| adduser | Adduser can create new users and groups and add existing users to existing groups. . Adding users with adduser is much easier than adding them by hand. Adduser will choose appropriate UID and GID values, create a home directory, copy skeletal user configuration, allow you to set an initial password and gecos, and optionally run a custom script. |
| ae | ae is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like) and modeless (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. . Keybindings are configurable in the configuration file. The default config file is /etc/ae.rc, but another configuration file is provided in /etc/ae/*.rc, as an alternate example. |
| alien | Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also convert into Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede packages. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. |
| anacron | Anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine-uptime permits. . This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian system. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages are executed each day. |
| apache-common | Provides the Apache library files and support binaries needed by all packages of 1.3.x (regular, SSL, and locally compiled). Also includes manpages, module documentation, and a webserver benchmark utility. |
| apache-dev | Provides the Apache C headers and the Apache Extension Tool (apxs), needed to compile external Apache modules. |
| apache-doc | The Apache webserver Manual, in HTML form. Covers the setup and operation of Apache 1.3.3 and all prior versions. This is also available at http://www.apache.org/. More tips are available at http://www.apacheweek.com/. |
| apache-doc | The Apache webserver Manual, in HTML form. Covers the setup and operation of Apache 1.3.3 and all prior versions. This is also available at http://www.apache.org/. More tips are available at http://www.apacheweek.com/. |
| apache | The most popular server in the world, Apache features a modular design and supports dynamic selection of extension modules at runtime. Some of its strong points are its range of possible customization, dynamic adjustment of the number of server processes, and a whole range of available modules including many authentication mechanisms, server-parsed HTML, server-side includes, access control, CERN httpd metafiles emulation, proxy caching, etc. Apache also supports multiple virtual homing. . Separate Debian packages are available for PHP3, mod_perl, Java Servlet support, Apache-SSL, and other common extensions. More information is available at http://www.apache.org/. |
| apt | This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager. It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. . APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features, see the Users Guide in /usr/doc/apt/guide.text.gz |
| at | At and batch read shell commands from standard input storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution in the future. . Use at to run the job at a specified time batch to run the job when system load levels permit |
| autoconf | The standard for FSF source packages. This is only useful if you write your own programs or if you extensively modify other people's programs. |
| autoconf | The standard for FSF source packages. This is only useful if you write your own programs or if you extensively modify other people's programs. |
| automake | Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. The `Makefile.am' is basically a series of `make' macro definitions (with rules being thrown in occasionally). The generated `Makefile.in's are compliant with the GNU Makefile standards. |
| automake | Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. The `Makefile.am' is basically a series of `make' macro definitions (with rules being thrown in occasionally). The generated `Makefile.in's are compliant with the GNU Makefile standards. |
| base-files | This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy of a Debian system, and several important miscellaneous files, such as /etc/debian_version, /etc/host.conf, /etc/issue, /etc/motd, /etc/profile, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and others, and the text of several common licenses in use on Debian systems. |
| base-passwd | This package provides the master /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, containing Debian-allocated user and group IDs, plus the update-passwd utility to keep them up to date. |
| bash-builtins | Bash 2 can dynamically load new builtin commands. Included are the necessary headers to compile your own builtins and lots of examples. |
| bash-doc | Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). . This package contains the documentation in info format, all the examples and the main changelog. |
| bash-doc | Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). . This package contains the documentation in info format, all the examples and the main changelog. |
| bash | Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). . Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). |
| bc | GNU bc is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary precision which follows the POSIX 1003.2 draft standard, with several extensions including multi-character variable names, an `else' statement and full Boolean expressions. GNU bc does not require the separate GNU dc program. |
| bind-dev | This package delivers libbind, et al, which are only needed if you want to compile other packages that need more nameserver API than the resolver code provided in libc. |
| bind-doc | This package provides various documents that are useful for maintaining a working BIND installation. |
| bind-doc | This package provides various documents that are useful for maintaining a working BIND installation. |
| bind | The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain name server. BIND is the most widely-used name server software on the Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium, www.isc.org. |
| binutils-dev | This package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. Note that building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not Allowed. |
| binutils-doc | This package consists of the documentation for the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. |
| binutils-doc | This package consists of the documentation for the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. |
| binutils-multiarch | The programs in this package are used to manipulate binary and object files that may have been created on other architectures. This package is primarily for multi-architecture developers and cross-compilers and is not needed by normal users or developers. Note that a cross-assembling version of gas is not included in this package, just the binary utilities. NORMAL USERS SHOULD NOT INSTALL THIS PACKAGE. It's meant only for those requiring support for reading info from binaries from other architectures. |
| binutils | The programs in this package are used to assemble, link and manipulate binary and object files. They may be used in conjunction with a compiler and various libraries to build programs for Linux. |
| bison | Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. . Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. |
| bsdmainutils | This package contains lots of small programs many people expect to find when they use a BSD-style Unix system. . Included are: banner, cal, calendar, col, colcrt, colrm, column, from, hexdump, look, lorder, ul, write. . This package used to contain whois and vacation, which are now distributed in their own packages. Also here was tsort, which is now in the "textutils" package, version 2.0-1 and later. |
| bsdutils | This package contains the bare minimum number of BSD utilities needed to boot a Debian system. You should probably also install bsdmainutils to get the remaining standard BSD utilities. . Included are: logger, renice, script, wall |
| byacc | Yacc reads the grammar specification in a file and generates an LR(1) parser for it. The parsers consist of a set of LALR(1) parsing tables and a driver routine written in the C programming language. |
| bzip2 | bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques, whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. . bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. . The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its predecessor, bzip (.bz). |
| chill | This is the ITU 1 compiler. Chill is the "CCITT High-Level Language", where CCITT is the old name for what is now ITU, the International Telecommunications Union. It is a language in the Modula-2 family, and targets many of the same applications as Ada (especially large embedded systems). Chill was never used much in the United States, but is still being used in Europe, Brazil, Korea, and other places. |
| comerr-dev | libcomerr is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use. |
| cpio | GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats as well as reading and writing tar files. . This package also includes rmt, the remote tape server, and GNU mt, a tape drive control program. The mt program is essential for magnetic tape drive users. Debian's version of GNU mt supports SCSI tape drives. |
| cpp-doc | Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor in info format. |
| cpp-doc | Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor in info format. |
| cpp | The GNU C preprocessor is required by some utilities that use it for macro substitutions. This package has been separated from gcc for the benefit of those who require the preprocessor but not the compiler. |
| cracklib-runtime | Run-time support programs which use the shared library in cracklib2 including programs to build the password dictionary databases used by the functions in the shared library. |
| cracklib2-dev | Header files, static libraries, documentation, and symbolic links developers using cracklib2 will need. |
| cracklib2 | Shared library for cracklib2 which contains a C function which may be used in a passwd like program. The idea is simple: try to prevent users from choosing passwords that could be guessed by crack by filtering them out, at source. cracklib2 is NOT a replacement passwd program. cracklib2 is a LIBRARY. |
| cron | cron is a background process (`daemon') that runs programs at regular intervals (for example, every minute, day, week or month); which processes are run and at what times are specified in the `crontab'. . Users may also install crontabs so that processes are run on their behalf, though this feature can be disabled or restricted to particular users. . Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator (or to the user in question); you should probably install a mail system as well so that you can receive these messages. . This cron package is configured by default to do various standard system maintenance tasks, such as ensuring that logfiles do not grow endlessly and overflow the disk. . The lockfile-progs package is only a "Suggests" because of the poor way that dselect handles "Recomments", but I do strongly suggest that you install it; it prevents /etc/cron.daily/standard from running multiple times if something gets jammed. |
| dc | GNU dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited precision arithmetic. It also allows you to define and call macros. . A reverse-polish calculator stores numbers on a stack. Entering a number pushes it on the stack. Arithmetic operations pop arguments off the stack and push the results. |
| debconf | Debconf is a configuration management system for debian packages. It is used by some packages to prompt you for questions before they are installed. |
| debhelper | A collection of programs that can be used in a debian/rules file to automate common tasks related to building binary debian packages. Programs are included to install various files into your package, compress files, fix file permissions, integrate your package with the debian menu system, suidmanager, doc-base, etc. |
| debianutils | Debianutils includes installkernel mkboot mktemp readlink run-parts savelog sensible-editor sensible-pager tempfile which. |
| dejagnu | DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs. Its purpose is to provide a single front end for all tests. . DejaGnu provides a layer of abstraction which allows you to write tests that are portable to any host or target where a program must be tested. All tests have the same output format. . DejaGnu is written in `expect', which in turn uses "Tcl"--Tool command language. |
| dejagnu | DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs. Its purpose is to provide a single front end for all tests. . DejaGnu provides a layer of abstraction which allows you to write tests that are portable to any host or target where a program must be tested. All tests have the same output format. . DejaGnu is written in `expect', which in turn uses "Tcl"--Tool command language. |
| dh-make_0.21.deb | This package contains dhhelper utilities that is usually usable with minimal editing. |
| dh-make_0.21.deb | This package contains dhhelper utilities that is usually usable with minimal editing. |
| dhelp | Read all documentation with a WWW browser. dhelp builds a index of all installed HTML documentation. You don't need a WWW server to read the documentation. dhelp offers a very fast search in the HTML documents. . http://localhost/doc/HTML/index.html |
| dialog | This application provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner. . The following types of boxes are at your disposal: yes/no Typical query style box with "Yes" and "No" answer buttons menu A scrolling list of menu choices with single entry selection input Query style box with text entry field message Similar to the yes/no box, but with only an "Ok" button text A scrollable text box that works like a simple file viewer info A message display that allows asynchronous script execution checklist Similar to the menu box, but allowing multiple selections radiolist Checklist style box allowing single selections gauge Typical "progress report" style box tail Allows viewing the end of files (tail) that auto updates background tail Similar to tail but runs in the background. |
| diff-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU diffutils. |
| diff-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU diffutils. |
| diff | The diff package provides the diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp programs. . `diff' shows differences between two files, or each corresponding file in two directories. `cmp' shows the offsets and line numbers where two files differ. `cmp' can also show all the characters that differ between the two files, side by side. `diff3' shows differences among three files. `sdiff' merges two files interactively. . The set of differences produced by `diff' can be used to distribute updates to text files (such as program source code) to other people. This method is especially useful when the differences are small compared to the complete files. Given `diff' output, the `patch' program can update, or "patch", a copy of the file. |
