Package: a2gs priority: optional section: text maintainer: Kenneth MacDonald version: 1.0 revision: 4 suggests: postscript-viewer description: ASCII to PostScript filter a2gs formats plain ASCII text into PostScript, suitable for printing or viewing with ghostscript. Pages can be rotated to landscape and multiple columns generated. . The generated PostScript can only be interpreted if it is available on . If you want to print on a genuine postscript printer, then the non-free `a2ps' package will be required. Package: acct priority: optional section: admin maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel version: 5 revision: 10 description: The GNU accounting utilities. The GNU accounting utilities include `ac', `accton', `last', `lastcomm', and `sa'. These programs add login and process accounting support to Debian GNU/Linux. "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. `lastcomm' and `sa' require kernel support provided by the default kernel included with Debian GNU/Linux (this support is not yet provided in the standard kernel distribution). More information can be found in the `accounting' Info page. . Please note that 'last' is now available as a seperate package. . 'sa' is currently not available as it is not supported by the 1.2.x kernel patch. Package: acm priority: optional section: games maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 4.7 revision: 3 description: A multi-player aerial combat simulation. Package: acs priority: extra section: electronics maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 016 revision: 1 description: Al's Circuit Simulator Package: adduser priority: required section: base maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 1.94 revision: 1 depends: findutils description: Utilities to add users and groups to the system. Adduser can be invoked either as "adduser" or "addgroup" by the system administrator to add users and groups to the system. this program can also be used to add an existing user to an existing group. . Adding users with "adduser" is usually better than adding them by hand, since the new user's UID and GID are automatically selected, a home directory is created, skeletal user configuration files are copied to the new directory, and an initial password and finger information are set. Package: ae priority: required section: base maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 493 revision: 6 description: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor ae is a tiny full-screen text editor with moth modual (vi-like) and modeless (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. . Keybindings are configurable in the startup file. Package: amd priority: optional section: net maintainer: Ian Murdock version: upl102 revision: 1 description: The 4.4BSD automounter. Amd is an automounter--it mounts file systems "on demand" when they are first referenced and unmounts them after a period of inactivity. Package: amsfonts priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.2 revision: 3 depends: metafont description: Additional Fonts from the AMS for typesetting math These fonts are intended for mathematical publications and contain many mathematical symbols, fraktur and script letters to be used in formulas and cyrillic letters for titles and short citations using the transliteration sheme for keying the Mathematical Reviews. . Also included is a set of virtual fonts based on the wncyr lettershapes but allowing typesetting of languages using the cyrillic alphabet. The Alternativnyj variant and KOI-8 encoding are supported. . (For those looking for a specific font) The names of the provided fonts are: msam msbm eufb eufm eurb eurm eusb eusm wncyr wncyb wncyi wncyss in the resp. point sizes. Package: amslatex priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.2 revision: 3 depends: amsfonts, latex recommends: provides: amslatex description: Math extensions for LaTeX from the AMS AMS-LaTeX is a collection of various extensions for LaTeX to provide support for sophisticated mathematical typesetting. It has been developed by the American Mathematical Society and released for general use as a service to the mathematical community. Package: amstex priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.1 revision: 1 depends: tex recommends: provides: description: An addon package for plain TeX from the AMS Package: at priority: important section: admin maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 2.8a revision: 2 depends: cron, bsdutils recommends: smail | sendmail description: delayed job execution and batch processing at and batch read commands which are to be executed later. . at is used to run a command at some specified future time, and batch is used to run a command when system load levels permit. . The at system uses cron to get the commands executed, so you need cron to use at. Package: auctex priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Jim Robinson version: 9.2y revision: 7 depends: emacs, tex recommends: latex, dvips description: An integrated environment for writing TeX/LaTeX documents. AUC TeX can indent your text as you write it, let you run TeX/LaTeX and other LaTeX-related tools (such as a output filter or post processor) from within Emacs, and includes a wide range of Emacs macros to allow both easy insertions of LaTeX commands, and easy compilation, previewing, and printing of your TeX documents. . AUC TeX also lets you browse through compiling errors TeX reports, while it moves the cursor directly to the reported error and displays documentation for that particular error. This will even work when the document is spread over several files. Package: autoconf priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.4 revision: 1 depends: m4, perl description: The GNU Autoconf configuration system. Autoconf produces shell scripts that automatically configure source code packages. These scripts adapt the packages to many different Unix-like systems without requiring manual intervention. Autoconf creates a script for a package from a template file which describes the operating system features which the package can use in the form of `m4' macro calls. Autoconf requires GNU `m4' to operate, but the resulting configure scripts it creates do not. More information about Autoconf can be found in the `autoconf' Info page. Package: ax25-kernel-source priority: extra section: hamradio maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.2.1 revision: 1 depends: source description: AX.25 Packet Radio Communication for Ham Radio operators. Package: ax25-util priority: extra section: hamradio maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 0.28.0 revision: 2 depends: source, netbase description: AX.25 Packet Radio Communication for Ham Radio operators. Package: babel priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 3.5 revision: 1 depends: latex recommends: provides: description: Support for multilingual typesetting with LaTeX The Babel system adds multilingual support to LaTeX documents. This includes language specific macros, hyphenation and setting of language specific strings like "Table of Contents". Package: base priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 0.93.6 revision: 8 description: Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files and Debian Base Disk Builder. essential: yes Package: bash priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.14.4 revision: 2 description: The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. Package: bc priority: important section: math maintainer: Bill Mitchell version: 1.03 revision: 7 description: An arbitrary precision calculator language. bc is a language that supports arbitrary precision numbers with interactive execution of statements. There are some similarities in the syntax to the C programming language. A standard math library is available by command line option. If requested, the math library is defined before processing any files. . This version of bc contains several extensions beyond traditional bc implementations and the POSIX draft standard. Command line options can cause these extensions to print a warning or to be rejected. Package: beav priority: extra section: editors maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 140 revision: 4 description: Binary Editor And Viewer (beav) beav is an editor for binary files containing arbitrary data. Text file editors, on the other hand, expect the files they edit to contain textual data, and/or to be formatted in a certain way (e.g., lines of printable characters delimited by newline characters). . With beav, you can edit a file in HEX, ASCII, EBCDIC, OCTAL, DECIMAL, and BINARY. You can display but not edit data in FLOAT mode. You can search or search and replace in any of these modes. Data can be displayed in BYTE, WORD, or DOUBLE WORD formats. While displaying WORDS or DOUBLE WORDS the data can be displayed in INTEL's or MOTOROLA's byte ordering. Data of any length can be inserted at any point in the file. The source of this data can be the keyboard, another buffer, or a file. Any data that is being displayed can be sent to a printer in the displayed format. Files that are bigger than memory can be handled. Package: bibtex priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 0.99c revision: 3 depends: tex,kpathsea recommends: latex provides: bibtex description: Use bibliography databases with TeX BibTeX uses a bibliographic database and a style to automatically create a bibliography from citations in your document. . There are tools to maintain and create these databases. All are plain ascii files. Package: biff priority: standard section: mail maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 5.3 revision: 5 depends: netbase, smail | mail-transport-agent description: A simple mail notification tool This program allows you to inform the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session. When mail notification is enabled, the header and first few lines of the message wille be printed on your screen whenever mail arrives. Package: bin86 priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 0.1 revision: 2 description: Assembler and loader for kernel compilation. Package: bind priority: optional section: net maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 4.9.3-BETA24 revision: 1 description: Internet domain name server The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network. Package: binutils priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.5.2 revision: 3 conflicts: gas description: The GNU assembler and binary utilities. Package: bison priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Anders Chrigstrom version: A2.5 revision: 0 conflicts: bison-parsers description: A parser generator that is compatible with YACC. This version adds additional parsers to those usually distributed with Bison: A parser in a C++ object, and an improved parser for use in C programs. Both of the new parsers are licensed for use with free and non-free software (unlike the one origianaly distributed with Bison, which is licensed for use only with free software). Package: bsdutils priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.3 revision: 1 description: Utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. Package: byacc priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 1.9 revision: 2 description: The Berkeley LALR parser generator Package: c2man priority: extra section: devel maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 2.33 revision: 2 description: Graham Stoney's mechanized man page generator c2man automatically generates man pages from comments placed in program source files. Package: cdtool priority: extra section: sound maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 