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〕