| diffstat | This program is a simple that reads the output of the `diff' program, and produces a histogram of the total number of lines that were changed. It is useful for scanning a patch file to see which files were changed. |
| dlint | This program analyzes any DNS zone you specify, and reports any problems it finds by displaying errors and warnings. Then it descends recursively to examine all zones below the given one (this can be disabled with a command- line option). . You don't have to feed any BIND conffiles to Dlint. Dlint uses nameserver calls to gather information. . Designed for Unix, dlint is written in Bourne Shell and Perl. . You may try it online at http://www.domtools.com/dlint/ (this server imposes a timeout period; to lint a big zone, you should install dlint yourself and use it locally - that's what this package is for). |
| dlint | This program analyzes any DNS zone you specify, and reports any problems it finds by displaying errors and warnings. Then it descends recursively to examine all zones below the given one (this can be disabled with a command- line option). . You don't have to feed any BIND conffiles to Dlint. Dlint uses nameserver calls to gather information. . Designed for Unix, dlint is written in Bourne Shell and Perl. . You may try it online at http://www.domtools.com/dlint/ (this server imposes a timeout period; to lint a big zone, you should install dlint yourself and use it locally - that's what this package is for). |
| dnsutils | This package includes the "nslookup", "dig", and "host" programs for querying information from the Domain Name System (DNS). It also includes several short aliases (mx, ns, soa, zone, aaaa) for querying specific information. |
| doc-base | This package contains utilities to manage online documentation on a Debian system. . If you want to get additional information about doc-base please check out the `Debian doc-base Manual' included in this package. |
| doc-base | This package contains utilities to manage online documentation on a Debian system. . If you want to get additional information about doc-base please check out the `Debian doc-base Manual' included in this package. |
| doc-linux-html | The doc-linux-html package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in HTML format. Alternatively, ASCII versions are provided in the doc-linux-text package. . The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-html was created. . All files are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML) |
| doc-linux-html | The doc-linux-html package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in HTML format. Alternatively, ASCII versions are provided in the doc-linux-text package. . The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-html was created. . All files are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML) |
| doc-linux-text | The doc-linux-text package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII format. Alternatively, HTML versions are provided in the doc-linux-html package. . The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-text was created. . All files are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML) |
| doc-linux-text | The doc-linux-text package provides the current Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII format. Alternatively, HTML versions are provided in the doc-linux-html package. . The version number reflects the month in which doc-linux-text was created. . All files are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ (with versions in ASCII, DVI, HTML, postscript, and SGML) |
| dpkg-dev | This package contains the tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages. . Most Debian source packages will require additional tools to build - for example, most packages need the `make' and the C compiler `gcc'. |
| dpkg-dev | This package contains the tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages. . Most Debian source packages will require additional tools to build - for example, most packages need the `make' and the C compiler `gcc'. |
| dpkg-doc | This document describes the internal operations of the dpkg program. It covers building aswell as the internals functions. If you are interested in creating your own packages, then you may be more interested in the packaging-manual documentation package. |
| dpkg-doc | This document describes the internal operations of the dpkg program. It covers building aswell as the internals functions. If you are interested in creating your own packages, then you may be more interested in the packaging-manual documentation package. |
| dpkg-perl | Contains Perl 5 modules for dpkg, the Debian package management system. These are currently skeletal, but should eventually provide access to all low-level dpkg functions from within perl, as well as a number of higher-level routines. Source: dpkg-scriptlib |
| dpkg-perl | Contains Perl 5 modules for dpkg, the Debian package management system. These are currently skeletal, but should eventually provide access to all low-level dpkg functions from within perl, as well as a number of higher-level routines. Source: dpkg-scriptlib |
| dpkg | This package contains the programs which handle the installation and removal of packages on your system. . The primary interface for the dpkg suite is the `dselect' program; a more low-level and less user-friendly interface is available in the form of the `dpkg' command. . In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one. |
| dump | Dump examines files on a filesystem and determines which files need to be backed up. These files are copied to the given disk, tape or other storage medium for safe keeping. . The restore command performs the inverse function of dump. A full backup of a file system may be restored and subsequent incremental backups layered on top of it. Single files and directory subtrees may be restored from full or partial backups. |
| dupload | This script will automagically upload Debian packages to a master or a transfer host, log the upload and send mail about the upload of a package. It's intended for Debian maintainers only. |
| dupload | This script will automagically upload Debian packages to a master or a transfer host, log the upload and send mail about the upload of a package. It's intended for Debian maintainers only. |
| e2fslibs-dev | EXT2FS stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems. . This package contains the headers and shared libraries needed to compile ext2fs-aware programs. Only programmers that really manipulate features specific to the ext2 filesystem will need this. Most programmers will use the generic filesystem-independent interface from libc. . It also contains dev files for the e2p lib used by the e2fsprogs, but which is not yet packaged all by itself because it lacks documentation. It may also lack some support files, by I can't really know until someone uses it... . libe2p is for user-level e2fsprogs commands. It's used by dumpe2fs, chattr, and lsattr. Functions in libe2p typically have two characteristics (a) don't require that block device containing the filesystem be opened directly (functions in libext2fs do), and (b) libe2p typically contains printf statements or parse user input, and so have more internationalization issues. |
| e2fsprogs | EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the main filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems. . This package contains programs for creating, checking, and maintaining EXT2 filesystems, and the generic `fsck' wrapper. |
| ecpg | A preprocessor and library for embedding SQL statements in C programs that call on the PostgreSQL database. |
| ed | ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files. . red is a restricted ed: it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. |
| emacs20-el | GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains the elisp sources for the convenience of users, saving space in the main package for small systems. |
| emacs20-el | GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains the elisp sources for the convenience of users, saving space in the main package for small systems. |
| emacs20 | GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. |
| emacsen-common | This package contains code that is needed by all the (x)emacs packages. |
| emacsen-common | This package contains code that is needed by all the (x)emacs packages. |
| exim | This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue processing algorithm. |
| eximon | This allows administrators to view the exim agent's mail queue and logs, and perform a variety of actions on queued messages, such as freezing, bouncing and thawing messages. |
| expat | Contains the xmlwf application, which uses the xmlparse library. The arguments to xmlwf are one or more files which are each to be checked for well-formedness. . Author: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> Homepage: http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html |
| expect5.24-dev | Header files and libraries for developing expect applications. This version works with Tcl/Tk 8.0 |
| expect5.24 | Expect is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs according to a script. Following the script, Expect knows what can be expected from a program and what the correct response should be. An interpreted language provides branching and high- level control structures to direct the dialogue. In addition, the user can take control and interact directly when desired, afterward returning control to the script. This version works with Tcl/Tk 8.0 |
| expectk5.24 | Expect is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs according to a script. Following the script, Expect knows what can be expected from a program and what the correct response should be. An interpreted language provides branching and high- level control structures to direct the dialogue. In addition, the user can take control and interact directly when desired, afterward returning control to the script. This version works with Tcl/Tk 8.0 |
| ext2resize | ext2resize resizes ext2 filesystems. This is useful if you run out of space on one partition, or have too much free space on another. . Warning: This is beta software and it may destroy your filesystem. Use with care. |
| exuberant-ctags_3.2.4-0.1 | ctags (or etags) parses source code and produces a sort of index mapping the names of significant entities (e.g. functions, classes, variables) to the location where that entity is defined. This index is used by editors like vi and emacsen to allow moving to the definition of a user-specified entity. . This version of ctags is said to be better than others in that it has more robust parsing (i.e. more accurate) and recognises more languages and types of entity. . Groks C (both K&R and ANSI), C++, Java, Eiffel, Fortran. . Can generate tags for *all* types of language tags, including all of the following: . C/C++: macros, enumerators, function definitions, prototypes and declarations, class, enum, struct, and union names, class, struct, and union members namespaces, typedefs, variable definitions, and extern declarations . Eiffel: classes, features, local entities . Fortran block data, common blocks, entry points, functions, interfaces, lables, modules, namelists, programs, subroutines, derived types, . Java: classes, fields, interfaces, methods, packages |
| file | File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be printed. |
| fileutils | The utilities: chgrp chmod chown cp dd df dir dircolors du install ln ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv rm rmdir touch vdir sync. |
| findutils | These utilities find files meeting specified criteria and perform various actions on the files which are found. |
| flex-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU flex. |
| flex-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU flex. |
| flex | flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized lexical patterns in text. flex reads the given input files for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of pairs of regular expressions and C code, called rules. flex generates as output a C source file, lex.yy.c, which defines a routine yylex(). This file is compiled and linked with the -lfl library to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyzes its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. Whenever it finds one, it executes the corresponding C code. . This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. |
| fping | fping is a like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending to one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion. |
| freetype-tools | The FreeType 1 engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. . This package contains several programs bundled with the FreeType 1 engine for testing and demonstration purposes, as well as some contributed utilities such as ttf2pk, ttf2bdf, ttf2pfb and ttfbanner. |
| freetype2-dev | The FreeType 1 engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. . Note that FreeType 1 is a *library*. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is *not* a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is extremely easy, as demo-ed by the test programs. . This package contains all supplementary files you need to develop your own programs using the FreeType engine. . Note: FreeType 2 (libfreetype soname 6, Debian packages libfreetype6 and libfreetype6-dev) has arrived. The FreeType 2 API is a lot simpler than the one in 1.x while being much more powerful. We thus encourage you to adapt your source code to it as this should not involve much work. |
| freetype2 | The FreeType 1 engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. . Note that FreeType 1 is a *library*. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is *not* a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is extremely easy, as demo-ed by the test programs. . This package contains the files needed to run programs that use the FreeType 1 engine. . Note: FreeType 2 (libfreetype soname 6, Debian packages libfreetype6 and libfreetype6-dev) has arrived. The FreeType 2 API is a lot simpler than the one in 1.x while being much more powerful. We thus encourage you to adapt your source code to it as this should not involve much work. . Home Page: http://www.freetype.org/ Authors: David Turner <david.turner@freetype.org> Robert Wilhelm <robert.wilhelm@freetype.org> Werner Lemberg <werner.lemberg@freetype.org> |
| ftp | ftp is the user interface to the ARPANET standard File Transfer Protocol. The program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site. |
| ftpd | This is the netkit ftp server. It is recommended for you to use one of its alternatives, such as wu-ftpd or proftpd. |
| g++ | This is the GNU C++ compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C++. |
| g77-doc | Documentation for the GNU Fortran 77 compiler in info format. |