1.0 revision: 3 description: A set of programs to play CD's, supports a database of CDs Package: cern-httpd priority: optional section: net maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 3.0 revision: 4 depends: netstd, adduser (>1.93) conflicts: httpd provides: httpd description: The CERN HTTP (World-Wide Web) server The CERN HTTP daemon allows you to run an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) server on your computer. HTTP is the main transport protocol used in the World Wide Web. . Unless you wish only to serve files to users of your system, you must be hooked up to a TCP/IP network. Package: cfengine priority: extra section: admin maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.1.2 revision: 1 depends: description: A tool for configuring and maintaining operating systems The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator to create a single central file which will define how every host on a network should be configured. . cfengine is also useful as an interpreter for a general scripting language for ordinary users. It is handy for tidying up junk files and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and permissions on files when collaborating with other users. Package: chfn priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.0 revision: 4 description: Utilities to change finger information or login shell. Package: cpio priority: important section: admin maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.3 revision: 2 description: GNU cpio: a program to manage archives of files. Package: cron priority: important section: admin maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.0pl1 revision: 20 depends: bsdutils recommends: smail | sendmail description: 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. Package: cvs priority: standard section: devel maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.5 revision: 5 depends: rcs description: Concurrent Versions System -- an RCS extension cvs is a front end to the rcs(1) revision control system which extends the notion of revision control from a collection of files in a single directory to a hierarchical collection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories and files can be combined together to form a software release. . cvs provides the functions necessary to manage these software releases and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple software developers. Package: dc priority: important section: math maintainer: Bill Mitchell version: 1.03 revision: 7 description: An arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator. Dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited precision arithmetic. It also allows you to define and call macros. Normally dc reads from the standard input; if any command arguments are given to it, they are filenames, and dc reads and executes the contents of the files before reading from standard input. All normal output is to standard output; all error output is to standard error. . 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. Package: diald priority: extra section: net maintainer: Giuseppe Vacanti version: 0.10 revision: 1 depends: ppp description: Diald is a daemon that does demand dialing for PPP and SLIP. The purpose of diald is to make it transparently appear that you have a permanent connection to a remote site (usually your provider). Package: dialog priority: extra section: misc maintainer: Mike Deisher version: 0.6 revision: 1 depends: ncurses-developer | ncurses-runtime description: dialog - a utility for adding dialog boxes to shell scripts Package: diff priority: required section: base maintainer: Bill Mitchell version: 2.7 revision: 4 description: File comparison utilities 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. Package: dld priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Guy R. Thomas version: 3.2.6 revision: 2 depends: recommends: description: dld - a library package of C functions that performs "dynamic link editing" Package: dlltools priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.17 revision: 1 description: Tools used to create DLL jumptable libraries. Package: doc priority: important section: doc maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 0.93 revision: 5 recommends: emacs | info description: Linux FAQ, HOWTOs, and miscellaneous documentation. Package: dpkg priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 1.0.0 revision: 0 description: Package maintenance system for Debian GNU/Linux This package contains the programs which handles 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. essential: yes Package: dviljk priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.5 revision: 3 depends: metafont, kpathsea recommends: tex provides: dvilj description: TeX DVI driver for HP Laserjet and compatible printers dvilj is a collection of binaries for the HP Laserjet+, the HP Laserjet II, HP Laserjet IIp, HP LaserJet III, HP Laserjet 4L, HP Laserjet 4M and compatibles. It will NOT work for Deskjet's. . dvilj uses HP-PCL commands to donwload pk bitmaps to the printer as softfonts. Compared with the dvips/ghostscript combo, it uses much less printer memory, produces *much* smaller output files, and is faster. . Dvilj should be used where speed and compact output is needed, e.g. for low memory printers or printers accessed by a slow (serial) line. . It's drawbacks are: No support for virtual fonts (dvicopy needed) and no facilities for graphics inclusion. Package: dvipsk priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 5.58f revision: 3 depends: metafont, kpathsea recommends: psfonts provides: dvips description: TeX DVI-driver for Postscript This a driver that converts TeX's dvi files to Postscript suitable for printing on any postscript printer or on any printer supported by ghostscript. . The files are preprocessable by the usual postscript tools e.g. for page-selection, scaling, putting several pages on one sheet of paper, ... as they conform to the Adobe document structuring conventions. . The driver supports a variety of \special's allowing easy inclusion of graphics in your document. It understands emTeX and tpic \special's. Package: e2fsprogs priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 0.5b revision: 4 description: The EXT2 file system utilities. EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian systems. This package contains programs for creating, checking, and maintaining EXT2 filesystems. essential: yes Package: ed priority: required section: base maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 0.2 revision: 7 description: The classic unix line editor 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. essential: Yes Package: ee priority: extra section: editors maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.72 revision: 5 depends: ncurses-runtime description: An "easy editor" for novices and compuphobics ee is a simple screen oriented text editor. It is always in text insertion mode unless there is a prompt at the bottom of the terminal, or a menu present (in a box in the middle of the terminal). ree is the same as ee, but restricted to editing the named file (no file operations, or shell escapes are allowed). Package: efax priority: extra section: comm maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel version: 07a revision: 1 suggests: gs description: Programs to send and receive fax messages. efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that provides the data transport function for fax applications using any Class 1 or Class 2 fax modem. Another program, efix, converts between fax, text, bit-map and gray-scale formats. fax, a shell script, provides a simple user interface to the efax and efix programs. It allows you to send text or Postscript files as faxes and receive, print or preview received faxes. You need ghostscript to fax Postscript. To preview faxes you will need a PGM file viewer (e.g. xv or xloadimage). If you don't have a PCL or Postscript printer you will need an appropriate conversion program (e.g. pbmtoepson or Ghostscript) for printing. . Note that you probably have to adapt the /usr/bin/fax script to your needs. Package: electric-fence priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Anders Chrigstrom version: 2.0.5 revision: 1 description: A malloc(3) debugger. Package: elisp-manual priority: optional section: editors maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 19-2.4 revision: 1 description: Emacs Lisp Reference Manual The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual covers this programming language in depth, including data types, control structures, functions, macros, syntax tables, searching and matching, modes, windows, keymaps, byte compilation, and the operating system interface. Package: elm priority: standard section: mail maintainer: Carl Streeter version: 2.4pl24 revision: 8 depends: smail | sendmail recommends: pgp, nvi | emacs | ee | elv-vi | pico | vim suggests: conflicts: description: A full screen ELectronic Mail interactive user agent. Elm is a mail user agent (MUA) for Debian. . An MUA is the visible part of the mail system - It interacts with the user to display, store, create and send mail. . Other MUAs may may be used on the same system as elm without causing problems. . In order to make use of elm you must have a single mail transport agent such as smail or sendmail Installed. If you wish to send messages other than just to other users of your system you must also have appropriate networking support in the form of IP or uucp. Package: elv-ctags priority: extra section: editors maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.8pl4 revision: 19 recommends: elv-vi|elv-fmt conflicts: emacs description: generate "tags" and (optionally) "refs" files ctags generates the "tags" and "refs" files from a group of C source files. The "tags" file is used by Elvis' ":tag" command, control-] command, and -t option. The "refs" file is sometimes used by the ref(1) program. . Each C source file is scanned for #define statements and global function definitions. The name of the macro or function becomes the name of a tag. For each tag, a line is added to the "tags" file. . The "tags" file is a cross-reference that lists each tag name, the name of the source file that contains it, and a way to locate a particular line in the source file. . The "refs" file contains the definitions for each tag in the "tags" file, and very little else. This file can be useful, for example, when licensing restrictions prevent you from making the source code to the standard C library readable by everybody, but you still everybody to know what arguments the library functions need. Package: elv-fmt priority: extra section: editors maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.8pl4 revision: 19 recommends: elv-vi|elv-ctags description: Adjust line-length for paragraphs of text fmt is a simple text formatter. It inserts or deletes newlines, as necessary, to make all lines in a paragraph be approximately the same width. It preserves indentation and word spacing. . fmt is often used from within vi(1) to adjust the line breaks in a single paragraph. To do this, move the cursor to the top of the paragraph, type "!}fmt", and hit . Package: elv-vi priority: optional section: editors maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.8pl4 revision: 19 depends: dpkg (>0.93.72) suggests: elv-ctags | emacs, elv-fmt | textutils description: elvis, ex, vi, view, input - The editor elvis is a text editor which emulates the traditional unix vi, ex, view, and input text editing and viewing programs. When invoked by any of these names, elvis emulates the named program. . vi, view, and input are screen-oriented text editors. ex is a line-oriented text editor. Package: emacs priority: standard section: editors maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 19.29 revision: 4 depends: xlibraries suggests: emacs-el description: The GNU Emacs editor. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. Package: emacs-el priority: optional section: editors maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 19.29 revision: 4 depends: emacs description: GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files. Package: es priority: optional section: shells maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 0.84 revision: 1 description: A public domain extensible shell based on `rc'. Package: expect priority: optional section: devel maintainer: David Engel version: 5.16.3 revision: 3 depends: tcl, tk description: The expect/expectk programs and libraries. Expect is program which performs programmed dialogs with other, typically interactive, programs. Package: fdflush priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.0.0 revision: 0 description: A band-aid for floppy drives with bad disk-change sensing. Package: file priority: standard section: misc maintainer: Bill Mitchell version: 3.18 revision: 2 description: Determines file type using "magic" numbers 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. Package: fileutils priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.12 revision: 2 description: The GNU file management utilities. Package: findutils priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 4.1 revision: 4 description: GNU find, xargs and locate. Package: flex priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.5.2 revision: 1 description: A fast lexical analyzer generator. Package: fortune priority: optional section: games maintainer: David H. Silber version: 2.1 revision: 1 description: Fortune cookies provided upon demand. Package: ftape priority: extra section: admin maintainer: Robert Read version: 2.03 revision: 1 depends: modules, gcc, make description: QIC-117 (Floppy-tape) driver, in source code form. This driver supports the common tape drives that use the floppy controller. Their capacities usually range from 60 MB to 120 MB, without compression, and twice that with compression. This driver does not yet support compression. Package: fvwm priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.24r revision: 7 depends: X11R6, m4, xpm description: F(?) Virtual Window Manager. FVWM is a fairly small window manager which provides a three-dimensional appearance and a virtual desktop. Package: gawk priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.15.6 revision: 1 description: GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language. Package: gcc priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.6.3 revision: 4 depends: binutils, libc suggests: libg++ description: The GNU C compiler. The GNU C compiler is a fairly portable optimizing compiler that supports multiple languages. It includes (runtime) support for C, C++, and Objective C (support for Objective C was donated by NeXT). Package: gdb priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 4.14 revision: 1 description: The GNU debugger. Package: ghostview priority: optional section: text maintainer: Helmut Geyer, Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de version: 1.5 revision: 4 depends: gs, xR6shlib conflicts: ghostviewR5, ghostviewR6 description: The GNU PostScript viewer ( X11 frontend to Ghostscript) Package: git priority: optional section: misc maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 4.3.7 revision: 2 depends: description: GNU Interactive Tools git is a file system browser with some shell facilities which was designed to make your work much easier and more efficient. . gitps is an interactive process viewer/killer. It calls the ps(1) utility internally. and gitps parameters are in fact ps(1) ones. Running gitps is self explanatory. Use the arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, C-n, C-p, C-v, ESC v to move in the list, C-l to refresh it and F10 or C-g to leave. You can change these keys. . gitview is a hex/ascii file viewer. Too simple to need a separate manual page. Use the arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, C-n, C-p, C-v, ESC v to move in the file, C-l to refresh the screen and F10 or C-g to leave. You can change these keys. Package: glibcdoc priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 0.06 revision: 1 recommends: emacs | info description: GNU C library Info documentation. Package: gmp priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 1.3.2 revision: 1 description: Multiprecision arithmetic library GNU MP is a programmer's library for arbitrary precision arithmetic (ie, a bignum package). It can operate on signed integers and rational numbers. . It has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface. . Programs you build using GNU MP become covered by the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) because of the way GNU MP is licensed. Package: gnuchess priority: optional section: games maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 4.0.74 revision: 2 description: The GNU chess program. Package: gnuplot priority: optional section: math maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 3.5 revision: 3 description: A command-line driven interactive function plotting utility. Package: gpm priority: extra section: misc maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.00 revision: 1 depends: recommends: provides: gpm description: A mouse event server for the Linux console 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. . An Emacs lisp file is provided to use the mouse in emacs, when emacs is running on the console. Package: grep priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.0 revision: 3 description: GNU grep, egrep and fgrep. Package: groff priority: important section: text maintainer: Alvar Bray version: 1.09 revision: 4 description: GNU RunOFF text-formatting system. 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. Package: gs priority: optional section: text maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 2.6.1pl4 revision: 5 depends: svgalib, xlibraries recommends: gsfonts conflicts: gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both provides: gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both description: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview support. Ghostscript is used for postscript preview and printing. Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display postscript documents in an X11 environment. It can also use the Linux svga library to display documents graphically on the Linux console. . Furthermore, it can render postscript files as graphics to be printed on non-postscript printers. Supported printers include common dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models. Package: gsfonts priority: optional section: text maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 2.6.1 revision: 2 description: Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter Package: gzip priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.2.4 revision: 6 description: The GNU compression utility. Package: hdparm priority: extra section: admin maintainer: Guy R. Thomas version: 2.3 revision: 0 description: Tune hard disk parameters for high performance. Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the linux hard disk and (E)IDE drivers for kernel 1.1.65+. Primary use is for enabling irq-unmasking and IDE multiplemode. v2.3 added runtime flags for 32-bit mode; fixed -t for SCSI. v2.2 cosmetic changes only v2.1 cosmetic changes only v2.0 adds zillions of features for use with the new (E)IDE driver (v2.6 and higher) Package: hello priority: optional section: misc maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 1.3 revision: 4 description: The classic greeting, and a good example The GNU hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It allows nonprogrammers to use a classic computer science tool which would otherwise be unavailable to them. . Seriously, though: this is an example of how to do a Debian package. It is the Debian version of the GNU Project's `hello world' program (which is itself an example for the GNU Project). Package: hostname priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.6 revision: 2 description: A utility to set/show the hostname or DNS domainname. Package: hyperlatex priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Erick Branderhorst version: 1.3 revision: 4 depends: emacs recommends: latex, ghostscript, giftrans, pbmplus conflicts: description: Creating HTML using LaTeX documents. Hyperlatex allows you to use LaTeX to prepare documents in HTML (the hypertext markup language used by the world wide web), and, at the same time, to produce a fine printed document from your input. You can use all of LaTeX's power for the printed output, and you don't have to learn a new language for creating hypertext documents. . LaTeX-generated/included pictures can be converted to gif. This requires some additional packages. Two of them are not core debian packages, they reside in "non-free directory" because of copyright conflicts. Package: iamerican priority: standard section: text maintainer: Kenneth MacDonald version: 3.1.18 revision: 2 depends: ispell (>3.1.18-1), dpkg (>0.93.72) provides: ispell-dictionary description: An American English dictionary for ispell. This is the americanmed+ dictionary, as supplied with the source for ispell-3.1.18. Package: ibritish priority: standard section: text maintainer: Kenneth MacDonald version: 3.1.18 revision: 2 depends: ispell (>3.1.18-1), dpkg (>0.93.72) provides: ispell-dictionary description: A British English dictionary for ispell. This is the britishmed+ dictionary, as supplied with the source for ispell-3.1.18. Package: ical priority: extra section: misc maintainer: Christian Linhart version: 1.9 revision: 2 depends: tcl(>7.3-3), tk(>3.6-3), X11R6 conflicts: description: Calendar application Some of Ical's important features are --- * Items can be created edited and deleted easily. * Items can be made to repeat in various ways. * Ical will post reminders for upcoming appointments. * Ical can print and list item occurrences. * Ical calendars can be shared by different users. Package: image priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.2.13 revision: 4 description: Linux kernel binary image. essential: yes Package: includes priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.2.13 revision: 4 description: Linux kernel headers, if you aren't installing kernel-source. If you are going to install the "C" compiler or other development software, you should install the "includes" package, or the "source" package, but not both. Package: indent priority: optional section: devel maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.9.1 revision: 11 description: C language source code formatting program 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. Package: inewsinn priority: optional section: news maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 1.4sec revision: 7 recommends: trn conflicts: inn description: inews - NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews Package: info priority: important section: doc maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.6 revision: 4 suggests: texinfo provides: info-browser description: Standalone GNU Info documentation browser This program allows you to view Info documents, like the ones stored in /usr/info. Much of the software in Debian comes with its on-line documentation in the form of Info files. . You can also browse Info documentation using GNU Emacs. source: texinfo Package: ircii priority: optional section: net maintainer: Carl Streeter version: 2.8.2 revision: 1 description: Internet Relay Chat client Package: ispell priority: standard section: text maintainer: Kenneth MacDonald version: 3.1.18 revision: 2 recommends: ispell-dictionary, word-list description: An interactive spelling corrector Ispell corrects spelling in plain text, LaTeX, or nroff files. Emacs has a nice interface to ispell. This version is 8 bit clean, allowing non-english dictionaries to be used. No dictionary is supplied, but it looks in /usr/lib/ispell/default.