I had to try this, install ansible on Windows 7. After reading some links I found two ways to accomplish this (it's a long post you can skip what is in italic). 1.- You have to follow the usual steps to install Cygwin, like explained here . The only difference is that I installed using drive D:\ instead of C:\ and didn't use the "alias" suggested there, instead I tried a script named "apt-cyg" which I found across different questions on stackofervlow but this one was useful: For a more convenient installer, you may want to use apt-cyg as your package manager. Its syntax similar to apt-get , which is a plus. For this, follow the above steps and then use Cygwin Bash for the following steps wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg chmod +x apt-cyg mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin Now that apt-cyg is installed. Here are few examples of installing some packages apt-cyg install nano apt-cyg install git apt-...