Package: abiword-help Description-md5: 0523ecf09e7d7845580b8072d2a0daf2 Description-en_GB: online help for AbiWord AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and is extensible with a variety of plugins. . This package contains online help files (in HTML format) for AbiWord. Package: acct Description-md5: b24f45ef7d67937aa65ecb8e36a7e5a1 Description-en_GB: The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting GNU Accounting Utilities is a set of utilities which reports and summarises data about user connect times and process execution statistics. . "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system. . The 'last' command is provided by the sysvinit package and not included here. Package: acl Description-md5: 75eddab5ddd2597445b43aa18f0db77a Description-en_GB: Access control list utilities This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists. Package: acpi Description-md5: db6ab4efac863dec3b47725e9bbd40ae Description-en_GB: displays information on ACPI devices Attempts to replicate the functionality of the 'old' apm command on ACPI systems, including battery and thermal information. Does not support ACPI suspending, only displays information about ACPI devices. Package: acpid Description-md5: 1960381c0528bb93e1e90f01f2fe154e Description-en_GB: Utilities for using ACPI power management Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and configuration status. . ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events. It listens on a file (/proc/acpi/event) and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the admin. Package: adept Description-md5: e6ca9314b0ba2c317272ec217ca1d211 Description-en_GB: package management suite for KDE Adept Manager is a graphical user interface for package management. It also provides a specialised UI for system updates. . Besides these basic functions the following features are provided: * Search and filter the list of available packages (also using debtags) * Perform smart system upgrades * Edit the list of used repositories (sources.list) * Configure packages through the debconf system Package: aide Description-md5: 2f952d2016068a66962bb96ea84f8fc7 Description-en_GB: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialised it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. . This package contains the statically linked binary for "normal" systems. . You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in /etc/aide/aide.conf or drop your own config snippets into /etc/aide/aide.conf.d. . Upstream URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide Package: aide-common Description-md5: 6bf2528925c7fbc4992d4b15aca1a673 Description-en_GB: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialised it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. . This package contains base and configuration files that are needed to run the actual binaries. . You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in /etc/aide/aide.conf or drop your own config snippets into /etc/aide/aide.conf.d. . Upstream URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide Package: akregator Description-md5: f3438192d62e4a56be6c871875aedd70 Description-en_GB: RSS feed aggregator for KDE aKregator is a fast, lightweight, and intuitive feed reader program for KDE. It allows you to quickly browse through hundreds of thousands of internet feeds in a quick, efficient, and familiar way. . This package is part of KDE, and a component of the KDE PIM module. See the 'kde' and 'kdepim' packages for more information. Package: alacarte Description-md5: ea89a81c038b7864336ed55a2783b93b Description-en_GB: easy GNOME menu editing tool Alacarte is an easy-to-use menu editor for GNOME that can add and edit new entries and menus. It works with the freedesktop.org menu specification and should work with any desktop environment that uses the spec. Package: alien Description-md5: 250884c1c7113f08b8c335ac3cf22206 Description-en_GB: convert and install rpm and other packages Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. Package: alsa-base Description-md5: 14d30d1beb8026b3d2636c32c5a92cca Description-en_GB: ALSA driver configuration files This package contains various configuration files for the ALSA drivers. . For ALSA to work on a system with a given sound card, there must be an ALSA driver for that card in the kernel. Linux 2.6 as shipped in linux- image packages contains ALSA drivers for all supported sound cards in the form of loadable modules. A custom alsa-modules package can be built from the sources in the alsa-source package using the m-a utility (included in the module-assistant package). Please read the README.Debian file for more information about loading and building modules. . ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Package: alsa-utils Description-md5: 2a345a7654275a3c84c972e730569513 Description-en_GB: ALSA utilities This package contains utilities for configuring and using ALSA, including: o amixer: command line mixer o alsamixer: curses mixer o amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports o aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording o aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording o aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control . ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Package: amarok Description-md5: 4c0bca30a13664c3e37d29378225a5a3 Description-en_GB: versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE Amarok tries to be a little different, providing a simple drag and drop interface that really makes playlist handling easy. . Features include: - rapid playlist creation, with drag and drop from a directory view - nice playlist browser for your existing playlists (PLS or M3U formats) - collection-indexing support, for smart browsing and playlist creation - possibility of accessing media via kioslaves, allowing you to play via smb:// or fish:// (normal streams are of course supported) - inline ID3 tag editing, capable of retrieving tags via MusicBrainz - album cover support: automatically displays album covers from the filesystem, or downloaded on the fly - miscellaneous audio effects, including crossfading - easy bindable global shortcuts, rich DCOP interface - On-Screen Display (OSD), on track change or at keypress - iPod and iRiver support - Last.fm stream playing support (if ruby is installed) - Track "mood" display (requires moodbar package installed) . Support for libvisual visualization plugins is also compiled in (you need to have libvisual-0.4-plugins installed to be able to use it). Package: amarok-engine-xine Description-md5: 429e6e68797f348e390c7b8f9504695d Description-en_GB: xine engine for the Amarok audio player This package provides the xine engine for Amarok, which you may prefer for some reason over the other engines (e.g., it is the lightest engine Dependency-wise). Package: anacron Description-md5: 98c80c63ed6d85b30d3e95d03396653d Description-en_GB: cron-like program that doesn't go by time 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. Package: ant Description-md5: 5ceb3b9317ae6734ab188db300acaade Description-en_GB: Java based build tool like make A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the scripts and the core tasks libraries. Package: ant-doc Description-md5: 57a585c539546126acd9aa0e320f0d4d Description-en_GB: Java based build tool like make - API documentation and manual A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the manual of ant as well as the Javadoc API documentation. Package: ant-gcj Description-md5: 5ceb3b9317ae6734ab188db300acaade Description-en_GB: Java based build tool like make A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the scripts and the core tasks libraries. Package: ant-optional Description-md5: ccdbce1086b391c7aabff03d95a69d02 Description-en_GB: Java based build tool like make - optional libraries A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the optional tasks libraries. Package: ant-optional-gcj Description-md5: 57a585c539546126acd9aa0e320f0d4d Description-en_GB: Java based build tool like make - API documentation and manual A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the manual of ant as well as the Javadoc API documentation. Package: antlr Description-md5: 21a2d2105df695e242797a7829b2c9b5 Description-en_GB: language tool for constructing recognizers, compilers etc ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions [You can use PCCTS 1.xx to generate C-based parsers]. . Computer language translation has become a common task. While compilers and tools for traditional computer languages (such as C or Java) are still being built, their number is dwarfed by the thousands of mini-languages for which recognisers and translators are being developed. Programmers construct translators for database formats, graphical data files (e.g., PostScript, AutoCAD), text