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Import & Export Cygwin List of installed Packages

If you want to go from 32 to 64 bit Cygwin but keep all the packages[1], you might find yourself in a spot where you would like to export the list of cygwin packages and also be able to install cygwin with all these packages again. I will tell you how. Open your Cygwin shell and enter

cygcheck -c -d | sed -e "1,2d" -e 's/ .*\$//' > packagelist

This will simply dump a list of installed packages. To install Cygwin 64 with these packages selected, download setup-x86_64[2] and execute it with the command line parameters

./setup-x86_64 -P `awk 'NR==1{printf \$1}{printf ",%s", \$1}' packagelist`
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Det87 commented Aug 17, 2024 •
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It's enough to do:

cygcheck -cdn

None of this sed'ding, bro.

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