{aff,hash} and in /usr/dict/words by default. Package: itimer priority: optional section: mail maintainer: Richard Kettlewell version: 1.00 revision: 2 depends: emacs description: Interval timers for GNU Emacs If itimer is installed, the vm package can use it to check for new mail after a preset interval, rather than just whenever the user presses 'g'. Package: j1 priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Raul D. Miller version: 7 revision: 2 description: J is a dialect of APL freely available on a wide variety of machines. . It is the latest in a line of development known as "dictionary APL". The spelling scheme uses the ASCII alphabet. The underlying concepts, such as arrays, verbs, adverbs, and rank, are extensions and generalizations of ideas in APL\360. Anomalies have been removed. The result is at once simpler and more powerful than previous dialects. . Why "J"? It is easy to type. . [From the preface to Roger Hui's "An Implementation of J".] Package: jargon priority: optional section: misc maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.0 revision: 1 recommends: emacs | info description: The definitive compendium of hacker slang. Package: jgraph priority: extra section: text maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 83 revision: 6 description: Jim Plank's program for producing PostScript graphs Jgraph takes a description of a graph or graphs and produces a postscript file on the standard output. . Jgraph is ideal for plotting any mixture of scatter point graphs, line graphs, and/or bar graphs, and embedding the output into LaTeX, or any other text processing system which can read postscript. . The graph description language is simple enough to get nice looking graphs with a minimum of effort, yet powerful enough to give the user the flexibility to tailor the appearance of the graph to his or her individual preferences. This includes plotting multiple graphs and laying them out separately on the page (or pages). Package: joe priority: optional section: editors maintainer: Christian Linhart version: 2.8 revision: 0 depends: conflicts: description: Joe's Own Editor - A Free ASCII-Text Screen Editor for UN*X . JOE has the feel of most IBM PC text editors: The key-sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo-C. JOE is much more powerful than those editors, however. JOE has all of the features a UNIX user should expect: full use of termcap/terminfo, excellent screen update optimizations (JOE is fully useable at 2400 baud), simple installation, and all of the UNIX-integration features of VI. (from the file INFO as distributed with joe) Package: kbd priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 0.90 revision: 3 description: Linux console font and keytable utilities. Package: kpathsea priority: standard section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.6 revision: 1 recommends: tex provides: kpathsea description: Path searching for TeX & friends This package configures all default paths used by TeX and related software. . Also included is a description of the path searching mechanism and how to taylor it to your needs. Package: last priority: required section: base maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel version: 5 revision: 10 description: The GNU last utility. `last' looks through the `wtmp' file (which records all logins/logouts) and prints information about connect times of users. Records are printed from most recent to least recent. Records can be specified by tty and username. . 'last' is part of the GNU accounting utilities that are available in the (optional) `acct' package. It contains the `accounting' Info page with more information. Package: latex priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2e revision: 4 depends: tex recommends: ltxtool,ltxgraph,ltxmisc,mfnfss,psnfss,babel provides: latex description: Write structured documents with TeX LaTeX is a macro package for TeX that makes writing of complex documents much easier. It features a style of writing that separates content and form as much as possible by providing the user with a generic (\ie logical rather than visual) mark-up interface; this is combined with style sheets which specify the formatting. . Users new to TeX should start with LaTeX. It has builtin support for automatic generation of table of contents, cross-referencing, index, etc. Tables and simple pictures are much easier to create, the font handling is much improved. Package: ldso priority: required section: base maintainer: David Engel version: 1.7.8 revision: 2 description: The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities. 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, which is just about all of them. essential: yes Package: less priority: standard section: misc maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 290 revision: 3 description: A file pager program, similar to more(1) 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. Package: libc priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 4.6.27 revision: 6 depends: includes | source recommends: binutils, gcc suggests: glibcdoc, manpages provides: libc.so.4 description: The Linux C library. Package: libg++ priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.6.2 revision: 2 description: The GNU C++ libraries. Package: libident priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 0.16 revision: 1 description: libident - simple RFC1413 client library Package: librl priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.0.3 revision: 2 description: GNU Readline shared and static libraries. Package: lilo priority: important section: admin maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 16 revision: 0 description: LInux LOader - Loads Linux from the hard disk without a floppy. Package: linuxdoc-sgml priority: extra section: text maintainer: Kenneth MacDonald version: 1.2 revision: 2 suggests: groff, latex, dvips, texinfo, info-browser description: Linux Documentation Project SGML tools The Linux Documentation Project advise using this set of SGML parsers to generate HOWTO's and books. LaTeX, ASCII, HTML, PostScript and roff can all be generated from one SGML source file. . HTML can be generated without any other Debian text processing package, but for the other formats, the appropriate packages will have to be installed. Package: lout priority: optional section: text maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.06 revision: 1 suggests: postscript-viewer, psutils description: Typesetting system, an alternative to (La)TeX. Lout reads a mark-up file - ie, a plain text file containing commands to control the formatting - and produces a PostScript file (though it can also produce formatted plain text output). . Lout has several advantages over (La)TeX. It is much smaller, and it is much easier to understand how to do things in Lout than in TeX or LaTeX. Lout comes with full documentation about writing Lout documents, and it produces very small and clean PostScript output. . However, it is much less widely used than (La)TeX, so there are fewer add-on definition packages for Lout than for (La)TeX and fewer local experts around to ask about problems. You are unlikely to find many Lout documents floating around the 'net. Package: lpr priority: standard section: net maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 5.9 revision: 6 description: Berkeley lpr/lpd line printer spooling system Package: lrzsz priority: optional section: comm maintainer: Matt Porter version: 0.11 depends: recommends: suggests: conflicts: description: Linux version of the rzsz zmodem/ymodem/xmodem transfer package Package: ltxgraph priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 0.7b revision: 1 depends: latex recommends: dvips provides: description: Color and graphics in LaTeX This is a pre-release of LaTeX packages for: * producing color * including graphics (eg PostScript) files * rotation and scaling of text in LaTeX documents. Package: ltxmisc priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 1 depends: latex recommends: provides: description: Additional small styles for LaTeX Currently this contains only german and fancyheadings. Future additions are planned. Package: ltxtool priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 3 depends: latex recommends: provides: ltxtool description: Add on macro packages for LaTeX This is a collection of tools for LaTeX. Included are: - array: Extended versions of array, tabular and tabular*. - dcolumn: Alignment on `decimal points' in tabular entries. - delarray: Adds `large delimiters' around arrays. - hhline: Finer control over horizontal rules in tables. - longtable: Multipage tables. - tabularx: similar to tabular* but modifies column widths, not inter-column space, to achieve a desired table width. - afterpage: Place text after the current page. - enumerate: Extended version of enumerate. - fileerr: Suite of small files which may be used to control TeX's missing file error loop. - fontsmpl: Package and test file for producing `font samples' - ftnright: Place footnotes in the right hand column in two-column mode. - indentfirst: Indent The first paragraph of sections etc. - multicol: Typeset text in columns, with the length of the final columns `balanced'. - rawfonts: Preload fonts under the old internal font names of LaTeX2.09. - showkeys: Draft mode showing the `keys' used by \label, \ref, \cite etc. - somedefs: Selective handling of package options. (Used in rawfonts.sty.) - theorem: Flexible definition of `theorem-like' environments. - varioref: `Smart' handling of page references. - verbatim: Flexible version of verbatim environment. - xr: eXternall References. Extend \ref to access \label commands in other documents. - xspace: Smart space command that avoids the common mistake of missing spaces after command names. Package: lynx priority: optional section: net maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 2.4.2 revision: 1 recommends: ncurses-runtime description: Text-mode WWW Browser 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. Package: m4 priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 1.4 revision: 1 description: GNU m4 - a macro processing language Package: mailx priority: important section: mail maintainer: Carl Streeter version: 8.1 revision: 4 depends: smail | sendmail description: A simple user interface to sending and receiving mail. Package: make priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.74 revision: 1 description: GNU 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. Package: makeindex priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.12 revision: 3 recommends: tex, latex provides: makeindex description: Makeindex, a general purpose index processor Though beeing "general purpose", makeindex is mostly used together with LaTeX. Once the relevant words to appear in the index are tagged in the source, the index production can be completed by simply calling makeindex. Package: man priority: important section: doc maintainer: Alvar Bray version: 2.3.10 revision: 2 depends: groff description: Display the on-line manual. This packages 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 packages uses the groff suit