Linux Software Packages

Marist - SuSE - Turbolinux - Caiman - Red Hat

The packages installed on the updated Marist File System:

 

apache Apache is a powerful, full-featured, efficient and freely-available Web server. Apache is also the most popular Web server on the Internet. Install the apache package if you need a Web server.
apache-devel The apache-devel package contains the source code for the Apache Web server and the APXS binary you'll need to build Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs) for Apache. If you are installing the Apache Web server, and you want to be able to compile or develop additional modules for Apache, you'll need to install this package.
autoconf GNU's Autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and Makefiles. Using Autoconf, programmers can create portable and configurable packages, since the person building the package is allowed to specify various configuration options. You should install Autoconf if you are developing software and you'd like to use it to create shell scripts which will configure your source code packages. If you are installing Autoconf, you will also need to install the GNU m4 package. Note that the Autoconf package is not required for the end user who may be configuring software with an Autoconf-generated script; Autoconf is only required for the generation of the scripts, not their use.
automake Automake is an experimental Makefile generator. Automake was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets. You should install Automake if you are developing software and would like to use its capabilities of automatically generating GNU standard Makefiles. if you install Automake, you will also need to install GNU's Autoconf package.
basesystem Basesystem defines the components of a basic Red Hat Linux system (for example, the package installation order to use during bootstrapping). Basesystem should be the first package installed on a system, and it should never be removed.
bash Bash is a GNU project sh-compatible shell or command language interpreter. Bash (Bourne Again shell) incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. Bash offers several improvements over sh, including command line editing, unlimited size command history, job control, shell functions and aliases, indexed arrays of unlimited size and integer arithmetic in any base from two to 64. Bash is ultimately intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. Bash is the default shell for Red Hat Linux. You should install bash because of its popularity and power. You'll probably end up using it.
bash2 Bash is a GNU project sh-compatible shell or command language interpreter. Bash (Bourne Again shell) incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. Bash offers several improvements over sh, including command line editing, unlimited size command history, job control, shell functions and aliases, indexed arrays of unlimited size and integer arithmetic in any base from two to 64. Bash is ultimately intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard.
bash2-doc This is a separate documentation package for the GNU Bourne Again shell.
bdflush The bdflush process starts the kernel daemon which flushes dirty buffers back to disk (i.e., writes all unwritten data to disk). This helps to prevent the buffers from growing too stale. Bdflush is a basic system process that must run for your system to operate properly.
binutils Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), c++filt (a filter for demangling encoded C++ symbols), addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line), and nlmconv (for converting object code into an NLM). Install binutils if you need to perform any of these types of actions on binary files. Most programmers will want to install binutils.
bison Bison is a general purpose parser generator which converts a grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so any correctly written Yacc grammar should work with Bison without any changes. If you know Yacc, you shouldn't have any trouble using Bison (but you do need to be very proficient in C programming to be able to use Bison). Many programs use Bison as part of their build process. Bison is only needed on systems that are used for development. If your system will be used for C development, you should install Bison since it is used to build many C programs.
byacc Byacc (Berkeley Yacc) is a public domain LALR parser generator which is used by many programs during their build process. If you are going to do development on your system, you will want to install this package.
bzip2 Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at decompression than those techniques. Bzip2 is not the fastest compression utility, but it does strike a balance between speed and compression capability. Install bzip2 if you need a high quality compression utility.
chkconfig Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevel information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, so system administrators don't have to manually edit the symbolic links as often.
chkfontpath This is a simple terminal mode program for configuring the directories in the X font server's path. It is mostly intended to be used `internally' by RPM when packages with fonts are added or removed, but it may be useful as a stand-alone utility in some instances.
cracklib CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain security-oriented characteristics. You can use CrackLib to stop users from choosing passwords which would be easy to guess. CrackLib performs certain tests: * It tries to generate words from a username and gecos entry and checks those words against the password; * It checks for simplistic patterns in passwords; * It checks for the password in a dictionary. CrackLib is actually a library containing a particular C function which is used to check the password, as well as other C functions. CrackLib is not a replacement for a passwd program; it must be used in conjunction with an existing passwd program. Install the cracklib package if you need a program to check users' passwords to see if they are at least minimally secure. If you install CrackLib, you'll also want to install the cracklib-dicts package.
cracklib-dicts The cracklib-dicts package includes the CrackLib dictionaries. CrackLib will need to use the dictionary appropriate to your system, which is normally put in /usr/dict/words. Cracklib-dicts also contains the utilities necessary for the creation of new dictionaries. If you are installing CrackLib, you should also install cracklib-dicts.
cvs CVS means Concurrent Version System; it is a version control system which can record the history of your files (usually, but not always, source code). CVS only stores the differences between versions, instead of every version of every file you've ever created. CVS also keeps a log of who, when and why changes occurred, among other aspects. CVS is very helpful for managing releases and controlling the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. Instead of providing version control for a collection of files in a single directory, CVS provides version control for a hierarchical collection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories and files can then be combined together to form a software release. Install the cvs package if you need to use a version control system.
diffutils Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both persons' changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.
e2fsprogs The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended (ext2) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters) and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities. You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2 filesystem.
e2fsprogs-devel E2fsprogs-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop second extended (ext2) filesystem-specific programs. You should install e2fsprogs-devel if you want to develop ext2 filesystem-specific programs. If you install e2fsprogs-devel, you'll also want to install e2fsprogs.
ed Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably won't use it much.
expect Expect is a tcl extension for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect is also useful for testing the named applications. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. Install the expect package if you'd like to develop scripts which interact with interactive applications. You'll also need to install the tcl package.
file The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats. You should install the file package, since the file command is such a useful utility.
filesystem The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed on a Red Hat Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for the directories.
fileutils The fileutils package includes a number of GNU versions of common and popular file management utilities. Fileutils includes the following tools: chgrp (changes a file's group ownership), chown (changes a file's ownership), chmod (changes a file's permissions), cp (copies files), dd (copies and converts files), df (shows a filesystem's disk usage), dir (gives a brief directory listing), dircolors (the setup program for the color version of the ls command), du (shows disk usage), install (copies files and sets permissions), ln (creates file links), ls (lists directory contents in color), mkdir (creates directories), mkfifo (creates FIFOs, which are named pipes), mknod (creates special files), mv (renames files), rm (removes/deletes files), rmdir (removes empty directories), sync (synchronizes memory and disk), touch (changes file timestamps), and vdir (provides long directory listings). You should install the fileutils package, because it includes many file management utilities that you'll use frequently.
findutils The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate files on your system. The find utility searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a filename pattern). The locate utility searches a database (create by updatedb) to quickly find a file matching a given pattern. The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists of file names generated by the find command). You should install findutils because it includes tools that are very useful for finding things on your system.
flex The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code. Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. You should install flex if you are going to use your system for application development.
ftp The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP client. FTP is the file transfer protocol, which is a widely used Internet protocol for transferring files and for archiving files. If your system is on a network, you should install ftp in order to do file transfers.
gawk The gawk packages contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Gawk should be upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs research version of awk and is almost completely compliant with the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility. Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.
gcc The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection: cc and gcc. You'll need this package in order to compile C/C++ code.
gcc-c++ This package adds C++ support to the GNU C compiler. It includes support for most of the current C++ specification, including templates and exception handling. It does include the static standard C++ library and C++ header files; the library for dynamically linking programs is available separately.
gdbm Gdbm is a GNU database indexing library, including routines which use extensible hashing. Gdbm works in a similar way to standard UNIX dbm routines. Gdbm is useful for developers who write C applications and need access to a simple and efficient database or who are building C applications which will use such a database. If you're a C developer and your programs need access to simple database routines, you should install gdbm. You'll also need to install gdbm-devel.
gdbm-devel Gdbm-devel contains the development libraries and header files for gdbm, the GNU database system. These libraries and header files are necessary if you plan to do development using the gdbm database. Install gdbm-devel if you are developing C programs which will use the gdbm database library. You'll also need to install the gdbm package.
gettext The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing programs. If you would like to internationalize or incorporate multi-lingual messages into programs that you're developing, you should install gettext.
getty_ps The getty_ps package contains the getty and uugetty programs, basic programs for accomplishing the login process on a Red Hat Linux system. Getty and uugetty are used to accept logins on the console or a terminal. Getty is invoked by the init process to open tty lines and set their modes, to print the login prompt and get the user's name, and to initiate a login process for the user. Uugetty works just like getty, except that uugetty creates and uses lock files to prevent two or more processes from conflicting in their use of a tty line. Getty and uugetty can also handle answer a modem for dialup connections, but mgetty is recommended for that purpose.
ghostscript Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers. If you need to display PostScript files or print them to non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts package.
ghostscript-fonts These fonts can be used by the GhostScript interpreter during text rendering. They are in addition to the shared fonts between GhostScript and X11.
glib GLib is a handy library of utility functions. This C library is designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require. GLib is used by GDK, GTK+ and many applications. You should install th glib package because many of your applications will depend on this library.
glib-devel The glib-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the support library for the GIMP's X libraries (GTK+ and GDK), which are available as public libraries. Install glib-devel if you want to develop programs which will use GLib.
glibc The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. The glibc package also contains national language (locale) support and timezone databases.
glibc-devel The glibc-devel package contains the header and object files necessary for developing programs which use the standard C libraries (which are used by nearly all programs). If you are developing programs which will use the standard C libraries, your system needs to have these standard header and object files available in order to create the executables. Install glibc-devel if you are going to develop programs which will use the standard C libraries.
glibc-profile The glibc-profile package includes the GNU libc libraries and support for profiling using the gprof program. Profiling is analyzing a program's functions to see how much CPU time they use and determining which functions are calling other functions during execution. To use gprof to profile a program, your program needs to use the GNU libc libraries included in glibc-profile (instead of the standard GNU libc libraries included in the glibc package). If you are going to use the gprof program to profile a program, you'll need to install the glibc-profile program.
gmp The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, signed integers operations, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast for several reasons: It uses fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops and it generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations. Install the gmp package if you need a fast arbitrary precision library.
gmp-devel The static libraries, header files and documentation for using the GNU MP arbitrary precision library in applications. If you want to develop applications which will use the GNU MP library, you'll need to install the gmp-devel package. You'll also need to install the gmp package.
gperf Gperf is a perfect hash function generator written in C++. Simply stated, a perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly one probe into the data structure. Install gperf if you need a program that generates perfect hash functions.
grep The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches one or more input files for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep. You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text files, for system administration tasks, etc.
groff Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer. Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size, bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and more. You should install groff if you want to use it as a document formatting system. Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use groff with the X Window System, you'll also need to install the groff-gxditview package.
gzip The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension. Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program.
indent Indent is a GNU program for beautifying C code, so that it is easier to read. Indent can also convert from one C writing style to a different one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle incorrect C syntax. Install the indent package if you are developing applications in C and you'd like to format your code automatically.
info The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. The info package provides a standalone TTY-based browser program for viewing texinfo files. You should install info, because GNU's texinfo documentation is a valuable source of information about the software on your system.
initscripts The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system, change run levels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces.
itcl [incr Tcl] is an object-oriented extension of the Tcl language. It was created to support more structured programming in Tcl. Tcl scripts that grow beyond a few thousand lines become extremely difficult to maintain. This is because the building blocks of vanilla Tcl are procedures and global variables, and all of these building blocks must reside in a single global namespace. There is no support for protection or encapsulation. [incr Tcl] introduces the notion of objects. Each object is a bag of data with a set of procedures or "methods" that are used to manipulate it. Objects are organized into "classes" with identical characteristics, and classes can inherit functionality from one another. This object-oriented paradigm adds another level of organization on top of the basic variable/procedure elements, and the resulting code is easier to understand and maintain.
ldconfig Ldconfig is a basic system program which determines run-time link bindings between ld.so and shared libraries. Ldconfig scans a running system and sets up the symbolic links that are used to load shared libraries properly. It also creates a cache (/etc/ld.so.cache) which speeds the loading of programs which use shared libraries.
less The less utility is a text file browser that resembles more, but has more capabilities. Less allows you to move backwards in the file as well as forwards. Since less doesn't have to read the entire input file before it starts, less starts up more quickly than text editors (for example, vi). You should install less because it is a basic utility for viewing text files, and you'll use it frequently.
libjpeg The libjpeg package contains a library of functions for manipulating JPEG images, as well as simple client programs for accessing the libjpeg functions. Libjpeg client programs include cjpeg, djpeg, jpegtran, rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom. Cjpeg compresses an image file into JPEG format. Djpeg decompresses a JPEG file into a regular image file. Jpegtran can perform various useful transformations on JPEG files. Rdjpgcom displays any text comments included in a JPEG file. Wrjpgcom inserts text comments into a JPEG file.
libjpeg-devel The libjpeg-devel package includes the header files and static libraries necessary for developing programs which will manipulate JPEG files using the libjpeg library. If you are going to develop programs which will manipulate JPEG images, you should install libjpeg-devel. You'll also need to have the libjpeg package installed.
libjpeg6a This package is a library of functions that manipulate jpeg images, along with simple clients for manipulating jpeg images. This version of the package includes only a library that is needed for preserving the backwards compatibility with previous releases of Red Hat Linux.
libpng The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.
libpng-devel The libpng-devel package contains the header files and static libraries necessary for developing programs using the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) library. If you want to develop programs which will manipulate PNG image format files, you should install libpng-devel. You'll also need to install the libpng package.
libtermcap The libtermcap package contains a basic system library needed to access the termcap database. The termcap library supports easy access to the termcap database, so that programs can output character-based displays in a terminal-independent manner.
libtermcap-devel This package includes the libraries and header files necessary for developing programs which will access the termcap database. If you need to develop programs which will access the termcap database, you'll need to install this package. You'll also need to install the libtermcap package.
libtiff The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large. The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files.
libtool The libtool package contains the GNU libtool, a set of shell scripts which automatically configure UNIX and UNIX-like architectures to generically build shared libraries. Libtool provides a consistent, portable interface which simplifies the process of using shared libraries. If you are developing programs which will use shared libraries, you should install libtool.
logrotate The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the log files on your system.
losetup Linux supports a special block device called the loop device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device. This allows for the file to be used as a "virtual file system" inside another file. Losetup is used to associate loop devices with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and to query the status of a loop device.
m4 A GNU implementation of the traditional UNIX macro processor. M4 is useful for writing text files which can be logically parsed, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. M4 has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. The autoconf program needs m4 for generating configure scripts, but not for running configure scripts. Install m4 if you need a macro processor.
make A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make allows users to build and install packages without any significant knowledge about the details of the build process. The details about how the program should be built are provided for make in the program's makefile. The GNU make tool should be installed on your system because it is commonly used to simplify the process of installing programs.
man The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos and whatis. The man system formats and displays on-line manual pages about commands or functions on your system. Apropos searches the whatis database (containing short descriptions of system commands) for a string. Whatis searches its own database for a complete word. The man package should be installed on your system because it is the primary way to find documentation on a Linux system.
mingetty The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program instead for that purpose).
mktemp The mktemp utility takes a given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a unique file name. This allows shell scripts and other programs to safely create and use /tmp files. Install the mktemp package if you need to use shell scripts or other programs which will create and use unique /tmp files.
modutils The modutils packages includes the kerneld program for automatic loading of modules under 2.0 kernels and unloading of modules under 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, as well as other module management programs. Loaded and unloaded modules are device drivers and filesystems, as well as other things.
mount The mount package contains the mount, umount, swapon and swapoff programs. Accessible files on your system are arranged in one big tree or hierarchy. These files can be spread out over several devices. The mount command attaches a filesystem on some device to your system's file tree. The umount command detaches a filesystem from the tree. Swapon and swapoff, respectively, specify and disable devices and files for paging and swapping.
ncurses The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4BSD classic curses library.
ncurses-devel The header files and libraries for developing applications that use the ncurses CRT screen handling and optimization package. Install the ncurses-devel package if you want to develop applications which will use ncurses.
net-tools The net-tools package contains the basic tools needed for setting up networking: arp, rarp, ifconfig, netstat, ethers and route.
netkit-base The netkit-base package contains the basic networking tools ping and inetd. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host and can tell you if that machine is alive and receiving network traffic. Inetd listens on certain Internet sockets for connection requests, decides what program should receive each request, and starts up that program. The netkit-base package should be installed on any machine that is on a network.
newt Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a /usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library.
newt-devel The newt-devel package contains the header files and libraries necessary for developing applications which use newt. Newt is a development library for text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the slang library. Install newt-devel if you want to develop applications which will use newt.
nscd Nscd caches name service lookups and can dramatically improve performance with NIS+, and may help with DNS as well. Note that you can't use nscd with 2.0 kernels because of bugs in the kernel-side thread support. Unfortunately, nscd happens to hit these bugs particularly hard. Install nscd if you need a name service lookup caching daemon, and you're not using a version 2.0 kernel.
ntsysv ntsysv updates and queries runlevel information for system services. ntsysv relieves system administrators of having to directly manipulate the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d.
pam PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool which allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs which do authentication.
passwd The passwd package contains a system utility (passwd) which sets and/or changes passwords, using PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). To use passwd, you should have PAM installed on your system.
patch The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file). Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading applications.
pdksh The pdksh package contains PD-ksh, a clone of the Korn shell (ksh). The ksh shell is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell script use. Ksh's command language is a superset of the sh shell language. Install the pdksh package if you want to use a version of the ksh shell.
perl Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications (and what it excels at) are probably system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.
popt Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion. Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules. Install popt if you're a C programmer and you'd like to use its capabilities.
portmap The portmapper program is a security tool which prevents theft of NIS (YP), NFS and other sensitive information via the portmapper. A portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols like NFS and NIS. The portmap package should be installed on any machine which acts as a server for protocols using RPC.
procps The procps package contains a set of system utilities which provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are logged on and system load averages for the past one, five and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users who are currently logged on and what they're running. The watch program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block I/O, traps and CPU activity.
procps-X11 The procps-X11 package contains the XConsole shell script, a backwards compatibility wrapper for the xconsole program.
psmisc The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of processes that are using specified files or filesystems.
pwdb The pwdb package contains libpwdb, the password database library. Libpwdb is a library which implements a generic user information database. Libpwdb was specifically designed to work with Linux's PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). Libpwdb allows configurable access to and management of security tools like /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and network authentication systems including NIS and Radius.
python Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC). Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget set for Tk and RPM. Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package.
python-devel The Python programming language's interpreter can be extended with dynamically loaded extensions and can be embedded in other programs. This package contains the header files and libraries needed to do these types of tasks. Install python-devel if you want to develop Python extensions. The python package will also need to be installed. You'll probably also want to install the python-docs package, which contains Python documentation.
python-docs The python-docs package contains documentation on the Python programming language and interpreter. The documentation is provided in ASCII text files and in LaTeX source files. Install the python-docs package if you'd like to use the documentation for the Python language.
python-tools The Python package includes several development tools that are used to build python programs. This package contains a selection of those tools, including the IDLE Python IDE. Install python-tools if you want to use these tools to develop Python programs. You will also need to install the python and tkinter packages.
pythonlib The pythonlib package contains Python code used by a variety of Red Hat Linux programs. Pythonlib includes code needed for multifield listboxes and entry widgets with non-standard keybindings, among other things.
readline The readline library reads a line from the terminal and returns it, allowing the user to edit the line with standard emacs editing keys. The readline library allows programmers to provide an easy to use and more intuitive interface for users. If you want to develop programs that will use the readline library, you'll also need to install the readline-devel package.
readline-devel The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it. Use of the readline library allows programmers to provide an easy to use and more intuitive interface for users. If you want to develop programs which will use the readline library, you'll need to have the readline-devel package installed. You'll also need to have the readline package installed.
routed The routed routing daemon handles incoming RIP traffic and broadcasts outgoing RIP traffic about network traffic routes, in order to maintain current routing tables. These routing tables are essential for a networked computer, so that it knows where packets need to be sent. The routed package should be installed on any networked machine.
rpm The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc.
rpm-devel This package contains the RPM C library and header files. These development files will simplify the process of writing programs which manipulate RPM packages and databases. These file are intended to simplify the process of creating graphical package managers or any other tools that need an intimate knowledge of RPM packages in order to function. This package should be installed if you want to develop programs that will manipulate RPM packages and databases.
rsh The rsh package contains a set of programs which allow users to run commmands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). All three of these commands use rhosts style authentication. This package contains the clients and servers needed for all of these services. It also contains a server for rexec, an alternate method of executing remote commands. All of these servers are run by inetd and configured using /etc/inetd.conf and PAM. The rexecd server is disabled by default, but the other servers are enabled. The rsh package should be installed to enable remote access to other machines.
sed The sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line.
setup The setup package contains a set of very important system configuration and setup files, such as passwd, group, profile and more. You should install the setup package because you will find yourself using its many features for system administration.
sh-utils The GNU shell utilities are a set of useful system utilities which are often used in shell scripts. The sh-utils package includes basename (to remove the path prefix from a specified pathname), chroot (to change the root directory), date (to print/set the system time and date), dirname (to remove the last level or the filename from a given path), echo (to print a line of text), env (to display/modify the environment), expr (to evaluate expressions), factor (to print prime factors), false (to return an unsuccessful exit status), groups (to print the groups a specified user is a member of), id (to print the real/effective uid/gid), logname (to print the current login name), nice (to modify a scheduling priority), nohup (to allow a command to continue running after logging out), pathchk (to check a file name's portability), printenv (to print environment variables), printf (to format and print data), pwd (to print the current directory), seq (to print numeric sequences), sleep (to suspend execution for a specified time), stty (to print/change terminal settings), su (to become another user or the superuser), tee (to send output to multiple files), test (to evaluate an expression), true (to return a successful exit status), tty (to print the terminal name), uname (to print system information), users (to print current users' names), who (to print a list of the users who are currently logged in), whoami (to print the effective user id), and yes (to print a string indefinitely).
shadow-utils The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command unconverts shadow passwords and generates an npasswd file (a standard UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times for all users. The useradd, userdel and usermod commands are used for managing user accounts. The groupadd, groupdel and groupmod commands are used for managing group accounts.
sharutils The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format) in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This format can be sent through email (which can be problematic for regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the shar files. Install sharutils if you send binary files through email very often.
slang S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang's syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to.
slang-devel This package contains the S-Lang extension language static libraries and header files which you'll need if you want to develop S-Lang based applications. Documentation which may help you write S-Lang based applications is also included. Install the slang-devel package if you want to develop applications based on the S-Lang extension language.
sysklogd The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd) which provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as daemons (background processes) and log system messages to different places, like sendmail logs, security logs, error logs, etc.
SysVinit The SysVinit package contains a group of processes that control the very basic functions of your system. SysVinit is the first program started by the Linux kernel when the system boots, controlling the startup, running and shutdown of all other programs.
tar The GNU tar program saves many files together into one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from the archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/ decompression, the ability to perform remote archives and the ability to perform incremental and full backups. If you want to use Tar for remote backups, you'll also need to install the rmt package. You should install the tar package, because you'll find its compression and decompression utilities essential for working with files.
tcl Tcl is a simple scripting language designed to be embedded into other applications. Tcl is designed to be used with Tk, a widget set, which is provided in the tk package. This package also includes tclsh, a simple example of a Tcl application. If you're installing the tcl package and you want to use Tcl for development, you should also install the tk and tclx packages.
tclx TclX is a set of extensions which make it easier to use the Tcl scripting language for common UNIX/Linux programming tasks. TclX enhances Tcl support for files, network access, debugging, math, lists, and message catalogs. TclX can be used with both Tcl and Tcl/Tk applications. Install TclX if you are developing applications with Tcl/Tk. You'll also need to install the tcl and tk packages.
tcp_wrappers The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which can monitor and filter incoming requests for systat, finger, ftp, telnet, rlogin, rsh, exec, tftp, talk and other network services. Install the tcp_wrappers program if you need a security tool for filtering incoming network services requests.
tcsh Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language like syntax.
telnet Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The telnet package provides a command line telnet client as well as a telnet daemon, which will support remote logins into the host machine. The telnet daemon is enabled by default. You may disable the telnet daemon by editing /etc/inetd.conf. Install the telnet package if you want to telnet to remote machines and/or support remote logins to your own machine.
termcap The termcap package provides the /etc/termcap file. /etc/termcap is a database which defines the capabilities of various terminals and terminal emulators. Certain programs use the /etc/termcap file to access various features of terminals (the bell, colors, and graphics, etc.).
texinfo Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. Normally, you'd have to write two separate documents: one for online help or other online information and the other for a typeset manual or other printed work. Using Texinfo, you only need to write one source document. Then when the work needs revision, you only have to revise one source document. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
textutils A set of GNU utilities for modifying the contents of files, including programs for splitting, joining, comparing and modifying files.
tftp The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is normally used only for booting diskless workstations. The tftp package provides the user interface for TFTP, which allows users to transfer files to and from a remote machine. This program, and TFTP, provide very little security, and should not be enabled unless it is expressly needed. The TFTP server is run from /etc/inetd.conf, and is disabled by default on Red Hat Linux systems.
time The GNU time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running and displays the results. Time can help developers optimize their programs.
tix Tix (Tk Interface Extension), an add-on for the Tk widget set, is an extensive set of over 40 widgets. In general, Tix widgets are more complex and more capable than the widgets provided in Tk. Tix widgets include a ComboBox, a Motif-style FileSelectBox, an MS Windows-style FileSelectBox, a PanedWindow, a NoteBook, a hierarchical list, a directory tree and a file manager. Install the tix package if you want to try out more complicated widgets for Tk. You'll also need to have the tcl and tk packages installed.
tk Tk is a X Windows widget set designed to work closely with the tcl scripting language. It allows you to write simple programs with full featured GUI's in only a little more time then it takes to write a text based interface. Tcl/Tk applications can also be run on Windows and Macintosh platforms.
tkinter The Tkinter (Tk interface) program is an graphical user interface for the Python scripting language. You should install the tkinter package if you'd like to use a graphical user interface for Python programming.
unzip The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)'s PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the programs' options and default behaviors do differ in some respects. Install the unzip package if you need to list, test or extract files from a zip archive.
utempter Utempter is a utility which allows some non-privileged programs to have required root access without compromising system security. Utempter accomplishes this feat by acting as a buffer between root and the programs.
util-linux The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among many features, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and login program. You should install util-linux for its essential system tools.
vim-common VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-common package contains files which every VIM binary will need in order to run. If you are installing any version of the VIM editor, you'll also need to the vim-common package installed.
vim-enhanced VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-enhanced package contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced features like Python and Perl interpreters. Install the vim-enhanced package if you'd like to use a version of the VIM editor which includes recently added enhancements like interpreters for the Python and Perl scripting languages. You'll also need to install the vim-common package.
vim-minimal VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-minimal package includes a minimal version of VIM, which is installed into /bin/vi for use when only the root partition is present.
vim-X11 VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. VIM-X11 is a version of the VIM editor which will run within the X Window System. If you install this package, you can run VIM as an X application with a full GUI interface and mouse support. Install the vim-X11 package if you'd like to try out a version of vi with graphics and mouse capabilities. You'll also need to install the vim-common package.
vixie-cron The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron.
which The which command shows the full pathname of a specified program, if the specified program is in your PATH.
wu-ftpd The wu-ftpd package contains the wu-ftpd FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server daemon. The FTP protocol is a method of transferring files between machines on a network and/or over the Internet. Wu-ftpd's features include logging of transfers, logging of commands, on the fly compression and archiving, classification of users' type and location, per class limits, per directory upload permissions, restricted guest accounts, system wide and per directory messages, directory alias, cdpath, filename filter and virtual host support. Install the wu-ftpd package if you need to provide FTP service to remote users.