| g77-doc | Documentation for the GNU Fortran 77 compiler in info format. |
| g77 | This is the GNU g77 Fortran compiler, which compiles Fortran 77 on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. |
| gawk | `awk', a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them. . Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features defined in the System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions. |
| gcc-doc | Documentation for the GNU compilers in info format. |
| gcc-doc | Documentation for the GNU compilers in info format. |
| gcc | This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler which supports multiple languages. This package includes support for C, C++, and Objective C. |
| gcj | GCJ is a front end to the GCC compiler which can natively compile both Java(tm) source and bytecode files. The compiler can also generate class files. . Currently the compiler source parser does not understand JDK 1.1 extensions to the Java programming language. For instance, it does not support inner classes. |
| gdb | GDB is a source-level debugger, capable of breaking programs at any specific line, displaying variable values, and determining where errors occurred. Currently, it works for C, C++, Fortran Modula 2 and Java programs. A must-have for any serious programmer. |
| gettext-base | This package includes the gettext program which allow other packages to internationalize the messages given by shell scripts. |
| gettext-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU gettext. |
| gettext-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU gettext. |
| gettext | Interesting for authors or maintainers of other packages or programs which they want to see internationalized. |
| glibc-doc | Contains The GNU C Library Reference manual in info format as well as man pages for libpthread functions and libdb functions. Also included is the complete GNU C Library ChangeLog. |
| glibc-doc | Contains The GNU C Library Reference manual in info format as well as man pages for libpthread functions and libdb functions. Also included is the complete GNU C Library ChangeLog. |
| gnu-standards | Info and HTML versions of the GNU standards for writing GNU code and maintaining GNU software packages. Source: autoconf |
| gnu-standards | Info and HTML versions of the GNU standards for writing GNU code and maintaining GNU software packages. Source: autoconf |
| gnupg-doc | Additional documentation for GnuPG in HTML and (where possible) postscript and plain text format. Includes: . o The GNU Privacy Handbook o Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG o GnuPG Mini HOWTO . The GNU Privacy Handbook is provied in English, Spanish and Russian. The Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG document is provided in English and Spanish. The Mini HOWTO is provided in English, German, Spanish French, Portugese and Swedish. |
| gnupg-doc | Additional documentation for GnuPG in HTML and (where possible) postscript and plain text format. Includes: . o The GNU Privacy Handbook o Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG o GnuPG Mini HOWTO . The GNU Privacy Handbook is provied in English, Spanish and Russian. The Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG document is provided in English and Spanish. The Mini HOWTO is provided in English, German, Spanish French, Portugese and Swedish. |
| gnupg_1.0.4-3 | GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. . GnuPG does not use use any patented algorithms so it cannot be compatible with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented worldwide) and RSA. RSA's patent expired on the 20th September 2000, and it is now included in GnuPG. |
| gobjc | This is the GNU Objective-C compiler, which compiles Objective-C on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. |
| gpc-doc | Documentation for the GNU Pascal compiler in info format. |
| gpc-doc | Documentation for the GNU Pascal compiler in info format. |
| gpc | This is the GNU Pascal compiler, which compiles Pascal on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. . The current beta release 2.2 implements Standard Pascal (ISO 7185, level 1), a large subset of Extended Pascal (ISO 10206), and Borland Pascal. Many Borland Pascal units supported. |
| gpm | This package provides a daemon that listens to the mouse when the console is displayed, and delivers them to applications. . The default when no application is running is to emulate "selection", i.e. allow cut-and-paste with the mouse on the console the same way as under X. |
| grep | The GNU family of grep utilities may be the "fastest grep in the west". GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to look at every character. The result is typically many times faster than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing will run more slowly, however.) |
| groff | This package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools troff, nroff, tbl, eqn and pic. These utilities, together with the man package, are essential for displaying the on-line manual pages. . Output can be produced in a number of formats including plain ASCII and PostScript. All the standard macro packages are supported. A number of other utilities are also included together with several fonts. |
| gzip | This is the standard GNU file compression utility, which is also the default compression tool for Debian. It typically operates on files with names ending in `.gz'. . This package can also decompress `.Z' files created with `compress'. |
| hostname | The hostname command can be used to either set or display the current host or domain name of the system. This name is used by many of the networking programs to identify the machine. The domain name is also used by NIS/YP. |
| i18ndata | Machine-readable data files used by the C library for localization and internationalization support. . This package contains uncompiled source data for locales. Pre-compiled locale definitions are in the `locales' package. |
| idle | IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is written using Tkinter and therefore quite platform-independent. |
| idle | IDLE is an Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is written using Tkinter and therefore quite platform-independent. |
| ifupdown | This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces, based on the file /etc/network/interfaces. |
| imagemagick | WARNING: If you're installing this package for the first time and you choose to use libmagick4g-lzw, install first with libmagick4g, and then select libmagick4g-lzw (which will deselect libmagick4g). Otherwise you won't be able to install with dselect. . Imagemagick is a set of programs to manipulate various image formats (JPEG, TIFF, PhotoCD, PBM, XPM, etc...). All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through a X11 graphical interface (display). . Possible effects: colormap manipulation, channel operations, thumbnail creation, image annotation, limited drawing, image distortion, etc... . Imagemagick requires the libmagick4g package to be installed. Libmagick comes in two flavors, a free version (without the LZW compression algorithm used in GIFs), and a non-free version (with the patented LZW compression algorithm). . This package suggests a postscript interpreter (gs) to read postscript files. It will however function happily without it (as long as you don't want to read postscript). |
| imap | IMAP (the Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is a mechanism for accessing mail folders and the messages in them remotely, ie with your user mail program running on a different machine to the one where all the messages are stored. . This protocol for remote mail access is supported by Pine and by some DOS/Windows and Macintosh MUA's (Mail User Agents). . If you just want to use Pine to read your email on your Linux system you do not need this package. . If you do install imapd you will almost certainly want to install a Mail Transfer Agent such as Smail or Sendmail, as remote mail programs which use IMAP to access incoming and saved mail will usually want to send mail using SMTP, often to the same machine. . You will probably also want to install Pine or some other IMAP client so that you can test your IMAP server. |
| indent-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU indent. |
| indent-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU indent. |
| indent | The `indent' program changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or deleting whitespace. . `indent' also provides options for controlling the alignment of braces and declarations, program indenting, and other stylistic parameters, including formatting of both C and C++ comments. |
| info | The Info file format is an easily-parsable representation for online documents. This program allows you to view Info documents, like the ones stored in /usr/share/info and /usr/info. . Much of the software in Debian comes with its online documentation in the form of Info files, so it is most likely you will want to install it. |
| info2www | info2www lets you read Info files with a WWW browser. It requires a HTTP server. |
| info2www | info2www lets you read Info files with a WWW browser. It requires a HTTP server. |
| ipchains | This package allows you to control how programs on your system may access the network, and how programs on other systems may access yours via the network. . This package fully replaces ipfwadm by wrapping it for old fashioned users and for old scripts. . Firewalling HOWTO can be found in doc-linux-* package. . Linux ipchains is a rewrite of the Linux IPv4 firewalling code (which was mainly stolen from BSD) and a rewrite of ipfwadm, which was a rewrite of BSD's ipfw, I believe. It is required to administer the IP packet filters in Linux kernel versions 2.1.102 and above. |
| ipmasqadm | Ipmasqadm is used to configure extra masquerading funcionality, usually provided by additional kernel modules. |
| ipopd | This package contains the POP2 and POP3 servers which were formerly part of the University of Washington IMAP package. |
| ldap-rfc | This is a complete collection of LDAP related RFC's obtained from the OpenLDAP source distribution. They are not OpenLDAP specific and relate to the LDAP protocol in general including some LDAPv3 information. |
| ldap-rfc | This is a complete collection of LDAP related RFC's obtained from the OpenLDAP source distribution. They are not OpenLDAP specific and relate to the LDAP protocol in general including some LDAPv3 information. |
| ldso | The dynamic linker provides the user-level support for loading and linking DLL and ELF shared libraries. It is required by any program that uses shared libraries. . WARNING: Do NOT downgrade this package to version 1.8.x or earlier. Doing so may leave your system in an unusable state. |
| less | Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi (1). Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run on a variety of terminals. There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals. . Homepage: http://www.flash.net/~marknu/less/ |
| lftp | Lftp is a file retrieving tool that supports FTP and HTTP protocols under both IPv4 and IPv6. Lftp has an amazing set of features, while preserving its interface as simple and easy as possible. . The main two advantages over other ftp clients are reliability and ability to perform tasks in background. It will reconnect and reget the file being transferred if the connection broke. You can start a transfer in background and continue browsing on the ftp site. It does this all in one process. When you have started background jobs and feel you are done, you can just exit lftp and it automatically moves to nohup mode and completes the transfers. It has also such nice features as reput and mirror. It can also download a file as soon as possible by using several connections at the same time. . Lftp can also be scripteable, it can be used to mirror sites, it let you copy files among remote servers (even between FTP and HTTP). It has an extensive online help. It supports bookmarks, and connecting to several ftp/http sites at the same time. . This package also includes ftpget and lftpget - simple non-interactive tools for downloading files. |
| libapt-pkg-dev | This package contains the header files and static libraries for developing with APT's libapt-pkg Debian package manipulation library. |
| libapt-pkg-doc | This package contains documentation for development of the APT Debian package manipulation program and its libraries. Source: apt |
| libapt-pkg-doc | This package contains documentation for development of the APT Debian package manipulation program and its libraries. Source: apt |
| libbz2-1.0 | This package contains libbzip2 which is used by the bzip2 compressor. |
| libbz2-dev | Static libraries and include files for the bzip2 compressor library. |
| libc-client4.7-dev | This package contains the static lib and headers for using the c-client mail handling library. |
| libc-client4.7 | This package contains the shared c-client mail handling library. . WARNING: mailbox root has been changed back to $HOME again. It is no longer $HOME/mail. Please carefully reviw your setup to see if this will affect you in any way. See README.Debian for additional info. |
| libc6-dbg | This package is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. The libraries are installed in /usr/lib/debug and can be used by placing that directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Most people will not need this package. |
| libc6-dev | Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library. |
| libc6-pic | Contains an archive library (ar file) composed of individual shared objects. This is used for creating a library which is a smaller subset of the standard libc shared library. The reduced library is used on the Debian boot floppies. If you are not making your own set of Debian boot floppies using the `boot-floppies' package, you probably don't need this package. |
| libc6-prof | Static libraries compiled with profiling info (-pg) suitable for use with gprof. |
| libc6 | Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math library, as well as many others. Timezone data is also included. |
| libcap-progs | This package provides a number of basic utilities for using capability functionality from the command line. |
| libcap1-dev | Contains the necessary support for building applications that use capabilities. |
| libcap1 | This library implements the user-space interfaces to the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in recent Linux kernels. Note that it will not provide any functionality with kernels below 2.1.??. |
| libdb2-dev | libdb2 is a library for manipulating database files, developed at Berkeley and extended by Sleepycat Software Inc. This is the stable version, also commercially supported. . This development package contains include files and docs for the interface, as well as some postscript documents about the use of db. It includes also a static lib for particular cases. |