of programs to format and display the manual pages. Package: manpages priority: important section: doc maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.8 revision: 1 depends: groff recommends: man description: Manual pages for section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9. The `manpages' package includes manual pages for section 2 (system calls), section 3 (library functions), section 4 (devices), section 5 (file formats), section 7 (miscellaneous), and section 9 (kernel internal functions and variables). Package: metamail priority: optional section: mail maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.7 revision: 1 description: An implementation of MIME. Metamail is an implementation of MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions), a proposed standard for multimedia electronic mail on the Internet. . Metamail is configurable and extensible via the "mailcap" mechanism described in an informational RFC that is a companion to the MIME document. Metamail can be used to turn virtually any mail reader program into a multimedia mail reader. For information about how to change mail readers so that they can use Metamail, please read the file `/usr/doc/metamail/mailers.txt'. Package: mfbasfnt priority: standard section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 3 depends: metafont recommends: provides: description: TeX's default fonts. These are all standard TeX fonts: The cm series designed by D.E.Knuth, the dc fonts and LaTeX's standard fonts. . The dc fonts are derived from the cm series but include accented characters for most european languages to enable better hyphenation and input of these directly, without using TeX's accenting commands. Package: mfbin priority: standard section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.71 revision: 3 depends: mflib,xlibraries,kpathsea recommends: tex provides: metafont description: Metafont - TeX's font engine Metafont creates bitmaps from a textual representation of a font (describing e.g. the outlines) and a description of the intended output device (describing e.g. the resolution). . Metafont is a powerful engine for font design, equipped with a macro processor similar to TeX's. The means you could design a font using an arbitrary number of parameters and then create a series of fonts by just changing these parameters. It even allows interactive generation of fonts under the X11 window system. . TeX's default fonts, the cm-series are specified using Metafont. . The normal user however will not use Metafont directly. It will be called automatically whenever bitmaps of a Metafont-Font are needed. Package: mflib priority: standard section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 4 recommends: metafont description: Auxiliary files to run Metafont These are those files needed for Metafont that do not fit into any other category. . Included are all the files to produce the plain and cm base as well as scripts for automatic font generation. Package: mfnfss priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 2.1g revision: 1 depends: latex,pandora,oldgerman,mfbasfnt recommends: provides: description: Use additional Metafont fonts with LaTeX This package allows the use of some additional metafont fonts with LaTeX. These fonts are: D.E.Knuth concrete fonts in the Cork encoding, N.N.Billawala's pandora fonts and Y.Haralambous gothic, fraktur and Schwabacher fonts. Package: mh priority: standard section: mail maintainer: Jim Robinson version: 6.8.3 revision: 2 recommends: sendmail | smail description: MH is a set of electronic mail handling programs. Unlike most mail user agents, MH is not a single program, rather it is a set of program that are run from the shell. This allows the user to utilize the full power of the Unix shell in coordination with MH. Package: mh-papers priority: extra section: mail maintainer: Jim Robinson version: 6.8.3 revision: 1 recommends: tex, latex description: The MH papers: A set of document on/about MH. Package: minicom priority: extra section: comm maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman version: 1.71 revision: 1 depends: recommends: suggests: conflicts: lrzsz description: Clone of the MS-DOS "Telix" communications program. Package: mirrormagic priority: extra section: games maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 1.2 revision: 0 depends: X11R6, xpm recommends: xserver description: Arcade style game for color X11 with stereo sounds. A game like "Mindbender" (Amiga) or "Deflektor" (Atari ST). Was written for the Amiga in 1989. Package: miscutils priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.3 revision: 5 description: Miscellaneous system utilities. A mixed bag of essential system utilities, including arch, cfdisk, clock, dmesg, fdformat, fdisk, fsck.minix, getopt, getty, installkernel, kbdrate, login, mkboot, mkfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, newgrp, passwd, rdev, run-parts, setfdprm, sync, tunelp, update. essential: yes Package: mkisofs priority: extra section: misc maintainer: Kenny Wickstrom version: 1.03 revision: 2 description: CD-ROM Authoring Tool. Creates the CD-ROM filesystem image. mkisofs is effectively a pre-mastering program to generate the iso9660 filesystem - it takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image which will correspond to an iso9660 filesystem when written to a block device. Package: modules priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.2.8 revision: 1 description: Linux module utilities. Package: mount priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 2.4 revision: 5 description: mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff. Package: mt-st priority: extra section: admin maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 0.2 revision: 3 description: Control magnetic tape drive operation mt performs operations on a tape drive. It can report the status of tape drives; rewind or retension a tape; position a tape forward and backwards in increments of blocks, records, or files; and perform certain other operations for some types of tape drives. Package: mtools priority: standard section: misc maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 2.0.7 revision: 12 description: Tools for manipulating MSDOS files Mtools is a public domain collection of programs to allow Unix systems to read, write, and manipulate files on an MSDOS filesystem (typically a diskette). Each program attempts to emulate the MSDOS equivalent command as closely as practical. . mattrib - change MSDOS file attribute flags mcd - change MSDOS directory mcopy - copy MSDOS files to/from Unix mdel - delete an MSDOS file mdir - display an MSDOS directory mformat - add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted diskette mlabel - make an MSDOS volume label mmd - make an MSDOS subdirectory mrd - remove an MSDOS subdirectory mread - low level read (copy) an MSDOS file to Unix mren - rename an existing MSDOS file mtype - display contents of an MSDOS file mwrite - low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS Package: nas priority: optional section: sound maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.2p2 revision: 1 depends: xlibraries description: The Network Audio System (NAS). The Network Audio System was developed by NCD for playing, recording, and manipulating audio data over a network. Like the X Window System, it uses the client/server model to separate applications from the specific drivers that control audio input and output devices. Package: ncurses-developer priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.9.4 revision: 0 depends: ncurses-runtime conflicts: ncurses description: Video terminal manipulation: Developer's libraries and docs. Package: ncurses-runtime priority: standard section: misc maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.9.4 revision: 0 conflicts: ncurses description: Video terminal manipulation: run-time files and documents. Package: netbase priority: standard section: net maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 1.17 revision: 1 recommends: netstd (>1.14) description: Basic TCP/IP networking binaries In order to make use of the network you need a few tools to configure it. This package contains all the necessary tools to configure the networking interfaces, to setup the routing tables and to start other services using the inetd server. Package: netstd priority: standard section: net maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 1.17 revision: 1 depends: netbase (>1.15) suggests: bind, wu-ftpd, smail | sendmail description: Networking binaries and daemons for Linux The netstd package provides you with the standard networking services (server and clients). This includes services like ftp, telnet, nfs, pcnfsd, bootp, tftp, finger, pop, rsh, rlogin, SLIP, yp and others. Package: nvi priority: important section: editors maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.34 revision: 7 description: 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi. Package: oldgerman priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 1 depends: metafont recommends: mfnfss provides: description: Nice gothic and fraktur fonts for TeX This package contains old German fonts for Fraktur, Schwabacher, and Gothic as well as Initials, all designed by Yannis Haralambous. Package: oleo priority: optional section: math maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.6 revision: 4 depends: xlibraries description: The GNU Oleo spreadsheet program. Package: pandora priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 1 depends: metafont recommends: provides: description: The Pandora fonts The intent of the Pandora project is to test the ideas and power of Metafont in a design context. The starting point came from broad ideas about type, rather than trying to create a specific predetermined typeface. Package: pari priority: extra section: math maintainer: Jim Robinson version: 1.39 revision: 3 description: a package for number theorists. The PARI system is a package which is capable of doing formal computations on recursive types at high speed; it is primarily aimed at number theorists, but can be used by people whose primary need is speed. . Although quite an amount of symbolic manipulation is possible in PARI, this system does very badly compared to much more sophisticated systems like Axiom, Macsyma, Magma, Maple, Mathematica or Reduce on such manipulations (e.g. multivariate polynomials, formal integration, etc...). On the other hand, the two main advantages of the system are its speed (which can be between 5 and 100 times better on many computations than the above mentioned systems), and the possibility of using directly data types which are familiar to mathematicians. Package: patch priority: standard section: misc maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 2.1 revision: 8 description: Apply a diff file to an original 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. Package: pcb priority: extra section: electronics maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.1.1.2 revision: 2 description: Printed Circuit Board Design Program Package: pdksh priority: standard section: shells maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 5.1.3 revision: 1 description: A public domain version of the Korn shell. Package: perl priority: important section: devel maintainer: Carl Streeter version: 5.001 revision: 3 description: An interpreted scripting language Package: pico priority: important section: editors maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 2.5 revision: 1 description: An easy-to-use text editor; companion to the e-mail user agent pine Package: pine priority: important section: mail maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 