apt-get for Cygwin?
Best I have ever used: apt-cyg package manager
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How to install Git for Cygwin?
In the world of Cygwin, there is really no such thing as only installing a package AS you are installing Cygwin. Cygwin was inherently designed with a setup.exe to be run multiple times when necessary. There are thousands of packages available in the Cygwin repo mirrors. From what you are saying, it sounds as if … Read more
C++ Not Installed In Cygwin
Did you install the Devel packages? I would suggest you read this tutorial to get up and running.
printf not printing to screen
Like @thejh said your stream seems to be buffered. Data is not yet written to the controlled sequence. Instead of fiddling with the buffer setting you could call fflush after each write to profit from the buffer and still enforce the desired behavior/display explicitly.
Split text file into smaller multiple text file using command line
I know the question has been asked a long time ago, but I am surprised that nobody has given the most straightforward unix answer: -l 5000: split file into files of 5,000 lines each. -d: numerical suffix. This will make the suffix go from 00 to 99 by default instead of aa to zz. –additional-suffix: … Read more
How can I change my Cygwin home folder after installation?
Starting with Cygwin 1.7.34, the recommended way to do this is to add a custom db_home setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf. A common wish when doing this is to make your Cygwin home directory equal to your Windows user profile directory. This setting will do that: Or, equivalently: You need to use the latter form if you … Read more
Cygwin Make bash command not found
You probably have not installed make. Restart the cygwin installer, search for make, select it and it should be installed. By default the cygwin installer does not install everything for what I remember.
Git Extensions: Win32 error 487: Couldn’t reserve space for cygwin’s heap, Win32 error 0
Cygwin uses persistent shared memory sections, which can on occasion become corrupted. The symptom of this is that some Cygwin programs begin to fail, but other applications are unaffected. Since these shared memory sections are persistent, often a system reboot is needed to clear them out before the problem can be resolved.
sudo command not found on Cygwin
Cygwin is not a full Linux distribution. Therefore you don’t have sudo or the Debian/Ubuntu package manager apt-get. There is a number of packages available from the Cygwin repository: http://cygwin.com/packages/ You have to chose these packages during setup.
how to uninstall MinGW and make cygwin ‘make’ as deafult make program with gcc 3.8.1
Answer 1: if you have used an installer, uninstall it through program manager Remove your MinGW folder (eg. C:/MinGW) Make sure there’s no MinGW path left in PATH environment variable If you haven’t used an installer, you can skip 1., but if you have, you should check 2. and 3. manually. Answer 2: Do you use an IDE? If yes you can specify your … Read more