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]