X11R6-contrib If you want to use the X Window System, you should install X11R6-contrib. This package holds many useful programs from the X Window System, version 11, release 6 contrib tape. The programs, contributed by various users, include listres, xbiff, xedit, xeyes, xcalc, xload and xman, among others. You will also need to install the XFree86 package, the XFree86 package which corresponds to your video card, one or more of the XFree86 fonts packages, the Xconfigurator package and the XFree86-libs package. Finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install XFree86-devel.
Xaw3d Xaw3d is an enhanced version of the MIT Athena Widget set for the X Window System. Xaw3d adds a three-dimensional look to applications with minimal or no source code changes. You should install Xaw3d if you are using applications which incorporate the MIT Athena widget set and you'd like to incorporate a 3D look into those applications.
Xaw3d-devel Xaw3d is an enhanced version of the MIT Athena widget set for the X Window System. Xaw3d adds a three-dimensional look to those applications with minimal or no source code changes. Xaw3d-devel includes the header files and static libraries for developing programs that take full advantage of Xaw3d's features. You should install Xaw3d-devel if you are going to develop applications using the Xaw3d widget set. You'll also need to install the Xaw3d package.
xemacs XEmacs (and regular GNU Emacs, too) is a self-documenting, customizable, extensible, real-time display editor. XEmacs is self-documenting because at any time you can type in control-h to find out what your options are or to find out what a command does. XEmacs is customizable because you can change the definitions of XEmacs commands to anything you want. XEmacs is extensible because you can write entirely new commands--programs in the Lisp language to be run by Emacs' own Lisp interpreter. XEmacs includes a real-time display, which means that the text being edited is visible on the screen and is updated very frequently (usually after every character or pair of characters) as you type. This XEmacs distribution consists of four rpms: xemacs-21.0.67 (the main portion, including the standard XEmacs binary which most people use), xemacs-el-21.0.67 (elisp sources, which you only need if you're going to program with Lisp in XEmacs), xemacs-info-21.0.67 (optional information about XEmacs), and xemacs-extras-21.0.67 (files in common with Emacs, which you must install if you're installing XEmacs and you do not have Emacs installed). To use XEmacs, you'll need to install the XEmacs binary. The xemacs package includes the standard XEmacs binary that most people will use. The XEmacs binary is dynamically linked, with both X11 and TTY (ncurses) support, but without mule (MUlti-Lingual Emacs, the Asian character set) support. You might be able to tailor XEmacs to your use by using one of the following packages instead of xemacs: xemacs-static (static link with X11, ncurses, NO mule), xemacs-X11 (dynamic link with X11, NO ncurses, NO mule), xemacs-mule (dynamic link with X11, NO ncurses, mule) or xemacs-nox (dynamic link with NO X11, ncurses, NO mule). In order to use XEmacs, you will have to install either xemacs OR one of the four choices listed above (xemacs-static, xemacs-X11, xemacs-mule, xemacs-nox). Check each of the individual package descriptions if you want more information. You will also need to install xemacs-extras, if you do not have GNU Emacs already installed.
xemacs-el Xemacs-el is not necessary to run XEmacs. You'll only need to install it if you're planning on incorporating some Lisp programming into your XEmacs experience.
xemacs-extras Xemacs-extras includes files which are used by both GNU Emacs and XEmacs. If you don't have GNU Emacs installed, be sure to also install this package when you install the XEmacs text editor.
xemacs-info Install this package if you want the information files that are distributed with the XEmacs text editor.
xemacs-X11 Xemacs-X11 includes an XEmacs binary you'll want to use instead of the binary included in the xemacs package, if you don't ever run XEmacs on the standard console (the ncurses interface). The advantage is that if you don't have the TTY support compiled in, you'll save some memory.
XFree86 The X Window System provides the base technology for developing graphical user interfaces. Simply stated, X draws the elements of the GUI on the user's screen and builds methods for sending user interactions back to the application. X also supports remote application deployment--running an application on another computer while viewing the input/output on your machine. X is a powerful environment which supports many different applications, such as games, programming tools, graphics programs, text editors, etc. XFree86 is the version of X which runs on Linux, as well as on other platforms. This package contains the basic fonts, programs and documentation for an X workstation. However, this package doesn't provide the program which you will need to drive your video hardware. To control your video card, you'll need the particular X server package which corresponds to your computer's video card. If you want to install the X Window System on your machine, you'll need to install the XFree86 package. In addition, you will need to install the XFree86 package which corresponds to your video card, the X11R6-contrib package, the Xconfigurator package and the XFree86-libs package. You may also need to install one of the XFree86 fonts packages. And finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install XFree86-devel.
XFree86-100dpi-fonts The XFree86-100dpi-fonts package contains a set of 100 dpi font used on most Linux systems. If you're going to use the X Window System and you have a high resolution monitor capable of 100 dpi, you should install XFree86-100dpi-fonts. If you are installing the X Window System, you will also need to install the XFree86 package, the XFree86 package corresponding to your video card, the X11R6-contrib package, the Xconfigurator package and the XFree86-libs package. If you need to display certain fonts, you may also need to install other XFree86 fonts packages. And finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install the XFree86-devel package.
XFree86-75dpi-fonts XFree86-75dpi-fonts contains the 75 dpi fonts used on most X Window Systems. If you're going to use the X Window System, you should install this package, unless you have a monitor which can support 100 dpi resolution. In that case, you may prefer the 100dpi fonts available in the XFree86-100dpi-fonts package. To install the X Window System, you will need to install the XFree86 package, the XFree86 package corresponding to your video card, the X11R6-contrib package, the Xconfigurator package and the XFree86-libs package. Finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install the XFree86-devel package.
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts The XFree86-cyrillic-fonts package includes the Cyrillic fonts included with XFree86 3.3.2 and higher. If you use a language that requires the Cyrillic character set, you should install XFree86-cyrillic-fonts.
XFree86-devel XFree86-devel includes the libraries, header files and documentation you'll need to develop programs which run as X clients. XFree86-devel includes the base Xlib library as well as the Xt and Xaw widget sets. Install XFree86-devel if you are going to develop programs which will run as X clients.
XFree86-doc XFree86-doc provides a great deal of documentation, in PostScript format, on the various X APIs, libraries, and other interfaces. If you need low level X documentation, you will find it here. Topics include the X protocol, the ICCCM window manager standard, ICE session management, the font server API, etc.
XFree86-libs XFree86-libs contains the shared libraries that most X programs need to run properly. These shared libraries are in a separate package in order to reduce the disk space needed to run X applications on a machine without an X server (i.e., over a network). If you are installing the X Window System on your machine, you will need to install XFree86-libs. You will also need to install XFree86, one or more of the XFree86 fonts packages, Xconfigurator and X11R6-contrib. If you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install XFree86-devel.
XFree86-xfs XFree86-xfs contains a font server for XFree86. Xfs can serve fonts to remote X servers. The remote system will be able to use all fonts installed on the font server, even if they are not installed on the remote computer.
XFree86-Xnest Xnest is an X Window System server which runs in an X window. Xnest is actually a client of the real X server, which manages windows and graphics requests for Xnest, while Xnest manages the windows and graphics requests for its own clients. You will need to install Xnest if you require an X server which will run as a client of your real X server (perhaps for testing purposes).
XFree86-Xvfb Xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer) is an X server that is able to run on machines with no display hardware and no physical input devices. Xvfb emulates a dumb framebuffer using virtual memory. Xvfb doesn't open any devices, but behaves otherwise as an X display. Xvfb is normally used for testing servers. Using Xvfb, the mfb or cfb code for any depth can be exercised without using real hardware that supports the desired depths. Xvfb has also been used to test X clients against unusual depths and screen configurations, to do batch processing with Xvfb as a background rendering engine, to do load testing, to help with porting an X server to a new platform, and to provide an unobtrusive way of running applications which really don't need an X server but insist on having one. If you need to test your X server or your X clients, you may want to install Xvfb for that purpose.
xloadimage The xloadimage utility displays images in an X Window System window, loads images into the root window, or writes images into a file. Xloadimage supports many images types (GIF, TIFF, JPEG, XPM, XBM, etc.). Install the xloadimage package if you need a utility for displaying images or loading images into the root window.
xpaint XPaint is an X Window System color image editing program which supports most standard paint program options. XPaint also supports advanced features like image processing algorithms. XPaint allows you to edit multiple images simultaneously and supports a variety of image formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, JPEG, etc. Install the xpaint package if you need a paint program for X.
xpm The xpm package contains the XPM pixmap library for the X Window System. The XPM library allows applications to display color, pixmapped images, and is used by many popular X programs.
xpm-devel The xpm-devel package contains the development libraries and header files necessary for developing applications which will use the XPM library. The XPM library is used by many programs for displaying pixmaps in the X Window System. Install the xpm-devel package if you want to develop applications using the XPM pixmap library. You'll also need to install the xpm package.
zlib The zlib compression library provides in-memory compression and decompression functions, including integrity checks of the uncompressed data. This version of the library supports only one compression method (deflation), but other algorithms may be added later, which will have the same stream interface. The zlib library is used by many different system programs.
zlib-devel The zlib-devel package contains the header files and libraries needed to develop programs that use the zlib compression and decompression library. Install the zlib-devel package if you want to develop applications that will use the zlib library.
zsh The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism and more. Install the zsh package if you'd like to try out a different shell.

Marist - SuSE - Turbolinux - Caiman - Red Hat

The packages in the SuSE 7.0 distribution:

 

3dpixm Very nice 3d pixmaps for the fvwm window manager, in two sizes, for menus and button bars. You should install this package.
3dpixms Very nice 3d pixmaps for the fvwm window manager. These pixmaps are used for the pop-up menus.
a2ps Converts ASCII text into PostScript. This feature is used by e.g. apsfilter, in order to pretty-print ASCII text.
aaa_base This package installs several important configuration files. Central scripts like SuSEconfig are also in this package.
aaa_dir This package installs the directory structure. It also includes the home directories of the system users.
aaa_skel This package contains the skeleton of a users home directory.
aalib AA-lib is a low level gfx library just as many other libraries are. The main difference is that AA-lib does not require graphics device. In fact, there is no graphical output possible. AA-lib replaces those old-fashioned output methods with powerful ascii-art renderer.
aalibdev Files needed for software development using aalib.
acct This package contains the programs necessary to do user specific process accounting, sa, accton, lastcomm.
afio Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio can make compressed cpio archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script. Documentation and some sample scripts are in /usr/share/doc/packages/afio/.
afterstp This window manager follows the tradition of NeXTStep. The functionality of the bowman window manager was enhanced with some configuration options. As well, there are shadowed menus, the button-bar Wharf, animated windows, a proper sound support, and many more features.
agrep agrep is another powerfull grep which has the ability to search for approximate patterns as well as block oriented search.
allman This package contains duplicates of all man pages of every package on the CD (for those who don't want to install every single package just to get the man pages online).
amanda This is a release of Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver. Amanda is a backup system designed to archive many computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive.
ami Korean IMS (Input Method System) Ami. Uses gtk+, supports gnome applet mode and Windowmaker dock mode. The Gnome applet mode binary is in a separate package.
amignome Korean IMS (Input Method System) Ami. Uses gtk+, supports gnome applet mode and Windowmaker dock mode. This package contains only the gnome applet mode binary of AMI.
apache This version of the Apache HTTP server has been compiled with the additional modules mod_perl and PHP3, which allows database access to mySQL, PostgreSQL and ADABAS D (on INTEL machines only). Install the packages mod_php and mod_perl to gain these features. The Apache HTTP server. Very few programs have spread so quickly and attracted such a large following in such a short time as this HTTP server. According to Netcraft, Apache runs on about 49.05% of all servers attached to the Internet. That represents about 1,182,142 systems. It has replaced within only a few months the NCSA server which, until then was the unchallenged favorite. This is undoubtedly because Apache was derived from the NCSA server sources and that its configuration is compatible to that of NCSA/1.3. The Apache project was established to provide a forum for the development of a freely available HTTP server. The goal is to develop a secure, efficient, and easily extendable server, which also closely parallels the development of the HTTP protocol. Thus Apache became a replacement to NCSA/1.3. Besides better performance, the removal of known errors, and better conformance to HTTP standards (HTTP/1.1), Apache offers the following useful features, which are often missing in other servers: * password files, used to protect documents from unauthorized access, can be indexed in various ways. The search for an entry is as a result more efficient than in ordinary text files. * client-request errors can be responded to in a flexible manner. CGI scripts can be used to analyze the error and generate more informative replies to both the client and the administrator than the HTTP status codes offer. * there is no restriction on aliasing and redirection. The Alias and Redirect directives can be used in arbitrary number and depth. * Apache can choose the best representation of a resource based on the browser-supplied preferences for media type, languages, character set and encoding ("Content Negotiation"). * with Apache you can implement several virtual servers. Thus requests to different IP addresses (referring to the same computer) can be distinguished and, depending on the IP address, appropriately handled. Further advantages are the module concept and the well-documented API (Application Programmers Interface). Extensions are easily developed and new features are easily integrated into the server. For example, an implementation of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) from Netscape exists for Apache. This permits secure communication between server and client. Apache is installed in the following directories: /etc/httpd -> configuration files /usr/sbin/httpd -> server binary /var/log/httpd/ -> protocol files /var/run/httpd.pid -> server PID /usr/local/httpd -> server root /sbin/init.d/apache -> Start/Stop script
apel A Portable Emacs Library
appdefko collection of X application defaults files for Korean
aps This printer filter lets you print arbitrary files on your printer. The file type is recognized automatically. When needed ghostscript is run to print PostScript files on non-PostScript printers. In order to configure the filter, start YaST in your installed system. Choose "System administration" in the main menu, then "Integrate hardware into system", and finally "Configure printers". Fill out the mask, and YaST will configure apsfilter for you. The conventional SETUP of apsfilter is sure available as /var/lib/apsfilter/SETUP This revised script uses the program dialog to make the usage more easier for you. The documentation of this version of apsfilter revised by SuSE is placed in /usr/share/doc/packages/apsfilter/.
arc ARC is a packer that was used on various operating systems. This package should allow you to unpack *.arc files under Linux. You shouldn't use it for packing Linux-Software. Use gzip instead.
archie Using this program, you can query archie servers without having to login with telnet. This version uses the server archie.funet.fi as default. You may specify another host using the command line switch "-h".
arpwatch Arpwatch keeps track for ethernet/ip address pairings. It syslogs activity and reports certain changes via email.
asedit A simple ASCII text editor for X11/Motif. Mouse support, dialog boxes, hypertext online help, undo/redo. The help box for the online help has a little bug: it is too small, you must enlarge the box with the mouse.
ash NetBSD's ash (Almquist sh) for Linux is a small (62K - no job control) Bourne-compatible shell. Great for machines with low memory, but does not provide all the extras of shells like bash, tcsh, and zsh. Most shell scripts are run compatible to bash. Note that most scripts written for Linux use some bash-specific syntax. The Slackware setup scripts are a notable exception, since ash is the shell used during installation.
at With this program you can run jobs at a specified time.
aterm aterm is a pseudo transparency terminal. It is recource friendly, has many features how fading (darkening/lightening of colors when aterm is loosing focus), tint color (pseudo transparency background color)... You can find some examples under /usr/share/doc/packages/aterm/README.SuSE
audiofil This Audio File Library is an implementation of the SGI Audio File library. At the present, not all features of the SGI Audio File library are implemented. This library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFC, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun).
authldap This is an authentication module for Apache that allows you to authenticate HTTP clients using user entries in an LDAP directory. The latest version and the change log is always available at http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/
autoconf GNU's Autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and Makefiles. Using Autoconf, programmers can create portable and configurable packages, since the person building the package is allowed to specify various configuration options. You should install Autoconf if you are developing software and you'd like to use it to create shell scripts which will configure your source code packages. Note that the Autoconf package is not required for the end user who may be configuring software with an Autoconf-generated script; Autoconf is only required for the generation of the scripts, not their use.
autofs autofs is a kernel-based automounter for Linux. It is still under development, although the features currently implemented seem to work well. There is not anywhere near enough documentation available yet; help in getting some written would be appreciated. This package replaces the amd package.
autolog This programs automatically logs out "forgotten" logins.
automake Automake is a tool for automatically generating "Makefile.in"s from files called "Makefile.am". "Makefile.am" is basically a series of "make" macro definitions (with rules being thrown in occasionally). The generated "Makefile.in"s are compatible to the GNU Makefile standards.
baekmuk Baekmuk Fonts (Korean fonts for X11, bitmap version)
baekmukt Baekmuk Fonts (Korean fonts for X11, True Type version)
base This package normally also includes the program "rmt", which provides remote tape drive control. Since there is a compatible `rmt' in the `dump' package we didn't put `rmt' into this package. If you are planning to use the remote tape features provided by tar you have to install the `dump' package as well.
bash Bash is a sh-compatible command interpreter that executes commands read from standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
bash1 Since the new bash version 2.x is somewhat stricter in its syntax checking than version 1.x, we are keeping the older version as bash1 in the distribution. If you have scripts that don't satisfy the stricter rules of 2.x and you don't want to look for the errors, simply replace "/bin/sh" with "/bin/bash1" in the first line. The script will then be run by the old bash shell.
bb BB is an high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text terminal. It is portable demo, so you can run it on plenty of operating systems and DOS.
bc bc is an interpreter that supports numbers of arbitrary precision and the interactive execution of statements. There are some similarities in the syntax to the C programming language. A standard math library is available through command line options. When used, the math library is read in before any other input files. bc then reads in all other files from the command line, evaluating their contents. Then, bc reads from standard input (usually the keyboard). The dc program is also included. Dc is a calculator which supports reverse-polish notation and allows unlimited precision arithmetic. Macros can also be defined. Normally, dc reads from standard in but can also read in files specified on the command line. A calculator with reverse-polish notation saves numbers to a stack. Arguments to mathematical operations (operands) are "pushed" onto the stack until the next operator is read in which "pops" its arguments off the stack and "pushes" its results back onto the stack.
berkdb2 Version 2 of The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB), the Open Source embedded database system
bind The named daemon and support utilities including: dig, dnsquery, host, and nslookup. Documentation on setting up a name server can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/bind .
bind8 The named daemon BIND8 with examples. The support utilities nslookup, dig, dnsquery and host are found in the package bindutil. Documentation on setting up a name server can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/bind8.
bind9 Beta version of BIND9.
bindutil This package includes the utilities nslookup, dig, dnsquery and host used to test and query DNS. The new bind v8 named daemon is found in the package bind8.
bing Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link.
binutils C compiler utilities: ar, as, gasp, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, size, strings, strip. These utilities are needed whenever you want to compile a program or a kernel. This version has been compiled by SuSE with the corresponding C library. They are not designed for cross-compiling to other architectures.
bison Bison is a parser generator in the style of yacc(1).
bitchx BitchX is one of the well-known IRC clients for the text console. Very well designed and offers lots of possibilities and settings.
blackbox Just another window manager! Start it by typing startx blackbox
blt An add-on library for Tk. Does not require patching of the Tk and Tcl libraries. Provides some additional Widgets and Functions.
bonnie Bonnie is a popular performance benchmark that targets various aspects of Unix filesystems.
bowman Based on the fvwm window manager, imitating the NeXTSTEP GUI. Can be installed without problem with fvwm and fvwm95. Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/bowman
buffer Buffering stdin and stdout
bulkmail This is a C program to do "bulk" mailing. For input, it takes a file of recipient addresses (one address per line) and a message (with headers already attached) to be sent to the recipients. It sorts the recipient list by reversed domain (so similar ones sort together), splits up the recipients into several groups containing no more than N domains each, creates an SMTP envelope for each group of recipients, and feeds that envelope to "/usr/lib/sendmail -bs". Splitting the envelopes up allows sendmail to perform delivery in parallel, so instead of having one large queue entry (for which sendmail might take awhile to get around to attempting delivery for some recipients), it has several smaller queue entries. Depending on your point-of-view, this can still be considered "cluttering up your mail queue", but it does seem to deliver messages more quickly to most recipients. The core of this program was extracted from a somewhat strange mailing list manager called na-net; it was designed to efficiently send out mail to 5000 people at a time. I have used this program to attempt delivery of a message to over 12000 recipients around the world, within a few hours. I'm currently using bulk_mailer as a back-end for several mailing lists of modest size. However, the program is not extensively tested, and may not work well in all environments. (In particular, if your system has per-user process quotas, or a small number of process table entries, you will want to modify this program to recover gracefully.) There's no warranty on this, but you're welcome to use it if you want.
busybox BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip, tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or emdedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options then their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
bwbasic A Basic interpreter.
bwidget Add useful and nice widgets in your interfaces with the BWidget Toolkit, a set of native Tk 8.x Widgets using Tcl8.x namespaces. The BWidgets have a professional look&feel as in other well known Toolkits (Tix or Incr Widget) but the concept is radically different because everything is native so no platform compilation, no compiled extension library are needed. The code is in Pure Tcl/Tk.
bzip Bzip is a very powerful program for compressing files.
calamari Calamaris parses Logfiles from Squid V1.1.x, V1.2.x, V2.x and NetCache in Native Log Format and generates a report. Written in perl5.
calctool A simple scientific calculator, which can also represent the values also in binary, hexadecimal or decimal format.
canna Canna converts kana to kanji based on a client-server model. That is, an application program communicates with a kana-to-kanji conversion server to achieve Japanese input. Canna can be used in Emacs, in X environments, and also on TTYs. Canna provides more than ten tools to maintain kana-to-kanji conversion dictionaries.
cannadev A user-interface library for use with the Canna Kana Kanji Conversion System is provided. With the library, programmers can easily add a Japanese input system with unified user interface to application programs.
catdoc Viewer for MS-Word-Files.
cfengine GNU cfengine is an abstract programming language for system administrators of huge heterogeneous networks. With cfengine, system administrators have an easy and elegant way to maintain complicated networks.
cgmdraw CGM Draw is a freely available library for generating CGM files from a C program. CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) is a vector graphics format that can be read by many popular packages. With CGM Draw your code can quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, rectangles, polygons, and text. CGM Draw is ideal for creating CGM files on the fly when you have a rapidly changing data set (such as in response to database queries.)
cistron A radiusd provides remote authentication and accounting. This radiusd is based on the Livingston radius 1.16 and is mostly compatible with Livingston 2.01. There are more features, such as: - Can limit max. number of simultaneous logins on a per-user basis! - Multiple DEFAULT entries, that can optionally fall-through - Deny/permit access based on huntgroup users dials into - Set certain parameters (such as static IP address) based on huntgroup - Extra "hints" file that can select SLIP/PPP/rlogin based on username pattern (Puser or user.ppp is PPP, plain "user" is rlogin etc) - Can execute an external program when user has authenticated - Can use `$INCLUDE filename' in users and dictionary files - Can act as a proxy server, relaying requests to a remote server - radwho and radlast commands - Keeps a list of logged in users (radutmp file)
comanche Comanche, as part of the The Apache GUI project aims to provide a quality and crossplatform graphical tool for configuration and management of the Apache web server and related software. Comanche stands for COnfiguration MANager for apaCHE and should run on most flavors of UNIX and Windows (and even Macs :-)
compartm Compartment provides all possibilities (chroot, kernel capabilities) to securely run insecure and/or untrusted programs. It provides you with all necessary options to fine grain the tightening process as you need it.
compface The programs `compface' and `uncompface' convert 48x48x1 images to and from a compressed format. The purpose of the programs is to allow the inclusion of face images within mail headers using the field name `X-face:'. They make use of a library which allow the compression and decompression algorithms to be used in other programmes such as mail despatchers and mail notification daemons.
compress Standard Un*x compression program
conv Small unit conversion tool. Uses the XForms library. GUI is german. degrees <=> radians; Pa <=> Atm; Pa <=> Bar; Pa <=> Torr; Calories <=> Joule; linear <=> dB ( 20 log(x) ); linear <=> dB ( 10 log (x) ); cm <=> Inch
convert As you see when you ran Convert this is a unit conversion software. (over 700 conversions)
coolmail Shows if new mail has arrived. The main advantage of this program is that you can click into the window to start the mailer. Documentation: man coolmail
cpio This is GNU cpio, a program to manage archives of files. This package also includes mt, a tape drive control program. Cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. An archive is a file that contains other files plus information about them, such as their pathname, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. This package normally also includes the program "rmt", which provides remote tape drive control. Since there is a compatible `rmt' in the `dump' package we didn't put `rmt' into this package. If you are planning to use the remote tape features provided by cpio you have to install the `dump' package as well.
cracklib CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain security-oriented characteristics. You can use CrackLib to stop users from choosing passwords which would be easy to guess.
cron Automatically starts programs at specific times. Add new entries with "crontab -e". (See "man 5 crontab" and "man 1 crontab" for documentation.) Under /etc you can find the directories cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly. Scripts and programs, that are located there will be started automatically.
ctags ctags (from Darren Hiebert) generates tag files from source code in C, C++, Eiffel, Fortran and Java to be used with vi, its derivatives, emacs and several other editors. etags (from Emacs sources) generates tag files from source code in Pascal, Cobol, Ada, Perl, LaTeX, Scheme, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, Postscript, Erlang, Python, Prolog and most assembler-like syntaxes.
ctwm Documentation: man ctwm or in /usr/share/doc/packages/ctwm
cvs CVS is a frontend to the Revision Control System which is included in the standard Linux distribution. pcl-cvs, an Emacs frontend to CVS, is also included.
dante Dante is a free implementation of the proxy protocols socks version 4, socks version 5 (rfc1928) and msproxy. It can be used as a firewall between networks. It is being developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a Norwegian consulting company. Commercial support is available. This package contains the dynamic libraries required to "socksify" existing applications to become socks clients.
dantedev Additional libraries required to compile programs that use socks.
dantesrv This package contains the socks proxy daemon and its documentation. The sockd is the server part of the Dante socks proxy package and allows socks clients to connect through it to the network.
db2x A new tool - based on Perl modules.
ddd The DDD debugger (Data Display Debugger) is a comfortable GUI to the well-known debuggers GDB and DBX. Data structures can be represented as graphs and interactively shown. You can debug programs in C, C++, Pascal, MODULA-2, FORTRAN and ADA, and even at the assembler code level!
ddrescue dd_rescue helps, when nobody else will: Your disk has crashed and you try to copy it over to another one. Standard Un*x tools like cp, cat, dd wail abort on every I/O error. dd_rescue won't.
