====== Useful cygwin packages ======


In addition to [[MinTTY - A decent native Windows shell]], [[CYGWIN SSH server for Windows]], and [[CYGWIN Cron under Windows]], there are a few useful general purpose cygwin packages:

  * lynx
  * links
  * nano
  * wget
  * netcat
  * rsync
  * zip
  * unzip
  * vim
  * chere - Creates "open a shell here" context menu entry for arbitrary shells & terminal emulators
  * openssh
  * screen
  * Development:
    * gcc4-core
    * gcc4-g++
    * gdb
    * make

===== Command-line cygwin package installer =====

To install additional cygwin packages later on from the command line, you can use [[http://code.google.com/p/apt-cyg/|apt-cyg]], which works like apt-get, but pulls its stuff from the normal cygwin repos.  To install:

  wget http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apt-cyg
  chmod +x apt-cyg
  mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin/

To use:
  apt-cyg install chere