Cygwin

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https://cygwin.com

Cygwin is a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.

Install Cygwin

https://cygwin.com/install.html

On the setup you are given the option to install the tools you will be needing.

You must install lynx then, so you can later use apt-cyg.

And install all the packages you think you might need, otherwise your other options to install packages is by running once again the setup application or installing apt-cyg as described in this thread


cygwin location

By default the root directory / will be located in c://cygwin.


Installing packages with cyg-apt

On cygnwin you can use the apt-cyg to install packages


How to install apt-cyg:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg

Once the process is terminated you can install applications by running the apt-cyg from you ~:

apt-cyg install package

Such as

apt-cyg install nano
apt-cyg install figlet