| libdb2-util | libdb2 is a library for manipulating database files, developed at Berkeley and extended by Sleepycat Software Inc. This is the stable version, also commercially supported. . This package contains several programs for managing the db. |
| libdb2 | libdb2 is a library for manipulating database files, developed at Berkeley and extended by Sleepycat Software Inc. This is the stable version, also commercially supported. . It supports three kinds of file formats: * btree. A representation of a sorted, balanced tree structure. * hashed. An extensible, dynamic hashing scheme. * UNIX file oriented. A byte stream file with fixed or variable length records. Other core database services: * page cache management for fast access, clean page allocation. * lock with multiple reader/writer granularity. * nested transaction support with logging and rollback recovery (two phase commit). * Large set of utility, to dump/load/restore data and examine log. |
| libdb2++-dev | libdb2 is a library for manipulating database files, developed at Berkeley and extended by Sleepycat Software Inc. This is the stable version, also commercially supported. . This development package contains include files and docs for the interface. It includes also a static lib for particular cases. |
| libdb2++ | libdb2 is a library for manipulating database files, developed at Berkeley and extended by Sleepycat Software Inc. This is the stable version, also commercially supported. |
| libdbi-perl | The Perl Database Interface by Tim Bunce provides a software layer to access any SQL database from within a Perl5 program. All SQL database engines for which a DBD:: driver is available can be accessed. . The DBI comes bundled with DBI::Shell, DBD::Proxy and DBD::ProxyServer modules. These *are* still alpha. |
| libdigest-md5-perl | This is a Perl extension interface to the RSA Data Security Inc. MD5 and MD2 Message Digest algorithms. This package also provide modules which calculate HMAC digests. |
| libg++2.8.1.3-dbg | This package contains a shared library with some GNU classes compiled with debugging symbols. This package is no longer supported upstream (as most of its functionality is now in the standard C++ library) - do not use this for development of new software; use libstdc++ instead. |
| libg++2.8.1.3-dev | This package contains some GNU classes. This package is no longer supported upstream (as most of its functionality is now in the standard C++ library) - do not use this |
| libg++2.8.1.3 | This package contains the runtime version of the GNU classes. |
| libgd1g-dev | GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG is one of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. . This is the full development version of the library. |
| libgd1g-tools | Simple command line tools that use the GD graphics library. |
| libgd1g | GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG is one of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. . This is the runtime package of the library. |
| libgdbmg1-dev | GNU dbm (`gdbm') is a library of database functions that use extendible hashing and works similarly to the standard UNIX `dbm' functions. . This library is no longer supported by the FSF, and hasn't been worked on in several years -- for new applications, please consider libdb instead, and also consider migrating old applications, see /usr/doc/libgdbmg1-dev/MIGRATE. |
| libgdbmg1 | GNU dbm (`gdbm') is a library of database functions that use extendible hashing and works similarly to the standard UNIX `dbm' functions. . The basic use of `gdbm' is to store key/data pairs in a data file, thus providing a persistent version of the `dictionary' Abstract Data Type (`hash' to perl programmers). |
| libglib1.2-dbg | This package contains the debugging static libraries for the GLib C library. The debugging libraries are installed as /usr/lib/libglib_g.a -- link specifically with them if you want to debug. |
| libglib1.2-dev | This package contains the header files and static libraries for the GLib C library . Install this package if you wish to develop your own X programs using the GTK+ widget toolkit, or wish to develop plug-ins for The GIMP. |
| libglib1.2 | GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK+ toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0. . You do not need to install this package if you have libgtk1 (note 1, not 1.1 or 1.2) installed. libgtk1 included libglib in it. libgtk1.1 and libgtk1.2, however, do need libglib1.1 to be installed separately. |
| libgmp2-dev | This development package provides the header files and the symbolic links to allow compilation and linking of programs that use the libraries provided in the libgmp2 package. |
| libgmp2 | GNU MP is a programmer's library for arbitrary precision arithmetic (ie, a bignum package). It can operate on signed integer, rational, and floating point numeric types. . It has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface. . GNU MP is licenced under the GNU Library General Public Licence (LGPL). . The home page is; http://www.swox.com/gmp |
| libgpmg1-dev | This package provides a library that handles mouse requests and delivers them to applications. |
| libgpmg1 | This package provides a library that handles mouse requests and delivers them to applications. |
| libgtk1.2-dbg | This package contains the debugging static libraries for the GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X. Install this package if you wish to debug your own X programs using the GIMP Toolkit 1.2, or if you wish to debug your own plug-ins for The GIMP. |
| libgtk1.2-dev | This package contains the header files and static libraries for the GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X. . Install this package if you wish to develop your own X programs using the GIMP Toolkit 1.2, or if you wish to compile your own plug-ins for The GIMP. |
| libgtk1.2-doc | This package contains lots of info-files, HTML docs, FAQs, and other handy documentation about the GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X. . Install this package if you want to have lots of info about the GIMP toolkit when you're programming. |
| libgtk1.2 | The GIMP Toolkit is a freely available set of widgets for X. GTK is easy to use, and has been implemented in such projects as The GNU Image Manipulation Program (The GIMP), GNOME, a GNU desktop set of utilities for X, and gzilla, a GNU web-browser. |
| libhtml-parser-perl | This is a collection of modules that parse HTML text documents. These modules used to be part of the libwww-perl distribution, but are now unbundled in order to facilitate a separate development track. |
| libi18n-langtags-perl | Language tags are a formalism, described in RFC 1766, for declaring what language form (language and possibly dialect) a given chunk of information is in. . This module provides functions for common tasks involving language tags (notably the extraction of them, comparing them, and testing the formal validity of them) as is needed in a variety of protocols and applications. |
| libident-dev | This is a small library to interface to the Ident protocol server. |
| libident | This is a small library to interface to the Ident protocol server; "ident" enables a remote host to find out who's the owner of a network connection. . /usr/sbin/in.identtestd is a small daemon (to be started from inetd) that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used to verify that your Ident server is working correctly. |
| libjpeg-progs | cjpeg/djpeg: convert to/from the jpeg file format rdjpgcom/wrjpgcom: read/write comments in jpeg files jpegtran: translate between jpeg formats |
| libjpeg62-dev | This package contains the static library, headers and documentation. |
| libjpeg62 | This package contains the shared library. |
| liblockfile-dev | Includes headers and documentation. |
| liblockfile1 | command-line utility ``dotlockfile''. |
| libltdl0-dev | This package contains the header files and static libraries for the libltdl package. . A small library that aims at hiding the various difficulties of dlopening libraries from programmers. |
| libltdl0 | This package contains the run-time libltdl library. . A small library that aims at hiding the various difficulties of dlopening libraries from programmers. |
| libmagick4-dev | This are the include files and static libraries needed to compile programs using libMagick. |
| libmagick4g | LibMagick supports loading and saving a very large set of image formats. It allows a lot of image manipulation as well. . This is the `Free' version of libMagick. It doesn't come with the LZW compression algorithms. It you want to compress your GIFs for example, you should go for libmagick4g-lzw package in the non-free section. |
| libmhash-dev | This package contains header files and the static library |
| libmhash1 | This package contains the shared library |
| libmime-base64-perl | Libmime-base64-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provide simple and consistent methods for dealing with Base64 encoding. |
| libmm10-dev | MM is a two layer abstraction library which simplifies the use of shared memory between forked (and therefore closely releated) processes. It hides all platform-dependent aspects of the process from the user and provides a malloc(3)-style API. |
| libmm10 | MM is a two layer abstraction library which simplifies the use of shared memory between forked (and therefore closely releated) processes. It hides all platform-dependent aspects of the process from the user and provides a malloc(3)-style API. |
| libmysqlclient6-dev | MySQL is a fast and stable SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. This package includes development libraries and header files. |
| libmysqlclient6 | MySQL is a fast and stable SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. This package includes the client library. |
| libncurses5-dbg | This package contains the static debugging and profiling libraries and symbolic links that developers using ncurses will need. |
| libncurses5-dev | This package contains the header files, static libraries and symbolic links that developers using ncurses will need. |
| libncurses5 | This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs compiled with ncurses. |
| libnet-perl | libnet contains Perl implementations of the following protocols: Net::FTP (RFC959), Net::SMTP (RFC821), Net::Time (RFC867 & RFC868), Net::NNTP (RFC977), Net::POP3 (RFC1939), Net::SNPP (RFC1861) It also contains various utility functions for implementing new protocols. |
| libnet-perl | libnet contains Perl implementations of the following protocols: Net::FTP (RFC959), Net::SMTP (RFC821), Net::Time (RFC867 & RFC868), Net::NNTP (RFC977), Net::POP3 (RFC1939), Net::SNPP (RFC1861) It also contains various utility functions for implementing new protocols. |
| libnet-telnet-perl | Net::Telnet allows you to make client connections to a TCP port and do network I/O, especially to a port using the TELNET protocol. Simple I/O methods such as print, get, and getline are provided. More sophisticated interactive features are provided because connecting to a TELNET port ultimately means communicating with a program designed for human interaction. These interactive features include the ability to specify a timeout and to wait for patterns to appear in the input stream, such as the prompt from a shell. |
| libopenldap-dev | This package allows development of LDAP applications using the OpenLDAP libraries. It includes headers, libraries and links to allow static and dynamic linking. |
| libopenldap-runtime | Contains runtime configuration files and man pages for the OpenLDAP libraries. |
| libopenldap1 | These are the run-time libraries for the OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) servers and clients. |
| libpam-cracklib | This module allows the use of cracklib in the authentication model. |
| libpam-doc | Contains documentation (in HTML, ASCII, and PostScript format) for libpam, the Pluggable Authentication Modules library, a suite of shared libraries that enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. |
| libpam-doc | Contains documentation (in HTML, ASCII, and PostScript format) for libpam, the Pluggable Authentication Modules library, a suite of shared libraries that enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. |
| libpam-modules | This package completes the set of modules for PAM. It includes the the pam_unix_*.so module as well as some specialty modules. |
| libpam-runtime | Contains the base setup for libpam |
| libpam0g-dev | Contains C header files and development shared libraries libraries for libpam, the pluggable authentication modules, a suite of shared libraries that enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. . PAM decouples applications from the authentication mechanism, making it possible to upgrade the authentication system without recompiling or rewriting the applications. |
| libpam0g | Contains the C shared library for Linux-PAM, a suite of shared libraries that enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. In other words, without rewriting or recompiling a PAM-aware application, it is possible to switch between the authentication mechanism(s) it uses. One may entirely upgrade the local authentication system without touching the applications themselves. |
| libpaperg | This package contains a simple library for use by programs needing to handle papers. It lets program automatically recognize a lot of different papers with their properties (actually their size). |
| libpcre2-dev | Includes headers, static libraries, and documentation. |
| libpcre2 | This is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language. |
| libpgperl | A library to enable Perl scripts to communicate with the PostgreSQL database backend. |
| libpgsql2.1 | C and C++ libraries to enable user programs to communicate with the PostgreSQL database backend. The backend can be on another machine and accessed through TCP/IP. |
| libpgtcl | A library to enable Tcl/Tk scripts to communicate with the PostgreSQL database backend. |
| libpng2-dev | libpng is a library implementing an interface for reading and writing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format files. . This library is more recent than libpng0g, and you should use it rather than libpng0g (which is for legacy packages). |
| libpng2 | libpng is a library implementing an interface for reading and writing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format files. . This library is more recent than libpng0g, and you should use it rather than libpng0g (which is for legacy packages). |
| libpopt-dev | Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it allows more powerful argument expansion. It can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. It also allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules. . This package contains the popt static library and header file. |
| libpopt0 | Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it allows more powerful argument expansion. It can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. It also allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules. . This package contains the runtime library and locale data. |
