How to update Cygwin from Cygwin's command line?
Problem
To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup.exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things. Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's command line directly? Like apt-get tools do.
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Fix for: How to update Cygwin from Cygwin's command line?
Take a look here: http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup Aside from the other things, it gives the following list of options to : So should do the job. Don't have cygwin right here, so test it to confirm it works as expected. To search for a package, per: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#cygcheck you can use : which produces output like (example from above site):
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