I tried to enable curl on cygwin but it says bash: curl: command not found
How do I install curl on cygwin?
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I searched for curl on the cygwin packages part of their home page.
I found this link http://cygwin.com/packages/curl/.
But that wasn't helpful because I couldn't download anything
So I searched for the curl-7.20.1-1 cygwin on Google.
I found this helpful site mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/release/curl/
That site had a link to download curl-7.20.1-1.tar.bz2. I unzipped it using 7zip. It unzips it into ./user/bin/ or something so I had to find curl.exe in the local /usr/bin folder and put it into my /bin folder of c:\cygwin
Finally I could use cURL!
This drove me crazy. I hope it helps someone!
Drew LeSueur
2010-09-05 20:04:17
Next time use cygwin's setup.exe it will just let you install packages from there. You can also get a program called cyg-apt which works like Debian/Ubuntu's apt-get. http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/
slomojo
2010-09-05 20:28:09
I tried to run setup.exe, but I couldn't find curl in the list. I don't know what I did wrong.
Drew LeSueur
2010-09-12 09:28:48
I tried it later, and this time I found cURL in the list.
Drew LeSueur
2010-09-19 05:26:06
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For future reference:
Cygwin comes with many packages (among them curl, as you found: http://cygwin.com/packages/curl/) to install one of them you run the setup.exe program.
adamse
2010-09-05 20:10:17
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In the Cygwin package manager, click on curl. Yes, it's that simple.
Jörg W Mittag
2010-09-06 00:48:12