A Cygwin command line package management tool that allows you to install and remove packages on the command line, and provides other package management functions. It has a command syntax similar to apt-get and dpkg.

The project's original SVN repository is here: http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/

• cygwin 1.7+
• gnupg 1.4+
• python 2.6+, <3.0
• python-argparse 1.2+

• make 3.80+
• git 1.7+

Briefly the following commands should build, test and install this package.

$ make
$ make test
$ make install

See the INSTALL.md file for more detailed instructions.

cyg-apt is similar to apt-get. You can install, use it and remove packages from the Cygwin command prompt:

$ cyg-apt install gdb
...
$ gdb
(gdb)
$ cyg-apt remove gdb

Type cyg-apt --help or man cyg-apt for see all commands and options.

The original cyg-apt was written by Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke@gnu.org.

For a list of authors, please see the AUTHORS files.