C:\cygwin\bin. Then, open Cygwin and enter "chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg". This tells Cygwin that you want to be able to execute the apt-cyg command. Lastly, enter "apt-cyg mirror ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin". This sets up apt-cyg to use the official repository when downloading programs.

Sounds simple enough. But i have an error.

This tutorial does not specify with what name and what extension to save that file.

I save it as apt-cyg.txt, and move it into C:\cygwin64\bin

This does not work. When running apt-cyg, I get the error: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

My guess is that extension or filenames are bad. What name and extension should i use?

Are there any more steps to this process?

Note: I just installed cygwin on a windows 10. Please don't assume i have other tools already installed.

Answer 1

You install it like this:

1 - Make sure lynx is installed

2 - Run lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg

3 - Run install apt-cyg /bin

That's it!