processing files (e.g., HTML, SGML). ANTLR is designed to handle all of your translation tasks. Package: apache2-prefork-dev Description-md5: 131f1c35d98f8bc3fbed9f8a41149dd8 Description-en_GB: Apache development headers - non-threaded MPM This package provides the development headers and apxs2 binary for apache2 -mpm-prefork; see the apache2 package description for more details. . This should only be used when you absolutely *must* support a non-threaded environment (for PHP, for example). Package: apache2-src Description-md5: f30b60a64c23f89193ccfd716d80f028 Description-en_GB: Apache source code This package includes the complete and patched source code for the Apache HTTPD. It is useful for other packages to build-depend on in order to build custom MPMs. Package: apache2-threaded-dev Description-md5: dcab973a966982dea149a93e2310d0a1 Description-en_GB: Apache development headers - threaded MPM This package provides the development headers and apxs2 binary for threaded versions of apache2; see the apache2 package description for more details. Package: apache2-utils Description-md5: 840996027b9ec07161a3919d9cb49b9b Description-en_GB: utility programs for webservers Provides some add-on programs useful for any webserver. These include: - ab (Apache benchmark tool) - logresolve (Resolve IP addresses to hostname in logfiles) - htpasswd (Manipulate basic authentication files) - htdigest (Manipulate digest authentication files) - dbmmanage (Manipulate basic authentication files in DBM format, using perl) - htdbm (Manipulate basic authentication files in DBM format, using APR) - rotatelogs (Periodically stop writing to a logfile and open a new one) - split-logfile (Split a single log including multiple vhosts) - checkgid (Checks whether the caller can setgid to the specified group) - check_forensic (Extract mod_log_forensic output from apache log files) Package: apmd Description-md5: b7d53b84714f188da8af7511fe3e8156 Description-en_GB: Utilities for Advanced Power Management (APM) On laptop computers, the Advanced Power Management (APM) support provides access to battery status information and may help you to conserve battery power, depending on your laptop and the APM implementation. The apmd program also lets you run arbitrary programs when APM events happen (for example, you can eject PCMCIA devices when you suspend, or change hard drive timeouts when you connect the battery). . This package contains apmd(8), a daemon for logging and acting on APM events; and apm(1), a client that prints the information in /proc/apm in a readable format. . apmd is notified of APM events by the APM driver in the kernel. . Debian kernels are built with APM support but it is disabled by default. You need to boot the kernel with the "apm=on" option if you want to enable the driver. (You may need to add this option to your lilo command line.) . In most cases, users may want to know that there are newer power management schemes, like ACPI. Package: app-install-data-commercial Description-md5: 591f518c4e32a3057ac31085e8fc244f Description-en_GB: Application Installer (data files for commercial applications) A pretty application installer. . This package contains the data files for the commercial applications available in gnome-app-install. Package: apport Description-md5: 4a42da07410e28343b550703096ba170 Description-en_GB: automatically generate crash reports for debugging apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilises the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package also provides a command line frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. For desktops, you should consider installing the GTK+ or Qt user interface (apport-gtk or apport-qt). . See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedProblemReports for more information. Package: apport-gtk Description-md5: 01863332c9d2bbf53684c53b77e17875 Description-en_GB: GTK+ frontend for the apport crash report system apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilises the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package provides a GTK+ frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. . See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedProblemReports for more information. Package: apport-qt Description-md5: e0a066368a09f0214aae3b55e98fe30f Description-en_GB: Qt4 frontend for the apport crash report system apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilises the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package provides a Qt4 frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. . See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedProblemReports for more information. Package: apport-retrace Description-md5: 18abc28e83b55951e8d4b0b772f61e3b Description-en_GB: tools for reprocessing Apport crash reports apport-retrace recombines an Apport crash report (either a file or a Launchpad bug) and debug symbol packages (.ddebs) into fully symbolic stack traces. . This package also ships apport-chroot. This tool can create and manage chroots for usage with apport-retrace. If the fakeroot and fakechroot libraries are available (either by installing the packages or by merely putting their libraries somewhere and setting two environment variables), the entire process of retracing crashes in chroots can happen with normal user privileges. Package: apt Description-md5: d41ee493aa9fcc6cbc9ce4eb7069959c Description-en_GB: Advanced front-end for dpkg 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 apt-doc. Package: apt-doc Description-md5: 9b6a7aeacfdf621c39e12d6845a9b3ce Description-en_GB: Documentation for APT This package contains the user guide and offline guide, for APT, an Advanced Package Tool. Package: apt-transport-https Description-md5: 047a731f804f9f9b8a570804342a8f5f Description-en_GB: APT https transport This package contains a APT https transport. It makes it possible to use 'deb https://foo distro main' lines in the sources.list. Package: apt-utils Description-md5: 89ba4d29ff1b6c208bff38a20bd46c2b Description-en_GB: APT utility programs This package contains some APT utility programs such as apt-ftparchive, apt-sortpkgs and apt-extracttemplates. . apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation. apt-ftparchive is used to create Package and other index files. apt-sortpkgs is a Package/Source file normalizer. Package: arts Description-md5: 87aad9191ff6600084d1080cc6cf09ed Description-en_GB: sound system from the official KDE release KDE (the K Desktop Environment) is a powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. . This metapackage includes the complete aRts sound system, without development packages. aRts is the core sound system for KDE. Package: arts-dbg Description-md5: 661289ae17a2ccc09c59c0017f9b7fb4 Description-en_GB: debugging symbols for arts This package contains the debugging symbols associated with arts. They will automatically be used by gdb for debugging arts-related issues. Package: asciidoc Description-md5: db604821694f4714e2ebf12b4f45105d Description-en_GB: Highly configurable text format for writing documentation AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing articles, books, manuals and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML (with or without stylesheets), DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc command. AsciiDoc can also be used to build and maintain websites. . You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed directly or translated to other presentation formats Package: aspell Description-md5: 21dcab5448cba7f61ba8df4ace46f1af Description-en_GB: GNU Aspell spell-checker GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about any other spell-checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. . Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell. Package: aspell-de Description-md5: 39cd0f073bca936d349803a5e5b99a9d Description-en_GB: German dictionary for aspell This package contains German dictionaries for the aspell spell checker. . Dictionaries included are: de_DE (de/deutsch/german), de_CH (swiss), and de_AT, all using the new German orthography from 1996 (neue Rechtschreibung). . The old (1901) spelling is provided by aspell-de-alt. Package: aspell-de-alt Description-md5: cbb9c1ad22430038b88220afc99e7cda Description-en_GB: German dictionary for aspell (old spelling) This package contains German dictionaries for the aspell spell checker. . Dictionaries included are de-alt (deutsch-alt/german-old) and de_CH-alt, all using the old German orthography from 1901 (alte Rechtschreibung). . The new (1996) spelling is provided by aspell-de. Package: aspell-doc Description-md5: 33c68b861d6f2e2ef1b189909b98b741 Description-en_GB: Documentation for GNU Aspell spell-checker This package contains the documentation for GNU Aspell in various formats. The aspell package comes with minimal man pages. Install this package if you need further information on the development process and workings of Aspell. Package: aspell-en Description-md5: 33430e0431f04d392965162affa799eb Description-en_GB: English dictionary for GNU Aspell This package contains all the required files to add support for English language to the GNU Aspell spell checker. . American, British and Canadian spellings are included. Package: at Description-md5: 97e204a9f4ad8c681dbd54ec7c505251 Description-en_GB: Delayed job execution and batch processing 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 Package: at-spi Description-md5: 74e6e647a7827e232b2610c615215a76 Description-en_GB: Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface Providing accessibility means removing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from participating in substantial life activities, including the use of services, products, and information. Assistive access means that system infrastructure allows add-on assistive software to transparently provide specialised input and output capabilities. . This package contains the core components of GNOME Accessibility. if you need to use Assistive technology, install it. Package: at-spi-doc Description-md5: 222491e2c82592a065920601156a9de8 Description-en_GB: Documentation files of at-spi for GNOME Accessibility at-spi is the "Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface". . Accessibility is enabling people with disabilities to participate in substantial life activities that include work and the use of services, products and information. . This package contains the documentation files for at-spi. Package: atomix Description-md5: 1fdd9dba30c9b26f4eb2f1dc6e38ed09 Description-en_GB: puzzle game for building molecules out of isolated atoms Atomix is a game designed for GNOME in which you have to build molecules, from simple inorganic to extremely complex organic ones, out of isolated atoms. . The first levels can be misleadingly easy, but added complexity always comes with the next level, so that several minutes (or even much more than that) can be spent on getting out of one single level. Package: atomix-data Description-md5: 1b639c06d35c627cde27f4729456e1a9 Description-en_GB: architecture independent files for atomix This package contains all the files which atomix places under /usr/share, which are not specific to any single processor architecture once the package is build, so a single package can serve all the architectures Debian supports. . This package is not useful at all if atomix is not installed. Package: attr Description-md5: 06768ac28dead3beb310d915f4822f45 Description-en_GB: Utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name. Package: auctex Description-md5: 37416b65acb2b4602c1a9f8eaed3a2ba Description-en_GB: An integrated environment for editing TeX and friends documents AUCTeX is a comprehensive customisable integrated environment for writing input files for TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/Texinfo using Emacs. . It lets you process your source files by running TeX and related tools (such as output filters, post processors for generating indices and bibliographies, and viewers) from inside Emacs. AUCTeX lets you browse through the errors TeX reported, while it moves the cursor directly to the reported error, and displays some documentation for that particular error. This will even work when the document is spread over several files. . One component of AUCTeX that LaTeX users will find attractive is preview- latex, a combination of folding and in-source previewing that provides true "What You See Is What You Get" experience in your sourcebuffer, while letting you retain full control. preview-latex comes with its own manual. . AUCTeX automatically indents your `LaTeX-source', not only as you write it ---you can also let it indent and format an entire document. It has a special outline feature, which can greatly help you `getting an overview' of a document. . Apart from these special features, AUCTeX provides a large range of handy Emacs macros, which in several different ways can help you write your documents fast and painlessly. . All features of AUCTeX are documented using the GNU Emacs online documentation system. That is, documentation for any command is just a key click away! . AUCTeX is written entirely in Emacs-Lisp, and hence you can easily add new features for your own needs. It has become recently a GNU project. AUCTeX is distributed under the `GNU General Public License Version 2'. . Currently XEmacs ships with its own AUCTeX, so this package should only be used with GNU/Emacs. (I.e., you don't need to install this package if your site uses only XEmacs.) . Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ Package: authbind Description-md5: 6ffd268fa04a5e344832e2275265da15 Description-en_GB: Allows non-root programs to bind() to low ports This package allows a package to be started as non-root but still bind to low ports, without any changes to the application. Package: autoconf Description-md5: aa404e066e9ebd9c4557427b8db98367 Description-en_GB: automatic configure script builder 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. . For an extensive library of additional Autoconf macros, install the `autoconf-archive' package. For a book that explains how to use Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool in conjunction, install the `autobook' package. . The Debian project regards the full documentation for autoconf to be non- free, so it is not included in Debian. Nevertheless, the non-free distribution that accompanies Debian includes the manual in its `autoconf- doc' package. . This version of autoconf is not compatible with scripts meant for Autoconf 2.13 or earlier. If you need support for such scripts, you must also install the autoconf2.13 package. Package: autoconf-doc Description-md5: 75aa8b462915c060123b4ef56d15ca55 Description-en_GB: automatic configure script builder documentation 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. . For an extensive library of additional Autoconf macros, install the `autoconf-archive' package. For a book that explains how to use Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool in conjunction, install the `autobook' package. . This version of autoconf is not compatible with scripts meant for Autoconf 2.13 or earlier. If you need support for such scripts, you must also install the autoconf2.13 package. . This package contains the non-free GFDL documentation for autoconf Package: autoconf2.13 Description-md5: bc5162b28a67120a5898327c3cd78daf Description-en_GB: automatic configure script builder (obsolete version) Obsolete compatibility package of Autoconf 2.13. For use only with packages that cannot easily be updated to use Autoconf 2.50+. . This package provides compatibility wrappers for autoconf, autoheader, and autoreconf that attempt to automatically choose which version of Autoconf to use, based on some simple heuristics. For information on these heuristics or how to force use of a particular Autoconf version, see /usr/share/doc/autoconf2.13/README.Debian.gz. Package: autofs Description-md5: 8a5994d5cb150bcb126bd0fdc2200455 Description-en_GB: kernel-based automounter for Linux Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre- configured maps. . The kernel automounter implements an almost complete SunOS style automounter under Linux. Automounter version 4 (autofs4) has to be enabled when compiling the kernel. Debian packaged kernels have it enabled. Package: autogen Description-md5: bf839afd4d68defeceacf6727a815d34 Description-en_GB: an automated text file generator AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. . Included with AutoGen is a tool that virtually eliminates the hassle of processing options, keeping usage text up to date and so on. This tool allows you to specify several program attributes, innumerable options and option attributes, then it produces all the code necessary to parse and handle the command line and initialization file options. . This package contains the development tools. libopts25-dev contains the static libraries and header files. libopts25 contains the shared libraries. Package: automake Description-md5: 6f497af7609daf9f483b9ba343a4ebe4 Description-en_GB: A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. . The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer). . 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 1.10 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 did, so has been renamed so that the previous version can continue to be made available. Package: automake1.4 Description-md5: 549c257438a50b62feacc392e53bb8f7 Description-en_GB: A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. . The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer). . 