dejagnu Dejagnu is a library of expect scripts that are used by GNU for running test suites on GNU tools.
deliver A small and simple program that delivers electronic mail to local users. If you are attached to a network, you should install the program "sendmail" as well.
devfsd If using devfs, the devfs filesystem will normally be mounted on /dev. This raises a few compatibility issues, that can be tackled with the help of the devfs daemon: * Persistent permissions and ownership of device nodes * Different naming scheme for some devices (SCSI eg.) * Module autoloading
devs This package creates special files in the /dev directory, so that your system's hardware can be accessed.
dhcp Please read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/dhcp regarding configuration of the DHCP server. Especially the file /etc/dhcpd.conf must be modified to fit your site needs.
dhcpcd dhcpcd gets an IP address and other information from a corresponding DHCP server, configures the network interface automatically, and tries to renew the lease time depending on the command line option.
dia Dia is designed to be much like the commercial program `Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, SADT, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to EPS, PNG, CGM or SVG formats and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
dialog This program lets you use menus and dialog boxes in shell scripts.
dictd This package contains two programs. With `dict' you have access to a few powerful electronic dictionaries on the Internet. With `dictd' you can setup such a dictionary yourself. To look up, for example, the word `grunt', just type dict grunt See the man pages of dict and dictd for details.
dicts This package contains sources of 14 ispell dictionaries: for German (ready compiled for ispell in package igerman) for New German (ready compiled for ispell in package ingerman) for New Swiss (ready compiled for ispell in package inswiss) for Danish (ready compiled for ispell in package idanish) for Spanish (ready compiled for ispell in package ispanish) for French (ready compiled for ispell in package ifrench) for Italian (ready compiled for ispell in package iitalian) for Dutch (ready compiled for ispell in package idutch) for Swedish (ready compiled for ispell in package iswedish) for Norwegian (ready compiled for ispell in package inorsk) for Portuguese (ready compiled for ispell in package iportug) for Catalan (ready compiled for ispell in package icatalan) for Czech (ready compiled for ispell in package iczech) for Polish (ready compiled for ispell in package ipolish) for Greek (ready compiled for ispell in package igreek) for Russian (ready compiled for ispell in package irussian) Please read the README's under /usr/src/dicts/i*/ .
diff The GNU diff utilities find differences between files (to make source code patches, for instance).
ding Ding is a smart X11 English - German dictionary, which works with a local databasefile. For full functionality it is recommended to install agrep.
dns_faq The Domain-Name-Service (DNS) FAQ.
docbk_4 Widely used to produce technical documentation. SGML and XML version included.
docbk30 This package contains version 3.0 and 3.1 and in addition an XML version. You'll find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/docbk30.
docbkdsl DSSSL Stylesheets for the DocBook DTD
docbktls A shell script to convert SGML documents which are based on the DocBook DTD.
docbkxsl These are XSL stylesheets for the DocBk XML (and "Simplified" DocBk XML) DTDs. XSL is a standard W3C stylesheet language for both print and online rendering. For more information about XSL, see the XSL page at the W3C.
dochost With this package you are able to access a central documentation-server on which the SuSE online-support system is stored. It should be installed on the server, too.
dosfstls The dosfstls package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies.
duconv A DOS <--> UNIX converter which even correctly converts German umlauts. Something everybody(!) is looking for..;)
dump The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem.
dx Open Visualization Data Explorer is a visualization framework that gives users the ability to apply advanced visualization and analysis techniques to their data. These techniques can be applied to help users gain new insights into data from applications in a wide variety of fields including science, engineering, medicine and business.
dxdata This package holds some example data for the IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer.
dxdoc This package contains the documentation of the IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer in the HTML format.
eazy This package contains some links and enhancements of the /etc files which should make it easier to install software packages from the Internet. A typical example of where you can use this package is the link from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/lib/sendmail.
eb EB Library is a C library for accessing CD-ROM books. It can be built on UNIX derived systems. EB Library supports to access CD-ROM books of EB, EBG, EBXA, EBXA-C, S-EBXA and EPWING formats. CD-ROM books of those formats are popular in Japan. Since CD-ROM books themseves are stands on the ISO 9660 format, you can mount the discs by the same way as other ISO 9660 discs.
ebdev Header files and Libraries of EB.
eblook eblook is a command line tool using the EB-library. It provides easy access to many electronic dictionaries published on CD-ROM. It is recommended to install the Emacs-interface `lookup.el' too. Although it is possible to use `eblook' from the commandline, using it with Emacs/XEmacs and `lookup.el' is much easier and offers many extra features as well. You can get `lookup.el' from http://lookup.sourceforge.net/. `lookup.el' is already included as a package in recent versions of XEmacs.
econf e-conf lets you configure the Enlightenment Window Manager.
ed Standard old un*x line editor
eddi X editor based on the TiX shell, with text highlighting and several other useful features.
edict The EDICT file is the outcome of a voluntary project to produce a freely-available Japanese/English Dictionary in machine-readable form. This project has been under way since early 1991, beginning with the small original file included with the MOKE (Mark's Own Kanji Editor) Japanese word-processing package. It reached a size of nearly 103,000 entries when it was split into two files: EDICT containing the "normal" dictionary entries, and ENAMDICT containing names. Both files are used by a number of software packages and thousands of users world-wide. The EDICT file is now over 60,000 entries and the ENAMDICT file over 160,000. Meanwhile there are also some additional dictionary files for special purposes, for example COMPDIC for words from the computing and communication field.
efence Tool for debugging your C-programs (malloc debugger).
elem Table of chemical elements
elispint Programming in Emacs Lisp: An Introduction
elispman GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual edition 2.5, corresponding to GNU Emacs version 20.x.
elm Elm is an interactive screen-oriented mailer program originally written by Dave Taylor. Elm is now maintained by the Elm Development Group.
elvis A vi clone, the standard text editor on Unix systems.
emacs_w3 Implemented in Emacs Lisp.
emil This program enables you to convert MIME, SUN mailtool and `plain old style RFC822'. Could be interesting for `elm addicted' people..;-)
enlight Enlightenment is a window manager for the X Window System that is designed to be powerful, extensible, configurable and pretty darned good looking! It is one of the more graphically intense window managers. Enlightenment goes beyond managing windows by providing a useful and appealing graphical shell from which to work. It is open in design and instead of dictating a policy, allows the user to define their own policy, down to every last detail.
enscript Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript and writes the generated output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. Enscript is configured in /etc/enscript.cfg.
eperl ePerl interprets an ASCII file bristled with Perl 5 program statements by evaluating the Perl 5 code while passing through the plain ASCII data. It can operate in various ways: As a stand-alone Unix filter or integrated Perl 5 module for general file generation tasks and as a powerful Webserver scripting language for dynamic HTML page programming.
esound For enabling Enlightenment to produce some sounds..
eterm Eterm is a really nice and featurerich terminalprogram for X which can be fully customized.
ethereal ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is based on GTK+, a graphical user interface library, and libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library. It is more or less a graphical version of tcpdump.
expat From the Website: Expat is an XML 1.0 parser written in C. It aims to be fully conforming. It is currently not a validating XML processor. The current production version of expat can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip. The directory xmltok contains a low-level library for tokenizing XML. The interface is documented in xmltok/xmltok.h. The directory xmlparse contains an XML parser library which is built on top of the xmltok library. The interface is documented in xmlparse/xmlparse.h. The directory sample contains a simple example program using this interface; sample/build.bat is a batch file to build the example using Visual C++. The directory xmlwf contains the xmlwf application, which uses the xmlparse library. The arguments to xmlwf are one or more files which are each to be checked for well-formedness. An option -d dir can be specified; for each well-formed input file the corresponding canonical XML will be written to dir/f, where f is the filename (without any path) of the input file. A -x option will cause references to external general entities to be processed. A -s option will make documents that are not standalone cause an error (a document is considered standalone if either it is intrinsically standalone because it has no external subset and no references to parameter entities in the internal subset or it is declared as standalone in the XML declaration).
expect Expect is a tool primarily for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these applications. Expect is described in many books, articles, papers, and FAQs. There is an entire book on it available from O'Reilly.
ext2fs Utilities needed to create and maintain ext2 filesystems under Linux. Included in this package are: chattr, lsattr, mke2fs, mklost+found, tune2fs, e2fsck, and badblocks.
ext2fs_d This package contains the libraries and header files needed to develop second extended (ext2) filesystem-specific programs.
f2c Contains libf2c.so.0.11, ported by Rob Hooft. This package uses an `f77' script that hides the C translation process from the user.
fbm Tools using the Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation Library
fcwnn Free cWnn Chinese Input System (mainland China)
fcwnncom This package includes the common files for the Free cWnn and Free tWnn Chinese Input Systems. Free cWnn is for mainland Chinese, Free tWnn is for Taiwan-Chinese.
fcwnndev This package contains the header files and libraries for building client programs that use the Chinese Input System Free cWnn.
fetchmcf A GUI configurator for generating fetchmail configuration files (.fetchmailrc).
fetchml Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, and well-documented remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt, elm, pine, (x)emacs/gnus, or mailx. Comes with an interactive GUI configurator suitable for end-users.
feynman FG is a tcl/tk-based application for drawing Feynman diagrams for publishing purposes.
fhs This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The guidelines are intended to support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems.
figlet FIGlet can create characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. FIGlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail and UseNet messages.
file With "file" you can obtain information on the file type of a specified file. File type recognition is controlled by the file /etc/magic, which contains the classification criteria. This command is used by apsfilter to permit automatic printing of different file types.
filerun FileRunner is an X11 file manager for Unix. It is simple and efficient and has a built-in FTP client.
fileutil GNU fileutils: the basic file manipulation programs
find This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. The find and xargs programs comply with POSIX 1003.2. They also support some additional options, some borrowed from Unix and some unique to GNU.
firewals For all those fellow experts out there: yes I know that this is NOT a firewall setup but a simple (no, not simple, it tries actually to be clever) packet filter. But if we would call this "SuSEpacketfilter", only a few user would install it, hence general security would be bad.
fkwnn Free kWnn Korean Input System
fkwnndev This package contains the header files and libraries for building client programs that use the Korean Input System Free kWnn.
flex flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognize lexical patterns in text.
fltk The Fast Light Tool Kit ("FLTK", pronounced "fulltick") is a LGPL'd C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX(r)), OpenGL(r), and Microsoft(r) Windows(r) NT 4.0, 95, or 98. It was originally developed by Mr. Bill Spitzak and is currently maintained by a small group of developers across the world with a central repository in the US. The installation of this package requires you to install a 3D-library. If you don't have hardware 3D you can use the software OpenGL library in package mesasoft (series x3d). The library can be recompiled without 3D-support.
fnlib The fnlib is necessary for the Enlightenment window manager.
fortune Fortune displays a random text string from a set of files in a certain format. This occurs each time you start a login shell. To get this feature just uncomment the respective lines in the user's .profile.
fping fping is a ping-like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. fping differs from ping in a way that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending pings to one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion. In the default mode, if a target replies, it is noted and removed from the list of targets to check; if a target does not respond within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it is designated as unreachable. fping also supports sending a specified number of pings to a target, or looping indefinitely (as in ping ). Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts, so its output is designed to be easy to parse.
freetype Library for working with TrueType Fonts. Documentation at /usr/share/doc/packages/freetype
ftpdir This package contains a `change-root'-configuration for anonymous ftp.
ftwnn Free tWnn Chinese Input System (Taiwan)
fvwm The fvwm window manager (version 2) is the standard window manager for the X window system under Linux. fvwm is highly configurable and has a similar look-and-feel to the Motif standard. The personal configuration is stored in the file ~/.fvwm2rc in the user's home directory. The system wide configuration is generated at installation time by SuSEconfig and may be found in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm2 . Documentation: man fvwm2 /usr/share/doc/packages/fvwm
fvwm1 Since versions 1.x and 2.x are not compatible, we have kept the old version in the distribution. This version is configured with the system-wide configuration file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc, as well as the user's personal configuration file ~/.fvwmrc in the home directory. The program susewm is able to configure this window manager,too. Important! Please read the file /usr/share/doc/packages/fvwm1/README.SuSE! Documentation: man fvwm fvwmman <manpage> /usr/share/doc/packages/fvwm1
fvwm2 The fvwm window manager (version 2) is the standard window manager for the X window system under Linux. fvwm is highly configurable and has a similar look-and-feel to the Motif standard. The personal configuration is stored in the file ~/.fvwm2rc in the user's home directory. The system wide configuration is generated at installation time by SuSEconfig and may be found in /etc/X11/fvwm2 .
fvwm95 The look'n'feel of Win95 without Win95! With icons in the menus, frames and handling like win95, a task-bar with start button a.m.o.m. By installing the package susewm one can configure fvwm95 similar to fvwm, fvwm2 or bowman. Important1! The config file's name was changed to .fvwm95rc ! Important2! Please read the file /usr/share/doc/packages/fvwm95/README.SuSE! Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/fvwm95 man fvwm95 fvwm95man <man page>
fwnn FreeWnn is a Kana-Kanji translation system, originally developed by a joint project formed by Kyoto University, OMRON Corporation [formerly known as Tateishi Electronics Co.], and ASTEC Inc. Further developement and maintenance is now done by the "FreeWnn Project" (http://www.freewnn.org). The name "Wnn", is an acronym for the Japanese sentence "Watashino Namaeha Nakanodesu" (literally, it means "my name is Nakano."), is derived from a goal of the project: to develop a system powerful enough to translate a whole sentence like that at once. The source code has been written in C, and was distributed freely. Consequently, Wnn spread widely among workstation platforms, and became a de-facto standard as a Kana-Kanji translation system for UNIX operation systems. Wnn works in client-server manner. The server portion of Wnn, or jserver, is used as a Kana-Kanji translation engine for clients like "xwnmo" and "kinput2" (input systems for the X Window System), or for clients like "Egg", which is part of Mule (=Multi lingual Emacs) and XEmacs. This package contains only the Japanese server.
fwnncom This package includes files you need to run FreeWnn, Free cWnn, Free tWnn or Free kWnn. Install this package if you will be using any part of the Wnn System.
fwnndev This package contains the header files and libraries for building client programs which use FreeWnn for Japanese input.
fwproxy FTP-Proxy relays FTP connections in a secure way between clients and servers. It provides security features like command restriction, argument scanning and port ranges. User actions can easily be audited. FTP-Proxy is fully RFC 959, 1123, 1579 and 2428 compliant.
gawk GNU gawk. It is upwardly compatible with the System V Release 4 awk. It is almost completely compliant with POSIX 1003.2.
gawkdoc Documentation for gawk
gcal Gcal is a program for printing calendars. Gcal displays a calendar for a month or a year, eternal holiday lists and fixed date lists, in many ways. The program correctly omits the dates that were skipped when the current Gregorian calendar replaced the earlier Julian calendar.
gcc NOTE: Be sure to install at least the following packages besides this one, or you won't be able to compile: binutils, include, libc, and the third part of the kernel source. (the include files) Compiled with support for g77 and pascal.
gccinfo GNU info-pages for gcc
gccmesg This package contains translated message catalogs for GCC (Gnu Compiler Collection).
gd This is a autoloadable interface module for libgd, a popular library for creating and manipulating GIF files. With this perl library you can create GIF images on the fly or modify existing files.
gdb You can use GDB to debug programs written in C, C++, and Modula-2. GNU Fortran 77 is also partially included.
gdbm Static and dynamic library for the GNU database routines.
gdk_pix With this library you can create, change, scale and move pixeldata very fast and efficiently.
gdk_pixd GdkPixBuf - Development Environment
gdlib gd 1.7.3 creates PNG images, not GIF images. This is a good thing. PNG is a more compact format, and full compression is available. Existing code will need modification to call gdImagePng instead of gdImageGif.
gdm The Gnome Display Manager is a re-implementation of the well known xdm program. gdm, however, consists of two separate parts: A small daemon and a graphical login program -- gdmgreeter. The gdm daemon features: o X Authentication o Default and per-display initialization scripts o Pre and post session scripts o Pluggable Authentication Modules o XDMCP The gdmgreeter supports: o Logo image (in any GdkImlib supported format) o A face browser like the one on NeXT/SGI o Tab-completion (no, doesn't work on passwords) o Halt, reboot and laptop suspend o Iconified login window (i.e. for xfishtank) o Session selection support (Package manager friendly) o Language selection support
ge_auc These macros make it easier for you to write TeX documents with GNU Emacs. Documentation is to be found under: /usr/share/doc/packages/auctex/ and in the dvi-files math-ref.dvi tex-ref.dvi (reference cards) and in info files auctex in emacs info-mode. AuC TeX is integrated in XEmacs 19.15 and higher, therefore you may not install this packages. Note that the binary formats of the byte-compiled lisp files of the both emacs editors are incompatible, therefore you can not use this package for XEmacs.
ge_exec Eight Megabytes Always Continuously Swapping ;-) Love it or leave it.
ge_info This package contains all info files for GNU emacs. All these files can be read online with GNU emacs and describe emacs and some of its modes.
ge_lisp Several lisp files not needed for running GNU emacs. Most of these files are pre byte compiled and therefore not necessary.
ge_site This package contains extensions for GNU Emacs of the site-lisp path of emacs. It puts together the AUC-TeX package (ge_auc) and a system wide startup file (site-start.el) which uses a few lisp macro files combined by us. For copyright have a look on these files. Note, that GNU Emacs and XEmacs are incompatible. They use different binary code for compiled lisp files and they have different builtin lisp functions, not only names of such functions are different. Therfore you will find in /etc/skel/ an .emacs for your personal ~/.emacs which will switch between different init files. Fore GNU Emacs there is a /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs for a personal ~/.gnu-emacs and therefore your ~/.emacs or ~/.gnu-emacs files should be checked against the /etc/skel versions. You can always make your preferred ~/.gnu-emacs by copying the /etc/skel/.emacs and /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs file in your HOME directory and incorporating your extensions or changes.
gedit gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed expressly for GNOME. It supports a split-screen mode and plugins that make it even more powerful. Developers can develop their own plugins if they desire.
genromfs Genromfs is a tool for creating romfs filesystems, which are lightweight, read-only filesystems supported by the Linux kernel. Romfs filesystems are mainly used for the initial RAM disks used during installation.
gentoo Filemanager based on GTK Toolkit.
gettext This package contains tthe `intl' library as well as tools that ease the creation and maintenance of message catalogs: you can extract strings from source code, the supplied Emacs mode (po-mode.el) will aid in editing these catalogs (called PO files, for portable object) and add translations and a special compiler will turn these PO files into binary catalogs. This Library is distributed under the GPL License, not under LGPL. So please remember to read /usr/share/doc/packages/gettext/COPYING and keep in mind that you have to supply the sources of a program linked against this library on request, if you distribute your program.
gettyps This getty is included because it supports ring-back. Documentation: man getty man gettydefs under /usr/share/doc/packages/gettyps you can find some examples.
gf `gf' by Gary Houston is short for "general formatter," i.e., it can work with documents which use the ISO "general" document type definition (DTD). It can convert SGML documents conforming to a small number of DTDs into various output formats: LaTeX, ASCII, RTF and Texinfo. However not every output format can be generated for every DTD. Apart from the general DTD, gf supports the HTML DTD used in the WWW project and Gary's Snafu DTD. `gf' is not intended as a flexible system for hacking up a formatter for a random DTD, but as a usable document production system for a few DTDs.
gfax GNOME is needed. For sending facsimiles GFax uses mgetty+sendfax or Hylafax.
gfcc (GTK+ Firewall Control Center) is a GTK+ application which can control Linux packetfilter policies and rules, based on the ipchains package.
gforth Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language.
gftp FTP is a multithreaded FTP client for X11 written using Gtk. It has some of the following features: simultaneous downloads, resuming of interrupted file transfers, file transfer queues, downloading of entire directories, ftp proxy support, remote directory caching, passive and non-passive file transfers, drag-n-drop support, a very nice connection manager and many more features.
ggv Tool to view PostScript and PDF documents.
gimp GIMP is the abbreviation of GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a tool for creating, manipulating and saving graphical images. It aims to be a free replacement for commercial tools used in graphic design and weblayout. It has a lot of features suited for even complex image manipulation, including: Layers, channels, advanced selection and colour manipulation tools, scriptability (via Script-Fu, Perl, Python ...) and even more. It uses Gtk+ for its user interface and makes use of localisation where senseful. It contains support for graphic tablets and drag and drag operation.
gimphelp This package contains an online version of the GIMP user manual and a browser plugin for the GIMP for context based help. It's not yet finished, but installing it and pressing <F1> in a dialog may sometimes give a good hint.
ginetd Grafical tool for editing your /etc/inetd.conf based on Gtk.
git A complete system shell, for those who don't prefer the command line :-)
gkrellm With a single process, GKrellM manages multiple stacked monitors and supports applying themes to match the monitors appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme. * SMP CPU, Disk, Proc, and active net interface monitors with LEDs. * Internet monitor that displays current and charts historical port hits. * Memory and swap space usage meters and a system uptime monitor. * File system meters show capacity/free space and can mount/umount. * A mailbox monitor which can launch mail reader, remote mail fetch. * Clock/calendar and hostname display. * APM laptop battery monitor. * CPU/motherboard temperature display if lm_sensors modules installed. * Multiple monitors managed by a single process to reduce system load. * PPP on/off button that can execute your PPP scripts. * Charts are autoscaling with configurable grid line resolution. * Separate colors for "in" and "out" data. The in color is used for CPU user time, disk read, forks, and net receive data. The out color is used for CPU sys time, disk write, load, and net transmit data. * A different theme can be created with the GIMP.
glade Glade is a user interface builder for GTK+, that outputs C code. Support for other languages is being developed by other projects. For more information, see /usr/share/doc/packages/glade and: Glade's homepage http://glade.pn.org/
glademm Glademm is an extension to glade (Gtk GUI Builder) to create C++ sources. For more information, see /usr/share/doc/packages/glademm and: Glademm's homepage http://home.wtal.de/petig/Gtk/
glib Library of Utility Functions for Gtk
glibdev Only needed by developers that want to use functions contained in glib.
global GLOBAL is a common source code tag system for C and Yacc. You can locate the specified function in C source files and move there easily. It is useful to hack a large project containing many subdirectories, many main() functions like MH, X or Linux kernel.
gltt gltt is a library that allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGL application. It supports bitmapped and anti-aliased font drawing as well as vectorized and polygonized drawing.
gmailwat Mail watcher integrated within the GNOME Panel, displays sender and subject of received mail.
gmc The filemanager of the GNOME Project. "gmc" is based on the Midnight Commander ("mc").
gmp Library for calculating huge numbers (integer and floating point).
gn_doc This package contains GNOME documentation and will grow in the future. User Guide.
gnappl Little tools, little tools, little tools - running in the panel or are launched from the panel.
gncontr With the GNOME Control Center you can configure the mouse, keyboard, sound events, etc. and the desktop in general. This includes the windowmanager, the session manager and the panel.
gncontrd Libraries for developing `capplet' (control-center applets).
gncore This package contains some central GNOME applications like the panel or a taskbar. Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/gnome
gncored Panel libraries and header files.
gnlibs GNOME is a desktop environment. This package contains the basic GNOME libraries. GNOME itself has no specific window manager. Many GNOME users like Sawfish or WindowMaker or Icewm as window manager for GNOME (see those packages).
gnlibsd Libraries, Includes, etc. to develop own GNOME applications or to compile other GNOME packages.
gnprint Implementation of the Gnome Printing Architecture (prototype), described in: http://www.levien.com/gnome/print-arch.html
gnprintd Libraries, Includes, etc. to develop own GNOME applications or to compile other GNOME packages, that rely on the printing architecture.
gnuchess A worthy chess opponent. Runs in text mode. You can find an X11 interface in the xboard package.
gnumeric From the README file: Gnumeric is still a young program and it is advancing steadily. This is a partial list of Features implemented in Gnumeric, we need documentation for these: - Autofill Number autofill (computes delta, autofills from that) String autofill (daynames, months are built in). String+Number combo integer autofill Formula autofill. - Drag and drop selection. Select an area and use the border to drag the contents (shift/control/alt are modifiers to copy or move) - Selection - Multiple selection is supported, hold down control key to augment the existing selection (it might be discotinuous). - Walking selection Use return/tab and shift-return/shift-tab to capture information in a selection. - Fill quickly a region with the same text: just enter the text in a selection and press control-enter. - Number formatting - The formatting of numbers is very powerful, we do emulate the Excel number formatting specification. - Format rules: you can use rules to specify which format to use - Format colors: you can specify a color to format with in the format. - Column/Row resizing - Drag the column/row division to adjust the column and row dimenssions. - To make changes to various columns/rows simultaneously, select the columns and then change the dimension of one of them. - To edit the contents of a cell that already has a value, press F2 key. - When typing a formula, you can use the cursor keys to select a cell or a cell range in the expression. This will only work if a cell name is valid at the cursor point. To specify a cell range, just move to the start of the cell range and then hold down the shift key while making the size of the selection cursor bigger. - An expression is evaluated constantly on top of the current selection. There is a number of pre-defined auto-compute expressions, you can change this by right clicking on this expression (it is on the bottom right corner) - If you drag a selection with button 3 instead of button one there is no default action, rather, a menu pops up with a list of possible actions to perform. - Gnumeric distinguishes regular text from formulas by preceding formulas with an equal sign. So to enter an expression you have to enter for example: =1+2. - Control-Space selects a column - Control-A selects all - SHift-Space selects the row. - Selection-keys + control extend the selection to boundary of worksheet. - SHift-Backspace: Collapses selection to active cell. - Home: move to the beginning of the row. - Control-Home: move to the cell A1
gnuplot Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers (including many color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) and can easily be extended to include new devices.
gnuserv If you're using XEmacs, you don't need these tools; they are part of the XEmacs package. hints at /usr/share/doc/packages/gnuserv/README.SuSE.
gperf A perfect hash function is simply: A hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly 1 probe into the data structure.
gpp This package contains the GNU compiler for C++. Please note that it does not yet fully comply with the ISO C++ standard. You may find the source code for gpp in the package gcc, series zq.
gppinfo Documentation for libg++
gppshare Needed for dynamically linked C++ programs. The sources are available in the libgpp_s package.
gprint Symbolic representation of printers of the system.
gq A LDAP Client in GTK
grepmail Grepmail searches a normal, gzip'd, bzip'd, or tzip'd mailbox for a given regular expression, and returns those emails that match it. Piped input is allowed, and date restrictions are supported. Two versions of grepmail are included in this package: grepmail.DP and grepmail.DM. grepmail.DM uses a more flexible date parsing module than grepmail.DP, but it runs about 60% slower. There is a symbolic link "grepmail", which points to grepmail.DP.
groff The groff package provides compatible versions of troff, nroff, eqn, tbl, and other Unix text-formatting utilities. Groff is used to "compile" man-pages stored in groff/nroff format for different output devices; e.g., for displaying to a screen or in PostScript(tm) format for printing on a PostScript(tm) printer. Most programs store their man-pages in either /usr/share/man/ or /usr/X11R6/man/.
