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Re: Cygwin playbook?

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CFChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date
Sep 7, 2006, 14:22 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:18:10PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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>Thanks! that's a starting point, though I'm intrigued about the
>packages required.  Are there ways to query what packages you have
>installed (a la dpkg -l) and to install a list of packages from
>commandline?
>
>Oh, what an ignorant fop I am.

The program which shows what packages are installed is "cygcheck" (i.e., "man cygcheck").

The mailing list for Cygwin is mentioned at the Cygwin web site. You might have more luck with questions like this on the Cygwin mailing list.

cgf
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  5. Martin LanghoffSep 7, 2006
  6. Christopher FaylorSep 7, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceSep 7, 2006
  8. Christopher FaylorSep 7, 2006

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