the Cygwin packages that I need most seriously on a Windows PC

• https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
• https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html

my package list:

• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/wget
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/unzip
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/git
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/curl

I can install these ones through apt-cyg (see below!) (maybe git, … from the list above as well):

• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/diffutils
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/perl
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/perl-debuginfo
•  – solves the “Tie::Hash::NamedCapture” problem
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/python2
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/python3
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/ruby
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/openssh
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/rsync
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/xinit – X.Org X server launcher (Cygwin/X)
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/xmlstarlet – XMLStarlet is a command line XML toolkit which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents using a simple set of shell commands
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/poppler – includes pdftohml (my pdf2xml converter)
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/procps-ng – includes watch
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/jq/ – a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/psmisc – provides pstree
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/getent
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/qterminal
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/xkill
• https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/vim

And certainly I do need apt-cyg  😎 — it has its own article here:

• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2018/07/04/apt-cyg/
• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/category/cygwin

apt-cyg wants to see itself on PATH.