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: untar unzip gunzip unrar etc]
- 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 by Example]
- ocaml [see OCaml Tutorial]
- ruby [see Ruby Tutorial]
- emacs [see Xah Emacs Tutorial]
- vim [see vi tutorial]
- gnupg [see GPG Tutorial]