Set default installation path to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin path

[nitrocode]

Hi @kou1okada . Thank you so much for continuing to support this great tool.

I wrote ScoopInstaller/Main#1331 because I was having issues with my path installation of packages. I've been using Cygwin using scoop and your tool and noticed that my packages were not installing to /usr/bin and instead were installing to /cygdrive/c/Users/user/scoop/persist/cygwin/root/usr/bin/.

Is there a way to set a default install path for apt-cyg ? Could there be a misconfiguration in the ScoopInstaller/Main's cygwin.json that is causing packages to be installed in that directory vs /usr/bin ?

Thanks

[kou1okada]

Cygwin mounts the installation path to /.
So you don't need to mind the installation path of cygwin and apt-cyg.

Check the result of mount command.
For example:

$ mount
C:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

It is the result under the C:\cygwin64\bash.exe --login -i.
If you try it under the C:\Users\user\scoop\persist\cygwin\root\usr\bin\bash.exe --login -i, your result may:

C:/Users/user/scoop/persist/cygwin/root/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/Users/user/scoop/persist/cygwin/root/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/Users/user/scoop/persist/cygwin/root on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

If you can't manipulate packages of cygwin which installed to /cygdrive/c/Users/user/scoop/persist/cygwin/root/ with apt-cyg, maybe you don't run C:\Users\user\scoop\persist\cygwin\root\bin\bash.exe but C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe.