Cygwin Essential Install List
Here is a list of essential Cygwin programs.
the following are not installed by Cygwin by default.
- zip
- unzip
- bzip2 (for “.bz2”)
- xz 〔see Linux: Extract tar zip gzip lzip bzip2 xz rar〕
- openssh (ssh)
- ca-certificates (needed for git)
- git 〔see git Tutorial〕
- subversion 〔see svn tutorial〕
- make
- patchutils
- rsync 〔see Linux: rsync Tutorial〕
- unison 2.27, 2.32, 2.40 〔see Unison tutorial〕
- curl 〔see wget and curl Tutorial〕
- wget
- aspell 〔see aspell Tutorial〕
- aspell english dict 〔see aspell sucks: Dismal Vocabulary Size〕
- imagemagick 〔see ImageMagick Tutorial〕
- graphicsmagic (imagemagick alternative)
- optipng
- exif 〔see exif tutorial〕
- python 〔see Python 3 Tutorial〕
- perl 〔see Perl Tutorial by Example〕
- ocaml 〔see OCaml Tutorial〕
- ruby 〔see Ruby Tutorial〕
- emacs 〔see Xah Emacs Tutorial〕
- vim 〔see vi tutorial〕
- gnupg 〔see GPG Tutorial〕