For each of these packages, they belong to categories. Search for a package. Click on the circle twirl with the arrows to select the most up-to-date version of that package. Package names are on the right with a short description of that package. After selecting a version to install for all your packages, you can click the next button at the bottom right of the setup screen.
The download and installation of your desired packages will commence. After you finish the download and installation, you can check Create an icon on Desktop. Click Finish. Open the program. Cygwin is installed. In other words, you can make the command prompt act like the terminal in Linux.
In the System Properties that pops up, click on Environment Variables , which will be within the Advanced tab. Inside Environment Variables , look underneath the System variables section. Scroll through and look for the Variable with the name Path. Click on that line. Click on the Edit button underneath. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Hello, thank you for the enlightenment, but can you explain a little more about this issue? FYI I have edited my related question which you appear to have downvoted and flagged for closure as "unclear".
Hut8 Hut8 5, 4 4 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges. To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. Guish Guish 4, 34 34 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. I prefer this solution in general, but I have found a strange case where something else seems to override it , so I've switched to the solution of setting the Windows environment variable.
This seems to be a cleaner solution, should be accepted instead! For more details about each of page of the setup. Please note that this guide assumes that you have a basic understanding of Unix or a Unix-like OS.
If you are new to Unix, you will also want to make use of other resources. Cygwin uses packages to manage installing various software. When the default Install from Internet option is chosen, setup.
Download from Internet performs only the first part storing the packages locally , while Install from Local Directory performs only the second installing the contents of the packages. The Download from Internet option is mainly for creating a base Cygwin package tree on one computer for installation on several machines with Install from Local Directory ; copy the entire local package tree to another machine with the directory tree intact.
Run setup. Though this provides some basic mirroring functionality, if you are managing a large Cygwin installation, to keep up to date we recommend using a mirroring tool such as wget.
A helpful user on the Cygwin mailing list created a simple demonstration script to accomplish this; search the list for mkcygwget for ideas. You must have write access to the parent directory, and any ACLs on the parent directory will determine access to installed files. This is true even if you are the only user planning to use Cygwin on the machine.
Selecting Just Me will cause problems for programs such as crond and sshd. If you do not have the necessary permissions, but still want to use these programs, consult the Cygwin mailing list archives about others' experiences. The Local Package Directory is the cache where setup. The cache must not be the same folder as the Cygwin root. Within the cache, a separate directory is created for each Cygwin mirror, which allows setup. After installing Cygwin, the cache is no longer necessary, but you may want to retain the packages as backups, for installing Cygwin to another system, or in case you need to reinstall a package.
The Direct Connection method of downloading will directly connect. If your system is configured to use a proxy server or auto-configuration scripts, the Use System Proxy Settings method uses those settings. I have installed Ubuntu for Bash on Windows here. And which one should you use? To tell you quickly, the main difference would be in the commands for installing new packages inside these Linux subsystems. I advise going for Ubuntu in this case.
Do note that it will download files of around 1Gb in size. So you should have a good internet connection here. You are almost there. Just search for the Linux distribution you installed in the previous step. In my case it was Ubuntu. Bash shell will be available for use directly from the next time onwards. The reason here is that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is not enabled in your case.
You should enable it as explained in step 1 of this guide. You can do that even after you have installed Linux from Windows Store. This is because Windows Subsystem for Linux only runs on the system drive i. You should make sure that when you download Linux from the Windows Store, it is stored and installed in the C Drive. It will install an entire Ubuntu Linux system, so have patience as it will take some time in downloading and installing Linux on Windows.
Now you have a command line version of Ubuntu Linux. You can use apt to install various command line tools in it. I hope you find this tutorial helpful for installing bash on Windows
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