gs_fontk Japanese font for ghostscript.
gs_fonto Some useful fonts for the PostScript interpreter Ghostscript.
gs_fontr Russian fonts for ghostscript.
gs_fonts The necessary fonts for the PostScript interpreter Ghostscript. The URW fonts (URW Software, Poppenb
gs_lib This package contains all startup files for calling gs (Ghostscript). You will find some useful documentations about few printer drivers in the directory: /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/doc/ Please read the files use.txt, devices.txt and for the experimental drivers cdj670, cdj850, cdj890, and cdj1600 the file readme.hp8 in the sub-directory hp8xx/. Currently there is the newer version 6.00 of Ghostscript available. Due to a change in the licence of this version we are not allowed to put this version onto this cdrom. Nevertheless this version you will find this version on our FTP server.
gs_serv This gs version should only be installed on print servers without X11. Currently there is the newer version 6.xx of Ghostscript available. Due to a change in the licence of this version we are not allowed to put this version onto this cdrom. Nevertheless this version you will find this version on our FTP server.
gs_x11 If you plan to preview PostScript documents under X, you need to install this. Currently there is the newer version 6.xx of Ghostscript available. Due to a change in the licence of this version we are not allowed to put this version onto this cdrom. Nevertheless this version you will find this version on our FTP server.
gstransf gstransfer is a small utility for interactive calibration of GhostScript color transfer curves. It reads a specified .upp file and allows the manipulation of transfer curves for the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black color.
gsview Ghostview offers you an X11 GUI for viewing PostScript files. This is an X11 interface to ghostscript.
gtk This a library (the so called GIMP Toolkit) that is needed for running the packages GIMP or SANE.
gtkdev This package contains the files someone needs if he wants to use functions of GTK library in his own programs.
gtkdoc Gtkdoc is a very versatile product to create insource documentation. It uses special comments in the sourcecode to produce SGML output which can be convertedto any desired format, including HTML with CSS. It's usage similar to javadoc but a lot more powerful. Although the name suggests that this package is merely used with Gtk+, this is not completely true anymore.
gtkeng Notif: A simple Motif-look-alike theme.
gtkmm Highlights: * Typesafe signal framework implemented with templates and function objects * Extending the widget hierarchy via inheritance is now easy enough to use as main method for creating new widgets and applications * Tracks closely development of gtk and provides equivalent C++ interface For more information, see /usr/share/doc/packages/gtkmm and: Gtk--'s homepage http://www.iki.fi/terop/gtk/gtk--.html Gtk's homepage http://www.gimp.org/gtk/
gtkmmdev This package contains all needed libraries and includes for development using the Gtk-- Libraries, and also the example sourcecode (binaries are in the gtkmmexb package). Call the gtkmm-config, and take a look into gnomemmConf.sh scripts to obtain compile time informations for your own applications. Autoconf/automake configutations may be done using macros from gtk--.m4.
gtkmmexb This package contains the Gtk-- tutorial examples binaries. The source files for the examples you will find in the gtkmmdev package.
gtkmmhtm Gtk-- Class Reference in HTML Format
gtkmmman This package contains the Gtk-- Class Reference in man format.
guile This is Guile, a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
guilegtk Guile-gtk is glue code to make the GTK+ (the Gimp Toolkit) accesible from Guile so it provides a convenient interface for Scheme programmers to develop visual applications.
gup gup - A Group Update Program that accepts commands by mail to edit a newsgroup subscription file for subsequent use by news systems such as INN and C-News
gv GV offers you an X11 GUI for viewing PostScript files. This is an X11 interface to ghostscript.
gvim Start: /usr/X11R6/bin/gvim Copy and modify /etc/gvimrc to ~/.gvimrc if needed.
gxdview This version of xditview is called gxditview and has some extensions used by the command groff. The gxditview is used by groff if called with the option -X.
gxmhtml gtk-XmHTML is a GTK component to visualize HTML.
gxsnmp Cf. http://www.gxsnmp.org/
gzip Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding LZ77. Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times.
hardsuse Warning: This script will secure your system which means that it will disable almost all services on your system and tamper with some configuration files. You should know what you are doing, when you call this script!
hermes Graphics library for converting between various pixel formats.
hfsutils HFS is the "Hierarchical File System" used on modern Macintosh computers. With this package, you can read and write Macintosh-formatted media such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and SCSI hard disks on most UNIX platforms. You can also format raw media into an HFS volume.
howto Documentation on many tasks relating to the setup and operation of Linux software. English version, ASCII format These documents will be installed in /usr/share/doc/howto. You can read it with `less <filename>`.
howtode German version, ASCII format
howtodeh German version, HTML format
howtodeo German version, PS/DVI/SGML format
howtoenh English version, HTML format
htdig The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
htermxf Hanterm is a replacement for xterm that supports Hangul input and output; it is a modified version of the xterm program from XFree86. hanterm uses it own native input system and does not require an X input method server. For hanterm to work properly, a Hangul-encoded font must be available.
html_dtd Document Type Definitions (DTDs) for HTML 2.0 (standard), HTML 3.2 (recommendation of the W3 Consortium), HTML 4.0 (Specification of the W3 Consortium, Draft) and ISO-HTML (draft). The package also contains the documentations (v. /usr/share/doc/packages/html_dtd).
html2ps HTML to PostScript converter written in Perl. html2ps know about many HTML 4.0 features. From the Homepage (http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html): * Many possibilities to control the appearance; this is mostly done using configuration files. * Support for processing multiple documents, also automatically by recursively following links. * A table of contents can be generated, either from the links in a document, or automatically from document headings. * Configurable page headers/footers, that for example can contain document title, URL, page number, current heading, and date. * Automatic hyphenation and text justification can be selected.
html2txt A tool for conversion of HTML to ASCII, that is als able to handle tables reasonable.
hugs98 Hugs is a Haskell interpreter and programming environment for developing cool Haskell programs. This release is largely conformant with Haskell 98, including monad and record syntax, newtypes, strictness annotations, and modules. In addition, it comes packaged with the libraries defined in the most recent version of the Haskell Library Report and with extension libraries which are compatible with GHC 3.0 and later. Hugs is best used as a Haskell program development system: it boasts extremely fast compilation, supports incremental compilation, and has the convenience of an interactive interpreter (within which one can move from module to module to test different portions of a program). However, being an interpreter, it does not nearly match the run-time performance of, for example, GHC or HBC.
iamerica This packages includes ready american and british dictionaries for ispell. After installation of this package english will be american english (in oposite of the package iamerica). A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the source package of ispell.
ibritish This packages includes ready british and american dictionaries for ispell. After installation of this package english will be british english (in oposite of the package iamerica). A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the source package of ispell.
icatalan This packages includes a ready catalan dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iceme IceMe is a graphical menu and shortcut editor for the fast and light-weight window manager IceWM. It allows the user to edit the IceWM menu with either drag and drop or cut and paste. If started as root, can edit the global menu, too. This version is for IceWM 0.94 or higher.
icepref IcePref is a graphical configuration utility for the amazingly fast, and light-weight window manager, IceWM. It allows the user to easily configure all of the options in the IceWM preferences file (allowing control over both the behavior and apperance).
icewm Window Manager for X Window System. Can emulate the look of Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. Tries to take the best features of the above systems. Features multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock. Fast and small.
icmake A Maker using a C-like syntax. I like that :-) Examples are in /usr/lib/icmake/examples/
icons An extensive collection of more than 1800 icons for any purpose. Among them black/white and color ones, small and huge ones, simple and artistic ones. Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/icons
iczech This packages includes a ready czech dictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
id_utils mkid is a simple, fast, high-capacity, language-independent identifier database tool. Actually, the term `identifier' is too limiting -- mkid stores tokens, be the program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility.
idanish This packages includes a ready danish dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
idled This program automatically logs out users who have been idle for some time; this time, of course, can be set by the system administrator.
idutch This packages includes a ready dutch dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iesperan This packages includes a ready esperanto dictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
ifntarab Arab fonts for X11.
ifntasia sian fonts for X11.
ifntchia Chinese fonts for X11.
ifntchib Big Chinese fonts for X11.
ifntethi Ethiopic fonts for X11.
ifnteuro European fonts for X11 (ISO 8859-1, 8859-2, 8859-3, 8859-4, 8859-5/9, 8859-7, and 8859-8 together with KOI8-1/GOST19768.74-1).
ifntjapa Japanese fonts for X11.
ifntjapb Big Japanese fonts for X11.
ifntphon International phonetic alphabet as a font for X11.
ifrench /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
igerman This packages includes a ready german dictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iglooftp IglooFTP is an FTP Client for X written with Gtk.
igreek This packages includes a ready greek dictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iitalian This packages includes a ready italian dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
ijb The Internet Junkbuster - HTTP Proxy-Server: A non-cacheing HTTP proxy server that runs between a web browser and a web server and filters contents as described in the configuration files.
imagemag Image Magick allows you to view and edit images. The tools read and write images in MIFF format. Other formats can be converted into MIFF.
imap This package contains, besides IMAP4, POP2 and POP3 servers, libraries and header files for IMAP c client programs. Please consider using the preconfigured servers instead of this package.
imfilm An example film with a rotating DNA for demonstration of ImageMagick. The pictures are in the directory /usr/lib/ImageMagick/scenes.
imho IMHO is a module for the Roxen webserver that makes it possible for remote users to access their IMAP-Mailbox via the webserver. The result looks like Yahoo- or Netscape-Netcenter Webmail accounts. With this module and Roxen's SSL-capability (which cannot be distributed in the international version of SuSE Linux due to legal restrictions) it is possible to setup access to a local mailsystem for remote (Internet) users. The local mailboxes have to be IMAP-based, POP is not supported (and never will - the POP protocol is not good enough). The configuration is especially easy because it is done from within the Roxen web interface.
imlib This is a general, all-purpose image loading and rendering (Image data to screen data) library. Imlib is capable of currently loading 25 different image formats. See the file /usr/include/X11/imlib.h or directory /usr/share/doc/packages/imlib for more details. This shared library is needed for the Enlightenment windowmanager and for GNOME.
imlibcfe A graphical frontend to configure `imlib' (imlib_config).
imlibdev You'll need this package if you'll develop own programs linked against "imlib" or if you'll compile GNOME packages.
impict Some example pictures for demonstration of ImageMagick. The pictures are in the directory /usr/lib/ImageMagick/images.
indent The indent program can be used to make code easier to read. It can also convert from one style of writing C to another. indent understands a substantial amount about the syntax of C, but it also attempts to cope with incomplete and misformed syntax.
inetcfg Some examples for DIP and PPP Scripts (Compuserve and German T-Online). The files live in /usr/share/doc/packages/inetcfg.
inetd This package contains the inetd networking daemon. Inetd listens on certain Internet sockets for connection requests and starts the program for this request.
inf2htm This packages contains the CGI script info2html which creates html pages out of info documents. info2html generates by calling within a WWW browser a html page of the file /usr/share/info/dir You can easy click on the info references and nodes to get the on the fly generated html pages.
ingerman This packages includes a ready german dictionary for ispell according the new spelling rules. The name of the dictonary is german to be able to distinguish it from those of the package igerman. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
inn Rich Salz's InterNetNews news transport system.
inorsk This packages includes a ready norwegian dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
inswiss This packages includes a ready swiss dictionary for ispell according the new spelling rules. The name of the dictonary is swiss to be able to distinguish it from those of the german packages. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
intlfnts This packages does not contain any fonts but the README for the International Fonts of the packages: ifntarab ... Arab fonts for X11 ifntasia ... Asian fonts for X11 ifntchia ... Chinese fonts for X11 ifntchib ... Big Chinese fonts for X11 ifntethi ... Ethiopic fonts for X11 ifnteuro ... European fonts for X11 ifntjapa ... Japanese fonts for X11 ifntjapb ... Big Japanese fonts for X11 ifntphon ... IPA font for X11
ipchains Using this package you can configure and maintain `firewalling' of the Linux kernel 2.2. Documentation: man ipchains
ipmasqad This package makes it possible to use additional features of the kernel 2.2 masquerading code like port forwarding (forwarding connections coming from the Internet to internal servers) or load balancing (e.g. webservers).
ipolish This packages includes a ready polish dictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iportug This packages includes a ready portuguese dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iproute2 This package provides the tools ip,tc,rtmon needed to use the new and advanced routing options of Linux kernel 2.2. Not needed for `regular' routing.
iptraf TCP/IP Network Monitor
ircd Ircd is the server (daemon) program for the Internet Relay Chat Program.
ircii This is a version of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) for systems with direct TCP/IP access (including SLIP/PPP). It also includes voice support and other extra features.
irciihlp Help files for ircII
irussian This packages includes a ready russian dictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
islovene This packages includes a ready sloveniandictionary for ispell. A short usage description is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
iso_ent Character Entity Sets for ISO 8879:1986
ispanish This packages includes a ready spanish dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
ispell Ispell is a fast screen-oriented spelling checker that shows you your errors in the context of the original file, and suggests possible corrections when it can figure them out. Compared to UNIX spell, it is faster and much easier to use. Ispell can also handle languages other than English. Ispell has a long history, and many people have contributed to the current version - some of the major contributors include R. E. Gorin, Pace Willisson, Walt Buehring, and Geoff Kuenning. You find a short description in the directory /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/.
iswedish This packages includes a ready swedish dictionary for ispell. A short usage description for ispell is given in /usr/share/doc/packages/ispell/README of the packages ispell. The sources for this dictionary are included in the package dicts.
itcl incr Tcl adds object-oriented programming facilities to Tcl. It was NOT designed as yet another whiz-bang object-oriented programming language; indeed, it is patterned somewhat after C++. It was designed to support more structured programming in Tcl. Scripts that grow beyond a few thousand lines become extremely difficult to maintain. [incr Tcl] attacks this problem in the same way that any object- oriented programming language would, by providing mechanisms for data encapsulation behind well-defined interfaces.
iv An ancient GUI toolkit. It's object-oriented and written in C++.
ivdev This package contains whole instalation of InterViews, necessary for compiling programs writen for it.
jade_dsl Jade is an implementation of DSSSL (Document Style, Semantics and Specification Language); pronounce it as "dissl" -- it rimes with whistle. It has backends for SGML, RTF, MIF, TeX, and HTML. The parser "nsgmls" and helper tools like "sgmlnorm", "spam", "spent", and "sx" are now included in the separate package "sp". You'll find the documentation at /usr/share/doc/packages/jade_dsl/.
jadetex With Sebastian Rahtz' macro package `jadetex' it is possible to process the output of the TeX backend of Jade (jade_dsl). Resulting DVI files are viewable e.g., with `xdvi' or printable like any other DVI file.
jed JED is an extremely powerful but small emacs programmer's editor that is extensible in a C-like macro language and is able to perform color syntax highlighting. Among the many features: Emacs, WordStar, EDT emulation; C, Fortran, TeX, text editing modes; Full undo; GNU Emacs compatible info reader, and lots more. 8 bit clean, so you can even edit binary files!
joe JOE (Joe's Own Editor) is a freeware ASCII editor for UNIX. Joe is similar to most IBM PC text editors. The keyboard combinations are similar to WordStar[tm] and Turbo C. Some of Joe's features include: -full support of termcap/terminfo (useful for device independent description to control screen output). -optimizing screen refresh even as GNU Emacs (Joe can even be used at 2400 baud). -easy installation. All features for UNIX integration of the VI: a marked block of text can be filtered through a UNIX command; and wherever JOE accepts a filename parameter the following can also be substituted: !command :to redirect from/to another command >>filename :to append onto an existing file filename,start,size :to edit a part of a file/device - :to use standard input/output When JOE has several files opened at the same time, each file is displayed in its own window. Additionally, JOE allows for shell-windows whereby the output of the executed commands are saved in a buffer, automatic filename completion (via TAB), help windows, undo-redo, search and replace using regular expressions.
john "John the Ripper" detects weak passwords like first names, common expressions etc. on your system.
jpeg Software to implement JPEG image compression and decompression. JPEG pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression method for full-color and gray-scale images. JPEG is intended for compressing "real-world" scenes (most of the time there are pictures that have been scanned-in with a scanner). Cartoons and other non-realistic images are not its strong suit. You should note that the output of JPEG is not necessarily the same as its input. If this is a factor for you, then don't use it. With typical real-world scenes, JPEG can achieve high compression rates, without noticeable differences. If you can accept pictures of lower quality, JPEG can achieve amazingly high compression rates. There are some library functions available for reading and writing JPEG files. The `cjpeg' and `djpeg' applications use the library to make conversions between JPEG and other popular graphics file formats possible. The library is meant to be used within other applications. Cjpeg compresses the input file, or standard input if no filename was given, and produces a JPEG/JFIF to standard output. Currently supported input file formats include: PPM (PBMPLUS color format), PGM (PBMPLUS Grayscale format), BMP, GIF, Targa and RLE (Utah Raster Toolkit Format). (RLE is only supported if the RLE library is available.) Djpeg decompresses a JPEG file in one of the above mentioned formats.
jstools This is version 4.2/4.5 of the jstools distribution. jstools is a suite of applications, and some libraries they share. The most interesting application is multi-mode editor with support for WYSIWYG generation of HTML and PostScript, among other goodies. There are also a number of small graphical utilities intended to be used from within shell scripts or window-manager configuration files.
k_deflt The standard SuSE kernel
kakasi KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji(1) and may be helpful to read Japanese documents. Word-splitting patch has merged from version 2.3.0. The name "KAKASI" is the abbreviation of "kanji kana simple inverter" and the inverse of SKK "simple kana kanji converter" which is developed by Masahiko Sato at Tohoku University. The most entries of the kakasi dictionary is derived form the SKK dictionaries. If you have some interests in the naming of "KAKASI", please consult to Japanese-English dictionary. :-) (1) "Romaji" is alphabetical description of Japanese pronunciation.
kakaside header file and libraries of KAKASI
kakasidi The base dictionary of KAKASI
kbase This package contains kdebase, one of the basic packages of the K Desktop Environment. It contains among others KWM, the KDE window manager; KFM, the KDE file manager; KDisplay, the desktop configuration program. This package is absolutely necessary for using KDE!
kdrill KDrill stands for "Kanji Drill". It's a program to help people learn kanji and kana (the Japanese charater set). It uses Jim Breen's EDICT Japanese-English dictionary and also doubles as a dictionary lookup program. Kdrill runs under the X window system.
kinput2 Kinput2 is an input server for X11 applications that want Japanese text input.
klibs This package contains kdelibs, one of the basic packages of the K Desktop Environment. It contains necessary libraries the KDE desktop. This package is absolutely necessary for using KDE!
knfsd You'll need a running kernel of version 2.1 or above to use these tools. To activate the kernel based nfs-server, please set USE_KERNEL_NFSD in rc.config to yes. For quota over NFS support please install the "quota" package.
ksupp This package contains kdesupport, one of the basic packages of the K Desktop Environment. It contains necessary libraries for managing graphics, mail and html processing. This package is absolutely necessary for using KDE!
lacheck Lacheck is a syntax checker for LaTeX documents. It is not any more a part of newer AuC-TeX packages. Therefore this packages is given as its own. You can use lacheck as standalone program too.
lclint With minimal effort, LCLint can be used as a better lint. If additional effort is invested adding annotations to programs, LCLint can perform stronger checks than can be done by any standard lint.
lcs lcs OCO network device driver. Please read the license agreement in /usr/share/doc/packages/lcs/LICENSE
ldaplib These are the shared libs from the openldap package.
ldp A lot of Linux docu in HTML format.
ldpman The man pages of the Linux Documentation Project. They are maintained by Andries Brouwer.
leafnode Leafnode is a USENET software package designed for small sites, with a few tens of readers and only a slow link to the net. Only groups that someone has been reading in the past week are fetched from the upstream NNTP server. When someone stops reading a group, fetch will stop reading that group a week later, and when someone starts reading a group, fetch will grab all the articles it can in that group the next time it runs. This features make it an ideal newsserver for small sites with a non-permanent connection to the internet.
less Less is a pager program similar to more (1), but allows backward as well as forward movement within a file. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting. It is also possible to start an editor at any time from this program.
lesstif LessTif is a free replacement for OSF/Motif(R).
lesstifd This package contains all files necessary to compile source code which uses lesstif.
lestif2 LessTif is a free replacement for OSF/MotifR. This package is configured for version 2.0 as default (in contrary to package lesstif)
lestif2d This package contains all files necessary to compile source code using lesstif. Default is here version 2.0.
lha Lha is a packer comparable to ZIP (PKZIP), ZOO etc. It has been included for compatibility reasons only. For general archiving purposes use GZIP, because this is standard for Linux.
libaps This a library to wrap printer spooler, needed for KDE 2.
libc These libraries are needed to compile C code.
libc2 These Libraries are needed for compiling programs for glibc-2.2pre The glibc-2.2pre shared libraries are in the package shlibs2
libchtm2 This package contains the HTML documentation for glibc-2.2pre.
libchtml This package contains the HTML documentation for the GNU C library Due to the lack of resources, this documentation is not complete and partially out of date.
libcinf2 This packages contains the documentation for the GNU C library as info files.
libcinfo This packages contains the documentation for the GNU C library as info files. Due lack of resources, this documentation is not complete and partially out of date.
libd This package contains special versions of the GNU C library, which are necessary for profiling and debugging.
libd2 This package contains special versions of the GNU C library, which are necessary for profiling and debugging.
libelf The libelf package contains a library for accessing ELF object files. Libelf allows you to access the internals of the ELF object file format, so you can see the different sections of an ELF file.
libfbm The Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation (FBM) library. The sources are contained in the libgr source package
libghtt The gHTTP library is fully compliant with HTTP 1.1 as defined in the draft 5 update of RFC 2068. The gHTTP library is designed to be simple and easy to use while still allowing you to get your feet wet at the protocol layer if you have to. It is also designed with graphical, non-threaded applications in mind (e.g., GNOME applications). You should be able to use the library in your application and never block waiting to send or recieve data to a remote server. The main thread of execution should always be available to refresh its display.
libghttd Libraries and includes files.
libglad This library allows you to load glade interface files in a program at runtime. It doesn't require GLADE to be used, but GLADE is by far the easiest way to create the interface files. For an idea of how to use the library, see the documentation, especially /usr/share/doc/packages/libglad/test-libglade.c and also glade-xml.h include, that is in the libgladd package.
libgladd This package contains the part of libglade, you need for development; see also libglad package.
libgpp This package contains two libraries, libg++ and libstdc++, and their respective headers. Libg++ is the original C++ class library of the GNU project and came into life long before thre C++ library was standardised. Because of this it should not be used for new projects. It's only included for older packages that might need it. Libstdc++ ist the current C++ library of the GNU C++ compiler. While it is much closer to the standard, it is far from being complete. You will find the source code in the package gcc, series zq.
libgtop A library that fetches information about the running system such as cpu and memory usage, active processes etc. On Linux systems, these information are taken directly from the /proc filesystem while on other systems a server is used to read those information from /dev/kmem or whatever.
libgtopd LibGTop development package
libjpeg The libraries (static and dynamic) for the jpeg-graphics format. The sources are contained in the jpeg source package
liblcms This is a small engine to do some color management work.
libmcal The MCAL library is very similar to the c-client IMAP library. It offers a common simple interface for accessing calendars that can be stored in many different formats, both local and remote formats are supported.
libmng This library can handle MNG and JNG fomarts which contains animated pictures. These formats should replace the GIF format.
libmpeg Library with functions for access to mpeg files.
libnetpb These are the libs for the netpbm graphic formats. Tools can be found in package netpbm. The sources are contained in the libgr source package
libole2 OLE2 Library
libole2d Libraries and includes to develop own applications that should the libole2.
libpcap libpcap is a library used by packet sniffer programs. It provides an interface for them to capture and analyze packets from network devices. This package is only needed if you plan to compile or write such a program yourself.
libpcapn This new Version supports: - device independent libpcap, Kernel support for new link-layers, e.g. ISDN (libpcap uses PF_PACKET,SOCK_DGRAM instead of PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) - IPv6 and APM support, SMB updates - libpcap support for "In Kernel Packet Filtering" (CONFIG_FILTER) libpcap is a library used by packet sniffer programs. It provides an interface for them to capture and analyze packets from network devices. This package is only needed if you plan to compile or write such a program yourself.
libpng libpng is the official PNG reference library.
librep This is lisprep, an Emacs Lisp-like runtime library for UNIX. It contains a LISP interpreter, a byte-code compiler and a virtual machine.
librepd You'll need this package if you want to compile a program using librep.
librle The dynamic and static versions of librle. The sources are contained in the libgr source package
libsmi The purpose of libsmi is to give network management applications a concise programmer-friendly interface to access MIB module information, separate the knowledge on SMI from the main parts of management applications, allow to add new kinds of MIB repositories without the need to adapt applications that make use of libsmi.
libtiff To link a program with this libtiff, you will have to add -ljpeg and -lz to include the necessary libjpeg and libz in the linking process.
libtool GNU libtool is a set of shell scripts to automatically configure UNIX architectures to build shared libraries in generic fashion.
libungif This is the successor of libgif. It writes uncompressed gif's by default.
libuni libunicode is a set of ANSI-C- and BSD-style string handling functions for Unicode. It also includes charset conversion functions and can be made to use Apache's pool structures.
libxml XML is said to be the comming file format of the WWW. Many applications use libxml to load and save extensible datastructures and the new webformat.
libxmld Libraries and includes to compile applications that use the libxml.
libz ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate format) and rfc1952.txt (gzip format). These documents are also available in other formats from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/png/documents/zlib/zdoc-index.html
linbot Linbot allows webmasters to: o View the structure of a site o Track down broken links o Find potentially outdated web pages o List links pointing to external sites o View portfolio of inline images o Do all this periodically and without user intervention
linclude The kernel include files aren't only needed for rebuilding the kernel but are also required to compile system programs. So that you don't have to re-install the complete kernel tree each time you build a program, we've placed the include files in an extra package. If you want to rebuild the kernel please install the `linux' package as well.
lincvs LinCVS is a pretty and stable frontend for the version revision system CVS.
links Links is like Lynx an easy to use browser for HTML documents and other internet services like FTP, telnet, news. Lynx is fast. It is purely text based and therefore makes it possible to use WWW resources on text terminals. It supports frames to some degree.
linux This package contains the rest of the Linux Kernel source files.
listexec With this little program one can list all files in a specified directory and e.g. hear them with a specified sound player or view them as pictures with a picture viewer. The syntax may be obtained by listexec -h
localed2 Locale sources for glibc-2.2pre
localedb This package contains the data needed to build the locale data files to use the internationalization features of the GNU libc. It is normally not necessary to install this packages, the data files are already created.
localeja This is an experimental and incorrect locale definition for Japanese (ja_JP). Since the GNU libc does not support the EUC encoding yet, we cannot make a correct locale definition for it.
localeko Locale definition files for Korean. This is an experimental and incorrect locale definition for Korean (ko_KR.euc). Since the Linux libc 6 does not yet support a multibyte character set, we cannot make a correct locale definition for it.