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. . This version of automake is several years out of date and is only provided for compatibility will older software. Please do not use it for new projects. Package: automake1.7 Description-md5: 1a90aa1de36fd74fa2994089a1079802 Description-en_GB: A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. . The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer). . 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 1.7 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.4 and 1.5 did, so has been renamed so that the previous version can continue to be made available. Package: automake1.9 Description-md5: 16f7c6a70ae85327f4522569aa2e0cc9 Description-en_GB: A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. . The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer). . 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 1.9 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 did, so has been renamed so that the previous version can continue to be made available. Package: automake1.9-doc Description-md5: 16f7c6a70ae85327f4522569aa2e0cc9 Description-en_GB: A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'. . The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer). . 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 1.9 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 did, so has been renamed so that the previous version can continue to be made available. Package: autopkgtest Description-md5: cef126568bad28ca6bc0fe5a43dfe944 Description-en_GB: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages autopkgtest runs tests on binary packages. The tests are run on the package as installed on a testbed system (which may be found via a virtualisation or containment system). The tests are expected to be supplied in the corresponding Debian source package. . See adt-run(1) and /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest. Use of adt-virt-xenlvm requires the autopkgtest-xenlvm package too; Use of the pre-cooked adt- testreport-onepackage script requires curl. Package: autotools-dev Description-md5: 66aafe70d5596f65eeb001e944519ff3 Description-en_GB: Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub} files This package installs an up-to-date (from CVS) version of config.guess and config.sub, used by the automake and libtool packages. It provides the canonical copy of those files for other packages as well. . It also documents in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz best practices and guidelines for using autoconf, automake and friends on Debian packages. This is a must-read for any developers packaging software that uses the GNU autotools, or GNU gettext. Package: avahi-autoipd Description-md5: 138918db536f809399d465466a14a80b Description-en_GB: Avahi IPv4LL network address configuration daemon Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to. . This tool implements IPv4LL, "Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses" (IETF RFC3927), a protocol for automatic IP address configuration from the link-local 169.254.0.0/16 range without the need for a central server. It is primarily intended to be used in ad-hoc networks which lack a DHCP server. Package: avahi-daemon Description-md5: d2d6eca3335702261cb1a18c95868bb6 Description-en_GB: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to. . This package contains the Avahi Daemon which represents your machine on the network and allows other applications to publish and resolve mDNS/DNS- SD records. Package: awstats Description-md5: 13563117d747b5d1acdce35986df9f8a Description-en_GB: powerful and featureful web server log analyser Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a powerful web server logfile analyser written in perl that shows you all your web statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, robots, broken links and more. Gives more detailed information and better graphical charts than webalizer, and is easier to use. Works with several web server log format as a CGI and/or from command line. Supports more than 30 languages. Package: backuppc Description-md5: 9cf963981a203dec6d92fb3ac952296c Description-en_GB: high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs BackupPC is disk based and not tape based. This particularity allows features not found in any other backup solution: * Clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O. Identical files across multiple backups of the same or different PC are stored only once resulting in substantial savings in disk storage and disk writes. Also known as "data deduplication". * Optional compression provides additional reductions in storage. CPU impact of compression is low since only new files (those not already in the pool) need to be compressed. * A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view log files, configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and cancel backups and browse and restore files from backups very quickly. * No client-side software is needed. On WinXX the smb protocol is used. On Linux or Unix clients, rsync or tar (over ssh/rsh/nfs) can be used * Flexible restore options. Single files can be downloaded from any backup directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives for selected files or directories can also be downloaded from the CGI interface. * BackupPC supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP). * Flexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be performed in parallel. * and more to discover in the manual... Package: base-files Description-md5: ccc7d4700eb56c8b814b1f4a8b9a556f Description-en_GB: Debian base system miscellaneous 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. Package: base-passwd Description-md5: aad0cc52ee72b2469af5552851e49f03 Description-en_GB: Debian base system master password and group files These are the canonical master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group), containing the Debian-allocated user and group IDs. The update-passwd tool is provided to keep the system databases synchronised with these master files. Package: bash Description-md5: 82836500b5a514df81f56f5dc639231c Description-en_GB: The GNU Bourne Again SHell 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). . The Programmable Completion Code, by Ian Macdonald, is now found in the bash-completion package. Package: bash-doc Description-md5: 87bcd31a74f29447890330d831edb1f7 Description-en_GB: Documentation and examples for the The GNU Bourne Again SHell 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 distributable documentation, all the examples and the main changelog. Package: bbdb Description-md5: cf6e32334b121b23ad0d84643800ce68 Description-en_GB: The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs BBDB is a rolodex-like database program for GNU Emacs. BBDB stands for Insidious Big Brother Database, and is not, repeat, *not* an obscure reference to the Buck Rogers TV series. Package: bc Description-md5: 5d0bd9bd305e8d8ca79ea90107c2ec5a Description-en_GB: The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language 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. Home page: http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/bc.html Package: bcc Description-md5: 268215b21e3311cc4ec3976927b43fee Description-en_GB: 16-bit x86 C compiler This is a C-compiler for 8086 cpus which is important for the development of boot loaders or BIOS related 8086 code. . It is possible to run 8086 code under i386 Linux using an emulator, `elksemu', also included in this package. Package: bcrelay Description-md5: 0d08b1bce88613adbf371da46ed0b397 Description-en_GB: Broadcast relay daemon The bcrelay daemon relays broadcasts between two interfaces. It is shipped with the pptpd package, but can be used for other purposes. Package: bdf2psf Description-md5: ef818d3d3b7465e16a18763ce8b1e9e8 Description-en_GB: Font converter to generate console fonts from BDF source fonts This is a command line converter that can be used in scripts to build automatically console fonts from BDF sources. The converter comes with a collection of font encodings that cover many of the world languages; notice that the font encoding (so called SFM) does not need to follow the actually used encoding (so called ACM). When the source font does not define a glyph for a symbol in the font encoding the glyph position in the console font is not wasted but used for another symbol. . When deciding about the position in the font for a particular glyph, the converter takes into account that in text video modes the video adapter copies the 8th column of the glyph matrix of symbols positioned in the pseudographic area to the 9th column. In order to create fonts for text video modes the width of the glyph matrix of the source BDF font should be 7, 8 or 9 pixels, otherwise the converter creates fonts suitable for framebuffer only. Package: belocs-locales-bin Description-md5: edfe69e453a573fc161afe38fbaf990b Description-en_GB: tools for compiling locale data files This package provides the executables needed to compile locale data files. Source files come from GNU libc, but are slightly improved to allow changes in language and territory definitions at run-time. Package: bf-utf-source Description-md5: 46d781daf22873a77c81a4a053eebce1 Description-en_GB: Source for fonts needed to build Debian installers This package contains bdf fonts needed to build the international version of boot-floppies and Debian-Installer (replacement for boot-floppies). . If you aren't building Debian boot & install floppies or CDs, you probably don't need this package. Package: bicyclerepair Description-md5: 7a590c4a0b86dd0e3fc60ccedf5cf48a Description-en_GB: A refactoring tool for python A framework and refactoring tool for Python. IDE Plugins are included for Pymacs, IDLE and Vim. Using Bicycle Repair Man you can rename classes, methods and variables, and all users of them are found and adjusted appropriately. . Homepage: http://bicyclerepair.sourceforge.net/ Package: bin86 Description-md5: ab9b02e844161c194a3566d31fb8a4ab Description-en_GB: 16-bit x86 assembler and loader This is the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans. It's a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors. Package: bind9 Description-md5: afd61d02df1ec6f856b928dfbf6fd201 Description-en_GB: Internet Domain Name Server 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. . This package provides the server and related configuration files. Package: bind9-doc Description-md5: 329b8ef5cf9ad3d51ce47e6d8d13d75e Description-en_GB: Documentation for BIND This package provides various documents that are useful for maintaining a working BIND installation. Package: bind9-host Description-md5: 9af8d28213d2f8c765236187934e605f Description-en_GB: Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X This package provides the 'host' program in the form that is bundled with the BIND 9.X sources. This version differs from the one provided in the package called host, which is from NIKHEF, and has a similar but different set of features/options. Package: binfmt-support Description-md5: 29e82a31bb4248987c1cee43d589e134 Description-en_GB: Support for extra binary formats The binfmt_misc kernel module, contained in versions 2.1.43 and later of the Linux kernel, allows system administrators to register interpreters for various binary formats based on a magic number or their file extension, and cause the appropriate interpreter to be invoked whenever a matching file is executed. Think of it as a more flexible version of the #! executable interpreter mechanism. . This package provides an 'update-binfmts' script with which package maintainers can register interpreters to be used with this module without having to worry about writing their own init.d scripts, and which sysadmins can use for a slightly higher-level interface to this module. Package: binutils Description-md5: e7067036ed365d85ae5650989b77fb64 Description-en_GB: The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 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. Package: binutils-dev Description-md5: b8101d44be0e2f74d00f9b4f4c1218d5 Description-en_GB: The GNU binary utilities (BFD development files) 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. Package: binutils-doc Description-md5: eed91f0cbf9f732a89a6bc7550ec55c3 Description-en_GB: Documentation for the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities This package consists of the documentation for the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. Package: binutils-static Description-md5: a90e1a9ffbe1800f08a167ffcbaf97cf Description-en_GB: statically linked binutils tools This package contains statically linked binutils tools used for linking kernel modules needed to mount /usr or /. At the moment, it only contains ld. Package: bison Description-md5: fdce43cb486932baeb6693a308fd3310 Description-en_GB: A parser generator that is compatible with YACC 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. Documentation of the program is in the bison-doc package. Package: bison-doc Description-md5: 13fe90eab8084a7e8639929bf1218e17 Description-en_GB: Documentation for the Bison parser generator This package contains the PDF and Info documentation for Bison. Package: bittornado Description-md5: 7302445404e44b6965e4b96dc3e73904 Description-en_GB: bittorrent client with enhanced curses interface bittorrent is a tool for distributing files. Whenever more than one person is downloading at once they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus relieving the central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server remains quite small, since each new downloader introduces new upload capacity. . BitTornado is the next generation bittorrent client built on the original BitTorrent. This client features an enhanced console/curses mode, lots of new features under the hood, and is generally one of the most advanced clients out there. Get this if you need to limit your bandwidth, or you want more control of your torrents. It does everything the original bittorrent does, plus more... . This package only contains the curses interfaces, install the package bittornado-gui to get the GUI components Package: blt Description-md5: 475dbbe0db52d9cbcb940d52b45fe044 Description-en_GB: the BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk - run-time package BLT is a library of useful extensions for the Tcl language and the popular Tk graphical toolkit. It adds a vector and tree data type, background execution and some debugging tools to Tcl, and provides several new widgets for Tk, including graphs, bar-charts, trees, tabs, splines and hyper-links, as well as a new geometry manager, drag & drop support, and more. . This package contains everything you need to use BLT with your Tcl/Tk scripts and Tcl/Tk-enabled apps. . Homepage: http://blt.sourceforge.net/ Package: blt-dev Description-md5: a990a6a5beb2be683373dfd871eccc46 Description-en_GB: the BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk - development files BLT is a library of useful extensions for the Tcl language and the popular Tk graphical toolkit. It adds a vector and tree data type, background execution and some debugging tools to Tcl, and provides several new widgets for Tk, including graphs, bar-charts, trees, tabs, splines and hyper-links, as well as a new geometry manager, drag & drop support, and more. . This package contains the headers and libraries needed to extend or embed BLT. . Homepage: http://blt.sourceforge.net/ Package: bluez Description-md5: ef25d6a9f4a57e78f32faa7b58ef4e59 Description-en_GB: Bluetooth tools and daemons This package contains tools and system daemons for using Bluetooth devices. . BlueZ is the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack. It is an Open Source project distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Package: bluez-cups Description-md5: 4e5f0a66844f2292ecbf023e856b77d4 Description-en_GB: Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS This package contains a driver to let CUPS print to Bluetooth-connected printers. . BlueZ is the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack. It is an Open Source project distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Package: bluez-gnome Description-md5: bbbe3a10e342de188d0c285a1a604fea Description-en_GB: Bluetooth utilities for GNOME This package contains various GNOME applets to detect bluetooth adapters and configure them. Package: bogofilter Description-md5: 83a573d0f450bb9662a7ec5b6b23ccdd Description-en_GB: a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy package) This package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". . This version substantially improves on Paul's proposal by doing smarter lexical analysis. In particular, hostnames and IP addresses are retained as recognition features rather than broken up. Various kinds of MTA cruft such as dates and message-IDs are discarded so as not to bloat the word lists. Package: bogofilter-bdb Description-md5: 7bc8342df20ec843123cb5879b9cd326 Description-en_GB: a fast Bayesian spam filter (Berkeley DB) This package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". . This version substantially improves on Paul's proposal by doing smarter lexical analysis. In particular, hostnames and IP addresses are retained as recognition features rather than broken up. Various kinds of MTA cruft such as dates and message-IDs are discarded so as not to bloat the word lists. Package: bogofilter-common Description-md5: f34df0a28d353b61dff4d2b43ee19026 Description-en_GB: a fast Bayesian spam filter (common files) This package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". . This version substantially improves on Paul's proposal by doing smarter lexical analysis. In particular, hostnames and IP addresses are retained as recognition features rather than broken up. Various kinds of MTA cruft such as dates and message-IDs are discarded so as not to bloat the word lists. Package: bonnie++ Description-md5: a8b8951b0b95e8b4829efa6b8b2b1bdf Description-en_GB: Hard drive bottleneck testing benchmark suite. It is called Bonnie++ because it was based on the Bonnie program. This program also tests performance with creating large numbers of files. Now includes zcav raw-read test program. A modern hard drive will have more sectors in the outer tracks because they are longer. The hard drive will have a number (often more than 8) of zones where each zone has the same number of sectors (due to the need for an integral number of sectors per track). This program allows you to determine the levels of performance provided by different zones and store them in a convenient format for gnuplot. Package: bootchart Description-md5: 11746aaf0d8bcda1d83cb094a0ff1720 Description-en_GB: boot sequence auditing and chart generator bootchart allows you to audit the boot sequence of your computer and generate a pretty chart of the processes run, including how long they took and how much CPU and I/O they used. . The auditing is performed by adding a script to the top of your initramfs which lives inside is own tiny filesystem during the boot process and monitors the rest of the system booting Package: bpalogin Description-md5: 266400cd32d71ef66503decd4d5217e2 Description-en_GB: login client for the Telstra Bigpond Cable Network (Australia) bpalogin is an open source login client for the Telstra Bigpond Cable Network in Australia. It is neither written nor supported by Telstra or Bigpond. It is both simple to use and stable. Unlike the standard client it does not crash, reconnects when there is a network problem, is available for most operating systems, can run as a service on WinNT/2k and comes with source Package: brltty-x11 Description-md5: bc6521182c9f9a4bdbb262ddc121d4fb Description-en_GB: Access software for a blind person using a braille display BRLTTY is a daemon which provides access to the Linux console (text mode) for a blind person using a braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality. . This package contains optional drivers which require X11 or GNOME. Package: bsdmainutils Description-md5: e364d990c94442ac98f347fc186727f9 Description-en_GB: collection of more utilities from FreeBSD This package contains lots of small programs many people expect to find when they use a BSD-style Unix system. . Included are: banner, ncal, 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 "coreutils" package. Package: bsdutils Description-md5: 1bf4bce740174530b7953a9832a5268e Description-en_GB: Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite This package contains the bare minimum number of BSD utilities needed to boot a Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils. Package: bsh Description-md5: 7344effde5b85638644be4f2f28d5c66 Description-en_GB: Java scripting environment (BeanShell) Version 2 BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java. BeanShell executes standard Java statements and expressions, in addition to obvious scripting commands and syntax. BeanShell supports scripted objects as simple method closures like those in Perl and JavaScript(tm). . You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or as a simple scripting engine for you applications. In short: BeanShell is a dynamically interpreted Java, plus some useful stuff. Package: bsh-doc Description-md5: ed74ef738aa20df1ad5467201ccab2c2 Description-en_GB: Documentation for bsh The documentation includes the javadoc api for bsh version 2 as well as the faq and manual in html-format. Package: bsh-gcj Description-md5: 12192d825be1197819e620cc469bac8f Description-en_GB: Java scripting environment (BeanShell) Version 2 (native code) BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java. BeanShell executes standard Java statements and expressions, in addition to obvious scripting commands and syntax. BeanShell supports scripted objects as simple method closures like those in Perl and JavaScript(tm). . You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or as a simple scripting engine for you applications. In short: BeanShell is a dynamically interpreted Java, plus some useful stuff. . This package contains the natively compiled code for use by gij. Package: bug-buddy Description-md5: a9d0385eeb944c35a2f8257c30e91cc6 Description-en_GB: GNOME Desktop Environment bug reporting tool The goal of bug-buddy is to make reporting bugs very simple and easy for users, while making the reports themselves more useful and informative for developers. It can extract debugging information from a core file or crashed application (via gnome_segv). . Homepage: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ Package: build-essential Description-md5: 90ef0ef86cafda0bd16f746eb621d9da Description-en_GB: Informational list of build-essential packages If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this package. Starting with dpkg (>= 1.14.18) this package is required for building Debian packages. . This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for building Debian packages. This package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the build- essential packages installed. . If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this package depends on. . This package is NOT the definition of what packages are build-essential; the real definition is in the Debian Policy Manual. This package contains merely an informational list, which is all most people need. However, if this package and the manual disagree, the manual is correct. Package: busybox-initramfs Description-md5: 094502bbe824d039d9076393a5ce9673 Description-en_GB: Standalone shell setup for initramfs BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. . busybox-initramfs provides a statically linked simple stand alone shell that provides only the basic utilities needed for the initramfs. Package: byacc Description-md5: 94bbb158e9e82e9efe062f345f2e95e3 Description-en_GB: public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator This package provides a parser generator utility that reads a grammar specification from 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. It has a public domain license which includes the generated C. Package: bzip2 Description-md5: 26e9d96b611ed3cf741ba7007fd4f233 Description-en_GB: high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities 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). Package: bzrtools Description-md5: 497d24706b7f5702b6965af45e681cf2 Description-en_GB: Collection of tools for bzr This package contains a collection of plugins for bzr - a distributed version control system. Some of these tools may work their way into bzr itself at some point, and some are just convenient addons useful for day to day operations. . bzrtools actually includes: * rspush: Push local changes to a remote server using rsync instead sftp. * shelve/unshelve: Provide a fine-grained 'undo' facility. * clean-tree: Remove unknown, ignored-junk, or all unversioned files from the current tree. * graph-ancestry: Use graphviz to produce graphs of branch ancestry. * shell: Start up a command interpreter that run bzr natively, providing autocompletion. * patch: Apply a specified patch to your tree, that can be a file or URL. * heads: Show all revisions in a repository not having descendants. Package: capiutils Description-md5: 21b4849caec7b72e6ecb089a8174bc32 Description-en_GB: Utilities for CAPI-capable ISDN cards Some ISDN cards (notably the AVM active cards, and the AVM passive cards when using the proprietary drivers) are accessed via the CAPI interface. The package contains utilities to initialise and get information about these cards. . See /usr/share/doc/capiutils/* for some (rudimentary) info. Package: capplets-data Description-md5: d0dc8df15bb248a7af404165463f2172 Description-en_GB: configuration applets for GNOME 2 - data files This package contains data files (icons, pixmaps, locales files) needed by the configuration applets in the gnome-control-center package. Package: casper Description-md5: 9be0120948307c7e897a16c45a69ba0f Description-en_GB: Run a "live" preinstalled system from read-only media Package: ccache Description-md5: 4271ba158841e77b4b8a3d84e8e3aed8 Description-en_GB: Compiler results cacher, for fast recompiles ccache is a compiler cache. It speeds up re-compilation of C/C++ code by caching previous compiles and detecting when the same compile is being done again. . This is similar to, but faster than, the compilercache package. Package: cdbs Description-md5: 768cdfbd23e3175721c7e05aeca1d09c Description-en_GB: common build system