3.91 revision: 3 depends: smail | sendmail description: A user-friendly e-mail user agent with MIME and IMAP support. Pine is a program used to compose and read mail. It is menu-driven and very easy to use. It supports the IMAP protocol, which allows users to access mailboxes on remote systems. In addition, it understands messages employing MIME, a scheme for enclosing multimedia content in electronic mail. . You must install a mail transport agent such as "smail" or "sendmail" to use pine. Package: pixmap priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.6 revision: 3 depends: X11R6, xpm description: A pixmap editor. Pixmap is a pixmap editor. It has functionality similar to that of Bitmap, a bitmap editor, which comes with the X Window System. Package: pmake priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.0 revision: 1 description: 4.4BSD make (pmake). Package: ppp priority: standard section: net maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.2 revision: 1 description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard way to transmit datagrams over a serial link, as well as a standard way for the machines at either end of the link (the "peers") to negotiate various optional characteristics of the link. Using PPP, a serial link can be used to transmit Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams, allowing TCP/IP connections between the peers. Package: procmail priority: standard section: mail maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 3.10 revision: 3 depends: smail | sendmail description: Versatile e-mail processor. Package: procps priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 0.97 revision: 4 description: The /proc file system utilities. Package: ps2pk priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.4 revision: 3 depends: recommends: tex provides: description: Create pk fonts from type1 fonts ps2pk can generate pk bitmaps from Postscript type1 fonts. This can be used e.g. with XDvi to preview documents using postscript fonts, provided the corresponding type1 fonts are available as .pfa or .pfb files. . Together with automatic pk generation by MakeTeXPK this makes the use of Postscript fonts with TeX as convenient as use of normal Metafont fonts. Package: psnfss priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 5.2 revision: 1 depends: latex,texpsfnt recommends: dvips provides: description: Support for Postscript fonts with LaTeX This package makes use of Postscript fonts easy with LaTeX. . There is support for the 35 standard Adobe fonts, for utopia from Adobe, charter from Bitstream, lucida bright fonts from Y&Y and the nimbus fonts from URW. . To actually get printed output you either need a postscript printer, or have the type1 sources for the respective fonts. The sources for utopia, charter and nimbus are free and are part of the texpsfnt package. The sources for lucida bright, and the standard adobe fonts are only available commercially, i.e. you have to pay for them. Package: psutils priority: optional section: text maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 1.13 revision: 4 suggests: gs, ghostview description: psutils - PostScript document handling utilities Package: python priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Bernd S. Brentrup version: 1.2 revision: 2 suggests: latex , info-browser description: An interpretive, interactive object oriented computer language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for system administration, sounds and graphics. `A step up from Perl' says bruce@pixar.com. You'll need latex to build the documentation which includes a tutorial, a reference manual and a library reference manual. Package: rc priority: optional section: shells maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.4 revision: 1 description: An implementation of the AT&T Plan 9 shell. Package: rcs priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Sven Rudolph version: 5.7 revision: 1 description: The GNU Revision Control System The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of files. RCS automates the storing, retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of revisions. RCS is useful for text that is revised frequently, for example programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form letters. Package: rspfd priority: extra section: hamradio maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 0.04 revision: 1 description: Radio Shortest Path First routing program. This program is used by Radio Amateurs who are running TCP/IP over the AX.25 packet radio protocol. It advertises the routes of your system in an on-air bulletin, explores the routes other systems that run RSPF, and sets up routes for the stations to talk to (and through) each other. Package: rxvt priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 2.10 revision: 1 depends: X11R6 recommends: xserver description: VT100 emulator for the X window system Rxvt is a VT100 terminal emulator for X. It is intended as a replacement for xterm(1) for users who do not require the more esoteric features of xterm. Specifically rxvt does not implement the Tektronix 4014 emulation, session logging and toolkit style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much less swap space than xterm - a significant advantage on a machine serving many X sessions. Package: samba priority: extra section: net maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 1.9.14 revision: 1 depends: netbase description: a LanManager like fileserver and simple client for Unix. 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. Package: screen priority: optional section: misc maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.6.2 revision: 2 description: A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate "screens" on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions. Arbitrary keyboard input translation is also available. Sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different terminal. Package: sed priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 2.05 revision: 4 description: The GNU sed stream editor. Package: sendmail priority: extra section: mail maintainer: Anders Chrigstrom version: 8.6.12 revision: 8 depends: m4, make recommends: mail-reader conflicts: mail-transport-agent, smail provides: mail-transport-agent description: Mail-transfer agent. Much more difficult to configure than "smail". More flexible as well. Sendmail does not configure itself when it is installed. You'll have to do that manually. For this reason, unless you have a very good reason to run Sendmail, you should be running Smail instead. Package: setserial priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 2.10 revision: 5 description: Configures serial ports. Package: sharutils priority: standard section: misc maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 4.1 revision: 6 conflicts: shar, uuencode description: shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode, ansi2knr `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. . `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. . `ansi2knr' converts ANSI C to Kernighan and Ritchie C. Package: shellutils priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.12 revision: 3 description: The GNU shell programming utilities. Package: smail priority: important section: mail maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.1.29.1 revision: 13 depends: cron recommends: mailx | elm | pine | emacs suggests: metamail conflicts: sendmail description: Electronic mail transport system. Smail is the recommended mail transport agent (MTA) for Debian. . An MTA is the innards of the mail system - it takes messages from user-friendly mailer programs and arranges for them to be delivered locally or passed on to other systems as required. . In order to make use of it you must have one or more user level mailreader programs such as elm, pine, mailx or Emacs (which has Rmail and VM as mailreaders) installed. If you wish to send messages other than just to other users of your system you must also have appropriate networking support, in the form of IP or UUCP. Package: snmp priority: extra section: net maintainer: David Engel version: 2.1.2l3 revision: 1 description: CMU SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Agent and Apps. The CMU SNMP agent allows remote monitoring of various network and system information. The CMU SNMP applications allow querying the CMU and other SNMP agents. Package: source priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 1.2.13 revision: 4 depends: binutils | gas description: Linux kernel source. If you are going to install the "C" compiler or other development software, you should install the "source" package, or the "includes" package, but not both. Package: statserial priority: extra section: admin maintainer: Christian Linhart version: 1.1 revision: 0 depends: ncurses-runtime | ncurses conflicts: description: statserial - displays serial port modem status lines Package: strace priority: standard section: devel maintainer: Robert Sanders version: 3.0-1 description: A system call tracer Package: sudo priority: optional section: admin maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.3.1pl4 revision: 1 description: Provides limited super user privileges to specific users. Package: svgalib priority: optional section: graphics maintainer: Ted Hajek version: 1.25 revision: 4 description: Shared, non-x, graphics library used by Ghostscript et al. Only works with some video hardware; use with caution. Supported cards: generic VGA, Cirrus Logic GD542x/3x, newer Tseng ET4000/ET4000W32, Trident TVGA 8900C/9000, Oak OTI-037/67/77/87, ATI Mach32, some S3-based cards, ARK Logic ARK1000PV/2000PV. Package: symlinks priority: extra section: misc maintainer: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) version: 1.0 revision: 1 description: scan/change symbolic links Symlinks scans directories for symbolic links and lists them on stdout. Each link is prefixed with a classification of relative, absolute, dangling, messy, or other_fs. . Symlinks can also convert absolute links (within the same filesystem) to relative links and can delete messy and dangling links. Package: syslogd priority: required section: base maintainer: Martin Schulze version: 1.2 revision: 11 description: Kernel and system logging daemons. Package: sysvinit priority: required section: base maintainer: Bruce Perens version: 2.57b revision: 1 description: System-V-like Init. 