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I am trying to put together a cygwin installation and find that the commandtput is needed, but I have no idea what package supplies it. How can I find the package I need?

please note: I found have the answer that I will be posting immediately after this making a "help save the next guy" entry, don't bother answering unless you really, really want to

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If you have tput.exe installed, you can do

$ type tput.exe
tput.exe is /usr/bin/tput.exe
$ cygcheck --find-package /usr/bin/tput.exe
ncurses-5.7-18
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  • isn't cygcheck --find-package tput sufficient to answer the question? If so, drop the type command and yours becomes the accepted answer (I ask because I do not have a cygwin available to confirm this).
    – msw
    Dec 1, 2011 at 4:29
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    No, you must specify the full path, but you can omit the .exe suffix.
    – Peter John Acklam
    Dec 1, 2011 at 21:41
  • +1 for the cygcheck, but not having tput.exe was the initial problem
    – msw
    Dec 2, 2011 at 17:20
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Cygwin has a package index and search page. Searching for bin/tput yields:

Found 3 matches for bin/tput

ncurses/ncurses-5.7-16  Utilities for terminal handling
ncurses/ncurses-5.7-18  Utilities for terminal handling
ncursesw/ncursesw-5.7-18    Utilities for terminal handling
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    I find it's better to search for 'bin/<program_name_without.exe>' because some programs are symbolic links or scripts without the .exe suffix, and prefixing with 'bin/' excludes other files.
    – ak2
    Nov 30, 2011 at 8:55
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    @ak2 - edited to incorporate your suggestion; thanks
    – msw
    Dec 1, 2011 at 4:16

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