localezh These are the locale definition files for Chinese zh_CN.GB2312, zh_CN.GBK, and zh_TW.Big5. They are experimental/alpha versions, like localeja and localeko, as glibc locales (2.1.2-9) don't currently include these EUC (or extended) encodings. However, this localezh package is essential for GB2312-1980 or GBK simplified Chinese support until glibc2 officially includes these locales.
logsurf This program makes it possible to observe logfiles and to react on special events, that can be defined by regular expressions, with a defined action, e.g. to send a mail.
lprng The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. While providing the same interface and meeting RFC1179 requirements, the implementation is completely new and provides support for the following features: lightweight (no databases needed) lpr, lpc, and lprm programs; dynamic redirection of print queues; automatic job holding; highly verbose diagnostics; multiple printers serving a single queue; and a greatly improved permission and authorization mechanism. LPRng provides emulation packages for the SVR4 lp and lpstat programs, eliminating the need for another print spooler package. These emulation packages can be modified according to local requirements, in order to support vintage printing systems. Attention: Interoperability with older LPD implementations requires privileged access to ports. Therefore all affected client-programs ship with SUID root priviledges!
lprold This is the Linux version of the BSD-compatible printer spooling system. The lpd binary included in this package expects to find TCP/IP running.
lsof An open file may be a regular file, a directory, a block special file, a character special file, an executing text reference, a library, a stream or a network file (Internet socket, NFS file or UNIX domain socket.) A specific file or all the files in a file system may be selected by path.
ltrace ltrace is a program that simply runs the specified command until it exits. It intercepts and records the dynamic library calls which are called by the executed process and the signals which are received by that process. It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have the source handy. This is still a work in progress, so e.g. the tracking to child processes may fail or some things may not work as expected.
lvm Programs and man pages for configuring and using the logical volume manager.
lx_docu This is a copy of the kernel documentation (located in /usr/share/doc/kernel). No need to install this if the full kernel source is installed.
lx_old This package contains the sources of the recent 2.0 kernel.
lx_suse Linux Kernel sources with many Improvements and Fixes.
lynx Lynx is an easy to use browser for HTML documents and other internet services like FTP, telnet, news. Lynx is fast. It is purely text based and therefore makes it possible to use WWW resources on text terminals.
magickpp This is Magick++, the object-oriented C++ API to the ImageMagick image-processing library. Magick++ supports an object model which is inspired by PerlMagick. Magick++ should be a bit faster than PerlMagick since it is written in a compiled language which is not parsed at run-time. This makes it suitable for Web CGI programs. Images support implicit reference counting so that copy constructors and assignment incur almost no cost. The cost of actually copying an image (if necessary) is done just before modification and this copy is managed automatically by Magick++. De-referenced copies are automatically deleted. The image objects support value (rather than pointer) semantics so it is trivial to support multiple generations of an image in memory at one time.
mailx This program is a very good supplement to "mail" and should be installed.
majorcoo MajorCool is a CGI script written in Perl that provides a Web interface to Majordomo v1.9x*. It is intended to run co-located with the Majordomo program (ie, both list-server and Web on the same host). Employing a variety of Web/GUI techniques such as Balloon Help, Per-User Preferences, and MouseOver cues, MajorCool puts a friendly face on top of the Majordomo list management processes. "If you run a Majordomo service, go get MajorCool!" -- Mark Rauterkus, E-Marketing Digest MajorCool was originally designed as an administrative front-end to the popular mailing list manager, allowing novice list-owners to manage their list configuration and subscriber base. With the easy-to-use password protected screens, list managers can: - Edit the list config file. Presentation of the complex list configuration file is simplified through the intuitive use of HTML radio buttons and text fields. - Update the subscriber file via an easy-to-use text window. Changes to the list are converted to the appropriate individual approved subscribe and unsubscribe commands. - Manage the moderator's Approval Queue, deleting, rejecting, or approving BOUNCE messages that require review. No more messing with mail headers! - Edit files in the Approval Queue prior to action. Limited only by browser memory constraints. - Create or edit the list's info and intro files. - Download the list configuration file via e-mail. In addition to its list administration functions, MajorCool also provides a site-oriented view of the list-server's lists. MajorCool extends the address matching capabilities of Majordomo through the use of configurable siteaddr modules, permitting external directory sources such as X.500 to supply name-to-address conversions and provide pattern-matching address comparisons. These features enable MajorCool to identify list subscribers by multiple valid addresses, allowing end-users to interactively: - View lists available on the server: All lists on the system. Unsubscribed lists. Subscribed lists (regardless of the address used for subscription). Lists with names or descriptions that match a certain pattern. - Subscribe or unsubscribe to any list. - View the list's info or intro files. - View members of a list. Lastly, MajorCool provides a mailing list request mechanism, allowing end-users to ask that a list be created, renamed, or deleted. This request can be mailed to the Majordomo owner, or passed to an external program to perform whatever actions are desired. (Sample applications are provided to implement list creation, renaming, and/or deletion on-the-fly.) -- To configure MajorCool change to /usr/lib/majorcool and run "sh ./Configure". This script will prompt for some installation values and save the output to a default.sh file. This file can be edited at any time. For more details see "/usr/lib/majorcool/Docs/install.htm".
make GNU make command
makewhat The man system in SuSE Linux (package man) does not need a whatis database. Nevertheless some manual browser (e.g. tkman) still need this database. For this reason we included this package.
man Program for displaying man-pages on the screen or sending them to a printer (using groff).
man9 This man pages are containing infos about kernel structures.
manyfaqs manyfaqs: These FAQs will be installed under /usr/share/doc/faq.
marsnwe Complete emulation of a Novell server. Supports file-service, bindery-service, print-service and routing-service. Your kernel has to be configured according to /usr/share/doc/packages/marsnwe/INSTALL.
maxwell Maxwell is a fully featured Word Processor application for Linux.
mbedit mbedit is a full screen text editor with macro option, online calculator, command history buffer, hex editor and many other features. It is available for some common operating systems as: MS-DOS, os/9, Unix.
mc The Midnight Commander is a Norton Commander clone; a program that manipulates and manages files and directories. It is useful, fast, and has color displays on the Linux console. It also has mouse support if you run the "gpm" mouse server. This program requires the terminal description files in /usr/lib/terminfo, which are found in ncurses.tgz or terminfo.tgz. You can also use the Midnight Commander under X with your mouse. If you enter "mc -c", colors will be used. Under the Midnight Commander, the screen is divided into four sections, whereby the majority of the screen is covered by two directory panels. The second to last line on the screen is the shell command line; the last line displays the function key assignments. At the very top, the menu list is shown. One of the directories displayed is the current working directory. This is where most of the commands are found. For certain commands, like copy and move, the second directory is used as the target directory.
mdomo This is your majordomo. Provides an easy to configure means of maintaining mailing lists including user-administration.
mesa Mesa is a freely available implementation of the OpenGL library.
mesadev This package contains the Mesa header files.
mesasoft Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL*. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc. This is the Mesa Software driver.
metamail Metamail is required for reading multimedia mail messages (such as those using the Andrew toolkit) with elm.
mfm A file manager for X11
mfsm X Window Motif utility that monitors free space and user quotas of filesystems.
mg Mg is a Public Domain EMACS style editor. It is "broadly" compatible with GNU Emacs.
mgdiff Mgdiff is a graphical front end to the Unix diff command based upon X11 and the Motif widget set. It allows the user to select two files for comparison, runs the diff command, parses the output and presents the results graphically.
mgp MagicPoint is a X11-based presentation tool. It is designed to make simple presentations easy while to make complicated presentations possible. Its presentation file (whose suffix is typically .mgp) is just text so that you can create presentation files quickly with your favorite editor (e.g. Emacs). The package also includes the tools mgp2html, mgp2ps and mgp2latex, which convert mgp-Presentations into other file formats.
mh MH is a popular mail handling system but includes only a command line interface. This disadvantage is on the other hand its most advantage over other graphical mail systems.
mico Free implementation of the basic CORBA 2.0 specification. Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/mico
mininews Inews - post news from an NNTP client
mirror Documentation: "man mirror" and "man mm".
mkisofs Actually, mkisofs is a pre-mastering program that generates an iso9660 filesystem . It takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image which corresponds to an iso9660 filesystem which can be written to a block device.
mkkdelnk Small command line application that creates KDE Link Files.
mktemp mktemp is a small utility that interfaces to the mktemp() function call to allow shell scripts and other programs to use files in /tmp safely.
mlvwm Mac users will feel right at home! This is a very early version. Documentation can be found: /usr/share/doc/packages/mlvwm man mlvwm
mm The MM library is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between forked (and this way strongly related) processes under Unix platforms. On the first layer it hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation and locking) when dealing with shared memory segments and on the second layer it provides a high-level malloc(3)-style API for a convenient and well known way to work with data-structures inside those shared memory segments.
mod_dav mod_dav is an Apache module to provide DAV capabilities for your Apache web server. It is an Open Source module, provided under an Apache-style license. mod_dav currently implements a Class 1 and Class 2 DAV server. This means that it provides all the basic DAV facilities for manipulating resources (files) on the target web server, along with manipulating properties on those resources. In addition, it handles the (un)locking of resources so that clients can have exclusive access to modify resources.
mod_perl The Apache/Perl integration project brings together the full power of the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server. With mod_perl it is possible to write Apache modules entirely in Perl. In addition, the persistent interpreter embedded in the server avoids the overhead of starting an external interpreter and the penalty of Perl start-up time.
mod_php PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the Introductory Tutorial. Once you get beyond that have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the Links section.
mod_php4 PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the Introductory Tutorial. Once you get beyond that have a look at the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the Links section. PHP4 is the latest version.
modcontr This is a collection of third-party modules contributed to the Apache HTTP server project. mod_allowdev .......... Disallow requests for files on particular devices mod_auth_cookie ....... Authenticate via cookies; on-the-fly mod_auth_cookie_file .. Authenticate via cookies; with .htpasswd-like file mod_auth_external ..... Authenticate via external program mod_auth_inst ......... Authenticate via instant passwords for dummy users mod_auth_system ....... Authenticate via system passwd file mod_eaccess ........... Extended Access Control mod_bandwidth ......... Bandwidth management on a per-connection basis mod_cache ............. Automatic caching of documents via mmap() mod_urlcount .......... Automatic URL access counter via TXT and DBM file mod_disallow_id ....... Disallow requests for files owned by particular UserIDs mod_lock .............. Conditional locking mechanism for document trees mod_peephole .......... Peepholing filesystem information about documents mod_put ............... Handler for HTTP/1.1 PUT and DELETE method mod_qs2ssi ............ Parse query string to CGI/SSI variables mod_session ........... Session management and tracking via identifiers mod_fastcgi ........... FastCGI Implementation mod_cvs ............... CVS on-the-fly checkout mechanism mod_macro ............. Macros for the configuration files mod_roaming ........... Server-Support for the Netscape 4.5 Roaming Facility mod_ip_forwarding ..... IP client address/name forwarding between proxies mod_define ............ Variable Defines for the configuration files (EXTRA=1 only)
modules Utilities for the loading of kernel modules. Included are `insmod', `lsmod', `rmmod', `depmod', `modprobe'. The configuration file /etc/modules.conf can be used to pass parameters to the modules. `depmod' should be used after compiling a new kernel to generate the dependancy information. `insmod' does not use the dependancy nor the options file. Therefore, `modprobe' is normally used to load a module.
motif This is the Open Motif runtime environment. It includes the Motif shared libraries and the Motif Window Manager, `mwm'. Open Motif is a freely available version of the well known user interface toolkit Motif for Open Source operating systems. This package was built with the sources from Metro Link.
motifdev This is the Open Motif development environment. It includes the Motif header files and static libraries, plus the Motif UIL (User Interface Language) compiler and the man pages for the Motif widgets and library functions.
mrtg MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher A tool to visualise network traffic via a WebPage.
mserver The Mserver alows you to reach modems or ISDN-devices from clients over a network. You can find clientsoftware for Windows (DialOutIP) at http://www.tactical-sw.com/. Please note that this software is still ALPHA, but it works very well!
mswordvd Only needed by developers
mswordvw MSWordView is a program that can understand the microsofts word 8 binary file format (office97), it currently converts word into html, which can then be read with a browser. MSWordView is being actively worked on, and will be pretty bleeding edge for the next few weeks.
mtc Unfortunately, there is no documentation available for this package.
mtools Allows uncomplicated access to a MS-DOS filesystem on Disk, without mounting it. Included commands for working with MS-DOS Files mdir, mcd, mcopy, mformat. XDF support for OS/2 is also provided.
mysqbnch This package contains MySQL benchmark scripts and data. If you like to run these database benchmarks, start the script "run-all-tests" in the directory /usr/share/sql-bench after starting MySQL.
mysqclnt This package contains the standard MySQL clients.
mysql SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs and libraries. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and ease of use. MySQL was originally developed because the developers at TcX needed a SQL server that could handle very large databases an order of magnitude faster than what any database vendor could offer to them. They have now been using MySQL since 1996 in an environment with more than 40 databases containing 10,000 tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is about 100 gigabytes of mission-critical data. The base upon which MySQL is built is a set of routines that have been used in a highly demanding production environment for many years. While MySQL is still in development, it already offers a rich and highly useful function set. The official way to pronounce MySQL is "My Ess Que Ell" (Not MY-SEQUEL). This package does only contain the server-side programs.
mysqldev This package contains the development header files and libraries necessary to develop MySQL client applications.
mysqllib This package contains the shared libraries (*.so*) which certain languages and applications need to dynamically load and use MySQL
mysqperl This package contains the Perl modules required to connect to MySQL using Perl.
nana GNU1 Nana is a free library providing improved support for assertion checking and logging in C and C++. It also provides some support for ``Design by Contract''. The library, source code, and documentation are available under a Free license. It also provides some support for statement/function call tracing, performance measurement and shortform generation.
nc It is not only the name which is similar to the well-known DOS program.
ncftp A comfortable ftp program
ncurses As soon as a text application needs to directly control its output to the screen (e.g. wants to place the cursor at location x y and then write text), ncurses is used. The panel and the forms libraries are included in this package. These new libraries support color, special characters and panels.
nedit NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor for workstations with X Window and Motif. NEdit provides all of the standard menu, dialog, editing, mouse support, as well as macro extension language, Syntax highlighting, and a lot other nice features (and extensions for programmers).
net_tool This package contains essential programs for network administration and maintenance: netstat, hostname, arp, ifconfig, rarp and route.
netacct This package logs network traffic. It provides a daemon (nacctd) that logs all traffic passing the machine it runs on (similiar to what tcpdump does).
netcat Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. You can find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/netcat/README.
netcfg All of the basic configuration files for the network programs including /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/protocols and /etc/services. These are often used by network routines in the C-library and therefore must be installed for all network programs.
netdate Netdate takes a list of names of Internet hosts as arguments, selects the one which supplies the best time, and sets the system time accordingly. The ``best'' time is chosen by polling the named hosts once each to find their times and taking their differences from the local host's time. These differences are used to find the largest group of hosts whose times agree with each other within a certain limit. The first host in the largest group is picked as the best host.
netpbm The latest version of the Portable Bitmap Plus Utilities. This large package which is by now available for all hardware platforms provides tools for graphics conversion. Using these tools, images can be converted from virtually any format into any other format. A few of the supported formats include: GIF, PC-Paintbrush, IFF ILBM, Gould Scanner file, MTV ray tracer, Atari Degas .pi1 and .pi3, Macintosh PICT, HP Paintjet file, QRT raytracer, AUTOCAD slide, Atari Spectrum (compressed and uncompressed), Andrew Toolkit raster object, and many more. On top of that, man pages are included for all tools. The sources for this package are in the source-package of libgr.
nfsserv The NFS server daemons are needed when you wish to export directories on your machine to other hosts via the NFS protocol. There are 2 NFS Server: the userspace NFS server and the kernel NFS server. This package contains the userspace NFS server. The kernel NFS server could be found in the "knfsd" package. For quota over NFS support please install the "quota" package.
ngrep ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes TCP and UDP across ethernet, ppp and slip interfaces, and understands bpf filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, like tcpdump and snoop.
nisplus The NIS+ Utilities are a collection of NIS+ administration and testing tools.
nkita Attention! Former releases of this package included dip and sliplogin. These programs have moved to package slip. The NFS server was also removed. There are now two different NFS server for Linux: 1. the package nfsserv, which contains the userspace NFS daemon; 2. the package knfsd, which contains the kernel NFS daemon.
nkitb This package contains a collectionf of network client utilities: biff, callbootd, finger, ping, rcp, rexec, rlogin, rsh, ruptime, rusers, rwall, rwho, talk, telnet and write. It does not contain any server.
nkitserv A collection of network daemons: telnetd, rlogind, fingerd, rshd, rexecd, rpc.rusersd, rpc.rwhod, talkd, ...
nmap nmap is designed to allow system administrators and curious individuals to scan large networks to determine which hosts are up and what services they are offering. With xnmap there is a graphical frontend introduced, which shows nmaps output clearly. You find documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/nmap.
nn This is the nn news reader (NetNews). It is configured for use as NNTP news reader.
nn_spool This is the nn news reader (NetNews). It is configured to read the local /var/spool/mail directory.
nqc NQC (Not Quite C) is a development system enabling you to create code for "Lego Mindstorms" robots in a C-like programming language.
nss_ldap nss_ldap is a glibc NSS module which allows X.500 and LDAP directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services and shadow passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS).
nt Downloader for X is a tool for downloading files from the Internet via both HTTP and FTP. It supports reconnecting on connection timeouts, has a download queue for multiple files as well as support for simultaneous downloads.
nvi A freely redistributable replacement for the Berkeley ex and vi text editors.
odshtml HTML-Pages from Offenes Deutsches Schulnetz
offix This package contains a clipboard, editor, executor, file manager and a printer frontend with drag and drop features.
omnimoni A Tcl/Tk based fully configurable system-monitor. See /usr/X11R6/lib/omnimoni for details.
onyx The main goal in the development of Onyx was to create a tool for the fast development of database applications. The main idea is that all application are build in a similar way. Internal tables are used to store the data, and masks are used to view and change the data Transactions define the connection of the internal data with the rest of the world.
openldap The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol for accessing online directory services. It runs directly over TCP, and can be used to access a standalone LDAP directory service or to access a directory service that is back-ended by X.500
orbit ORBit is a high-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language. It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. You will need to install this package and the related header files, libraries and utilities if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology (cf. package "orbitdev").
orbitdev This package includes the header files, libraries, and utilities neecessary to write programs that use CORBA technology.
p_casn1 Convert between perl data structures and ASN.1 encoded packets
p_cnfini Config::IniFiles provides a way to have readable configuration files outside your Perl script.
p_netxap This module provides an interface to the protocol family represented by IMAP, IMSP, ACAP, and ICAP. A usable IMAP module is also provide.
p_xmldom http://www.w3.org/DOM/ This is a Perl extension to XML::Parser. It adds a new `Style' to XML::Parser, called `Dom', that allows XML::Parser to build an Object Oriented datastructure with a DOM Level 1 compliant interface. This is a beta version and although there will not be any major API changes, minor changes may occur as we get feedback from the people on the perl-xml mailing list. [You can subscribe to this list by sending a message to subscribe-perl-xml@lyris.activestate.com.] For documentaion read the manpages XML::Dom and XML::DOM::UTF8.
p_xmlpar This is a Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat. You'll find examples in /usr/share/doc/packages/p_xmlpar/samples. For documentaion read the manpages XML::Parser and XML::Parser::Expat.
p2c Translates PASCAL programs to C. These can then be compiled using gcc.
pam PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool which allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs which do authentication.
pam_ldap This is a PAM Module, which supports LDAP. The advantages of this special version are: o Support for changing passwords in LDAP o Compatibility with the nss_ldap configuration file format
pam_smb pam_smb is a PAM module which allows authentication of UNIX users using an NT server.
patch GNU patch program
pavuk Pavuk is UNIX program used to mirror contents of WWW documents or files. It transfers documents from HTTP, FTP, and Gopher servers.
pcb Pcb is a handy tool for the X Window System built to design printed circuit boards. All coordinate units are 1/1000 inch. For details see the manual which can be found under /usr/share/doc/packages/pcb. There is also a man page available.
pcre The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5, with just a few differences. The current implementation corresponds to Perl 5.005.
pdf2html PDF to HTML converter
pdflib PDFlib is a development tool for PDF-enabling your software. PDFlib frees you from the intricate details of PDF generation by offering a simple-to-use API for programmatically creating PDF files from any software. PDFlib acts as a backend processor to your own programs. While you (the programmer) are responsible for retrieving or maintaining the data to be processed, PDFlib takes over the task of generating the PDF code which graphically represents your data. While you must still format and arrange your text and graphical objects, PDFlib frees you from the internals and intricacies of PDF. Although being far from complete, PDFlib already offers many useful functions for creating text, graphics, images and hypertext elements in PDF files.
pdksh A public domain Korn Shell clone.
perl perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). Some of the modules available on CPAN can be found in the "perl" series. Attention: due to security reasons we disabled the suid bit of /usr/bin/suidperl. If you need this feature, please add the following line to /etc/permissions.local and run SuSEconfig. /usr/bin/suidperl root.root 4755
perl_b64 This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
perl_bf Blowfish Algorithm as a Perl module.
perl_cur This is a dynamic loadable curses module for perl5. You can get this package at any CPAN archive.
perl_dbi The Perl Database Interface by Tim Bunce
perl_dc This package consists of a C library and a Perl module (which uses the C library, internally) for all kinds of date calculations based on the Gregorian calendar (the one used in all western countries today), thereby complying with all relevant norms and standards: ISO/R 2015-1971, DIN 1355 and, to some extent, ISO 8601 (where applicable). (See also http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/Date-Calc/DIN1355/ for a scan of part of the "DIN 1355" document (in German)). The module of course handles year numbers of 2000 and above correctly ("Year 2000" or "Y2K" compliance) -- actually all year numbers from 1 to the largest positive integer representable on your system (which is at least 32767) can be dealt with. Note that this package EXTRAPOLATES the Gregorian calendar BACK until the year 1 A.D. -- even though the Gregorian calendar was only adopted in 1582 by most (not all) European countries, in obedience to the corresponding decree of catholic pope Gregor I in that year. Some (mainly protestant) countries continued to use the Julian calendar (used until then) until as late as the beginning of the 20th century. Finally, note that this package is not intended to do everything you could ever imagine automagically for you; it is rather intended to serve as a toolbox (in the best of UNIX spirit and traditions) which should, however, always get you where you want to go.
perl_dns Net::DNS is a Perl interface to the DNS resolver. It allows the programmer to perform any type of DNS query from a Perl script. For details and examples, please read the Net::DNS manual page.
perl_gtx gettext for perl
perl_htp This is a collection of modules that parse and extract information from HTML documents.
perl_ldp A Client interface to LDAP servers
perl_log Perl interface to syslog
perl_lw3 Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web.
perl_md5 This package contains Perl extension interfaces for the following message digest algorithms: - RSA Data Security Inc. MD5 (RFC 1321) - RSA Data Security Inc. MD2 (RFC 1319) - NIST SHA-1 (FIPS PUB 180-1)
perl_net libnet is a collection of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the client side of various protocols used in the internet community.
perl_nm Parse, manipulate and lookup IP network blocks.
perl_paw Perl ASCII Widgets
perl_pdl The perlDL project aims to turn perl into an efficient numerical language for scientific computing. The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets.
perl_prd RecDescent incrementally generates top-down recursive-descent text parsers from simple yacc-like grammar specifications.
perl_qt Perl Qt lets you use the Qt widgets from within an Perl application.
perl_sto The Storable extension brings persistency to your data.
perl_tie If you have been led to believe that associative arrays in perl don't preserve order, and if you have ever craved for that feature, this module is for you.
perl_tk Perl Tk is an enhancement for Perl. It combines both the well structured graphical library Tk with the powerful scripting language Perl.
perl_uri Perl interface for URI objects
perlgnom Perl modules for access to the functions of gtk and gnome.
perlmod This package contains a number of CPAN Apache:: perl modules and others which are needed to run them: Apache-SSI-2.12.tar.gz Apache-AutoIndex-0.08.tar.gz Apache-Filter-1.006.tar.gz Apache-ASP-0.18.tar.gz Apache-Icon-0.02.tar.gz apache.authznetldap.02.tar.gz I18N-LangTags-0.13.tar.gz Apache-Session-1.03.tar.gz Storable-0.6.11.tar.gz I18N-LangTags-0.12.tar.gz Apache-Filter-1.008.tar.gz Apache-SSI-2.09.tar.gz HTML-SimpleParse-0.08.tar.gz Apache-Language-0.09.tar.gz Apache-Language-0.12.tar.gz Devel-Symdump-2.00.tar.gz Apache-Sandwich-2.04.tar.gz apache.authnetldap.016.tar.gz Storable-0.6.7.tar.gz Apache-Sandwich-2.02.tar.gz MD5-1.7.tar.gz ApacheDBI-0.87.tar.gz MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz HTML-Clean-0.7.tar.gz
perlref Perl 5 Reference Guide
pg_devel Tis package contains the header files and libraries needed to compile C or C++ applications which will directly interact with a PostgreSQL database management server and the ecpg Embedded C Postgres preprocessor. You need to install this package if you want to develop applications which will interact with a PostgreSQL server. If you're installing postgresql-server, you need to install this package.
pg_jdbc PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. This package includes the .jar file needed for Java programs to access a PostgreSQL database.
pg_lib This package contains the dynamic libraries for C and C++ that are needed by various client programs and client libraries (e.g. psql, Tcl, Perl, Python, PHP3).
pg_odbc PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. This package includes the ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) driver and sample configuration files needed for applications to access a PostgreSQL database using ODBC.
pg_perl PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. This package includes a module for developers to use when writing Perl code for accessing a PostgreSQL database.
pg_pyth PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. The postgresql-python package includes a module for developers to use when writing Python code for accessing a PostgreSQL database.
pg_serv The postgresql-server package includes the programs needed to create and run a PostgreSQL server, which will in turn allow you to create and maintain PostgreSQL databases. PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions). You should install postgresql-server if you want to create and maintain your own PostgreSQL databases and/or your own PostgreSQL server. You also need to install the postgresql and postgresql-devel packages.
pg_tcl PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. The postgresql-tcl package contains the libpgtcl client library, the pg-enchanced pgtclsh, and the PL/Tcl procedural language for the backend.
pg_test PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. The postgresql-test package includes the sources and pre-built binaries of various tests for the PostgreSQL database management system, including regression tests and benchmarks.
pg_tk PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system. The postgresql-tk package contains the pgaccess program. Pgaccess is a graphical front end, written in Tcl/Tk, for the psql and related PostgreSQL client programs.
pharmacy A GNOME compliant front-end to CVS (work in progress).
phpdoc Documentation to PHP as HTML, PDF and RTF.
pico Pico is a simple, display-oriented text editor based on the Pine message system composer. As with Pine, commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context-sensitive help is provided. As characters are typed, they are immediately inserted into the text.
