Troubleshooting Cygwin Error: “ssh command not found”
Cygwin is a software tool that allows you to run Linux programs in Windows. I have had good success in using it to run commands locally and to connect to other servers via ssh, scp, etc. I just got a new computer and installed the latest version of Cygwin, but when I tried to ssh to another server, it told me the ssh command could not be found. This was weird, because it had worked just fine on my previous computer with the base install (I think).
After looking long and hard for a solution to this, I found someone suggesting that it simply wasn’t installed. So then I installed basically every program/library that Cygwin has to offer (since disk space is not a concern right now), and that seems to have solved the problem. The URL above tells you how to do this. If you want to be more selective about which libraries to install, that is fine. I just didn’t want to figure that out at the time, and I thought I’d see what other programs Cygwin has to offer.