Installing Cygwin as normal user in nonstandard location?

Mon May 27 11:49:45 GMT 2024

On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a
> nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)?
>> Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like
> to test multiple Cygwin versions in parallel.

I just started to experiment with that...
... please try this:
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setup-x86_64 --no-admin --no-write-registry --site
https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ --root
'C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\' -P
cygwin,cygwin-devel,cygrunsrv,cygutils,cygutils-extra,bash,bzip2,coreutils,procps-ng,time,util-linux
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Bye,
Roland
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