| libproc-dev | These are the header files for libproc. Some packages using libproc to access process information from /proc need these to compile. |
| libreadline4-dbg | The GNU readline library aids in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need to provide a command line interface. . The GNU history library provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously typed input. |
| libreadline4-dev | The GNU readline library aids in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need to provide a command line interface. . The GNU history library provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously typed input. |
| libreadline4 | The GNU readline library aids in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need to provide a command line interface. . The GNU history library provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously typed input. |
| librecode-dev | This package contains the header files and static librecode.a library needed to build applications based on librecode. |
| librecode0 | This package contains the librecode shared library, needed by recode. |
| librpm1-dev | This library allows programs to make use of a rpm database or rpm packages without going through the rpm program. . This is the development kit, containing static libraries and header files necessary to build programs that use librpm. |
| librpm1 | This library allows programs to make use of a rpm database or rpm packages without going through the rpm program. |
| libsnmp4.1-dev | The UCD SNMP library development files may be used to develop SNMP apps. |
| libsnmp4.1 | The UCD SNMP shared library is used by the UCD SNMP agent and apps. |
| libstdc++2.10-dbg | This package contains the shared library of libstdc++ compiled with debugging symbols. |
| libstdc++2.10-dev | This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. Be advised that this only works with the GNU C++ compiler (version 2.95), and no earlier library will work it. |
| libstdc++2.10 | This package contains an additional runtime library for C++ programs built with the GNU compiler. |
| libterm-readline-gnu-perl | This is an implementation of a Perl interface to the GNU Readline Library. This module gives you input line editing, input history management, word completion, and other similar facilities. This module gives you access to almost all variables and functions documented in the GNU ReadLine/History Library. This means you can write your custom editing function, your custom completion function, and so on with Perl. You may find it useful for prototyping before programming with C. |
| libtext-format-perl | This module provides the following functions: . format() Format text into a paragraph. Text is first broken into words and then joined back together to make up the paragraph. There are numerous attributes you can set to your liking. . paragraphs() Treats each element of the array passed in as a separate paragraph and passes them to format() for formatting. The list returned will be then formatted into separate paragraphs. . center() Centers all the lines that were passed in. . expand() Expand tabs into spaces. . unexpand() Turn spaces into tabs. First calls expand() to expand tabs into spaces and then turns tabstop number of spaces into tabs, you can set tabstop size with tabstop(). |
| libtiff-tools | libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. Included are tools for converting TIFF images to and from other formats and tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images. |
| libtiff3g-dev | libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. Included are the development files, static library and the required headers. |
| libtiff3g | libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. Included is the shared library. |
| libtimedate-perl | This distribution replaces my earlier GetDate distribution, which was only a date parser. The date parser contained in this distribution is far superior to the yacc based parser, and a *lot* faster. . The parser contained here will only parse absolute dates, if you want a date parser that can parse relative dates then take a look at the Time modules by David Muir on CPAN. |
| libtool-doc | This package contains the GNU libtool documentation. . GNU libtool is generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of generating special library types (such as shared libraries) behind a consistent interface. To use libtool, add the new generic library building commands to your Makefile, Makefile.in, or Makefile.am. See the documentation for details. Libtool supports building static libraries on all platforms. |
| libtool | This is GNU libtool, a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of generating special library types (such as shared libraries) behind a consistent interface. To use libtool, add the new generic library building commands to your Makefile, Makefile.in, or Makefile.am. See the documentation for details. Libtool supports building static libraries on all platforms. |
| liburi-perl | From the README: . This package contains the URI.pm module with friends. The module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) references as specified in RFC 2396. . URI objects can be used to access and manipulate the various components that make up these strings. There are also methods to combine URIs in various ways. . The URI class replace the URI::URL class that used to be distributed with libwww-perl. This package contains an emulation of the old URI::URL interface. The emulated URI::URL implement both the old and the new interface. |
| libwrap0-dev | Wietse Venema's network logger, also known as TCPD or LOG_TCP. . These programs log the client host name of incoming telnet, ftp, rsh, rlogin, finger etc. requests. Security options are: access control per host, domain and/or service; detection of host name spoofing or host address spoofing; booby traps to implement an early-warning system. |
| libwrap0 | Wietse Venema's network logger, also known as TCPD or LOG_TCP. . These programs log the client host name of incoming telnet, ftp, rsh, rlogin, finger etc. requests. Security options are: access control per host, domain and/or service; detection of host name spoofing or host address spoofing; booby traps to implement an early-warning system. |
| libwww-perl | Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients, thus libwww-perl said to be a WWW client library. The library also contain modules that are of more general use, as well as a simple HTTP/1.1-compatible server implementation. . The URI modules have been split off into liburi-perl; install that package if you need them. |
| libxmltok1-dev | Libraries for XML parsing in C. It aims to be fully conforming. It is currently not a validating XML processor. . The library libxmltok contains a low-level library for tokenizing XML. The library libxmlparse contains an XML parser library which is built on top of the xmltok library. . Author: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> Homepage: http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html |
| libxmltok1 | Libraries for XML parsing in C, which contains the shared libraries, libxmltok and libxmlparser. These libraries are being used, for instance, for XML support to Netscape 5 and the Perl module, XML::Parser. . Author: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> Homepage: http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html |
| links | Lynx-like character mode browser, except rendering tables and frames correctly, features background downloads, colors, and much more. |
| lintian | Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors. . It uses an archive directory, called laboratory, in which it stores information about the packages it examines. It can keep this information between multiple invocations in order to avoid repeating expensive data-collection operations. This also possible to check the complete Debian archive for bugs, in a reasonable time. . This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the archive. . This version of Lintian is calibrated for policy version 2.5.0.0. |
| lkcdutils | This software package contains system crash dump analyzer tools. It includes Linux Crash (lcrash) and all appropriate user level scripts required for saving and configuring system crash dumps. This package should be installed after the lkcd kernel patches are installed on the system. |
| locale-ko | This is an experimental and incorrect locale definition for Korean (ko_KR). Since the GNU libc does not support the EUC encoding yet, we cannot make a correct locale definition for it. . If you want to get more informations, see http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/glibc.glibc.html |
| locales | Machine-readable data files, shared objects and programs used by the C library for localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n) support. |
| lockfile-progs | This package includes several programs to safely lock and unlock files and mailboxes from the command line. These include: . lockfile-create lockfile-remove lockfile-touchlock mail-lock mail-unlock mail-touchlock . These programs use liblockfile to perform the file locking and unlocking, so they are guaranteed compatible with Debian's file locking policies. |
| login | These tools are required to be able to login and use your system. The login program invokes you user shell and enables command execution. The newgrp program is used to change your effective group ID (useful for workgroup type situations). The su program allows changing your effective user ID (useful being able to execute commands as another user). . Also supplies a logout daemon that can place limits on when, from where, and for how long certain users can login to the system. |
| logrotate | The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. |
| lpr | This is the BSD printer spooler and associated utilities. You can use this for local and remote printers. . If you install magicfilter or apsfilter (along with gs), lpr will be able to automatically handle special file types (such as Postscript and PDF files). |
| lvm | LVM includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc., multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see losetup(8)), creating volume groups from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes in volume groups. Architecture: s390 |
| lynx | Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other "curses-oriented" display). It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers. |
| m4-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU m4. |
| m4 | GNU `m4' is an implementation of the traditional UNIX macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). `m4' also has builtin functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. Autoconf needs GNU `m4' for generating `configure' scripts, but not for running them. |
| mailtools | This is a set of perl modules which provide an easy interface to manipulating email in an object-oriented fashion. |
| mailx | mailx is the traditional command-line-mode mail user agent. Even if you don't use it it may be required by other programmes. |
| make | GNU Make is a program that determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled and issues the commands to recompile them, when necessary. More information about GNU Make can be found in the `make' Info page. |
| makedev | The MAKEDEV executable is used to populate the /dev directory with device files. |
| man-db | This package provides the man command. This utility is the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. This package uses the groff suite of programs to format and display the manual pages. |
| manpages-dev | These man pages describe the Linux programming interface, including these two sections: * 2 = Linux system calls. * 3 = Libc calls (note that a more comprehensive source of information may be found in the glibc-doc package). Source: manpages |
| manpages | This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections: * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system files (e.g. wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs). * 7 = Conventions and standards, macro packages, etc. (e.g. nroff, ascii). . Sections 1, 6 and 8 are provided by the respective applications. This package only includes the intro man page describing the section. . The man pages describe syntaxis of several system files. |
| mawk | Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. Mawk is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988. (Hereafter referred to as the AWK book.) Mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK language which contains a few features not described in the AWK book, and mawk provides a small number of extensions. . Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-time limits such as NF = 32767 and sprintf buffer = 1020. |
| mime-support | As these files can be used by all MIME compliant programs, they have been moved into their own package that others can depend upon. . Other packages add themselves as viewers/editors/composers/etc by using the provided "update-mime" program. . In addition, the commands "see", "edit", "compose", and "print" will display, alter, create, and print (respectively) any file using a program determined from the entries in the mime.types and mailcap files. |
| mlock | libc-client.so uses this program to lock mailbox files so they don't get corrupted. |
| mmv | mmv is a program to move/copy/append/link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns. This multiple action is performed safely, i.e. without any unexpected deletion of files due to collisions of target names with existing filenames or with other target names. |
| modutils | These utilities are intended to make a Linux modular kernel manageable for all users, administrators and distribution maintainers. |
| mount | This package provides the mount(8), umount(8), swapon(8), swapoff(8), and losetup(8) commands. |
| mysql-client | MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. . The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. MySQL was originally developed because Tcx needed a SQL server that could handle very big databases with magnitude higher speed than what any database vendor could offer. They have now been using MySQL since 1996 in a environment with more than 40 databases, 10,000 tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is about 50G of mission critical data. |
| mysql-doc | MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. . The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. MySQL was originally developed because Tcx needed a SQL server that could handle very big databases with magnitude higher speed than what any database vendor could offer. They have now been using MySQL since 1996 in a environment with more than 40 databases, 10,000 tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is about 50G of mission critical data. |
