Where can I download an offline installer of Cygwin?

Question

I need an offline installer with most of the utilities commonly needed. Somehow the default installer confuses me with all its package selection. I installed Cygwin but I can\'t

Answer 1

There is another solution to creating an offline Cygwin installer, which is using 'pmcyg' (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pmcyg). If you give pmcyg a list of Cygwin packages you'd like to have available, it will automatically download all of them, their dependencies, and the setup.exe into a folder that you can then burn onto a cdrom.

Answer 2

1. Pick a mirror server closest to you from http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

   Choose any FTP or HTTP mirror.

2. Download the whole mirror maintaining exact file tree structure of the cygwin directory in the mirror.

   Edit: How to download the whole mirror?

   wget -m <ftp-mirror-url>
   

3. Execute setup.exe & choose source as local directory and browse to the release directory.

Now you have the Offline Cygwin Installer.

Update: Use Babun. It's based on cygwin and more user friendly. Get Babun

Answer 3

Perhaps this description helps you in your task.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00041.html

Answer 4

Here are instructions assuming you want to install Cygwin on a computer with no Internet connection. I assume that you have access to another computer with an Internet connection. Start on the connected computer:

• Get the Cygwin install program ("setup.exe"). Direct download URL: x86 or x86_64.

• When the setup asks "Choose a download source", choose Download Without Installing

• Go through the rest of the setup (choose download directory, mirrors, software packages you want, etc)

• Now you have a Cygwin repository right there on your hard disk. Copy this directory, along with the "setup.exe" program, over to your target computer (it does not need to be on a network).

• On the target computer, run "setup.exe"

• When the setup asks "Choose a download source", choose Install From Local Directory

• Complete setup as usual. No Internet access is required.

Answer 5

may this post can solve your problem

see Full Installation Answer on that: What is the current full install size of Cygwin?

Answer 6

I maintained rsync copy of the repository in the past.

It wasn't that big. To reduce the sync size I used rsync option --exclude (like I don't need texlive or ruby and they are not essential for base system).

Check:

• https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html (most support HTTP/FTP but some include rsync)

Than you host this mirror via HTTP/FTP for local or organization installs:

setup.exe -p emacs --site http://localhost/cygwin