pidentd This package contains identd, which implements a RFC1413 identification server. Identd looks up specific TCP/IP connections and returns the user name and other information about the connection.
pilot Pilot is a simple, display-oriented file system browser based on the Pine message system composer. As with Pine, commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context-sensitive help is provided.
pine A menu-driven user mail program. Originally based on Elm (Pine Is No-longer Elm), but with many additional features that make it easier to use. Version 4 adds the following features: - color support - New screen navigation commands - Hierarchical folder collections - URL recognition and viewer dispatch - Basic rendering of message bodies in HTML format - Help screens with hyperlinks - Various other improvements (Adressbook, MIME, IMAP4, LDAP)
pinfo Pinfo is a curses based lynx-style info browser.
pixedit A tool to modify colors using several scrollbars. The program to find the colors you "really" like :-)
pixmaps In this package you find all icons of the window managers of the SuSE Linux CD. The window managers concerned are: - fvwm (package fvwm1) - fvwm2 (package fvwm) - fvwm95 (package fvwm95) - bowman (package bowman) - AfterStep (package afterstp) - CDEsim (package cdesim) - ctwm (package ctwm) - qvwm (package qvwm) - mlvwm (package mlvwm) - lxuser (former package lxuser) Also you find in this package the program xpmroot, formerly contained in the fvwm* window manager family. The reason why we put the icons together in this package is to avoid conflicts and redundancy whilst installing or removing packages. If there were icons in the former package with identical name but different contents these icons were renamed (icon1,icon2,iconN). Nevertheless, you may find the original pixmaps in the source packages (package_s) of the above mentioned window managers. Documentation: man xpmroot
pkgtools This package contains the scripts installpkg, removepkg and pkgtool.
plan plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments in small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day can be listed and edited.
plmagick PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it suitable for Web CGI scripts. You must have ImageMagick 4.0.8 above and Perl version 5.002 or greater installed on your system.
pload Pload is a program to monitor network device statistics. It graphs information using Athena stripchart widgets. Pload shows totals and current rates for a given interface. It is customizable to show only receive data or only send data also. Additional customization can be accomplished using X resources.
plotmtv PLOTMTV's capabilities include 2D line and scatter plots (x-vs-y), contour plots, 3D surface, line and scatter plots as well as vector plots. The program has an rough but functional Graphical User Interface, through which it is possible to zoom in, zoom out, pan, toggle between 2D and 3D plots, and rotate 3D plots. Both color and gray-scale PostScript output are supported.
plotutil The GNU plotting utilities consist of seven command-line programs: the graphics programs `graph', `plot', `tek2plot', and `plotfont', and the mathematical programs `spline', `ode', and `double'. Distributed with these programs is GNU `libplot', the library on which the graphics programs are based. `libplot' is a function library for device-independent two-dimensional vector graphics, including vector graphics animations under the X Window System.
plp A newer printer spooling system for Linux. Configuration is located in /etc/printcap, /etc/plp.conf, and /etc/printer_perms. If problems occur shutdown the spooling system by entering "/sbin/init.d/lpd stop". Then you can switch to the BSD spooling system by removing package plp in YaST and installing package lprold. Restart the system with "/sbin/init.d/lpd start".
po_utils A collection of tools for handling PO files.
pop This package contains some POP3 and IMAP server daemons.
popt Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion. Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules.
portmap A portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols like NFS and NIS. This version is compiled with tcp_wrapper support.
postfix Postfix aims to be an alternative to the widely-used sendmail program
postgres DBMS (DataBase Management System) PostgreSQL is the successor of the relational database system INGRES. It has been developed at Berkeley, University of California. The main advantages of the new system are:
ppp The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon, pppd, additional ppp utilities, documentation and sample files. PPP provides a method for transmitting IP and IPX datagrams over serial point-to-point links, for example over modem links. The PPP daemon handles the details of setting up a PPP link including configuring the network interface and performing the PPP negotiations. PPP requires a PPP driver in the kernel, either compiled in or loaded as a module. The package wvdial helps you with the configuration of PPP. You can find it in YaST, in the package installations, series n, but it should be already installed by default. Simply start it from YaST, "System administration ->", "Network configuration ->" and "Configure a PPP network ->". You can call it from the command line also with "wvdial.lxdialog". After you have configured wvdial, simply call "wvdial" and you will be connected.
pppoed New package for the new pppoe (PPP over Ethernet) protocol. This package provides mixed kernel/user mode PPP encapsulation for xDSL and similar internet links which use PPP protocol over the IP layer. It is necessary for Sympatico service in Ontario and probably elsewhere. To use this package successfully, your kernel must include support for the PPP encapsulation. SuSE provides the needed pppox module in the SuSE Kernel packages
prcs The Project Revision Control System, PRCS, is the front end to a set of tools that (like CVS) provide a way to deal with sets of files and directories as an entity, preserving coherent versions of the entire set.
procmail Sendmail calls procmail to deliver email into a local folder. Procmail can be configured to store email into different folders.
procmtr With procmeter one can display various system parameters as e.g. processor load, network load, etc.
proftpd Professional FTP Daemon offers features as configuration with a Apache like syntax in a single file and per directory with ".ftpaccess", support of multiple virtual FTP servers and anonymous FTP services, _no_ SITE EXEC command to avoid security problems, hidden directories or files, wu.ftpd compatible logging (extended logging available) and utmp/wtmp support, Shadow password suite support, including support for expired accounts. Documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/proftpd/ and http://www.proftpd.org/.
proplst The PropList (PL) library is purposed to closely mimick the behaviour of the property lists used in GNUstep/OPENSTEP. It provides the functionality to manipulate, write it out, read in from a file, and synchronized it with the contents of a file for a tree structure of strings, data blocks, arrays and dictionaries (key-value pair lists). PropList is used by WindowMaker and related Projects. Includes, etc. are in the proplstd package.
proplstd This package contains libraries and includes that are not needed on thin Clients unless for development, etc.
ps Utilities for displaying process and memory information. Also includes Steve "Mr. Bassman" Bryant's enhanced `w'.
psgml `psgml' supports you while editing SGML documents. It respects the context of the used DTD (Document Type Definition) and offers the valid elements and attributes.
pstoedit pstoedit converts Postscript(TM) and PDF files to other vector graphic formats so that they can be edited graphically. pstoedit supports: tgif: Tgif .obj format (for tgif version >= 3) rpl: Real3D Programming Language Format lwo: LightWave 3D Object Format rib: RenderMan Interface Bytestream mif: (Frame)Maker Intermediate Format fig: .fig format for xfig xfig: .fig format for xfig pdf: Adobe's Portable Document Format gnuplot: gnuplot format ps: Flattened PostScript debug: for test purposes dump: for test purposes (same as debug) dxf: CAD exchange format java: java applet source code idraw: Interviews draw format pstoedit needs an installed Ghostscript interpreter.
pwdb The pwdb package contains libpwdb, the password database library. Libpwdb is a library which implements a generic user information database. Libpwdb doesn't use NSS from glibc. So it is not possible to use services like NIS+ or LDAP with pwdb.
pybliog Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It currently supports the following formats: - BibTeX (quite complete) - Medline (read-only) - Ovid files (from ovid.com) - Refer and EndNote (read only) - SGML DocBook (write only) Pybliographer can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. In fact, it's a simple framework that provides easy to use python classes and functions, and therefore can be extended to any usage (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc). In addition to the scripting environment, a graphical GNOME interface is available. It provides powerful editing capabilities, in addition to a nice hierarchical search mechanism.
pygdmod GD module is an interface to the GD library written by Thomas Bouttel. `It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .GIF file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where .GIF is the format used for inline images.' It has been extended in some ways from the original GD library.
pygnome PyGNOME is an extension module for python that gives you access to the GNOME libraries. This means you have access to more widgets, simple configuration interface, metadata support and many other features.
pygresql PyGreSQL is a python module that interfaces to a PostgreSQL database. It embeds the PostgreSQL query library to allow easy use of the powerful PostgreSQL features from a Python script.
pygtk PyGTK is an extension module for python that gives you access to the GTK+ widget set. Just about anything you can write in C with GTK+ you can write in python with PyGTK (within reason), but with all of python's benefits.
pyimglib The Python Imaging Library adds fairly powerful image processing capabilities to the Python interpreter and provides extensive file format support, and efficient internal representation. It provides also an alternative shared library to Tkinter.
pyldapm This module provides an LDAP API to Python in the spirit of RFC1823 using the UM LDAP or OpenLDAP library.
pyth_cur An easy to use interface to (n)curses CUI library. CUI stands for console user interface.
pyth_dmo Various demonstrations of what you can do with Python and a number of programs that are useful i.e. while building or extending Python.
pyth_doc Tutorial, Global Module Index, Language Reference, Library Reference, Extending and Embedding Reference, Python/C API Reference, Documenting Python and Macintosh Module Reference in HTML format.
pyth_pdf Tutorial, Global Module Index, Language Reference, Library Reference, Extending and Embedding Reference, Python/C API Reference, Documenting Python and Macintosh Module Reference in PDF format.
pyth_tk Python interface to Tk. Tk is the GUI toolkit coming along with Tcl. The package "xrpm" e.g., uses this Python interface.
pyth_tkl Shared Library for Python Tk Interface (_tkinter.so) -- it is distributed separately to allow easier replacement with PIL (Python Imaging Libary - see the pyimglib package).
pythgdbm An easy to use interface to GDBM databases. GDBM is the GNU implementation of the standard unix dbm databases.
python Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, and is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. A survey of Python you could find in the documentation and tutorials included in the pyth_doc (PostScript, HTML) package. If you have web access, point your browser to http://www.python.org.
pyxml The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), xmllib.py (Sjoerd Mullender) using the sgmlop.c accelerator module (Fredrik Lundh). * SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * DOM interface (Stefane Fermigier, A.M. Kuchling) * xmlarch.py, for architectural forms processing (Geir Ove Gr * Unicode wide-string module (Martin von L * Various utility modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example programs (various people) The code is being developed bazaar-style by contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send comments, questions, or bug reports to <xml-sig@python.org>. For general information about Python, see: http://www.python.org The Python XML-SIG home page is: http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/
qigc With this program you can connect to the International Go Server (IGS) and play Go online with other player. Or you can just watch at other games. Qigc uses the Qtlib.
qps qps is an X11 version of top or ps, with motif- or windows-like interface.
qtcompat This package contains compatibility header files to compile older QT programs designed for QT versions < 1.40. The former QT package was split into the following ones: qtlib runtime libraries qtdevel developpment environment qtext extensions qtcompat compatibility includes for versions < 1.40 If you want to develop programs with QT or simply e.g. recompile KDE, then you have to install the qtdevel package. Perhaps installing qtcompat will free you from compile errors in older packages. Please read in /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/LICENSE for licensing issues! Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/qt /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/html/index.html
qtdevel This package contains the QT runtime libraries. The former QT package was split into the following ones: qtlib runtime libraries qtdevel developpment environment qtext extensions qtcompat compatibility includes for versions < 1.40 If you want to develop programs with QT or simply e.g. recompile KDE, then you have to install this package. Perhaps installing qtcompat will free you from compile errors in older packages. Please read in /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/LICENSE for licensing issues! Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/qt /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/html/index.html
qtdevel2 You need this package, if you want to compile programs with Qt 2. It contains the "Qt Crossplatform Development Kit 2". Under /usr/lib/qt you find include files, documentation, precompiled examples and a tutorial for getting started with using Qt. This package may not be installed at the same time as qtdevel or qtcompat.
qtext This package contains some QT extensions (Netscape plugin, ImageIO, OpenGL). The former QT package was split into the following ones: qtlib runtime libraries qtdevel developpment environment qtext extensions qtcompat compatibility includes for versions < 1.40 If you want to develop programs with QT or simply e.g. recompile KDE, then you have to install the qtdevel package. Perhaps installing qtcompat will free you from compile errors in older packages. Please read in /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/LICENSE for licensing issues! Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/qt /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/html/index.html
qtext2 This package contains extension libraries of Qt 2.00, such as an OpenGL interface to Qt. It may not be installed together with qtext.
qtlib This package contains the QT runtime libraries. The former QT package was split into the following ones: qtlib runtime libraries qtdevel developpment environment qtext extensions qtcompat compatibility includes for versions < 1.40 If you want to develop programs with QT or simply e.g. recompile KDE, then you have to install the qtdevel package. Perhaps installing qtcompat will free you from compile errors in older packages. Please read in /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/LICENSE for licensing issues! Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/qt /usr/share/doc/packages/qt/html/index.html
qtlib2 Qt is a program library for developing applications with graphical user interfaces. It allows you to rapidly develop professional programs. The Qt library is available not only for Linux but for a great number of Unices and even for Windows, as well. Thus it's possible to write programs that may be ported to those platforms easily. Qt comes with a licence that allows you to use it free of charge, as long as you make the source codes of the programs that you develop with Qt free (for example by releasing it under the GPL). This package contains the runtime libraries of the newest Qt version 2. The current version 1.1.1 of KDE uses Qt 1.44, which comes in the package qtlib. You need version 2 only, if you want to develop or at least compile programs that are based on Qt 2. Hereby it is possible to install qtlib and qtlib2 at the same time. The packages qtdevel2 and qtext2 exclude their counterparts of Version 1.44. See /usr/share/doc/packages/qtlib2 for details about the new features of current Qt library!
qtman This package contains the man pages for the qt development enviroment.
qtman2 This package contains all man pages for all QT 2 classes.
quota Allows to assign disk quotas to the individual users of the system. The kernel must be recompiled with disk quota support enabled.
qvwm Q V stands for 9 5 in Japanese. It is a window manager that resembles the Win95 GUI Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/qvwm
radiusc Radius client provides some useful programs for doing authentication and accounting via a (remote) radius server.
radiusd radiusd is the Lucent Technologies radius server. It provides remote authentication an accounting services; it e.g. use by Lucent Portmaster products (you guessed) for login authentication and logging.
rasmol RasMol is an X Window System tool intended for the visualization of proteins and nucleic acids. It reads Brookhaven Protein Database (PDB) files and interactively renders them in a variety of formats on either an 8bit or 24/32bit color display. Examples are in /usr/lib/rasmol
rcs RCS, the Revision Control System, manages multiple revisions of files. RCS can store, retrieve, log, identify, and merge revisions. It is useful for files that are frequently revised e.g. programs, documentation, graphics, and papers.
rdist This utility makes it possible to distribute files to several computers within a network. If possible, file attributes such as: owner, group, mode, and mtime are retained. It's even possible to overwrite running binaries.
recode This filter converts various character sets.
regina Mark Hessling's implementation of the REXX language.
repgtk GTK bindings for librep (LISP)
rfc This is the reference concerning Internet and Internet protocols. The discussed matter might be a little to theoretical for laymen but professionals do find all what they are looking for.
rinetd rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another. rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf. Since rinetd runs as a single process using nonblocking I/O, it is able to redirect a large number of connections without a severe impact on the machine. This makes it practical to run TCP services on machines inside an IP masquerading firewall. Note: rinetd can not redirect FTP, because FTP requires more than one socket.
rman RosettaMan is a filter for UNIX manual pages needed by TkMan. It takes as input man pages formatted for a variety of UNIX flavors (not [tn]roff source) and produces as output a variety of file formats. Also included is http-rman which provides access to the man-pages via a normal web-browser.
roottail Displays a given file anywhere on your X11 root window with a transparent background.
roxen Challenger is a modular open source web server and forms the foundation of the Roxen Platform (a commercial web content management system). Administration and configuration of the server and all its add-on modules are done via a very comfortable web interface. Roxen is a real alternative to Apache - and because of its GPL license also as free as its competitor. It is probably easier to configure while being as powerful as apache. It comes with modules like "Graphics text", which gives you the tag <gtext></gtext> that lets Roxen create a GIF from the text with lots of advanced features compared to regular HTML-text. Another module is "Business Graphics", which offers a tag <diagram> that can be used to create GIFs that contain complex business charts (e.g. pie charts, bar charts,...) or even mathematical functions.
roxmysql This package lets the Roxen webserver access mySQL databases. For details see the Roxen documentation.
roxpgsql This package lets the Roxen webserver access PostgreSQL databases. For details see the Roxen documentation.
rp_pppoe pppoe is a user-space redirector which permits the use of PPPoE (Point-to-Point Over Ethernet) with Linux. PPPoE is used by many ADSL service providers.
rpm RPM Package Manager is the main tool for managing software packages of the SuSE Linux distribution. rpm can be used to install and remove software packages; with rpm it's easy to update packages. rpm keep track of all these manipulations in a central database. This way it is possible to get an overview of all installed packages; rpm also supports database queries.
rpm2html from the original spec file: rpm2html tries to solve 2 big problems one face when grabbing a RPM package from a mirror on the net and trying to install it: - it gives more information than just the filename before installing the package. - it tries to solve the dependancy problem by analyzing all the Provides and Requires of the set of RPMs. It shows the cross references by the way of hypertext links. You'll find example configuration files at /usr/share/doc/packages/rpm2html. - Use it in combination with the package `rpmfind'.
rpmfind rpmfind analyze the current state of the system, check a remote database using HTTP to lookup the packages providing the best affinity with your current software base and also list the extra packages that you need to install to solve the missing dependencies. Rpmfind can also do the transfer once the list of package has been established. home page: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html
rsync rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand. At first glance this may seem impossible because the calculation of diffs between two files normally requires local access to both files. A technical report describing the rsync algorithm is included with this package.
rxp From the RELNOTES: [...] a validating namespace-aware XML parser in C. RXP was written by Richard Tobin at the Language Technology Group, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh. RXP is distributed under the GNU Public Licence, which is in the file COPYING. RXP may be made available under other licensing terms; contact M.Moens@ed.ac.uk for details. RXP is based on the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation of 10th February 1998 and the Namespaces recommendation of 14th January 1999. Deviations from these recommendations should probably be considered as bugs. There is currently only minimal documentation. There is a manual page for the rxp program, and a hastily-written file called "Manual" which describes the public functions and data structures. The file "Threads" contains some notes about use in a threaded environment. [...] A simple application (called rxp) is provided that parses and writes XML data, optionally expanding entities, defaulting attributes, and translating to a different output encoding. There is an RXP web page at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html Bug reports should be sent to richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk.
samba Samba is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to access Unix filespace and printers via the SMB protocol (Server Message Block). In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to Unix disks and printers from LAN Manager clients, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows'95 clients, Windows NT clients and OS/2 clients. There is also a Unix client program supplied as part of the suite which allows Unix users to use an ftp-like interface to access filespace and printers on any other SMB server. Samba includes the following programs (in summary): * smbd, the SMB server. This handles actual connections from clients. * nmbd, the Netbios name server, which helps clients locate servers. * smbclient, the Unix-hosted client program. * smbrun, a little `glue' program to help the server run external programs. * testprns, a program to test server access to printers. * testparm, a program to test the Samba configuration file for correctness. * smb.conf, the Samba configuration file. * smbprint, a sample script to allow a Unix host to use smbclient to print to an SMB server. The suite is supplied with full source and is GPLed. This package expects its config file under /etc/smb.conf .
samt SAmT is a tool for the System Administrator. It helps keeping a list of important system files without having to look for them each time you need them. It provides an easy means of rebooting the system or drive it into a certain runlevel respectively. Furthermore it can create a backup of your given files, thus giving you the opportunity of switching back to a "running system".
sash are: -chgrp, -chmod, -chown, -cmp, -cp, -dd, -echo, -ed, -grep, -gunzip, -gzip, -kill, -ln, -ls, -mkdir, -mknod, -more, -mount, -mv, -printenv, -pwd, -rm, -rmdir, -sync, -tar, -touch, -umount, -where
sawfish The sawfish (former sawmill) windowmanager is a small and smart windowmanager, which can be extended using LISP.
scanlogd This daemon is able to detect and log portscans aimed at its host.
scheme UMB Scheme is an implementation of the language described in the IEEE Standard for the Scheme Programming Language (December, 1990). All syntax, variables and procedures are implemented. Integers are implemented as fixnums and bignums, rationals as pairs of integers, (inexact) reals as double-precision floats, and (inexact) complex numbers as pairs of double-precision floats.
scotty Scotty is the name of a software package which allows to implement site specific network management software using high-level, string-based APIs. The software is based on the Tool Command Language which simplifies the development of portable network management scripts. The scotty source distribution includes two major components. The first one is the Tnm Tcl Extension which provides access to network management information sources. The second component is the Tkined network editor which provides a framework for an extensible network management system.
screen With this program you can take advantage of the multi-tasking abilities of your Linux system by opening several sessions over one terminal. The sessions can also be detached and resumed from another login terminal. Documentation: man screen
scwm From the Scwm homepage (/usr/share/doc/packages/scwm/scwmrc/): Scwm is the Scheme-Configurable Window Manager. It is a window manager with a powerful configuration language based on Guile Scheme. Scwm has a number of advanced features, many implemented in the configuration language itself. It is in very active development currently, and continues to improve. Scwm was originally based on fvwm2 code. It is rapidly evolving in the internals, but we are striving to maintain compatibility on various levels. It now has a strict superset of fvwm2 features. Even fvwm2 modules may be executed through an adapter written in the configuration language. Features ======== Scwm has a number of useful features, some of which are rarely seen in a window manager. Here are some highlights: - Full programmability using Guile Scheme. - Support for GUI scripting using guile-gtk (experimental quality). - Optional constraint-based window-layout system (new in v0.9). See README-constraints for information on getting started. - Fully documented the C-level primitives. - Much-improved documentation browsing capabilities from Emacs. - Multiple decoration styles, including mwm, fvwm and win95 so far. - Everything that can be configured can be changed on the fly at runtime. - A powerful external control protocol. The scwmexec program can be used to execute any window manager. - command at any time; scwmrepl gives you an interactive session with the window manager. - An emacs interaction mode: edit your .scwmrc in emacs, and evaluate the results immediately, without restarting. - Support for fvwm2 modules. - Multiple disjoint virtual desktops. - Animated move and windowshade operations. - Synthetic events (allowing you to bind keystrokes or mouse operations to sequences of clicks and keyboard commands). - Ability to load nearly any image type. - Timer hooks, input hooks, new window hooks. - Direct support for /etc/X11/wmconfig/ under RedHat GNU/Linux 5.x. - XLock menu that queries xlock for the available modes automatically. The code is fairly portable. It is known to work at least on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Irix. Scwm comes with a number of example scwmrc files in the sample.scwmrc directory (/usr/share/doc/packages/scwm/scwmrc/) which demonstrate many of the useful features.
sdb This package is necessary as base for the national language packages of the SDB as there are e.g. sdb_de or sdb-en. It installs the needed directory structure and compatibility links for older versions of the SDB. The SDB may be found under: /usr/share/doc/sdb
sdb_de A collection of frequently asked support questions. These are written in HTML and can be found under /usr/share/doc/support-db/sdb. The english sdb is in package sdb_en.
sdb_en A collection of frequently asked support questions. These are written in HTML and can be found under /usr/share/doc/support-db/sdb_e. The English version is under construction.
sdb_es Some articles to answer frequently asked questions. These pages are in HTML format and are located at /usr/share/doc/sdb/es. The german version is in the package sdb_de.
sdb_fr Some articles to answer frequently asked questions. These pages are in HTML format and are located at /usr/share/doc/sdb/fr. The german version is in the package sdb_de.
sdb_it Some articles to answer frequently asked questions. These pages are in HTML format and are located at /usr/share/doc/sdb/it. The german version is in the package sdb_de.
seccheck Regularly executable scripts (via cron) to check the security of your System.
secumod This Kernel module will disable a configurable set of features, which will result in a more secure system. It features: - `texec' : TPE protection (more on this later) - `procfs' : procfs protection - `hardlink' : hardlink create protection - `symlink' : symlink follow protection - `rawdisk' : rawdisk protection - `pipe' : Pipe (FIFO) protection - `trace' : process trace protection - `systable' : syscall table checking - `logging' : if you want logging turn this on - `persist' : on default this is set to 0, so the module can be unloaded, but you may set it to 1 to make it unremovable - `capbits' : set the capbits value. You have to supply a certain mode for the capbits variable.
selfhtml HTML4 reference and tutorial. Unfortunately this document is only available in german.
sendmail The "Unix System Administration Handbook" calls sendmail "The most complex and complete mail delivery system in common use..." . Ready-made configuration files are included for systems connected by TCP/IP (with or without a name server) and for systems using UUCP. `procmail' is included as a local mail agent.
sgmltool SGML-Tools is a text-formatting package based on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), which allows you to produce LaTeX, HTML, GNU info, LyX, RTF, and plain ASCII (via groff) from a single source. This system is tailored for writing technical software documentation, an example of which are the Linux HOWTO documents. It should be useful for all kinds of printed and online documentation. This package is considered as the successor of the Linuxdoc package. SGML-Tools is not able to process arbitrary SGML documents; in such a case, give jade_dsl a try and write your own DSSSL scripts (take the docbk30 package as an example).
sgrep Search a file for a structured pattern
sh_utils The programs in this package include: basename chroot date dirname echo env expr false groups id logname nice nohup pathchk pinky printenv printf pwd sleep stty su tee test true tty uname who whoami yes
shadow This package is configured to prevent root login from other than local consoles. If you want to enable root login via TCP/IP set ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE to "yes" in /etc/rc.config and run SuSEconfig.
sharutil This is the set of GNU shar utilities. `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. `remsync' allows for remote synchronization of directory trees, using electronic mail. This part of sharutils is still alpha.
shlibs Shared C libraries - needed to run programs linked with libc and libm libraries (almost all). Further basic support for international codepages and some binaries contained in the libc-source.
shlibs2 The shared libraries of libc-2.2pre
sitar Prepare system information using perl and binary tools, reading the /proc filesystem, ... Output is in HTML (LaTeX; planned: XML, SQL), can be converted to PS and PDF. This program must be run as "root". sitar.pl includes scsiinfo by Eric Youngdale, Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de> and ide_info by David A. Hinds <dhinds@hyper.stanford.edu>. It implements ideas of the SuSE Munich people. Comment: Sitar is an ancient Indian instrument as well.
sitecopy sitecopy is for copying locally stored websites to remote web servers. The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command. The aim is to remove the hassle of uploading and deleting individual files using an FTP client. FTP, WebDAV and HTTP-based authoring servers are supported.
slang Library with routines for display access. Similar to ncurses, but it has its own programming interface. Slang uses the entries in /usr/lib/terminfo.
smail Smail is a mail system which is easy to configure. A lot of examples are installed in addition to the program. Smail should NOT be used together with sendmail.