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). essential: yes Package: tar priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.11.8 revision: 1 description: GNU tar. Package: tcl priority: optional section: devel maintainer: David Engel version: 7.3 revision: 4 suggests: tk, tclX description: The Tool Command Language (TCL). TCL is a powerful, easy to use, interpreted scripting language. Package: tclX priority: optional section: devel maintainer: David Engel version: 7.3b revision: 5 depends: tcl, tk description: Extended Tcl (TclX). TclX is a set of extensions to Tcl. Extended Tcl is oriented towards Unix system programming tasks and large application development. Many additional interfaces to the Unix operating system are provided. It is upwardly compatible with Tcl. Package: tcpdump priority: optional section: net maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 3.0.3 revision: 3 description: A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network interface that matches a given expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect "ping attacks" or to monitor the network activities. Package: tcsh priority: standard section: shells maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 6.06 revision: 1 description: An enhanced version of the Berkeley C shell. tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell, csh(1). It is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C-like syntax. Package: term priority: extra section: comm maintainer: Jim Robinson version: 2.3.5 revision: 5 recommends: minicom | kermit | seyon description: a serial-line multiplexer. Term allows you to make a SLIP-like connection to another host via modem. The basic term applications that come with this package: . Lets you execute multiple shells on your host. . Supports a stable file transfer protocol. . Supports redirecting your machine's ports to your hosts ports. . Allows you to use "termified" programs to run web browsers, ftp programs, etc., from your home machine. Package: texbin priority: standard section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 3.1415 revision: 3 depends: texlib,metafont,kpathsea recommends: latex suggests: textfm provides: tex description: TeX - The typesetting system TeX was designed by Donald E. Knuth as a general typesetting engine that reads text together with interspersed commands, formats it and outputs a device independent description of the formatted pages. The input file is plain ascii, i.e. TeX does not feature a WYSIWYG approach to typesetting. . TeX includes a powerful macro processor allowing the creation of higher level packages hiding the TeX primitives from the user. The best known and most widely used of these is LaTeX. . Although designed with a strong emphasis on mathematics (and still the formulas generated by TeX are of a quality unsurpassed by widely used commercial packages) it's high quality linebreaking algorithm, the possibility to use multiple languages, fonts and encodings make it useful in many other fields as well. Package: texidoc priority: optional section: text maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.6 revision: 4 depends: info | info-browser | emacs recommends: texinfo description: Texinfo manual - how to write a Texinfo file This manual describes how to write documentation using Texinfo; it documents all the @-commands that you can use in Texinfo documents. . You do not need this manual to format preprepared documentation. source: texinfo Package: texinfo priority: standard section: text maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.6 revision: 4 recommends: texidoc suggests: info | info-browser, tex description: The GNU Project's documentation formatting system Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce various types of output (including hardcopy and on-line forms) from a single source file. . The most common output formats for Texinfo documents are printed TeX output and Info files, which can be read using Emacs's Info browser or the standalone browser in the `info' package. . This package contains programs to format Texinfo using TeX and to turn Texinfo into `Info' online help files. The Texinfo manual, which tells you how to write a Texinfo document, is in a separate package. source: texinfo Package: texlib priority: standard section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 4 depends: dialog recommends: tex provides: description: Auxiliary Files to run TeX These are those Files needed for TeX that do not fit into any other category. . Included is a set of hyphenation patterns for different languages/encodings, the standard BibTeX styles, the plain TeX macros and scripts to produce the plain format. Package: texpsfnt priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 1 depends: recommends: psnfss provides: description: Virtual fonts and TFM's to use Postscript fonts with TeX This package provides the raw material to use Postscript fonts with TeX/LaTeX. Included are metric files and virtual fonts for a variety of free and commercial Postscript fonts. Type1 source for the free ones is included, these are utopia, charter, courier, nimbus, grotesq and antiqua. Package: textfm priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 1.0 revision: 3 depends: metafont recommends: tex description: TeX standard font metric files These files could also be generated automatically by MakeTeXTFM. This package is for convienience to save some time when first starting TeX. Package: textutils priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.11 revision: 2 description: The GNU text file processing utilities. Package: tf priority: extra section: games maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 3.5a10 revision: 1 description: Tinyfugue MUD client for TinyMUDs and LPMUDs TinyFugue (also known as "Fugue" or "TF") is a line-based client designed for connecting to MUD servers (note: LP, DIKU, and other servers which use prompts require "/lp on"; see /help prompts). TinyFugue runs on UNIX-like systems, and on OS/2. . TinyFugue is larger than most MUD clients, but has many more features and is much more flexible. The goal is to provide the most functionality in a client that still maintains the user-friendliness of Tinytalk. Clients with extension languages such as Tcltt or VaporTalk can do a little more in certain areas, but are considerably harder to use and learn. TF provides most of these abilities in such a manner that learning to use any one function is relatively easy. Package: tgif priority: extra section: graphics maintainer: Christian Linhart version: 2.16p12 revision: 0 depends: X11R6 conflicts: tgifR5, tgifR6 description: Xlib based interactive 2-D drawing facility under X11, has nothing to do with GIF files/formats Package: time priority: standard section: misc maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel version: 1.6 revision: 3 description: The GNU time utility.. 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. Package: timezone priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 7.8 revision: 1 description: Timezone utilities and data files. Package: tin priority: optional section: news maintainer: Kenny Wickstrom version: 1.22 revision: 8 depends: inn | inewsinn | inews, smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent recommends: suggests: conflicts: description: Threaded Internet News reader It has a powerful full screen text mode user interface, where most actions are available at the press of a single key. It is highly configurable. . tin can read news from a news server via NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol) or from the local host (/var/spool/news). You must have either a news server available - large sites usually provide a site-wide server, or the articles local on the host in /var/spool/news. . If you install a news server on your system (either containing just local newsgroups or with a partial or full USENET feed) you can configure tin to access it. Package: tk priority: optional section: devel maintainer: David Engel version: 3.6 revision: 5 depends: tcl, X11R6 suggests: tclX description: The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11. Tk is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif look and feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language. Package: tput priority: required section: base maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 1.0 revision: 5 description: A utility to provide portable terminal control for shell scripts. Package: transfig priority: optional section: graphics maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 3.1.1 revision: 1 description: Utilities for printing figures from xfig. transfig also contains utilities for converting xfig figures to be used in LaTeX files. Package: trn priority: optional section: news maintainer: Ian Jackson version: 3.6 revision: 2 recommends: smail | mail-transport-agent, inn | inewsinn | inews suggests: ispell description: Threaded USENET news reader, based on rn trn is the most widely-used newsreader on USENET - even to the point of being a de-facto standard. . It has a powerful full screen text mode user interface, where most actions are available at the press of a single key. It is highly configurable. . This version of trn reads news from a news server via NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol). You must have a news server available - large sites usually provide a site-wide server. . If you install a news server on your system (either containing just local newsgroups or with a partial or full USENET feed) you can configure trn to access it. Package: untex priority: standard section: text maintainer: Erick Branderhorst version: 9210 revision: 2 description: Remove (all?) LaTeX commands from input. Removing (all?) LaTeX commands from input and send it to output. Package: uucp priority: optional section: comm maintainer: David H. Silber version: 1.06.1 revision: 1 depends: cron recommends: smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent suggests: news-transport-system conflicts: description: Unix to Unix Copy Program uucp will copy files to or from another (usually *nix) system, which also runs uucp. . uucp is used to transfer mail, news and random files between systems which are not connected by more modern networks. The communication can be made via modems, direct (hard-wired) serial connections or via an IP connection. I have not had the opportunity to experiment with that latter method. If someone out there knows how to set it up, please let me know. . I think that I now have the permission problems taken care of for dial- out only ports. I have not had a chance to test this with bidirectional ports. There is still no automatic configuration. . (The current list of bugs is placed in ``/usr/doc/uucp/debian.TODO'' when you install uucp. -- Please do not bother to report a bug in this uucp distribution if it is already listed there.) Package: vim priority: optional section: editors maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 3.0 revision: 3 description: VI iMproved - an enhanced vi editor Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor vi. Only the 'Q' command is missing (you don't need it). Many new features have been added: multi level undo, command line history, filename completion, block operations, etc. See difference.doc. Package: vm priority: optional section: mail maintainer: Richard Kettlewell version: 5.92beta revision: 1 depends: smail | sendmail, emacs suggests: itimer description: VM - A mail user agent for Emacs VM is a mail user agent written entirely in Emacs lisp. It knows about X and hilit19, using new frames and highlighted displays if you use those. Package: w3-el priority: optional section: net maintainer: Raul D. Miller version: 2.2.16 revision: 1 depends: emacs recommends: xbase, netpbm|pbmplus suggests: gs, ghostview, metamail, mpeg, pdf, pem|pgp, showaudio, vrml, xdvi, xv description: This is a hypertext (Specifically World Wide Web) browser for emacs. Package: wenglish priority: standard section: text maintainer: Robinson, Jim version: 1.0 revision: 3 description: The english dictionary words for /usr/dict. Package: workbone priority: optional section: sound maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 2.3 revision: 3 description: Simple text-based CD Player Package: wu-ftpd priority: optional section: net maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 2.4 revision: 13 depends: netbase (>1.15) description: A powerful replacement for the standard ftpd wu-ftpd (Washington University ftp server) is a replacement ftp server for Unix systems. Besides supporting the ftp protocol defined in RFC 959, it adds the following features: . o logging of transfers o logging of commands o on the fly compression and archiving o classification of users on type and location o per class limits o per directory upload permissions o restricted guest accounts o system wide and per directory messages. o directory alias o