| mysql-gpl-client | MySQL is a fast and stable SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. This package includes the client binaries. This package does not include the server, which is still only in non-free. |
| mysql-gpl-doc | MySQL is a fast and stable SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. This package includes documentation as info files, html, and plain text. |
| mysql-server | MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. . The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. MySQL was originally developed because Tcx needed a SQL server that could handle very big databases with magnitude higher speed than what any database vendor could offer. They have now been using MySQL since 1996 in a environment with more than 40 databases, 10,000 tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is about 50G of mission critical data. |
| ncurses-base | This package contains what should be a reasonable subset of terminal definitions, including: ansi, dumb, linux, rxvt, screen, sun, vt100, vt102, vt220, vt52, and xterm. |
| ncurses-bin | This package contains the programs used for manipulating the terminfo database and individual terminfo entries, as well as some programs for resetting terminals and such. |
| ncurses-term | This package contains all of the terminal definitions not found in the ncurses-base package. There are far too many to list here. |
| net-tools | This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr). In the upstream package 'hostname' and friends are included. Those are not installed by this package, since there is a special "hostname*.deb". |
| netbase | This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP based networking. |
| netkit-inetd | The inetd server is a network daemon program that specializes in managing incoming network connections. It's configuration file tells it what program needs to be run when an incoming connection is received. Any service port may be configured for either of the tcp or udp protcols. |
| netkit-ping | The ping command sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host in order to test if the host is reachable via the network. |
| netkit-rpc | rpcinfo makes an RPC call to an RPC server and reports what it finds. . rpcgen is a tool that generates C code to implement an RPC protocol. The input to rpcgen is a language similar to C known as RPC Language (Remote Procedure Call Language). |
| nfs-common | Use this package on any machine that does NFS either as client or server. Programs included: lockd, statd, showmount, and nfsstat. . Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. |
| nfs-kernel-server | Use this package if you have a fairly recent kernel (2.2.13 or better) and you want to use the kernel-mode NFS server. The user-mode NFS server in the "nfs-server" package is slower but more featureful and easier to debug than the kernel-mode server. Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. |
| nhfsstone | Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. |
| nmh | This is the nmh mail user agent (reader/sender), a command line based mail reader that is powerful and extensible. nmh is an excellent choice for people who receive and process a lot of mail. . Unlike most mail user agents, nmh is not a single program, rather it is a set of programs that are run from the shell. This allows the user to utilize the full power of the Unix shell in coordination with nmh. Various front-ends are available, such as mh-e (an emacs mode), xmh, and exmh (X11 clients). . nmh was originally based on MH version 6.8.3, and is intended to be a (mostly) compatible drop-in replacement for MH. |
| nscd | A daemon which handles passwd and group lookups for running programs and caches the results for the next query. You should install this package only if you use slow Services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+ |
| nvi | Vi is the original screen based text editor for Unix systems. It is considered the standard text editor, and is available on almost all Unix systems. . Nvi is intended as a "bug-for-bug compatible" clone of the original BSD vi editor. As such, it doesn't have a lot of snazzy features as do some of the other vi clones such as elvis and vim. However, if all you want is vi, this is the one to get. |
| openldap-gateways | These programs provide directory interaction (gateways) with your existing servers. They include fax, finger, gopher and mail gateways, aswell as some useful utilities. |
| openldap-guide | This is a complete guide on installing, configuring and maintaining the OpenLDAP server (slapd). If you are serious about fine tuning your LDAP server, or just want to see what LDAP is and what it can do, this is the document you want. . Includes HTML, Postscript and text formats, for easy reading and printing. |
| openldap-utils | Utilities from the OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) package. These utilities can access a local or remote LDAP server and contain all the client programs required to access LDAP servers. |
| openldapd | This is the OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) standalone server (slapd). The server can be used to provide a standalone directory service and also includes the slurpd replication server and centipede. |
| passwd | This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data. . Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian |
| patch | Patch will take a patch file containing any of the four forms of difference listing produced by the diff program and apply those differences to an original file, producing a patched version. |
| pdksh | PD-ksh is a mostly complete AT&T ksh look-alike (see NOTES file for a list of things not supported). Work is currently underway to make it fully compatible with both POSIX and AT&T ksh (when the two don't conflict). . Since pdksh is free and compiles and runs on most common unix systems, it is very useful in creating a consistent user interface across multiple machines. For example, in the CS dept. of MUN, pdksh is installed on a variety of machines including Suns, HPs, DecStations, pcs running Linux, etc., and is the login shell of ~4500 users. |
| perl-5.005-base | A scripting language with delusions of full language-hood, Perl is used in many system scripts and utilities. . This is a stripped down Perl with only essential libraries. To make full use of Perl, you'll want to install the perl-5.005 package which supplements this one. |
| perl-5.005-debug | debugperl will allow you to see the internal data for Perl. It will allow you to view the compiled opcode tree, see *exactly* how a regex is being used, and show (in minute detail) what Perl is doing. Look in perlrun(1p) for details. You probably don't need this. perl -dead will bring up the Perl source debugger and tell you much of what you want to know. See perldebug(1). |
| perl-5.005-doc | This is a first cut a documentation package for Perl. It will definitely need some tweaking. |
| perl-5.005-suid | This can be a security hole but it is much safer than shell scripts and with -Tw can be much safer than setuid executables. |
| perl-5.005-thread | This package provides /usr/bin/perl-thread and all associated files. Threading is considered an experimental feature of perl-5.005. |
| perl-5.005 | An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw". . Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with setuid scripts and is extendable via modules that can interface to C libraries. . Note that this supplements perl-base, providing the full Perl distribution. |
| perl-tk | A good place to get started is by running the "widget" demo that's installed with this package. |
| perlmagick | PerlMagick is a perl module which gives you all the functionality you can enjoy in the imagemagick package binaries, from perl. . One can load several images with perlmagick, apply numerous transformations and operations on the images and write them back, possibly in a different format. . See the libmagick4g or libmagick4g-lzw entries for details. |
| pgaccess | A Tk/Tcl program for X that provides a front-end to PostgreSQL. It can be used to generate and store queries, views and new forms. |
| pgrep | Perl-style regexps have many useful features that the standard POSIX ones don't; this is basically the same as grep but with the different regexp syntax. . The other reason for the existence of pgrep is that its source code is an example of programming with libpcre. |
| php4-cgi-gd | This package provides a module for handling graphics directly from PHP scripts. It supports the PNG, JPEG, XPM and uncompressed GIF image formats and ttf fonts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-imap | This package provides a module for IMAP functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-ldap | This package provides a CGI module for LDAP functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-mhash | This package provides a module for mhash functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-mysql | This package provides a module for MySQL database connections directly from PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-pgsql | This package provides a module for PostgreSQL database connections directly from PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-snmp | This package provides a module for SNMP functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi-xml | This package provides a module for XML functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-cgi | This package provides the CGI. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. . The most significant change between php3 and php4 is the new parser engine called Zend, which boosts performance quite impressively. |
| php4-dev | This package provides the files from the PHP4 source needed for compiling additional modules. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. . The most significant change between php3 and php4 is the new parser engine called Zend, which boosts performance quite impressively. |
| php4-gd | This package provides a module for handling graphics directly from PHP scripts. It supports the PNG, JPEG, XPM and uncompressed GIF image formats and ttf fonts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-imap | This package provides a module for IMAP functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-ldap | This package provides a module for LDAP functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-mhash | This package provides a module for mhash functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-mysql | This package provides a module for MySQL database connections directly from PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-pgsql | This package provides a module for PostgreSQL database connections directly from PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-snmp | This package provides a module for SNMP functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4-xml | This package provides a module for XML functions in PHP scripts. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. |
| php4 | This package provides the loadable module for the apache webserver. . PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. . The most significant change between php3 and php4 is the new parser engine called Zend, which boosts performance quite impressively. |
| pidentd | Identd is a server which implements the TCP/IP proposed standard IDENT user identification protocol as specified in the RFC 1413 document. |
| portmap | Portmap is a server that converts RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. . Services that use RPC include NFS and NIS. |
| postgresql-client | This package contains client and administrative programs for PostgreSQL: these are the user front-end, psql, and scripts for creating and destroying users and database schemas. . If you install PostgreSQL on a standalone machine, you need this package too. On a network, you need it installed somewhere on the network, but not necessarily on the same machine. |
| postgresql-contrib | The PostgreSQL contrib package provides several additional features for the PostgreSQL database. contrib often serves as a testbed for features before they are adopted into PostgreSQL proper: . apache_logging - Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL array - Array iterator functions bit - A set of C routines to implement an SQL-compliant bitstring type datetime - Date & time functions earthdistance - Operator for computing earth distance for two points findoidjoins - Finds the joins used by oid columns by examining the actual values in the oid columns and row oids. fulltextindex - Full text indexing using triggers isbn_issn - Type extensions for ISBN (books) and ISSN (serials) keywordindex - An adaptation of fulltextindex to index keywords; stop words can be specified lo - Large Object maintenance miscutil - Postgres assert checking and various utility functions mSQL-interface - mSQL API translation library noupdate - trigger to prevent updates on single columns pgbench - a simple program to run a benchmark test soundex - Prototype for soundex function spi - PostgreSQL Server Programming Interface; 4 examples of its use: autoinc - A function for implementing AUTOINCREMENT/ IDENTITY insert_username - function for inserting user names refint - Functions for implementing referential integrity (foreign keys) timetravel - Re-implements in user code the time travel feature that was removed in 6.3. string - C-like input/output conversion routines for strings unixdate - Conversions from integer to datetime userlock - User locks vacuumlo - Vacuum large objects |
| postgresql-dev | Header files for compiling C and C++ programs to link with the libpgsql2 libraries in order to communicate with the PostgreSQL database backend. |
| postgresql-doc | Contains all README files, user manual and examples for all PostgreSQL packages. |
| postgresql-pl | PL/pgSQL is a procedural language based on SQL designed for the PostgreSQL database system. |
| postgresql-test | This package provides the regression test suite for PostgreSQL. This may be useful for people porting the PostgreSQL packages to new architectures. It is not necessary for ordinary users. |
| postgresql | PostgreSQL is an object-relational database, which supports a large part of SQL-92. It is under continuous development and each release implements more of the SQL standard. It also supports some object-oriented features. . As compared to MySQL, PostgreSQL is more fully featured - most importantly, PostgreSQL supports transactions, which are essential to multi-user update of a database. The trade-off is that it is slower, though again, each release sees improvements in efficiency. For more information, see <http://OpenACS.org/why-not-mysql.html>. . This package provides the backend features; you need postgresql-client or some other front-end to be able to access them. |
