Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Sun May 26 05:57:15 GMT 2024


Greetings, Martin Wege!

> Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a
> nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)?

Yes, and there's no such thing as "standard location".

> Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like
> to test multiple Cygwin versions in parallel.

Yes, Cygwin by default does not integrate into %PATH% and multiple different
versions can be run even at the same time.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, May 26, 2024 08:55:34

Sorry for my terrible english...



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