Can't use cyg-apt on cygwin 1.7

Question

I've got an issue with the cyg-apt command (on cygwin 1.7 running on a Windows 7 64bits virtual machine)

I've followed these step in order to install cyg-apt correctly :

Install cygwin  
Install wget and python  
wget http://www.lilypond.org/~janneke/software/cyg-apt 1.1  
Edit the cygapt file: Change the default server to other than the one in it. (I find   ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/cygwin/ to be good)  
chmod a+rx cyg-apt  
mv cyg-apt /bin  
cyg-apt setup  
cyg-apt update

And no matter what I try with cyg-apt (cyg-apt install package-name, cyg-apt man, even cyg-apt ...), this error appear everytime :

to rely on a native Windows version of Bonjour's mDNSResponder service.  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File "/usr/bin/cyg-apt", line 658, in (module) get_setup_ini()  
File "/usr/bin/cyg-apt", line 184, in get_setup_ini raise 'URG'  
TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived form BaseException, not str

I've made some researchs and it could be link to an incompatibility with the 1.7 version of cygwin but nothing more helpfull.

It looks like apt-cyg doesn't handle message: tags in setup.ini properly. — Yaakov
@Yaakov apt-cyg and cyg-apt are entirely different. Does cyg-apt also not handle message: tags in setup.ini properly? — Adam R. Grey

sagunms sagunms · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-08T09:24:07

You can do this using Cygwin's setup.exe from Windows command line. Example:

cd c:\cygwin
setup.exe -q -P wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim

For a more convenient installer, you may want to use apt-cyg as your package manager. Its syntax similar to apt-get, which is a plus. For this, follow the above steps and then use Cygwin Bash for the following steps:

wget rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin

Now that apt-cyg is installed. Here are few examples of installing some packages:

apt-cyg install nano
apt-cyg install git
apt-cyg install ca-certificates

Can't use cyg-apt on cygwin 1.7

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