How To Install Xfce On Cygwin
Posted : admin On 5/12/2019I have been using CygWin for a few weeks, and I love it.
Now I have found CygWin Ports and, even after reading its main page, I am not sure about the differences:
- Is CygWin Ports a collection of packages valids for my classical CygWin installation?
- Why does de website says
Use the latest Cygwin installers (at least version 2.829)? There is no such version. - What happens when a package conflicts (is in the CygWin repositories too)? Which one should I install?
- Is it possible to download the CygWin Ports packages and manage them from local, just in the same way as I do with the pre-downloaded packages of the classical CygWin?
- Will any addition to CygWin, for example SUDO for CygWin, work too with my installed packages of CygWin Ports?
Any other concise detail about the main difference(s) is welcome.
My cygwin workflow is as follows. Run XServer; Start xfce session (by running xfce4-session) Start xfce4-terminal; Everything works well, except that xfce4-session seems to bring up an empty floating-panel, which I'm unable to hide without killing the session itself. What is the current full install size of Cygwin? The Cygwin maintainers try to keep the Base category's package set as small as practical.¹ A Cygwin Base install gives you something much like an old-style Unix. MATE, Xfce, and Games categories using the same Categories view technique as above. Then, using the search box as we did for.
2 Answers
- Cygwin Ports is a repository of software built on top of, and in addition to, those in the main Cygwin repository.
- The version of the installers refers to the version displayed on the first page of the installer (e.g.
Setup.exe version 2.844 (64 bit)); the latest version from http://cygwin.com is always recommended, but (currently) at least version 2.829 is absolutely required. - There are only a handful of conflicting packages; in each case, the Ports version is recommended over the standard distribution version.
- Ports packages are downloaded with the same installer (albeit with specific installation directions) as the core distribution, so the same three options of Install from Internet, Download Without Installing, or Install from Local Directory are all available.
- Any other software using dependencies from Ports should operate correctly, provided it does not attempt to conflict with Ports' packages. If you have specific issues, please provide details of your issue to the Cygwin Ports mailing list.
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Cygwin ports USED to provide a great deal of software not included in the Cygwin repo. However, the guy doing all the packaging, etc. for Cygwin Ports has moved all compatible/reasonably ported software into the main Cygwin repo, which he is maintaining (thousands of software titles) with little help.
There is a queue of harder-to-impossible to port packages waiting for him to have a few spare cycles to work on, but these are increasingly either not used/ not helpful/harder to port packages.
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You can build a lot of software not included from source. In addition, they have ported Perl, Python, R, Ruby, and several others, so anything where you have dependencies you can probably get to work on your own, although my best results have been from C/C++ console mode apps. Just read the documentation and make sure you have the dependencies. Some are funky (e.g. need a Windows DLL installed), YMMV.