cdpath o filename filter Package: x8514 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 8514 server. This package contains an X Window System server for 8514 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xagx priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 AGX server. This package contains an X Window System server for AGX based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xbase priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 4 depends: xlib recommends: xstd, xmono | xserver provides: X11R6, xbaseR6 description: XFree86 3.1.2 base distribution. This package contains the basic X11R6 distribution. It includes the basic clients, configuration files, and minimal fonts. It does not include a server--servers for several different video cards are included in separate packages. This package also does not include the shared libraries--for these, you must install the "xlib" package. When a server and the shared libraries are installed along with this package, it provides a functional but fairly incomplete X Window System installation. For a more complete installation, you must also install the "xstd" package with this package. Package: xboard priority: optional section: games maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.2.2 revision: 1 description: An X Window System interface to GNU Chess. Package: xcompat priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 2 provides: X11R5, xR5shlib description: XFree86 2.1.1 shared libraries. Package: xdvik priority: optional section: tex maintainer: Nils Rennebarth version: 18f revision: 3 depends: metafont,xbase,kpathsea recommends: gs provides: xdvi description: A TeX DVI previewer for X11 xdvi lets you preview TeX's DVI output under the X11 windowing sytem. It uses the same pixel files as the intended output device. The fonts are scaled down to screen resolution using grey scales, resulting in readable screen preview even for rather small fonts. . xdvi understands postscript \special's supported by dvips and knows how to call ghostscript to generate the bitmaps corresponding to these \special's and display them together with the rest of the page. This mostly eliminates the need for ghostview for previewing of TeX documents (xdvi is much faster). Package: xfig priority: optional section: graphics maintainer: D.J. Gregor version: 3.1.3 revision: 4 depends: xbase, xpm recommends: transfig description: Facility for Interactive Generation of figures under X11 Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X window. The resulting pictures can be saved, printed on postscript printers, or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to allow inclusion in LaTeX documents). Package: xfnt100 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 depends: xbase description: XFree86 3.1.2 100dpi screen fonts. These are 100dpi screen fonts for X11R6. Package: xfnt75 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 depends: xbase description: XFree86 3.1.2 75dpi screen fonts. These are 75dpi screen fonts for X11R6. Package: xfntbig priority: extra section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 depends: xbase description: XFree86 3.1.2 large Kanji and other fonts. These are large Kanji and other fonts for X11R6. Package: xfntcyr priority: extra section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 depends: xbase description: XFree86 3.1.2 Cyrillic fonts. These are Cyrillic fonts for X11R6. Package: xfntscl priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 2 depends: xbase description: XFree86 3.1.2 scaled fonts (Speedo and Type1). These are scaled fonts (Speedo and Type1) for X11R6. Package: xinvaders priority: extra section: games maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 1.3 revision: 1 depends: X11R6 recommends: xserver description: Space Invaders game for X xinvaders is an implementation of the old Atari Space Invaders game, on top of the X11 window system. Package: xlib priority: standard section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 2 provides: xR6shlib, xlibraries description: XFree86 3.1.2 shared libraries. Package: xlockmore priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel version: 3.0 revision: 0 depends: xbaseR6 | X11R6 description: xlock locks X11 display until password is entered. xlock locks the X server till the user enters their password at the keyboard. While xlock is running, all new server connections are refused. The screen saver is disabled. The mouse cursor is turned off. The screen is blanked and a changing pattern is put on the screen. If a key or a mouse button is pressed then the user is prompted for the password of the user who started xlock. . Note that under XFree86, the X11 implementation for Linux, Control-Alt- Backspace will defeat locking mechanism and return your console back unless you put "DontZap" in your XF86Config file. 'xdm' returns to the login prompt. Control-Alt-F1 (among others) will defeat locking mechanism with virtual terminals, so make sure that you are not logged onto any virtual consoles. Package: xmach32 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 Mach32 server. This package contains an X Window System server for Mach32 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xmach64 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 Mach64 server. This package contains an X Window System server for Mach64 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xmach8 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 Mach8 server. This package contains an X Window System server for Mach8 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xmanpages priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 2 conflicts: xman description: XFree86 3.1.2 manual pages. Package: xmono priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 monochrome server. This package contains an X Window System server for monochrome video modes. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xntp priority: extra section: net maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 3.4x revision: 1 description: Network Time Protocol client and server xntp sets and maintains a Unix systems time-of-day in agreement with Internet standard time servers. xntp is a complete implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) version 3 standard, as defined by RFC 1305, but also retains compatability with version 1 and 2 servers as defined by RFC 1059 and RFC 1119, respectively xntp does all computations in fixed point arithmetic and requires no floating point code. The computations done done in the protocol and clock adjustment code are carried out with high precision and with attention to the details which might introduce systematic bias into the computations, to try to maintain an accuracy suitable for synchronizing with even the most precise external time source. Package: xonix priority: extra section: games maintainer: Sven Rudolph version: 1.4 revision: 1 depends: X11R6, xpm description: game for X11 Package: xp9000 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 P9000 server. This package contains an X Window System server for P9000 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xpat2 priority: extra section: games maintainer: Sven Rudolph version: 1.03 revision: 2 depends: X11R6, xpm description: Generic patience game for X11 xpat2 is a generic patience game which can be used with different rule sets. It does understand the rules of the well-known Spider game, as well as Klondike and others. Package: xpm priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.4f revision: 1 provides: xpmR6 description: XPM library. XPM (X PixMap) is a format for storing and retrieving pixmaps to and from files. This package includes a library for including, storing, reading and writing the XPM format. It also includes a tool for converting and viewing XPM files. Package: xs3 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 S3 server. This package contains an X Window System server for S3 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xslib priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 description: XFree86 3.1.2 static libraries. Package: xsok priority: extra section: games maintainer: Sven Rudolph version: 1.00 revision: 2 depends: X11R6, xpm description: Generic Sokoban game for X11 xsok is a single player strategic game, a superset of the well known Sokoban game. . The target of Sokoban is to push all the objects into the score area of each level using the mouse or the arrow keys. For the other level subsets, there are different kinds of objects, and special effect squares. Package: xstd priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 3 depends: xbase description: XFree86 3.1.2 standard distribution. This package completes the basic X11R6 distribution. It must be installed with the "xbase" package. It adds the contrib clients, header files, stub libraries, and documentation for XFree86 3.1.2. Package: xsvga priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 SVGA server. This package contains an X Window System server for Super VGA based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xtet42 priority: extra section: games maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 2.02 revision: 2 depends: X11R6 recommends: xserver description: X version of tetris Xtet42 - is a tetris game for one or two players running under the X window system. Package: xtron priority: extra section: games maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 1.1a revision: 1 depends: X11R6, xpm recommends: xserver description: Tron game for X Xtron is a simple one or two player version of the old classic TRON. The game is simple: avoid running into walls, your own tail, and that of your opponent. Package: xvga16 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 VGA/EGA server. This package contains an X Window System server for VGA and EGA based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xw32 priority: optional section: x11 maintainer: Ian Murdock version: 3.1.2 revision: 1 provides: xserver description: XFree86 3.1.2 ET4000/W32 server. This package contains an X Window System server for ET4000/W32 based video cards. Before you can run the X Window System on this display, you must install the particular server that supports your video card. Package: xwpe priority: extra section: devel maintainer: Peter Tobias version: 1.4.1 revision: 1 depends: ncurses-runtime (>1.8.6) recommends: xbase description: Programming environment for X11 and character terminals) Package: xxgdb priority: optional section: devel maintainer: Helmut Geyer, Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de version: 1.11 revision: 2 depends: xR6shlib, gdb conflicts: xxgdbR5, xxgdbR6 description: A X interface to gdb Package: xypic priority: extra section: tex maintainer: Erick Branderhorst version: 3.0 revision: 1 depends: tex, latex recommends: ghostview, xdvi conflicts: description: Package for typesetting graphs and diagrams with TeX. Xy-pic works with most formats (including LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and plain TeX), in particular Xy-pic is provided as a LaTeX2e `supported package' (following the `CTAN LaTeX2e bundle' standard). . It has been used to typeset complicated diagrams from many application areas including category theory, automata theory, algebra, neural networks, and database theory. Package: ytalk priority: optional section: net maintainer: Andrew Howell version: 3.0.2 revision: 1 depends: xlibraries description: Enhanced talk program with X support. Ytalk is a multi-user chat program. It works exactly like the UNIX talk program and even communicates with the same talk daemons. Ytalk's advantages come in it's ability to allow multiple connections.