smaltalk GNU Smalltalk is an implementation which is almost Smalltalk-80 conform (tm ParkPlace Systems) as described in Adele Goldberg and David Robson's book `Smalltalk-80: the Language and its Implementations', which will be referred to as the `Blue Book'. Smalltalk is an object oriented programming language, meaning that the programmer not only has to keep the data in his head but the operations which can be applied to this object. The ability of an object of keeping not only track of the data but also to those operations that are connected to itself are inseparable glued together. The amount of actions that can be performed by the object is precisely defined by the amount of operations of this special object (called methods in Smalltalk). You can't `see' the contents of an object from outside the object. Seen from the outside an object is a black box which has some particular operations and states, but that's about all you know. In Smalltalk everything is an object. This includes variables, executable procedures (methods) and stack frames (context of invoked methods or context of a block). Every object is an instance of a class. You can see a class as a datatype and its incorporated functions. An instance is a particular variable of this datatype. If you want to perform an operation on one of these objects you have to send it a message and the object reacts by performing the correspondent action. To print something, e.g., you could send the message like this: someObject print The message you send is indeed the name of a method (procedure) which should be carried out. If you send a message to an object Smalltalk tries to find out the method that has been defined for this kind of object. First it starts looking at the objects class. If there is no such class it bothers the parent class, in the grandfather class etc.. At the top of this class-construction there is a class called Object which has no ancestors. If Smalltalk couldn't find a method until then it produces an error code. For a complete explanation of Smalltalk there is a very nice tutorial by Andy Valencia: try the command info `(gst)Tutorial' . Additionally the X Smalltalk interface and object browser `blox' (xgst) is included. Besides blox, GNU Smalltalk has two other modules which may be compiled in, tcp and gdbm. All three available modules are compiled to the executable named gst_all; if you need another combination of modules, recompile the source (or write to feedback@suse.de). Happy small talking!
smb_auth smb_auth is a proxy authentication module. With smb_auth you can authenticate proxy users against an SMB server like Windows NT or Samba.
smbclnt This package contains all programs, that are needed to act as a samba client. This includes also smbmount, of course.
smsclien A simple UNIX client Allowing you to send SMS messages to mobile phones and pagers. You have to be root to use this program. Documentation is found in /usr/share/doc/packages/smsclien or with `man sms_client'
smtpd This is a SMTP store and forward proxy. Please read /usr/share/doc/packages/smtpd/README.SuSE!!!
snmp SNMP is the Simple Network Management Protocol of the Internet defined as a standard in RFC 1155 and 1157 and 1901 up to 1908. The protocol allows mainly to retrieve and set variables, addressed as objects in the MIB (Management Information Base). The well-known MIB-2 is defined in RFC 1213 and contains variables related to the TCP/IP protocol suite.
sp The tools of this package provide the possibility to manage SGML and XML documents. It contains the parser `nsgmls' and the supporting programs `sgmlnorm', `spam', `spent', and `s2x' (previous known under the filename `sx'). `s2x' is useful as a converting tool from SGML to XML, the comming WWW standard. You'll find the documentation for all the programs under /usr/share/doc/packages/sp/.
sp_libs Libraries for sp and jade
spectcl An interface builder for Tcl/Tk and Java directly from Sun Microsystems. Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/spectcl
splitscr Splitscreen is a telnet-like client intended for two-way interactive communication. It is intended to be used with ttylinkd or conversd. Splitscreen uses NCURSES for screen formatting, and features line editing, a session scroll- back buffer, and an option to save session text to a log- file.
splitvt splitvt splits a VT100 compatible (Linux console, xterm) terminal`s screen into two.
squid2 The Squid V2.2 WWW Proxy Server (2.2 STABLE5 with all fixes) Homepage: http://squid.nlanr.net
squid23 New version of the Squid V2.3 WWW Proxy Server Homepage: http://squid.nlanr.net Important changes since Squid 2.2: Domain name matching: The function which checks for a match between a hostname and a domain name has been rewritten, and its behavior is now slightly different. Previously, the domain ``com'' would match the hostname ``foo.com'', but this is no longer the case. Now, if you must write ``.com'' to match ``foo.com''. Removed dnsservers: In this version, DNS lookups are done by the main Squid process by default. Truncate vs unlink: In version 2.2 Squid truncated disk files (by default) instead of unlinking them. This caused some installations to run out of inodes on the cache disks. Even though truncate makes Squid a bit faster, we have made the default to use unlink again. Look at http://squid.nlanr.net/Versions/v2/2.3/ for a full description.
squidgrd squidGuard is a free (GPL), flexible and ultra fast filter, redirector and access controller plugin for squid. It lets you define multiple access rules with different restrictions for different user groups on a squid cache. squidGuard uses squid's standard redirector interface.
strace With strace you can trace the activity of a program. Information as to any system calls the program made and the signals it has received/processed can be seen. Even child processes can be tracked.
strn This version of strn is based on trn and allows scoring of a news article based on author and subject.
su1 Program which allows selected users to run selected commands as root.
sudo `sudo' is a command that allows users to execute some commands as root. The /etc/sudoers file (edited with `visudo') specifies which users have access to sudo and which commands they can run. `sudo' logs all its activities to syslogd, so the system administrator can keep an eye on things. Sudo asks for the password for initializing an check period of a given time N (where N is defined at installation and is set to 5 minutes by default).
susecurs With this package a script do_chamaeleon is supplied which transform the boring X-cursor into the SuSE chamaeleon.
susefont cmbtt10.mf, cmbtt8.mf, and cmbtt9.mf.
susehilf This package contains the basics of the SuSE Help-System. To prevent unnecessary disk usage the man pages will be formatted "on the fly". Thus you can only view man pages that are already installed. Start `susehelp' by invoking help. susehelp --help shows a list of configuration possibilities.
suselxen SuSE Linux Manual (english)
susewm This package allows you to create in one step the configuration files for the fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm95, bowman, afterstep, cdesim, mwm, ctwm, KDE, and icewm window managers. In the menus you'll only find programs which are really installed in the system. The desktop of the window managers will look the same (considering the particularities of the window managers). For KDE, mwm, ctwm, and icewm there is only support for keeping the menus up to date since these are very different from the other window managers like fvwm. The icons used in the fvwm2 / fvwm95 menus are taken from the package 3dpixms which themselves are generated from the 3dpixm package.
swi_pl Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler including modules, autoload, libraries, Garbage-collector, stack-expandor, C-interface, GNU-readline and GNU-Emacs interface, very fast compiler, X11 interface using XPCE (see http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/xpce).
swig SWIG is a compiler that attempts to make it easy to integrate C, C++, or Objective-C code with scripting languages including Perl, Tcl, and Python. In a nutshell, you give it a bunch of ANSI C/C++ declarations and it generates an interface between C and your favorite scripting language. However, this is only scratching the surface of what SWIG can do--some of its more advanced features include automatic documentation generation, module and library management, extensive customization options, and more. See the documentation under /usr/share/doc/packages/swig.
syslogd The sysklogd package implements two system log daemons. The syslogd daemon is the general system logging daemon which is responsible for handling requests for syslog services. This version of syslogd is similar to the standard Berkeley product but with a number of compatible extensions. The klogd daemon runs either standalone or as a client of syslogd. Klogd `listens' to kernel log messages, prioritizes them and routes them to either output files or to syslogd. This version of klogd will optionally translate kernel addresses to their symbolic equivalents if provided with a system map.
sysvinit System V style init programs by Miquel van Smoorenburg that controls the booting and shutdown of your system. These support a number of system runlevels, each one associated with a specific set of utilities. For example, normal system runlevel is 2, which starts a getty on virtual consoles tty1-tty6. Runlevel 3 starts xdm. Runlevel 0 shuts down the system. Please see the individual man pages for: inittab, initscript, halt, init, killproc, killall5, powerd, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, and telinit.
tarfix Tools for processing and recover damaged tar archive files.
tcl Tcl is a simple to use text-based scripting language with many built-in features that make it especially nice for writing interactive scripts similar to perl. This package is required if you want to install Tk.
tcld This package contains the configuration scripts, header files and static libraries for the packages tcl, tk, tix, itcl, expect and tclx. It is only required to compile and link C programs and extensions for the named packages.
tclldap This extension makes it possible to access LDAP servers from Tcl scripts. The Tcl interpreter can load it at runtime.
tclplug With this plugin, you can download a special kind of Tcl/Tk scripts (aka. tclets) from the internet and execute them inside your browser as it is known from Java applets. You can find the documentation in /opt/netscape/tclplug/2.0/doc.
tclx Extended Tcl is a superset of standard Tcl. Extended Tcl has three basic functional areas: A set of new commands, a Tcl shell (i.e. a Unix shell-style command line and interactive environment), and a user-extensible library of useful Tcl procedures, any of which can be automatically loaded on the first attempt to execute it. In addition, a detailed help system is available for Tcl/Tk: tclhelp.
tcpd This package contains a small daemon program which can monitor and filter incoming requests for finger, ftp, telnet, rlogin, rsh, exec, tftp, talk and other network services.
tcpdump With this program you can "read" all or only certain packets going over the ethernet. It can be used to debug specific network problems.
tcsh 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.
teapot Teapot is a spreadsheet program for UNIX, which uses modern concepts besides being portable and extensible, for instance three dimensional tables and iterative expressions. It provides various output formats e.g. LaTeX and HTML. There are executables in english, dutch and german available. They are started by typing "teapot_en", "teapot_nl" or "teapot_de". Just typing "teapot" starts the english version.
tei TEI and TEI Lite DTD
termcap The termcap library
terminfo This is the terminfo reference database, maintained by Eric Raymond. This database is the official successor of the 4.4BSD termcap file and contains information about any known terminal. The ncurses library makes use of this database in order to use the terminals correctly. If you just use the Linux console, xterm and VT100, you probably will not need this database - a minimal /usr/share/terminfo tree for these terminal is already included in the ncurses package.
texinfo Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. Using Texinfo, you can create a printed document with the normal features of a book, including chapters, sections, cross references, and indices. From the same Texinfo source file, you can create a menu-driven, on-line Info file with nodes, menus, cross references, and indices. This package contains a "viewer" to read the documentation files in /usr/share/info.
textutil These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits. The programs in this package are: cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr, ptx, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, tsort, unexpand, uniq, and wc.
tgif This program has nothing to do with the GIF format. It is an extremely powerful and easy to use vector-oriented drawing program which has every feature you would expect in a drawing utility.
the THE is a text editor that uses both command line commands and key bindings to operate. It is intended to be similar to the VM/CMS System Product Editor, XEDIT and to Mansfield Software's, KEDIT.
thttpd Thttpd is a very compact no-frills httpd serving daemon that can handle very high loads. While lacking many of the advanced features of Roxen or Apache, thttpd operates without forking and is extremely efficient in memory use. Basic support for cgi scripts, authentication, and ssi is provided for. Advanced features include the ability to throttle traffic.
tidy From Overview.html: When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. Each item found is listed with the line number and column so that you can see where the problem lies in your markup. Tidy won't generate a cleaned up version when there are problems that it can't be sure of how to handle. These are logged as "errors" rather than "warnings". Tidy features in a recent article on XHTML by webreview.com.
tiff Library and support programs for the TIFF image format. The sources of this package are in the source-package of libgr.
timezon2 These are configuration files that describe possible time zones for glibc-2.2pre
timezone These are configuration files that describe possible time zones. With YaST you can select an appropriate time zone for your system.
tin Tin is a full-screen, easy to use Netnews reader. It can read news locally (i.e. /var/spool/news) or remotely (rtin or tin -r option) via an NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) server. Docu: man tin or man rtin.
tix The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of widgets for programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include: Hierarchical List box, Directory List/Tree View, Spreadsheet, Tabular List box, Combo Box, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin Control widget .... and many more. With these new widgets, your applications will look great and interact with your users in intuitive ways.
tixlpq Tix frontend to lpq
tk Tk toolkit for Tcl
tkconv A Ham Radio Converse client written in Tcl/Tk.
tkdesk TkDesk is a graphical desktop and file manager for UNIX (especially Linux) and the X Window System. Compared with other file managers available, it offers the most complete set of file operations and services, plus gives the user the ability to configure most aspects of TkDesk in a powerful way. The reason for this is the use of Tcl/Tk as the configuration and (for the greatest part of TkDesk) implementation language. TkDesk has been influenced by various other systems and file managers: NeXT, for laying out the file browser windows, Apple Finder, for the idea of file annotations and, (shock horror), Windows 95, for some other (of course minor and unimportant ;-)) inspirations. This is a brief overview of the most prominent features of TkDesk: o Arbitrary number of automatically refreshed file browsers and file list windows, o Configurable file-specific pop-up-menus, o Drag and drop, o Files and directories may also be dropped onto the root window, o Configurable application bar, with several displays and cascadable pop-up menus for each button, files can also be dropped here, o History of visited directories, opened files, executed commands, and others, which is automatically saved to disk, o Find files through their annotation, name, contents, size or age, o Trash can for safe deletion of files and directories, o Calculation of disk usage for directory hierarchies, o All file operations (find, copy, disk usage, etc.) are carried out in the background, o Traversal of directory hierarchies through recursive cascaded menus, o Bookmarks, create menu entries for often used files/directories, o Comprehensive hypertext online help, o Built-in multi-buffer and undo-capable editor, o Close coupling with Netscape and XEmacs, o Sound support, o Powerful configuration of nearly all aspect of TkDesk through Tcl/Tk, this also allows the Tcl-literate to extend TkDesk in arbitrary ways, o Free of charge! But see the file COPYING, or menu entry Help/License for information on usage and redistribution of TkDesk.
tkdraw Drawing tool save in eps format
tkfont It is a program similar to xfontsel.
tkinfo TkInfo is a tk script to read GNU "info" files and display them. TkInfo can be used stand alone (via WISH), or embedded within an application to provide integrated, on-line help.
tkirc Tkirc is a frontend for IRCII, written in Tcl/Tk. It can be customized with a file named .tkircrc in the users home-directory. An example .tkircrc can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/tkirc/tkircrc-example
tkmail TkMail is an X Window interface to mail built using Tcl/Tk. Reading, sending, and managing mail messages can almost all be done using only the mouse (except for the body of the message, of course). TkMail writes its folders in the format of the standard Unix `Mail' command. It also uses `sendmail' commands to do the mail delivery work.
tkman A manual-browser for X with hyperlinks, history and more.
tkrat TkRat is a graphical Mail User Agent (MUA) which handles MIME. It is mainly written in C but the user interface is done in tcl/tk.
tkworld tkWorld provides a unique graphical user interface for over 20 frequently used shell commands. The commands can be provided with arguments and combined to pipelines via mouse clicks.
tkxcd This is a diff front end with a look and feel based on Atria Clearcase xcleardiff. Both files are displayed in a window each and the differences are marked in different colors.
tmpwatch A common shortcoming of programs is how they treat data and files in temporary or holding areas. Many people have been silently exploiting many of these problems for some time now. The tool opens the directory specified (defaults to /tmp) and continuously reads the contents. Upon first read it spits out the list that it has built (it attempts an ls -l style output). From that point on it shows any additions or deletions that it sees prefaced with `+' or `-' accordingly.
tn5250 The 5250 is most commonly used for connected to IBM's AS/400. While one can connect to an AS/400 with a VT100 emulator, it's not ideal. The problem is that the 5250 is a screen at a time terminal, whereas the VT100 is a character at a time device. The emulator uses the binary mode of telnet to transfer the 5250 data stream.
tnef This tool uncompresses MS-TNEF archives as used by some mailers
traf_vis traffic-vis is a suite of tools to help determine which hosts have been communicating on an IP network, with whom they have been communicating and the volume of communication that has taken place. Output is plain text, HTML or postscript.
transfig TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide variety of environments. The transfig directory contains the source for the transfig command which generates a Makefile which translates Fig code to various graphics description languages using the fig2dev program. In previous releases, this command was implemented as a shell script. Documentation: man transfig
tripwire By the use of tripwire it is possible to observe the filesystem. tripwire generates a database, controlled by a configuration file, of all files, their checksums, etc. and it reports changes. The location of the binary is /var/adm/tripwire/bin/tripwire. A configuration example can be found at /usr/share/doc/packages/tripwire. Tripwire wants its configurationfile to be found at /var/adm/tripwire/tw.config. The database has to be saved at /var/adm/tripwire/db.
trn This trn is compiled so it needs the Network News Transfer Protocol Daemon (nntpd) to get its news.
trn_spl Compiled for reading news from the local spool-directory which resides under /var/spool/news. If you would like another configuration you have to recompile trn. This shouldn't be a problem as trn is effortlessly compilable under Linux.
ttf2pt1 This is a collection of tools and scripts that allow to convert True Type Fonts (as used by MS Wind*ws) to be converted to Postscript Type 1 fonts, so they can be used in X11 and Ghostscript.
ttmkfdir special mkfontdir required for Truetype fonts (*.ttf files)
tuba debugger for Tcl/Tk
tuxeyes A penguin toy similar to XPinguin. Very cute with its rolling eyes following the mouse cursor. A successfully mixture of xteddy, xpinguin and xeyes.
tvision Port of Borland TurboVision for Unix
ucdsnmp UCD SNMP daemon.
uemacs This is a small version of Emacs designed for use on microcomputers. It is also Linus Torvalds' favourite editor.
unace ACE archive extractor
unarj Allows for unpacking of .arj files, which are widely spread in the DOS world. It is included for compatibility reasons to extract packages from DOS. It should not be used for compressing packages under Linux; use gzip which is the standard, instead.
unclutt unclutter removes the cursor image from the screen so that it does not obstruct the area you are looking at after it has not moved for a given time.
ungif convert gifs to various formats
units Units conversion utility
unrar The unRAR utility is a freeware program distributed with source code and developed for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver.
unzip UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format (known as "zip files"). Although highly compatible both with PKWARE's PKZIP(tm) and PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS and with Info-ZIP's own Zip program, our primary objectives have been portability and non-MSDOS functionality.
url_get With url_get you may get data from their URL-address. HTTP, Gopher and FTP are supported. For further documentation see /usr/share/doc/packages/url_get .
urlview urlview presents a menu of all URL's from a given text file (eg. a mail), the user may then view the information located on those URL's.
userproc RC Skript for enabling user process debugging
util Selected utilities compiled from Rik Faith's huge utility collection: agetty arch banner cal clock col colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel dmesg fdformat fdisk flushb frag fsck hex hexdump ipcrm ipcs kbdrate kill logger look mesg mkfs.minix mkswap more mount newgrp passwd pwd rdev renice reset rev script setfdprm setserial setsid setterm simpleinit sln strings swapoff swapon syslogd tsort tunelp ul umount update wall whereis write
uucp Ian Taylor's Unix to Unix copy: mail and news over modem lines. This is the standard UUCP package of the Free Software Foundation. Configured to use HoneyDanBer and/or Taylor configuration files. With version 6.0 of SuSE Linux we moved the configuration directory to /etc/uucp. Exactly: Tailor config: /etc/uucp HoneyDanBer config: /etc/uucp/hdb_config If you have an own setup under /var/lib/uucp please remember to move it to /etc/uucp. Example configurations can be found under /usr/share/doc/packages/uucp. Remark: We did not include an uucp guest account. So, if you want to create a guest account please make sure the directory /var/spool/uucppublic exists.
vacation This program answers when you're lying on the beach ;-) Documentation: man vacation
vcron TK-Interface for cron and at.
vim Vim (Vi IMproved) is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor vi whereby almost every possible command can be performed using only ASCII characters. 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, editing of binary data, etc. Vi is available for the AMIGA, MS-DOS, Windows NT, and various versions of UNIX. For SuSE Linux, Vim is used as /usr/bin/vi.
vpass This is a very simple tool, that reads passwords from stdin (no, not via getpass(3)), veryfies it via cracklib and writes "OK" or "ERR why" to stdout if password looks good or not.
vtcl Visual Tcl is a freely-available, high-quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh platforms. Written entirely in Tcl and generating pure Tcl should make porting either unnecessary or trivial.
w3mir The main focus of w3mir is to create and maintain a browsable copy of one, or several, remote WWW site(s). Used to the max w3mir can retrieve the contents of several related sites and leave the mirror browseable via a local web server, or from a filesystem, such as directly from a CDROM. w3mir's goal is to be able to make useful mirrors of any reasonable WWW site. It specifically preserves link integrity within the mirrored documents as well as the integrity of links outside the mirror, if you want it to. w3mir has a powerful ``multi scope'' mechanism enabling the user to make mirrors of several related sites and have links between them refer to the mirrored documents rather than the original site. w3mir has several features directed at getting mirrors for CDROM burning and handling of some not too often seen problems when mirroring.
wdiff wdiff compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to old_file to get new_file. A word is anything between whitespace. Xwdiff is an handy x frontend, based on Tcl/Tk.
webalize The Webalizer is a web server log file analysis program which produces usage statistics in HTML format for viewing with a browser. The results are presented in both columnar and graphical format, which facilitates interpretation. Yearly, monthly, daily and hourly usage statistics are presented, along with the ability to display usage by site, URL, referrer, user agent (browser) and country (user agent and referrer are only available if your web server procduces Combined log format files). The Webalizer supports CLF (common log format) log files, as well as Combined log formats as defined by NCSA and others, and variations of these which it attempts to handle intelligently.
webgw The program uses the LDAP protocol to talk to X.500. You will need a LDAP Server installed. You find a LDAP-Server in the package openldap.
weblint Weblint is a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML: a perl script which picks fluff off html pages, much in the same way traditional lint picks fluff off C programs.
wget Wget enables you to retrieve WWW documents or FTP files from a server. This might be done in script files or via command line.
whois This is a new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch by Marco d'Itri. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries. The package also contains mkpasswd, a simple front end to crypt(3).
widtools Small set of tools that allow you to use XForms widgets in your shell scripts.
wipe securely erase files from magnetic media
wm2 For all who hate popup menus and icons. Just set WINDOWMANAGER in ~/.bashrc to wm2. Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/wm2
wmaconf Wmakerconf is a GTK+ based configuration tool for Window Maker.
wmaker WindowMaker is a colourful and flexible window manager and the designated successor of AfterStep. Especially the so called "themes" make it very interesting. For more details, please check http://www.themes.org. To use it just place the following line in your ~/.bashrc: export WINDOWMANAGER=wmaker Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/wmaker
word2x Word2x is a GPLed program for converting word documents to text without any Microsoft software to help you, including non-microsoft operating systems (and therefore no OLE dll's, etc). The currently supported output formats are plain text, LaTeX and HTML.
words This packages contains an English dictionary which will be installed as /usr/share/dict/words This dictionary is maybe used by look(1) and ispell(1).
wterm This is a terminal emulator, which is based on xvt. This emulator makes it possible to have a transparent background.
wuftpd wu-ftpd is a replacement ftp server for Un*x 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 o virtual host support (similar to the apache httpd server)
wwwoffle A proxy HTTP server for computers with dial-up internet access. - Caching of pages viewed while connected for review later. - Browsing of cached pages while not connected, with the ability to follow links and mark other pages for download. - Downloading of specified pages non-interactively. - Multiple indices of pages stored in cache for easy selection. - Interactive or command line option to select pages for fetching individually or recursively. - All options controlled using a simple configuration file with a web page to edit it.
wxgtk A free C++ framework to make cross-platform programming child's play. Well, almost. Supporting Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, Unix with GTK/Motif/Lesstif.
wxxt The package wxxt is a port of wxwin that imitates the look and functionality of a motif interface but does not need the motif libraries to be compiled or run.
x2x x2x allows the keyboard and mouse on one ("from") X display to be used to control another ("to") X display.
x3270 x3270 opens a telnet connection to an IBM host in an X window.
xanim XAnim currently supports the following animation types: FLI, FLC, IFF, GIF87a, GIF89a, GIF89a animation extensions, DL, Amiga PFX, URT RLE, AVI (ULTI (16), CRAM (8 & 16), CVID (24), RGB (8), RLE8), Quicktime Animation (RAW (8), RLE (1,8,16 & 24), SMC (8), RPZA (16), CVID (16), YUV2 (24)); and any combination of the above on the same command. After 11 pm it makes tea as well ;-) The program seems to be quite nice, anyway; there is even a small control panel included.
xaos XaoS is a fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer. It displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and allows you zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Julia and Mandelbrot fractal types and displaying planes is provided.
xarchie This program allows you to search the various archie servers automatically for a given file. You need an internet connection, though.
xautolck This program uses another locker program to lock the screen automagically after an idle period. It may e.g. be called as follows: xautolock -locker "xlock -mode blank" using xlock as locker program.
xaw3d This is a library that can be used instead of the standard Athena-Widget-Library. It was tried to keep the standard of the libXaw library. There are also programs which explicitely use this library (this is the reason why the library was included). NOTE: Do NOT replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1!
xaw3dd NOTE: Do NOT replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1. All necessary changes in /etc/ld.so.conf will be done by SuSEconfiguration done by YaST. On any problem using or starting X11 programs please remove this package and delete any remaining symbolic link under /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/.
xaw95 NOTE: Do NOT replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1, use packages xaw95d instead.
xaw95d NOTE: Do NOT replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6.1 or /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6.1. All necessary changes in /etc/ld.so.conf will be done by SuSEconfiguration done by YaST. On any problem using or starting X11 programs please remove this package and delete any remaining symbolic link under /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95/.
xbench A benchmark for X11.
xbmbrosr view and manage X bitmap and X pixmap files
xcb Xcb provides access to the cut buffers built into every X server. It allows the buffers to be manipulated either via the command line, or with the mouse in a point and click manner. The buffers can be used as holding pens to store and retrieve arbitrary data fragments, so any number of different pieces of data can be saved and recalled later. The program is designed primarily for use with textual data.
xchat X-Chat is yet another IRC client for the X Window System, using the Gtk+ toolkit. It is pretty easy to use compared to the other Gtk+ IRC clients and the interface is quite nicely designed.
xclass This package contains a library for uniform presentation of fvwm95 programs and (as a demo) the Linux Explorer, a file viewer, a Run utility and a Win95 clock. Best with fvwm95. Documentation in: /usr/share/doc/packages/xclass /usr/X11R6/lib/xclass/tutorial
xcnf With xcnf you may take some settings under X: - mouse - system beep - builtin X screen saver The settings may be stored in ~/.Xcnf and can be recalled every time starting X by calling xcnfset e.g. in ~/.xinitrc Documentation: xcnf --help xcnfset --help /usr/share/doc/packages/xcnf/README
xcolors Xcolorsel displays colors defined in rgb.txt. You can create an RGB file by redirecting the output of showrgb to a file.
xcoral Half of the YaST developers swear on it, not only because of the built in C/C++/Java browser. Xcoral provides support for the work with C, C++, Java, Perl, Ada and Fortran programs and for the creation of LaTeX and HTML documents. With the help of the built in `SMall Ansi C Interpreter' (SMAC) xcoral can be configured and extended in almost arbitrary ways. Examples can be found in the directory /usr/lib/xcoral. Further information about Xcoral and SMAC is available in the detailed online help system (also available in HTML and Postscript format).
xdelta Xdelta is a binary delta generator and RCS replacement library. The delta algorithm is faster than GNU diff for text files and works on binary files too.
xdevel This package contains the include files, libraries and the imake templates for the X-Window system. It is needed for the development and the compilation of X11 programs.
xdmcfg XDMConfig enables you to easily setup your XDM environment. It provides a means of setting e.g. fonts, colours and more. Even the layout.
