Category: cygwin
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is there a multi-tab terminal replacement for Cygwin’s terminal?
https://superuser.com/questions/264901/is-there-a-multi-tab-terminal-replacement-for-cygwins-terminal
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EmacsWiki: NTEmacs With Cygwin
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NTEmacsWithCygwin This is great!!! Now I can do “Search Files…” in Emacs’s dired-mode again — just like “everywhere”. How to get it to start in the user’s home directory? Create a shortcut for runemacs.exe, move it to AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ ! Modify the properties of that shorcut accordingly!
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git on cygwin (or wherever): if you run into the “ssh-askpass” problem, make sure you get the SSH agent running!
deploy your SSH public key to your git server! If the SSH agent allows you logging in to “various platforms”, it will also allow you logging in to your git server. And you are fine.
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the Cygwin packages that I need most seriously on a Windows PC
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html my package list: https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/wget https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/unzip https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/git https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/curl I can install these ones through apt-cyg (see below!) (maybe git, … from the list above as well): https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/diffutils https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/perl https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/perl-debuginfo – solves the “Tie::Hash::NamedCapture” problem https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/python2 https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/python3 https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/ruby https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/openssh https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/rsync https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/xinit – X.Org X server launcher (Cygwin/X) https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/xmlstarlet – XMLStarlet is a command line XML toolkit which…
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“ssh -Y” fails moaning “X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0” – solved!
$ ssh -v -Y REMOTE_HOST […] debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Requesting authentication agent forwarding. X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 I looked around and I found this article: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-fix-x11-forwarding-request-failed-on-channel-0/ The article advises to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the remote system: $ sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config and to add these lines: X11Forwarding yes…
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cygwin’s cp fails mentioning cygatttr-1.dll
…/opt/cygwin64/bin/cp.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygattr-1.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I wasn’t able to find a viable fix on the web. I found a copy of that file in in old installation, and I copied that into the cygwin bin directory – the cygwin64 and the non-64 one…
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installing Cygwin on Windows without having admin rights
https://superuser.com/questions/229477/installing-cygwin-on-windows-xp-without-having-the-admin-rights I like the “-B” (“–no-admin”) command line approach best: .\setup-x86_64 –no-admin
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Strawberry Perl for Windows – how to use within Cygwin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/463947/how-can-i-modify-my-cygwin-environment-to-use-strawberry-perl-instead-of-the-pac
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my 2017 Windows working environment
All these packages resp. utilities do not require Windows admin rights for getting them “installed” – actually they do not need “a Windows system installation”. Below C:\Users\jhayek I created a couple of subdirectories: opt: every package resp. utility has its own subdirectory below there bin: some .bat and .sh (BusyBox ash) scripts go there Packages resp. utilities:…
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Perl on Windows w/o Cygwin: Strawberry Perl for Windows
I need (some) Perl on Windows to be run from within shell wrapper scripts. Looks like there will be no Cygwin. Which shell will it be? Probably Busybox: https://frippery.org/busybox/ http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html I don’t have admin rights on that Windows machine, so I am going for “64bit PortableZIP edition + extra PDL related libs” I unzip it…