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I'm not a regular Cygwin user. I installed Cygwin and Cygwin64 for testing proposed patches. I tried to perform a git clone, but it failed with -bash: git: command not found. So I need to install Git, which should be a relatively simple operation.

Cygwin does not appear to supply documentation related to packages and their management:

$ man -k package
package: nothing appropriate.

In the terminal, I tried install git and cygwin install git. The former failed with install: missing destination file operand after ‘git’. The latter failed with -bash: cygwin: command not found. (For completeness, I also tried apt-get (Ubuntu), yum (Red Hat/Fedora), and pkg_add (BSDs) with the same results. I even tried just pkg and package with the same result).

What is the name of the Cygwin package manager?

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There is no default package manager, but there should be either an apt-cyg or a cyg-apt available to you as packaged by the installer.

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