for Debian packages This package contains the Common Debian Build System, an abstract build system based on Makefile inheritance which is completely extensible and overridable. In other words, CDBS provides a sane set of default rules upon which packages can build; any or all rules may be overridden as needed. Package: cdparanoia Description-md5: 077c01bb6058cfbdf79d49d24548ea6f Description-en_GB: audio extraction tool for sampling CDs Unlike similar programs such as cdda2wav, cdparanoia goes to great lengths to try to extract the audio information without any artifacts such as jitter. Package: cdrdao Description-md5: 27c1ea6fa8a4913e9dd3ddfb6c692c21 Description-en_GB: records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) mode cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents. . Recording in disk-at-once mode writes the complete disc, i.e. lead-in, one or more tracks and lead-out, in a single step. The commonly used track-at- once (TAO) mode writes each track independently which requires link blocks between two tracks. You probably want to use this if you're copying a CD with multiple tracks, like most audio CDs. . cdrdao can also handle the bin/cue format commonly used for VCDs or disks with subchannel data. . If you just want to burn a normal data CD, you probably want wodim instead. Package: cdrkit-doc Description-md5: de4ca130903a6946310802d51064b32e Description-en_GB: Documentation for the cdrkit package suite This is the documentation for the cdrkit package suite, namely wodim, genisoimage and icedax. Package: check Description-md5: a51fdfa929f98fb924854b88bd42548c Description-en_GB: unit test framework for C Check features a simple interface for defining unit tests, putting little in the way of the developer. Tests are run in a separate address space, so Check can catch both assertion failures and code errors that cause segmentation faults or other signals. The output from unit tests can be used within source code editors and IDEs. Package: checksecurity Description-md5: 26c46b0bdb352b8c55ce0f21193e0c60 Description-en_GB: basic system security checks Checksecurity does some very basic system security checks, such as looking for changes in which programs have setuid permissions, and that remote filesystems are not allowed to have runnable setuid programs. . Note that these are not to be considered in any way complete, and you should not rely on checksecurity to actually provide any useful information concerning the security or vulnerability of your system. . The lockfile-progs package is only a "Suggests" because of the poor way that dselect handles "Recommends", but I do strongly suggest that you install it; it prevents /etc/cron.daily/standard from running multiple times if something gets jammed. . Checksecurity was previously part of the cron package. Package: chrpath Description-md5: a999fc68ae2f1aed25b996deccacd83d Description-en_GB: Tool to edit the rpath in ELF binaries chrpath allows you to change the rpath (where the application looks for libraries) in an application. It does not (yet) allow you to add an rpath if there isn't one already. Package: cli-common Description-md5: c868d733992b0f798d46399562a779bf Description-en_GB: common files between all CLI packages This package must be installed if a CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) runtime environment is desired. . It covers useful integration and information for CLI implementations in Debian GNU/Linux, including: * The CLI policy describes how CLI packages should behave and integrate. * A FAQ for package maintainers of CLI/.NET applications. * Integration for CLRs (Common Language Runtime): + Installing libraries into existing GACs (Global Assembly Cache) Package: cloop-utils Description-md5: 3d1d4288bcff38ee763800b505a55411 Description-en_GB: Tools for handling with cloop compressed volumes Utilities for creating and unpacking compressed loopback files for cloop. Package: clvm Description-md5: 0b0ef1700b208fd9b7d6b90a47a57b82 Description-en_GB: Cluster LVM Daemon for lvm2 This package provides the clustering interface for lvm2, when used with Red Hat's "cman" cluster infrastructure. It allows logical volumes to be created on shared storage devices (eg Fibre Channel, or iSCSI). Package: cmake Description-md5: ef00b7674c923e9cd114001e3734127c Description-en_GB: A cross-platform, open-source make system CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex environments requiring system configuration, pre- processor generation, code generation, and template instantiation. . CMake was developed by Kitware as part of the NLM Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit project. The ASCI VIEWS project also provided support in the context of their parallel computation environment. Other sponsors include the Insight, VTK, and VXL open source software communities. Package: cman Description-md5: 5466d65169d6fd5202d2cbef4b50ec72 Description-en_GB: cluster manager CMAN is a symmetric general-purpose cluster manager. It consists of a connection manager that handles cluster membership management, messaging among the cluster nodes, event notification, quorum and state transitions. Another part of CMAN is a service manager that handles service groups. . This package contains only userspace tools for controlling the actual cluster manager. Package: comerr-dev Description-md5: 2188fc96978a9083bb050c70bc3cab2a Description-en_GB: common error description library - headers and static libraries libcom_err 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. . This package contains the development environment for the com_err library. Package: command-not-found Description-md5: 1ebb1b7a245d540f6a337274608c7fb3 Description-en_GB: Suggest installation of packages in interactive bash sessions This package will install handler for command_not_found that lookups programs not currently installed but available from the repositiories. Package: command-not-found-data Description-md5: 730a06588855602fe72d37b151efeed2 Description-en_GB: Set of data files for command-not-found. This package provides the required data used by the command-not-found application. Package: compiz Description-md5: 21087f16455fee12627089d17c05e62d Description-en_GB: OpenGL window and compositing manager Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with special needs. . This meta-package provides the components necessary for running compiz. It provides the compiz core, a set of standard plugins, a window decorator using the Gtk toolkit and the files necessary to integrate compiz with the GNOME desktop environment. Package: compiz-core Description-md5: 96330190075d58bc036c352e8a3a72fa Description-en_GB: OpenGL window and compositing manager Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with special needs. . Compiz combines together a window manager and a composite manager using OpenGL for rendering. A "window manager" allows the manipulation of the multiple applications and dialogue windows that are presented on the screen. A "composite manager" allows windows and other graphics to be combined together to create composite images. Compiz achieves its stunning effects by doing both of these functions. Package: compiz-dev Description-md5: 867507a9b714c75e96d3438264bda095 Description-en_GB: OpenGL window and compositing manager - development files Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with special needs. . This package contains the headers and libraries needed to compile compiz plugins. Package: compiz-gnome Description-md5: dc9a2e23725981b68fe3c8c3ea89e9a0 Description-en_GB: OpenGL window and compositing manager - GNOME window decorator Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with special needs. . This package contains files needed to integrate compiz with the GNOME desktop environment and a window decorator that uses Gtk to provide a look and feel similar to that of the metacity window manager. Package: compiz-plugins Description-md5: f39811ad992ce3c6488dd01040e8dec9 Description-en_GB: OpenGL window and compositing manager - plugins Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with special needs. . This package contains the standard plugins that come with compiz. Compiz without these plugins is not very useful. Package: compiz-wrapper Description-md5: 36dfef8efbb9babc2e50a6e82f977526 Description-en_GB: OpenGL window and compositing manager, wrapper script Compiz brings to life a variety of visual effects that make the Linux desktop easier to use, more powerful and intuitive, and more accessible for users with special needs. . Compiz combines together a window manager and a composite manager using OpenGL for rendering. A "window manager" allows the manipulation of the multiple applications and dialogue windows that are presented on the screen. A "composite manager" allows windows and other graphics to be combined together