How to install Cygwin packages, 1/2 (Using the installer via the GUI)

In this video, we review installing Cygwin packages via the installer GUI.

In part 2, we look into invoking the installer via the command-line:

[hoxi]

thank you for the instructions because it allowed me to advance in my scientific research

[gabrielvinicius]

Nice video! Thanks for showing us the stupidity of this stuff. Whenever a new package needs to be installed, we need to rerun the .exe file. I could never imagine this piece of software would work like this!

Many thanks!

[Little_Alpine_Girl]

Could you please show, how to install flirt in cygwin? It will be a great help sir.
Thanks

[ateflaiche]

Hello dear, i want to convert mass and striffness Matrix (.Matrix) into text file to be Reading from MATLAB so i have install cygwin but i don't know how i Can find sparse Matrix package ? Any help plz

[bonfacemwangi]

hey, i just installed cygwin and when i run the command $Ls it returns nothing do you know how i could fix this ?. i have added it to my environment variables and still nothing happens