Installing additional packages for Cygwin

Question

To install additional packages for Cygwin, do I just need to run the setup.exe again and choose from the packages list?

Also, doing this won't harm my computer in terms of 2 Cygwin instances being installed or problems of that kind (I'm kind of a noobie with these things).

Last, there is no package manager in Cygwin which you can run in the command line? Something similar to Pip in Python.

Answer 1

No, adding additional packages doesn’t modify the current settings. There is a package manager called apt-cyg which installes additional packages from command-line. To install apt-cyg follow the below steps:

wget rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg install apt-cyg /bin 

Note: wget should be installed for downloading the apt-cyg. To Use apt-cyg for installing additional package (after following the above steps):

apt-cyg install ncurses