to create composite images. Compiz achieves its stunning effects by doing both of these functions. . This package contains the wrapper script for testing if Compiz should be started. It is used by Compiz and KWin. Package: console-terminus Description-md5: 2cccbf8b91bdced12925aba6e894a073 Description-en_GB: Fixed-width fonts for fast reading on the Linux console This package installs in /usr/share/consolefonts several console variants of the Terminus font. If you have to work for extended time in front of monitor (i.e. over eight hours), you may find that using of these fonts reduces your eyes-fatigue. . The following charsets are supported: western European Latin, central European Latin, Turkish Latin, Romanian Latin, Slavic Cyrillic and Asian Cyrillic (Bashkyr, Kazakh, Mongolian and others). Package: contact-lookup-applet Description-md5: 8fe8d195c2ec0c987b631a18d671a4ba Description-en_GB: contact lookup applet for GNOME An applet to quickly search your Evolution address book from the GNOME panel. Package: coreutils Description-md5: c868f591a08bbe844d8eaba6627d97a7 Description-en_GB: The GNU core utilities This package contains the essential basic system utilities. . Specifically, this package includes: basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold groups head hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir sha1sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes Package: cpio Description-md5: 5f492bf139a41f29fd2d6fcadf43606e Description-en_GB: GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files 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. Package: cpp Description-md5: c57820cb6bdc6f35a158412b8b98afc9 Description-en_GB: The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) The GNU C preprocessor is a macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation. . This package has been separated from gcc for the benefit of those who require the preprocessor but not the compiler. . This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C preprocessor. Package: cpp-4.1 Description-md5: e335af62881f202cc72c45e2dd0c350d Description-en_GB: The GNU C preprocessor A macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation. . This package has been separated from gcc for the benefit of those who require the preprocessor but not the compiler. Package: cpp-4.1-doc Description-md5: 22a9ba311e91d8d744a9e4df2030d2bf Description-en_GB: Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor (cpp) Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor in info format. Package: cpp-4.2 Description-md5: e335af62881f202cc72c45e2dd0c350d Description-en_GB: The GNU C preprocessor A macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation. . This package has been separated from gcc for the benefit of those who require the preprocessor but not the compiler. Package: cpp-4.2-doc Description-md5: 22a9ba311e91d8d744a9e4df2030d2bf Description-en_GB: Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor (cpp) Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor in info format. Package: cpp-4.3 Description-md5: e335af62881f202cc72c45e2dd0c350d Description-en_GB: The GNU C preprocessor A macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation. . This package has been separated from gcc for the benefit of those who require the preprocessor but not the compiler. Package: cpp-4.3-doc Description-md5: 22a9ba311e91d8d744a9e4df2030d2bf Description-en_GB: Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor (cpp) Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor in info format. Package: cpp-doc Description-md5: bedc30e6ac711bb807bb5f49569e8b35 Description-en_GB: Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor (cpp) Documentation for the GNU C preprocessor in info format (dependency package). Package: cracklib-runtime Description-md5: 735547e1edb1c58c3775b3a199b66896 Description-en_GB: runtime support for password checker library cracklib2 Run-time support programs which use the shared library in libcrack2 including programs to build the password dictionary databases used by the functions in the shared library. Package: cramfsprogs Description-md5: 84999f91c25bcc80c3b25c460b471672 Description-en_GB: Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM File System) This package contains tools that let you construct a CramFs (Compressed ROM File System) image from the contents of a given directory, as well as checking a constructed CramFs image and extracting its contents. . Cram file systems are used for Debian INITRD images. Package: cricket Description-md5: 03e1e8a573de472a25aeaf1447321186 Description-en_GB: Program for collection and display of time-series data This is Cricket. It is a configuration, polling, and data-display engine wrapped around the RRD tool by Tobias Oetiker. There are three user- visible pieces to Cricket: the collector, the grapher, and the config tree. The collector runs from cron and fetches data from a number of devices according to the info it finds in the config tree. The grapher is a CGI application that allows users to traverse the config tree from a web browser and see the data that the collector recorded. Package: cron Description-md5: dd739490fcbcb7d5bf020e0a9b3d9562 Description-en_GB: management of regular background processing 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 "Recommends", but I do strongly suggest that you install it; it prevents /etc/cron.daily/standard from running multiple times if something gets jammed. Package: cu Description-md5: 3be86ba2957547b80526914de84a5085 Description-en_GB: call up another system The cu command is used to call up another system and act as a dial in terminal. It can also do simple file transfers with no error checking. . cu is part of the UUCP source but has been split into its own package because it can be useful even if you do not do uucp. Package: culmus Description-md5: 18c359f3b835e21d13532a73ebd2b264 Description-en_GB: Type1 Hebrew Fonts for X11 Several Hebrew font families. ASCII glyphs borrowed from the URW and Bitstream fonts. . Those families provide a basic set of a serif (Frank Ruehl), sans serif (Nachlieli) and monospaced (Miriam Mono) fonts. Also included are Aharoni, David, Drugulin, and Ellinia. Package: cups-client Description-md5: 35e668039c0234c1e3e14789de7ef187 Description-en_GB: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV) The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types. . This package provides the System V style print client programs. . The terms "Common UNIX Printing System" and "CUPS" are trademarks of Easy Software Products (www.easysw.com), and refer to the original source packages from which these packages are made. Package: cups-common Description-md5: d6f4a34b6cf635ab9a13dc1cd1503ec3 Description-en_GB: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types. . This package provides common files for CUPS server and client packages. . The terms "Common UNIX Printing System" and "CUPS" are trademarks of Easy Software Products (www.easysw.com), and refer to the original source packages from which these packages are made. Package: cups-driver-gutenprint Description-md5: aae2b2db31239419fb7dc8fdb595199f Description-en_GB: printer drivers for CUPS This package includes a CUPS driver based on Gutenprint. . The CUPS drivers contain all of the files needed to support photo-quality printing on any printer supported by Gutenprint. You can find out more about the Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS"), an IPP-based printing system for UNIX/Linux, at: . http://www.cups.org . This is Gutenprint version 5.2.0~rc1, a stable release in the 5.2 series. . Gutenprint is the print facility for the GIMP, and in addition a suite of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems using GhostScript or CUPS. These drivers provide printing quality for UNIX/Linux on a par with proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in many cases, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks. Gutenprint was formerly known as Gimp-Print. Package: curl Description-md5: 00d0d5095f091d7af8e693b825ed0492 Description-en_GB: Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server curl is a client to get files from servers using any of the supported protocols. The command is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. . curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, file transfer resume and more. Package: libcrack2 Description-md5: 7c7145f5450c1a0c56b8fff046f9d67e Description-en_GB: pro-active password checker library 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. Package: libcrack2-dev Description-md5: 82f7a6b572113225a1f54670be924522 Description-en_GB: pro-active password checker library - development Header files, static libraries, documentation, and symbolic links developers using cracklib2 will need.