search and install packages via bash?

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu Jul 8 12:13:07 GMT 2021


On 08/07/2021 09:45, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> Is it possible from an interactive bash to search for cygwin packages (by
> substring match) and install them?
> 
> I tried "/setup-x86_64.exe -h" but cannot see any options for it.

This feature doesn't exist (yet).

You could possibly build something equivalent using 'cygcheck -p' and 
then processing it's output, but patches to setup to add this feature 
would be welcome.


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