| procps | These are utilities to browse the /proc filesystem, which is not a real file system but a way for the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table. (e.g. running, stopped or "zombie") Both command line and full screen utilities are provided. Ncurses is needed for the full screen utilities. |
| proftpd | A powerful replacement for wu-ftpd, this File Transfer Protocol daemon supports hidden directories, virtual hosts, and per-directory ".ftpaccess" files. It uses a single main configuration file, with a syntax similar to Apache. . Because of the advanced design, anonymous-FTP directories can have an arbitrary internal structure (bin, lib, etc, and special files are not needed). Advanced features like multiple password files and upload/download ratios are also supported. . More information can be found at http://www.proftpd.net/. |
| protoize | `protoize' can be used to add prototypes to a program, thus converting the program to ANSI C in one respect. The companion program `unprotoize' does the reverse: it removes argument types from any prototypes that are found. |
| psmisc | This package contains three little utilities that use the proc FS: . `fuser' identifies processes using files (similar to Sun's or SGI's fuser). `killall' kills processes by name, e.g. killall -HUP named. `pstree' shows the currently running processes as a tree |
| python-base | An interpretive, interactive object oriented computer language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics. . `A step up from Perl' says bruce@pixar.com. |
| python-dev | Header files, a static library and development tools for building Python modules, extending the Python interpreter or embedding Python in applications. |
| python-elisp | Emacs-lisp python-mode for the scripting language Python. . If you install this with XEmacs 20 or 21, it will replace the included python-mode.el, which may or may not be a more recent version (use "C-h v py-version" to compare). |
| python-examples | Examples, Demos and Tools for Python. These are files included in the upstream Python distribution. |
| python-gdbm | GNU dbm database module for Python. Install this if you want to create or read GNU dbm database files with Python. |
| python-mpz | Arbitrary precision arithmetic for Python using the GNU MP library, i.e. bignum support. |
| python-pygresql | PyGreSQL is a Python module that interfaces to a PostgreSQL database. It embeds the PostgreSQL query library to allow easy use of the powerful PostgreSQL features from a Python script. |
| python-regrtest | Regression test for the Python distribution. . You only want to install this if you don't trust the Python packages. |
| python-tk | A module for writing portable GUI applications with Python using Tk. Also known as Tkinter. |
| python-zlib | A compression module for Python using the zlib library. zlib implements the deflate compression method used in gzip and pkzip. |
| quota | QUOTA is implemented using the BSD systemcall interface as the means of communication with the user level. This is based on the Melbourne quota system which uses both user and group quota files. |
| recode-doc | This package contains the HTML documentation for GNU recode. |
| recode | GNU `recode' converts files between character sets and usages. When exact transliterations are not possible, it may get rid of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. This program recognizes or produces nearly 150 different character sets and is able to transliterate files between almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 character sets are supported. |
| rpm | If you want to install Red Hat Packages then please use the alien package. Using RPM directly will bypass the Debian packaging system! |
| rstart | rstart is an implementation of a remote application start client based on rsh. |
| rstartd | rstartd is an implementation of a remote applications start daemon based on rsh. |
| samba-common | The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol. . This package contains the common files that are used by both the server (provided in the samba package) and the client (provided in the smbclient package). |
| samba-doc | The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol. . This package contains all the documentation that comes in the original tarball. |
| samba | The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol. . This package contains all the components necessary to turn your Debian GNU/Linux box into a powerful file and printer server. . As of Samba 2.0.6-1, the Samba Debian packages consist of the following: . samba - A LanManager like file and printer server for Unix. samba-common - Samba common files used by both the server and the client. smbclient - A LanManager like simple client for Unix. swat - Samba Web Administration Tool samba-doc - Samba documentation. smbfs - Mount and umount commands for the smbfs (kernels 2.0.x and above). |
| sed | sed reads the specified files or the standard input if no files are specified, makes editing changes according to a list of commands, and writes the results to the standard output. |
| sharutils | `shar' makes so-called shell archives out of many files, preparing them for transmission by electronic mail services. `unshar' helps unpacking shell archives after reception. Other related utility programs help with other tasks. . `uuencode' prepares a file for transmission over an electronic channel which ignores or otherwise mangles the eight bit (high order bit) of bytes. `uudecode' does the converse transformation. |
| shellutils | The utilities: basename chroot date dirname echo env expr factor false groups hostid id logname nice nohup pathchk pinky printenv printf pwd seq sleep stty tee test true tty uname users who whoami yes. |
| slang1-dev | S-Lang is a C programmer's library that includes routines for the rapid development of sophisticated, user friendly, multi-platform applications. . The S-Lang library includes the following: * Low level tty input routines for reading single characters at a time. * Keymap routines for defining keys and manipulating multiple keymaps. * A high-level key processing interface (SLkp) for handling function and arrow keys. * High level screen management routines for manipulating both monochrome and color terminals. These routines are very efficient. (SLsmg) * Low level terminal-independent routines for manipulating the display of a terminal. (SLtt) * Routines for reading single line input with line editing and recall capabilities. (SLrline) * Searching functions: both ordinary searches and regular expression searches. (SLsearch) * An embedded stack-based language interpreter with a C-like syntax. |
| slang1-pic | This is used to develop subsets of the S-Lang shared libraries for use on custom installation floppies and in embedded systems. Unless you're making one of those, you won't need this package. |
| slang1 | S-Lang is a C programmer's library that includes routines for the rapid development of sophisticated, user friendly, multi-platform applications. . This package contains only the shared library libslang.so.* and copyright information. It is only necessary for programs that use this library (such as jed and slrn). If you plan on doing development with S-Lang, you will need the companion -dev package as well. |
| smbclient | The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol. . This package contains the client components of the Samba suite. |
| smbfs | Smbfs is a filesystem which understands the SMB protocol. This is the protocol Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT or Lan Manager use to talk to each other. It was inspired by samba, the program by Andrew Tridgell that turns any unix site into a file server for DOS or Windows clients. . Starting with the Debian Samba packages version 2.0.4b-2, the old smbfs utilities for 2.0.x and the new smbfs utilities for 2.2.x kernels have been merged in a single package called smbfs. A wrapper script called smbmount.sh identifies the version of the kernel running and calls the correct binary. |
| snmp | The UCD SNMP applications allow querying the UCD and other SNMP agents. |
| snmpd | The UCD SNMP agent allows remote monitoring of various network and system information. |
| ss-dev | This package includes a tool that parses a command table to generate a simple command-line interface parser, the include files needed to compile and use it, and the static libs. . It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library. |
| stl-manual | This is the documentation for the C++ Standard Template Library as found on SGIs Website. |
| strace | strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source. System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions. |
| swat | The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol. . This package contains the components of the Samba suite that are needed for Web administration of the Samba server. |
| sysklogd | This package implements two system log daemons. The syslogd daemon is an enhanced version of the standard Berkeley utility program. This daemon is responsible for providing logging of messages received from programs and facilities on the local host as well as from remote hosts. . The klogd daemon listens to kernel message sources and is responsible for prioritizing and processing operating system messages. The klogd daemon can run as a client of syslogd or optionally as a standalone program. Klogd can now be used to decode EIP addresses if it can determine a System.map file. |
| sysutils | This is a package incorporating various small utilities which are: * procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v16). * memtest - Test system memory for errors (v1.0.1). * bogo - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2). * tofromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files (v1.4). |
| sysvinit | Init is the first program to run after your system is booted, and continues to run as process number 1 until your system halts. Init's job is to start other programs that are essential to the operation of your system. All processes are descended from init. For more information, see the manual page init(8). |
| t1lib-bin | T1lib is an enhanced rasterizer for Type 1 fonts. . T1lib is based on the X11R5 font rasterizer code, but operates independently of X11. It includes many enhancements, including underlining, antialiasing, user-defined slant and extension factors, and rotation. . This package contains the programs "xglyph" and "type1afm", included in the upstream T1lib distribution. It also contains the "t1libconfig" script used to configure t1lib. |
| t1lib-dev | T1lib is an enhanced rasterizer for Type 1 fonts. . T1lib is based on the X11R5 font rasterizer code, but operates independently of X11. It includes many enhancements, including underlining, antialiasing, user-defined slant and extension factors, and rotation. . This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to develop programs using T1lib. |
| t1lib1 | T1lib is an enhanced rasterizer for Type 1 fonts. . T1lib is based on the X11R5 font rasterizer code, but operates independently of X11. It includes many enhancements, including underlining, antialiasing, user-defined slant and extension factors, and rotation. . This package contains the shared libraries needed to run programs using T1lib. |
| tar | Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, and to things like pkzip in the DOS world. It is heavily used by the Debian package management system, and is useful for performing system backups and exchanging sets of files with others. |
| task-dns-server | Installs the BIND DNS server, and related documentation and utility packages. Source: bind |
| task-samba | The samba server is a file and printer server for your Windows, OS/2 or DOS clients. It can act as a primary domain server but also like a workstaion. . The web based setup tool SWAT is included as well. |
| tasksel | Interface for selecting task packages; used for boot-floppies, but can also be called independently |
| tcl8.0-dev | TCL is a powerful, easy to use, interpreted scripting language. |
| tcl8.0-doc | TCL is a powerful, easy to use, interpreted scripting language. |
| tcl8.0 | TCL is a powerful, easy to use, interpreted scripting language. |
| tcpd | Wietse Venema's network logger, also known as TCPD or LOG_TCP. . These programs log the client host name of incoming telnet, ftp, rsh, rlogin, finger etc. requests. Security options are: access control per host, domain and/or service; detection of host name spoofing or host address spoofing; booby traps to implement an early-warning system. |
| telnet | The telnet command is used for interactive communication with another host using the TELNET protocol. |
| telnetd | The in.telnetd program is a server which supports the DARPA telnet interactive communication protocol. |
| tetex-base | teTeX (version 1.0) is a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. . Together with tetex-bin you have a minimal installation With tetex-extra and tetex-nonfree you have a complete installation . Includes: texlib, latex, mflib, mfbasfnt, bibtex, textfm |
| tetex-bin | This is teTeX (version 1.0), a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. . These are all the binaries for the teTeX system. You need at least tetex-base together with it. . Includes: ps2pk, dvilj, amstex, dvips, texbin, bibtex, xdvi, makeindex, latex, kpathsea, mfbin, amslatex |
| tetex-dev | Custom kpathsea library to build tex binaries for teTeX |
| tetex-doc | This is teTeX (version 1.0), a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. . Documentation for the Debian teTex distribution . Includes: latex2e-doc Source: tetex-base |
| tetex-extra | teTeX (version 1.0) is a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. . Together with tetex-bin and tetex-base you have a complete TeX installation. . Includes: texlib, latex, mflib, mfbasfnt, bibtex, textfm Source: tetex-base |
| tetex-lib | Custom shared kpathsea library to run tex binaries for teTeX |
| tetex-nonfree | teTeX (version 1.0) is a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. . Together with tetex-bin, tetex-base and tetex-extra you have a complete TeX installation. . Includes: seminar, textmerg, nehyph[12] Source: tetex-base |
| texinfo | Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. . Using Texinfo, you can create a printed document with the normal features of a book, including chapters, sections, cross references, and indices. From the same Texinfo source file, you can create a menu-driven, on-line Info file with nodes, menus, cross references, and indices. |
| textutils | The utilities: cat cksum comm csplit cut expand fmt fold head join md5sum nl od paste pr ptx sort split sum tac tail tr tsort unexpand uniq wc. |
| time | The `time' command runs another program, then displays information about the resources used by that program, collected by the system while the program was running. You can select which information is reported and the format in which it is shown, or have `time' save the information in a file instead of display it on the screen. . The resources that `time' can report on fall into the general categories of time, memory, I/O, and IPC calls. . The GNU version can format the output in arbitrary ways by using a printf-style format string to include various resource measurements. |
