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#CYGWIN SSH SHELL INSTALL#
#CYGWIN SSH SHELL DOWNLOAD#

the LS commands that should list all files and folders in the current directory.

cd / should take you to thr Root directory in Cygwin.

Test the shell by issuing following commands: You should end up in a terminal window that is running a Bash shell.

Test your installation by running your freshly created shortcuts or the Cygwin.bat command in the Root folder.

Reboot the sytem after making changes to the environment variables otherwise the OS will not be able to find the Cygwin utilities.

Add %CYGWIN_HOME%\bin to the end of your PATH environment variable.

Add CYGWIN_HOME system-wide environment variable that points to your Root directory.

Optionally, you can now also add a shortcut to your Start menu pointing to the setup.exe utility in the Local Package folder.

#CYGWIN SSH SHELL INSTALL#

Don't select any additional packages yet, as we only want to install Cygwin for now.Choose your Root and Local Package folders.Choose the Install from Internet option,.

#CYGWIN SSH SHELL DOWNLOAD#

Download the setup.exe utility and save it to the Local Package directory.A good suggestion is to use C:\cygwin\root and C:\cygwin\setup folders. Choose and create you Root and Local Package directories.Make sure you have Administrator privileges on the target system.Perform following steps to install Cygwin, which are elaboratly detailed in the 2nd chapter of the Cygwin User's Guide: The cache must not be the same folder as the Cygwin root. C:\cygsetup that is the cache where setup.exe stores the packages before they are installed. The Root directory for Cygwin (defaults to C:\cygwin) which will become / within the eventual Cygwin installation and the Local Package directory (e.g. To support installation, the setup.exe utility uses 2 directories on the target system. Combined, the DLL with the tools form a very *nix-alike environment on Windows.įor installation, Cygwin provides the setup.exe utility that tracks the versions of all installed components on the target system and provides the mechanism for installing or updating everything from the mirror sites of Cygwin. On top of that a whole bunch of the most common *nix tools are supplied. It provides a dynamic link library that emulates most of a *nix environment on Windows. Cygwin is probably the oddest technology in this solution stack.