Installing Cygwin on Windows

1- Full Installation

2- Upgrade packages:GUI

3- Upgrade packages: apt-cyg

1- Full Installation:  graphical interface: downloiad setup-x86_64.exe ( same for the full install)

https://cygwin.com/install.html

it will create a main directy:  C:\cygwin64      ( it's a good idea to save setup-x86_64.exe )

2- Upgrade packages

2a- graphical interface: downloiad setup-x86_64.exe ( same for the full install)

https://cygwin.com/install.html

Use the filter to install all the packages ( one by one)  

Click on the "Skip" it will change to the release "2.8.7-2" in this case

3- Upgrade packages: apt-cyg  (  but first install it   !!! )

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg

>>> apt-get will appear in the directory

Then move it to the bin directory ( /usr/local/bin )

chmod +x apt-cyg

mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin

Also: 

lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg

install apt-cyg /bin

Default user directory:   C:\cygwin64\home\jkriker