| tk8.0-dev | Tk is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif look and feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language. |
| tk8.0 | Tk is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif look and feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language. |
| twm | twm is a window manager for the X Window System. It provides title bars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings. |
| unzip | InfoZIP's unzip program, packaged for Debian GNU/Linux. With the exception of multi-volume archives (ie, .ZIP files that are split across several disks using PKZIP's /& option), this can handle any file produced either by PKZIP, or the corresponding InfoZIP zip program. |
| update | The update daemon flushes the filesystem buffers at regular intervals. This version does not spawn a bdflush daemon, as this is now done by the kernel (kflushd). It will exit silently on newer kernels that do not need its services. |
| util-linux | A mixed bag of system utilities: arch chkdupexe cfdisk cytune dmesg fdisk fsck.minix getty getopt hwclock ipcrm ipcs kbdrate mcookie mkfs mkfs.minix mkswap more namei rdev setterm setsid tunelp whereis. |
| uuid-dev | libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's), using a standard which is blessed by both Microsoft and DCE, and is being proposed as an internet standard. See the internet-draft: . draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt . for more information. |
| vim-gtk | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been built with the GTK frontend. |
| vim-perl | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been built with perl interpreter support. |
| vim-python | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been built with python interpreter support. |
| vim-rt | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the runtime-files. |
| vim-tcl | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been built with Tcl interpreter support. |
| vim-tiny | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been built with a subset of the normal features. |
| vim | Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. . This packages contains the vim program itself. The runtime-files are in the vim-rt package. It has been built with all the normal features but without any X support. |
| wenglish | This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/american-english containing a list of English words. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1). |
| wget | Wget [formerly known as Geturl] is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off. . The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands /robots.txt). |
| whois | This is a new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch by me. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries. . The package also contains mkpasswd, a simple front end to crypt(3). |
| xbase-clients | An X client is a program that uses the X libraries to interface with an X server, and thus with some input and output hardware like a graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse). . This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X clients that ship with the X Window System, including: * xinit and startx, the programs that start an X session on demand from the command line; * a bitmap editor and conversion utilities; * utilities for font display and format conversion; * beforelight, a rudimentary screensaver; * X resource display and editing utilities; * X server testing and performance evaluation programs; * graphical clocks (xclock and oclock); * X session access control programs; * tools for use with the XKEYBOARD (XKB) extension; * xmodmap, a tool for remapping keys and pointer buttons; * xvidtune, a video mode tuner for XFree86 X servers; * a screen/window capture program, xwd (and viewer for the captures, xwud); and several other programs of general utility in the X Window System. . xbase-clients depends on cpp because xrdb requires it; the conflicts, replaces, and provides are due to package reorganizations and to ensure up-to-date support mechanisms for xaw-wrappers and X font packages. |
| xbase | Between Debian 2.0 ("hamm") and 2.1 ("slink") the XFree86 packages were extensively reorganized; this package exists solely to smooth the transition for people upgrading from Debian 2.0 or earlier. Those whose have fresh installations of Debian 2.1 or later have no need of this package. . Once this package has been installed it may be removed at any time; it contains no programs, libraries, or documentation. . For the technically curious, this package exists solely to declare dependencies on the packages among whom the old xbase package's files were distributed. The new packages are auto-selected by apt or dselect as a result, and the X Window System is properly upgraded. . Additionally, the X font and static library packages have been renamed. For more information see the /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian file in this package or /usr/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade in the xfree86-common package. |
| xdm | xdm manages a collection of X servers, which may be on the local host or remote machines. It provides services similar to those provided by init, getty, and login on character-based terminals; prompting for login name and password, authenticating the user, and running a session. xdm supports XDMCP (X Display Manager Control Protocol) and can also be used to run a chooser process which presents the user with a menu of possible hosts that offer XDMCP display management. |
| xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-100dpi provides a set of bitmapped fonts at 100 dots per inch. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients. . This package and xfonts-75dpi provide the same set of fonts, rendered at different resolutions; only one or the other is necessary, but both may be installed. xfonts-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large screen resolutions (over 1024x768). Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfonts-75dpi | xfonts-75dpi provides a set of bitmapped fonts at 75 dots per inch. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients. . This package and xfonts-100dpi provide the same set of fonts, rendered at different resolutions; only one or the other is necessary, but both may be installed. xfonts-75dpi may be more suitable for small monitors and/or small screen resolutions (under 1024x768). Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfonts-base | xfonts-base provides a standard set of low-resolution bitmapped fonts. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients. . If you are not using a remote font server, you must install this package if you are installing an X server. It contains fonts without which X servers will not work. Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfonts-cjk | xfonts-cjk provides fonts suitable for displaying text in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients. Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfonts-cyrillic | xfonts-cyrillic provides a set of fonts using the Cyrillic alphabet for X servers. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients. Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfonts-pex | The X server PEX extension, provided in the xext package, searches for these fonts by default, and outputs an error message if it can't find them. Installing this package will suppress these messages. Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfonts-scalable | xfonts-scalable provides fonts that can be drawn at any size by the X server or font server without loss of quality. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients. Source: xfree86-2 |
| xfree86-common | xfree86-common contains the filesystem infrastructure required for further installation of the X Window System in any configuration. . Those wishing an X server only (with remote font services and clients) will also require the xserver-common package and an X server package. . The counterpart to the above configuration is a machine with the X libraries (the xlib6g package), xbase-clients, a window manager, some X font packages, and likely many more client packages. . Those who desire a standalone X workstation (and/or are fuzzy on the concepts of X servers and X clients) will require both of the above sets of packages. A recommended minimal list of packages for such a configuration is: xbase-clients, xf86setup, xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-scalable, xlib6g, xserver-common, an xserver (several are available, and which you use is largely dependent on your graphics hardware), a window manager (several are available, and which you use is largely a matter of preference), and a terminal emulator X client package (again, several are available and which you use is your decision). . A number of terms are used to refer to the X Window System, including "X", "X Version 11", "X11", "X11R6", and "X11R6.3". The version of X used in Debian is derived from the version released by the XFree86 Project, Inc., and is thus often also referred to as "XFree86". All of the preceding quoted terms are functionally interchangeable in a Debian system. . Still confused? Install this package and then read the files in /usr/doc/xfree86-common/ for assistance. |
| xfs | xfs is a daemon that listens on a network port and serves X fonts to X servers (and thus to X clients). All X servers have the ability to serve locally installed fonts for themselves, but xfs makes it possible to offload that job from the X server, and/or have a central repository of fonts on a networked machine running xfs so that all the machines running X servers on a network do not require their own set of fonts. xfs may also be invoked by users to, for instance, make available X fonts in user accounts that are not available to the X server or to an already running system xfs. |
| xlib6g-dev | xlib6g-dev provides the standard set of include files for X, and some static libraries (with debugging symbols) required for X client development. You only need to install it if you intend to compile X clients yourself. This package only provides statically linked libraries that have no shared object version in xlib6g. For statically linked versions of the libraries in the xlib6g package, see the xlib6g-static package. This package does not include the manual pages for the functions in the X libraries; for those, install the xmanpages package. |
| xlib6g-static | You only need to install this package if you intend to compile statically linked X clients. Static libraries with no shared version are in the xlib6g-dev package. The libraries in this package include debugging symbols. |
| xlib6g | The X libraries are the interface between X client programs and the hardware-oriented X servers, and consist of routines to read input from the keyboard and pointer, draw on the screen, etc., in an abstract manner that is independent of the particular characteristics of the hardware. The X libraries communicate with X servers by means of the X protocol. Xlib itself provides the low-level functionality; Xt, the X Toolkit Intrinsics, is often used as a foundation for widget libraries such as Lesstif or Athena. Xaw, the Athena widget set, provides a rudimentary set of graphical user-interface elements (buttons, scrollbars, text boxes, etc.). Several more libraries are provided to implement the functions of various X extensions. xlib6g also contains the XKB specification files, locale data, and the bitmap image files that ship with X11R6.3. |
| xmanpages | The manual pages provided in this package document the programmers' interface to the functions provided by the X libraries. They do not document the standard X clients or the servers; those manpages are included in the appropriate package (e.g., xdm's manpage is in the xdm package). . X client or server developers will likely also find the xbooks package of utility. Source: xfree86-2 |
| xmh | xmh provides a graphical user interface to the MH (Message Handler) mail system. xmh is a very old X client and is not exactly a "living" piece of software. MH users will probably prefer the exmh package, which serves the same function and continues to be actively developed. |
| xproxy | xproxy provides a low bandwidth X proxy (lbxproxy), an X firewall proxy (xfwp), and a proxy manager service (proxymngr). . lbxproxy is useful for running X clients across a slow network connection. Applications need not know anything about the Low Bandwidth extension to X (LBX); they simply connect to lbxproxy as if it were another server. The proxy accepts client connections, multiplexes them over a single connection to the X server, and performs various optimizations on the X protocol to make it faster over low bandwidth and/or high latency connections. . xfwp is an application layer gateway proxy that may be run on a network firewall host to forward X traffic across the firewall. . proxymngr is responsible for resolving requests from xfindproxy (in the xbase-clients package) and other similar clients, starting new proxies when appropriate, and keeping track of all the available proxy services. |
| xsm | A session is a group of applications, each of which has a particular state. xsm allows you to create arbitrary sessions -- for example, you might have a "light" session, a "development" session, or an "xterminal" session. Each session can have its own set of applications. Within a session, you can perform a "checkpoint" to save application state, or a "shutdown" to save state and exit the session. When you log back in to the system, you can load a specific session, and you can delete sessions you no longer want to keep. . Many window managers and desktop environments for X also provide session management services; this is the original X Consortium reference implementation. |
| xterm | xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly. This version implements ISO/ANSI colors and most of the control sequences used by DEC VT220 terminals. |
| zip | This is the Debian GNU/Linux version of InfoZIP's zip program. It produces files that are fully compatible with the popular PKZIP program; however, the command line options are not identical. In other words, the end result is the same, but the methods differ. :-) |
| zlib-bin | Some generally useful sample programs from the contrib directory. Includes a "mini" implementation of `zip' and `unzip' called `minizip' and `miniunzip' respectively. |
| zlib1g-dev | zlib is a library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and pkzip. This package includes the development support files. |
| zlib1g | zlib is a library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and pkzip. This package includes the shared library. |