xdmsc Some useful scripts for using SuSE Linux as X terminal. You will find the documentation in the following directory /usr/share/doc/packages/xdmsc/
xe_exec This is the current version of XEmacs, former known as Lucid-Emacs. It's got a nice GUI but is quite big and derived from GNU-emacs 19.13 (current is 20.x). Lisp macros are not necessarily interchangeable between GNU-emacs and Xemacs. This is mainly important for translated .elc files and the key macros.
xe_info This package contains all info files for X emacs. All these files can be read online with X emacs and describe xemacs and some of its modes.
xe_lisp Several lisp files not needed for running XEmacs. Most of these files are pre byte compiled and therefore not necessary. The true XEmacs addict will install them nevertheless.
xearth Our planet earth as a background picture. Light and shades are time dependent. One can adjust lots of parameters..;)
xf XF allows you to interactively create and modify an user-interface based on the Tcl/Tk package. Tcl/tk (version 4.0 or later) is needed to run XF. XF creates a Tcl/Tk script as its output, which can then be interpreted using wish or any other Tcl/Tk intepreter. See: /usr/share/doc/packages/xf. A HTML-Documentation for XF and TCL/Tk is also included.
xf86 Contains XFree86 and some other programs from the contrib-directory.
xf86_glx This package contains the GLX driver of XFree86 4.X.
xf86glxd This package contains include files and static library of XFree86 4.X GLX.
xf86html HTML Pages from XFree86
xfnt100 These fonts are compressed to save disk space.
xfntbig These fonts are compressed to save disk space. These are the asiatic fonts (including Kanji, Jiskan) which the `average' european user won't need..;-)
xfntcyr These fonts are compressed to save disk space.
xfntjp This Package contains Japanese fixed-width fonts for X11. It contains the font knj10, kaname-alter, k14goth, Kappa20, kanji32, and marumoji. On top of that it also contains bold, italic, and bold-italic versions of the popular Japanese fonts usually found in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory of the standard XFree86 distribution, and bold, italic, and bold-italic versions of iso-8859-1 fonts which fit nicely in style and width to the Japanese fonts.
xfntkr Korean hangul X11 fonts
xfntl2 This package contains set of fixed-width fonts for encoding ISO-8859-2.
xfntscl Speedo and Type 1 fonts for XFree86\tm.
xfntucs This package contains the X Window System bitmap fonts -Misc-Fixed-*-R-*--*-*-*-*-C-*-ISO10646-1 These are Unicode (ISO 10646-1) extensions of the classic ISO 8859-1 X11 terminal fonts that are widely used with many X11 applications such as xterm, emacs, etc.
xformat Little X frontend to fdformat, mke2fs and mformat using the Xforms library.
xforms XForms is a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, sliders, and menus etc. integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X-applications. In addition, the library is extensible and new objects can easily be created and added to the library. See xformsd package for development related files.
xfract Xfractint draws a wide variety of fractals (fast!). Xfractint is a port of the DOS program Fractint.
xftp Makes ftp much more easy!
xgammon xgammon contains an X11 interface, a simple file selector and saving dialog, a edit position menu option. a rollout option. a mail dump option for newsgroup posting of positions. and it is quite good; even for the experienced backgammon player.
xgfe The program xgfe is a graphical frontend for gnuplot written in qt. The documentation is located in /usr/share/doc/packages/xgfe/ within the html files.
xgopher A gopher client for the X Window System. This program offers you a comfortable GUI for accessing gopher servers. You must be connected to the Internet, though.
xgospel With this program you can connect to the International Go Server (IGS) and play Go online with other player. Or you can just watch at other games.
xgrabsc You need screenshots easily? xgrab and xgrabsc give you a powerful tools to save screenshots in files (ps, xpm, etc.) or to print them. xgrabsc is invoked from a shell and sends the rectangle grabbed on the screen to standard output. xgrab is a menu driven frontend to xgrabsc. Please remember: this program will probably work with 8bpp only. Documentation may be obtained by man xgrab resp. man xgrabsc. The author's original comments can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/xgrabsc.
xgrok Grok is a simple database manager and UI builder that can - * keep phone and address lists (like a rolodex) * store phone call logs * keep todo lists * manage any other database after simple GUI-driven customization More precisely, grok is a program for displaying and editing strings arranged in a grid of rows and columns. Each row is presented as a "card" consisting of multiple columns, or "fields", that allow data entry. The presentation of the data is programmable; a user interface builder that allows the user to arrange fields on a card graphically is part of grok. Grok also supports a simple language that allows sophisticated queries and data retrieval. Grok comes with the above examples and a few others as pre-built applications.
xigc With this program you can connect to the International Go Server (IGS) and play Go online with other player. Or you can just watch at other games.
xinetd xinetd takes the functionality of inetd and appends additional opportunities: - Access Control - Prevention of `denial-of-access' attacks - Extensive logging abilities - clear configuration file
xinfo Makes reading of info files a lot easier.
xirc An X-based irc-client.
xkeycaps xkeycaps is a graphical frontend for xmodmap. A virtual keyboard is shown and you can redefine any key at runtime; changes are reflected in your .Xmodmap file. These changes are valid in any other application. For layout you should choose "PC 102 key keyboard #1 - Linux/XFree86 English."
xless xless 1.7 - the well-known text browser. Necessary for displaying the various HOWTOs.
xli xli is a version of xloadimage. This utility will view several types of images under X11, or load images onto the X11 root window. xli can also be used on some (32 bit) MSDOS systems. The current version supports: * CMU Window Manager raster files * Faces Project images * Fuzzy Bitmap (FBM) images * GEM bit images * GIF images (Including GIF89a compatibility) * G3 FAX images * JFIF style jpeg images * McIDAS areafiles * MacPaint images * PC Paintbrush (PCX) images * Portable Bitmap (PBM, PGM, PPM) images * Sun monochrome rasterfiles * Sun color RGB rasterfiles * Targa (TGA) files * Utah Raster Toolkit (RLE) files * X pixmap (XPM) files (Version 1, 2C and 3) * X10 bitmap files * X11 bitmap files * X Window Dump (except TrueColor and DirectColor)
xlogin This package contains two scripts, which called with the name of a remote host, will open an xterm window on the local X display with a remote session or login shell. The script xlogin starts by a rsh call (remote shell) an xterm on the remote host. If necessary the access will be allowed by sending the magic key (cookie) of the display to the remote host. The script xtelnet starts a local xterm with a telnet session on the remote host.
xlogmas Displays logfiles under X, configurable via a popup menu to select which files to watch and to choose tail/cat mode.
xlpq xforms based frontend to manage printer queues. It invokes lpq, lprm and lpc. It shows what is currently in the printer queue, lets you select different queues and lets you delete printjobs. You may even disable queueing and printing if you are root.
xmahjong Mahjongg is a challenging chinese game similar to domino. It is usually played by four players. Xmahjongg is the solitair version designed for the X-Window System. More can be found in the appropriate manual page.
xman Manpages for programs that come with XFree86\tm.
xmclock A tcl based millitime clock. See /usr/share/doc/packages/xmclock/ for help on millitime.
xmgr A plotting tool under X. If you want to use the help function, you need any html browser to read the help files. The name of the help viewer is set to the environmental variable GR_HELPVIEWER.
xmines Minesweeper clone
xnetload This program displays network traffic and uptime for the network connection named on the command line.
xntp The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths, in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability. Some configurations include cryptographic authentication to prevent accidental or malicious protocol attacks. ntpd is an operating system daemon which sets and maintains the system time-of-day in synchronism with Internet standard time servers. ntpd is a complete implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) version 4, but also retains compatibility with version 3, as defined by RFC-1305, and version 1 and 2, as defined by RFC-1059 and RFC-1119, respectively. ntpd does most computations in 64-bit floating point arithmetic and does relatively clumsy 64-bit fixed point operations only when necessary to preserve the ultimate precision, about 232 picoseconds. While the ultimate precision, is not achievable with ordinary workstations and networks of today, it may be required with future nanosecond CPU clocks and gigabit LANs. The daemon can operate in any of several modes, including symmetric active/passive, client/server broadcast/multicast and manycast. A broadcast/multicast or manycast client can discover remote servers, compute server-client propagation delay correction factors and configure itself automatically. This makes it possible to deploy a fleet of workstations without specifying configuration details specific to the local environment. Ordinarily, ntpd reads the ntp.conf configuration file at startup time in order to determine the synchronization sources and operating modes. It is also possible to specify a working, although limited, configuration entirely on the command line, obviating the need for a configuration file. This may be particularly appropriate when the local host is to be configured as a broadcast/multicast client or manycast client, with all peers being determined by listening to broadcasts at run time. Various internal ntpd variables can be displayed and configuration options altered while the daemon is running using the ntpq and ntpdc utility programs.
xntpdoc - The complete set of documentation on building and configuring a NTP server or client. The documentation is in the form of HTML files suitable for browsing and contains links to additional documentation at various web sites. - What about NTP? Understanding and using the Network Time Protocol (A first try on a non-technical Mini-HOWTO and FAQ on NTP). Edited by Ulrich Windl and David Dalton.
xosview A small program - similar to xsysinfo which is mostly configurable using resources via ~/.Xresources. Shows actual CPU, swap, memory, active interrupts and -if wanted- netpacket statistics. If you want to get informations about `network traffic' you still have to call ipfwadm (included in the same package) to activate this as root. This might look like: /sbin/ipfwadm -A -a -P all -S <own IP-address> -D 0/0 /sbin/ipfwadm -A -a -P all -S 0/0 -D <own IP-address> Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/packages/xosview/README.linux. For showing shared pages, the module memstat.o has to be loaded with insmod. The source of the module is located in /usr/share/doc/packages/xosview/memstat/. The installation is necessary only after an upgrade of the kernel.
xpaint XPaint is a versatile bitmap/pixmap editing tool. The short features list: Usual paint operations: Brushes, Spray paint, Pencil, Lines, Arcs, Pattern Fill, Text, Boxes, Circles, Polygons. Works on multiple images simultaneously. Cut/Copy/Paste between all active images. Fatbits/Zoom on the image windows.
xpat2 Patience (card game); nice graphics.
xpinguin Based on xteddy - really cute ;-)
xplot Xplot is an interactive 3D plotting program for X window. It is capable of displaying simple objects that have easily described geometries. Currently, it only runs on 8bit pseudo color visuals. The way of using xplot is as follows. First one defines the object by specifying its geometry. Then plot it. Once an object is displayed on the screen, its appearance can be modified interactively by mouse input.
xprompt Small tool to ask the user for one or more responses (e.g. from batch files). Documentation: /usr/share/doc/X11-misc/xprompt-28sep91.README
xrn xrn is a simple news reader for X.
xrolodex A "virtual business card" manager. For more information see the xrolodex manpage and /usr/share/doc/packages/xrolodex. This is a demo version of a commercial product.
xrpm X frontend for RPM
xscheme XScheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language with extensions to support object-oriented programming. There are currently implementations of XScheme running on the IBM-PC and clones under MS-DOS, on the Macintosh, the Atari-ST, and the Amiga. It is completely written in the programming language `C' and is easily extended with user written built-in functions and classes. It is available in source form to non-commercial users. XScheme follows the "Revised^3 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme".
xscrns The xscreensaver program waits until the keyboard and mouse have been idle for a period, and then runs a graphics demo chosen at random. It turns off as soon as there is any mouse or keyboard activity.
xselect With this little tool one can pipe the currently selected text under X into a file or vice versa. Help can be found by reading the manpage with man xselection
xsession The xsession program is a session manager. It is normally executed by your ~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession) script and controls your X Window session. As soon as it is started, xsession launches a window manager and some applications of your choice. At anytime during your session, you may switch to another window manager or execute some other applications from the xsession menus. Examples may be found under /usr/share/doc/packages/xsession/examples.
xshared Since some programs were linked with the X11 libraries but do work on a text console as well (e.g. emacs), we have put the X11 dynamic libraries into an extra package so you can use such programs without installing the entire X11 system.
xskat Skat is a popular game in Germany. A card game for the X Window System, with full featured network support. Also via IRC. - It follows the "Deutsche Skat-Ordnung" or with popular addition strategies. Now with "Ramsch", "Schieberamsch", "Revolution" and more... If you like, start it with german menues with the command: xskat -lang german
xsnow A really nice animation. Santa clause drives across the screen, pulled by his reindeer. It snows, and the snow accumulates on top of the windows :-) Documentation: man xsnow
xspread A spreadsheet for the X Windows System.
xsysinfo This program displays information about the load of your system. CPU Load, CPU idle, Memory and Swap are displayed constantly.
xtail This tool (Motif, statically linked) may especially used as file monitor. Nice to view files.
xtermset xtermset allows you to change the characteristics of an xterm window from the command line. Most options have the same names as those that you would give xterm at startup.
xtetris X Tetris
xtexit `xtexit` sends an request to all clients to shut down. If the application still needs an user interaction (e.g. if a file should be saved) this is possible. If you answer by the affirmative all applications will be closed. This method is not fully water-proof but better than killing each and every client without being able to interfere. xterm applications anyway are killed immediately! If this package is installed, it will be automatically integrated into the sample user fvwm menu.
xtoolpl This program offers you information about every window existing on your current desktop; providing a means of starting it at exactly the same position. Furthermore there is the program xtoolwait that just waits after an X application has been launched and presents its window.
xtpanel This program allows you to build (complex) programs using a simple scripting language. Included are a tutor program and some sample scripts (xt-colors, xt-lister, xt-load, xt-lpq, xt-page). Documentation: /usr/share/doc/packages/xtpanel
xv XV is an interactive image viewer for the X Window System. The XV program displays images in the GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, BMP, PCX, IRIS RGB, XPM, Targa, XWD, possibly PostScript, and PM formats on workstations and terminals running the X Window System, Version 11. The XV program is also capable to manipulate pictures. It can zoom in and out of picture, and rotate and flip them. It also provides a wide variety of operations to modify colors. Surley, one of the most famous programs under Linux. You will find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/xv/. Please remember that this program has shareware status for commercial use.
xvi Xvi is a portable multi-window version of vi. Different files can be displayed in separate windows (instead of displaying them in one window, separated by horizontal status lines). It is also possible to display different parts of one file in different windows.
xwpe xwpe is a X-window programming environment designed to use on UNIX-systems. It is similar to `Borland C++ or Turbo Pascal' environment. The difference between the programming environments from Borland an xwpe is that many compilers and linkers may be started. From a menu three different debuggers can be chosen. And of course not only key strokes can select these options but you can also use a mouse.
xxgdb Xxgdb is a graphical user interface to the gdb debugger under the X Window System.
xzap This very useful tool displays the running applications. Using this tool, applications which are not responding or can not be found on the desktop any more can be killed easily.
yacc "bison -y" should react exactly the same.
yast YaST is a tool for installing and configuring the SuSE Linux system. It provides easy administration capabilities. Installation and configuration of the system by means of YaST is explained detailed in the accompanying handbook of SuSELinux.
ygl Besides the Ygl library the glwidget library is included. You can check what to do with this library by trying one of the examples that come along: coltest, lines, lissa, rgbtest, simple and smile
yodl YODL is a package that consists of programs, some shell scripts, and auxiliary "lib" files for which hold macro files. The whole purpose of the package is to provide a simple-to-use and extensible document language, that can be used to convert documents in the YODL format to a variety of other formats. In this purpose, YODL somewhat resembles generic markup languages.
ypclient Use your Linux-PC as a NIS client (former YP-client) Included in this package are: ypbind, ypmatch, yppoll, yppasswd, ypset and ypwhich. You can configure a server or use a broadcast using ypbind and adapting /etc/yp.conf.
ypmake The ypmake utility helps create and maintain the maps of a NIS server. It is not necessary to run a NIS server.
ypserv Configure your Linux PC as YP-(NIS)-server using this package.
ytalk YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program. It works almost exactly like the UNIX talk program and even communicates with the same talk daemon(s), but YTalk allows for multiple connections.
ytree A (DOS) XTree-clone An example configuration file can be found as /usr/share/doc/packages/ytree/ytree.conf. You may copy this file to .ytree in your home directory.
zebra GNU Zebra is free software that manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) as well as RIPv1, RIPv2 and OSPFv2. Zebra is modular and has a process for each protocol. Zebra is intended to be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector. Zebra is not a toolkit, it provides full routing power under a new architecture.
zip Zip is a compression and file packaging utility. It is compatible with PKZIP(tm) 2.04g (Phil Katz ZIP) for MSDOS systems.
zircon Zircon is an Tcl/Tk based IRC II client. This application is well designed and offers various features and possibilities.
zoo Zoo is a packer based on the Lempel-Ziv algorithm. Lots of files on DOS/AmigaDOS and TOS systems used this packer for their archives. The compression rate of gzip are not reached at all. Thus zoo should only be used for decompressing old archives.
zope The Z Object Programming Environment (Zope) is a free, Open Source[tm] Python-based application server for building high-performance, dynamic web sites, using a powerful and simple scripting object model and high-performance, integrated object database. Brian Lloyd's excellent article, An Introduction to Zope (http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Zope/Intro/) provides a great starting point to understanding what Zope is and how you can use it. Read /usr/share/doc/packages/zope/README.SuSE for post installation hints.
zsh Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh), although it is not completely compatible. It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customizing its behavior, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh (another `custom' shell). Zsh was written by Paul Falstad.

Marist - SuSE - Turbolinux - Caiman - Red Hat

The packages in the Turbolinux 6.0 distribution:

 

2UTF Filter for char-set translation to and from Unicode. Gets char-set definitions from WG15 locales char-maps or similiar tables. Can decode nested multi-part MIME messages and invoke external filters. Can display char-maps and current console font.
adjtimex adjtimex is a kernel clock management system. It is useful in adjusting the system clock for accuracy.
afio Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script. It can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives because it deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption and supports multi-volume archives. This version has been patched to handle remote tape drives exactly the same as GNU tar - ie you can specify the backup file as "user@machine:/dev/tape".
alias-japanese-fonts alias-fixed japanese fontset for X
am-utils Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives. You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.
apache Apache is a full featured web server that is freely available, and also happens to be the most widely used on the Internet. Install this if you would like to run a web server.
apache-devel The apache-devel package contains the source for the Apache 1.3.14 WWW server and the APXS binary you'll need in order to build Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs) for Apache. Install this if you're planning on using any extra Apache modules.
arpwatch Arpwatch and arpsnmp are tools that monitors ethernet or fddi activity and maintain a database of ethernet/ip address pairings.
ash The ash shell is a clone of Berkeley's Bourne shell. Ash supports all of the standard sh shell commands, but is considerably smaller than bash. The ash shell lacks some features (for example, command-line histories), but needs a lot less memory. You should install ash if you need a lightweight shell with many of the same capabilities as the bash shell.
at At and batch read commands from standard input or from a specified file. At allows you to specify that a command will be run at a particular time (now or a specified time in the future). Batch will execute commands when the system load levels drop to a particular level. Both commands use /bin/sh to run the commands.
audiofile Library to handle various audio file formats. Used by the esound daemon.
audiofile-devel Libraries, include files and other resources you can use to develop audiofile applications.
autoconf GNU's "autoconf" is a tool for source and Makefile configuration. It assists the programmer in creating portable and configurable packages, by allowing the person building the package to specify various configuration options. "autoconf" is not required for the end user - it is needed only to generate the configuration scripts.
autofs Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when you use them and unmount them after a period of inactivity. Filesystems can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies and others. Install this package if you want a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems. If your Red Hat Linux machine is on a network, you should install autofs.
automake Automake is an experimental Makefile generator. Automake was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets. You should install Automake if you are developing software and would like to use its capabilities of automatically generating GNU standard Makefiles. if you install Automake, you will also need to install GNU's Autoconf package.
bash Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
bash-docs This is the complete documentation set for GNU bash. It was large enough to warrant its own separate RPM package. Everything is installed under /usr/doc.
bash-static This is a statically linked binary of bash, designed for use by the root user, just in case system libraries get updated and break the dynamic bash.
bc bc is a text mode calculator of sorts. It has many extended features such as base translation. It can also accept input from stdin and return output. dc is the RPN version.
bind Bind includes the named name server, which resolves host names to IP addresses (and vice versa), and a resolver library (a set of routines in a system library that provide the interface for programs to use when accessing domain name services). A name server is a network service which enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other network machines. The named name server can be used on workstations as a caching name server, but is generally only needed on one machine for an entire network. Note that the configuration files for making bind act as a simple caching nameserver are included in the caching-nameserver package. Install the bind package if you need a name server for your network. If you want bind to act a caching name server, you will also need to install the caching-nameserver package. This package also includes the latest (post edition 3 of DNS & BIND) edition of h2n, an essential tool for any BIND admin.
bind-contrib this directory is full of tools and examples that various individual contributors have sent in. most of them are actually in live production use somewhere, though they are not of "publication" quality which is why they are here instead of in comp.sources.unix. most of them are not documented other than with comments in the sources. all of them are fairly clever. Note that the h2n here is old (version 2 vintage); the current h2n is with the bind package. This package is built on RH 6.0, and will not build on RH 5.2.
bind-devel The bind-devel package contains all the include files and the library required for DNS (Domain Name Service) development for bind versions 8.x.x. You should install bind-devel if you want to develop bind DNS applications. If you install bind-devel, you'll need to install bind, as well.
bind-utils Bind-utils contains a collection of utilities for querying DNS (Domain Name Service) name servers to find out information about Internet hosts. These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names, as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses. You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS name servers.
binstats An administration utility for tracking down the \ various types of binary formats for Linux (i386) executables and their \ dynamic library dependencies and also executable scripts.
binutils Binutils is a collection of utilities necessary for compiling programs. It includes the assembler and linker, as well as a number of other miscellaneous programs for dealing with executable formats.
bison Bison is a general purpose parser generator which converts a grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so any correctly written Yacc grammar should work with Bison without any changes. If you know Yacc, you shouldn't have any trouble using Bison (but you do need to be very proficient in C programming to be able to use Bison). Many programs use Bison as part of their build process. Bison is only needed on systems that are used for development. If your system will be used for C development, you should install Bison since it is used to build many C programs.
blt BLT is an extension to the Tk toolkit. BLT's most useful feature is the provision of more widgets for Tk, but it also provides more geometry managers and miscellaneous other commands. Note that you won't need to do any patching of the Tcl or Tk source files to use BLT, but you will need to have Tcl/Tk installed in order to use BLT. If you are programming with the Tk toolkit, you should install BLT. You will need to have Tcl/Tk installed.
bm2font This package converts bitmaps to LaTeX fonts. It is useful for LaTeX users who need to create their own fonts and can also be used to embed graphics in documents.
bsdwhois Whois looks up records in the databases maintained by several Network In- formation Centers (NICs).
byacc Byacc (Berkeley Yacc) is a public domain LALR parser generator which is used by many programs during their build process. If you are going to do development on your system, you will want to install this package.
bzip2 Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors. The command-line options are deliberately very similar to those of GNU Gzip, but they are not identical.
bzip2-devel This package includes the header files and libraries necessary to develop applications that use bzip2-style compression
caching-nameserver The caching-nameserver package includes the configuration files which will make bind, the DNS name server, act as a simple caching nameserver. Many users on dialup connections use this package along with bind for such a purpose. If you would like to set up a caching name server, you'll need to install the caching-nameserver package; you'll also need to install bind.
Canna Canna is a Japanese input system and provides a unified user interface for inputting Japanese. It supports Nemacs(Mule), kinput2. All of these tools can be used by a single customization file, romaji-to-kana conversion rules and conversion dictionaries, and input Japanese in the same way. It converts kana to kanji based on a client-server model and supports automatic kana-to-kanji conversion.
Canna-devel This is a package for developing a program that use Canna API.
cdecl The cdecl package includes the cdecl and c++decl utilities, which are used to translate English to C or C++ function declarations and vice versa. You should install the cdecl package if you intend to do C and/or C++ programming.
cdlabelgen cdlabelgen was designed to simplify the process of generating labels for CD's. It originated as a program to allow auto generation of frontcards and traycards for CD's burned via an automated mechanism (specifically for archiving data), but has now become popular for labelling CD compilations of mp3's, and copies of CDs. Note that cdlabelgen does not actually print anything, it just spits out postscript, which you can then do with as you please.
cgihtml cgihtml is a collection of CGI parsing and HTML output functions written in C. These routines simplify the task of writing CGI programs in C.
chkconfig Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevel information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links.
chkfontpath This is a simple terminal mode program for configuring the directories in the X font server's path. It is mostly intended to be used `internally' by RPM when packages with fonts are added or removed, but it may be useful as a stand-alone utility in some instances.
cleanfeed Cleanfeed is an automatic spam filter for Usenet news servers and routers (INN, Cyclone, Typhoon, Breeze and NNTPRelay). Cleanfeed is highly configurable, easily modified and very fast. It can be configured to block binary posts to non-binary newsgroups, to cancel already-rejected articles, and to reject some spamming from local users. Install the cleanfeed package if you need a spam filter for a Usenet news server.
console-tools The console-tools package contains tools for managing a Linux system's console's behavior, including the keyboard, the screen fonts, the virtual terminals and font files.
converters snoop2cap and capconvert allow Sun Snoop format and tcpdump format capture files to be converted to Microsoft NetMon CAP file format.
cpio GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Archives are files which contain a collection of other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar and POSIX.1 tar. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, so that they are compatible with older cpio programs. When it is extracting files from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order. Install cpio if you need a program to manage file archives.
cracklib CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain security-oriented characteristics. You can use CrackLib to stop users from choosing passwords which would be easy to guess. CrackLib performs certain tests: * It tries to generate words from a username and gecos entry and checks those words against the password; * It checks for simplistic patterns in passwords; * It checks for the password in a dictionary. CrackLib is actually a library containing a particular C function which is used to check the password, as well as other C functions. CrackLib is not a replacement for a passwd program; it must be used in conjunction with an existing passwd program. Install the cracklib package if you need a program to check users' passwords to see if they are at least minimally secure. If you install CrackLib, you'll also want to install the cracklib-dicts package.
cracklib-dicts The cracklib-dicts package includes the CrackLib dictionaries. CrackLib will need to use the dictionary appropriate to your system, which is normally put in /usr/dict/words. Cracklib-dicts also contains the utilities necessary for the creation of new dictionaries. If you are installing CrackLib, you should also install cracklib-dicts.
crontabs The crontabs package contains root crontab files. Crontab is the program used to install, uninstall or list the tables used to drive the cron daemon. The cron daemon checks the crontab files to see when particular commands are scheduled to be executed. If commands are scheduled, it executes them. Crontabs handles a basic system function, so it should be installed on your system.
cscope cscope is an interactive, screen-oriented tool that allows the user to browse through C source files for specified elements of code.
ctags ctags is a reimplementation of the much underused ctags(1) program and is intended to be the mother of all ctags programs. I was motivated to write this because no currently available ctags program supported generation of tags for all possible tag candidates, and because most were easily fooled by a number of contruct. ctags have the following features. - It supports C, C++, Eiffel, Fortran, and Java. - It is very robust in parsing code and is far less easily fooled by code containing #if preprocessor conditional constructs, using a conditional path selection algorithm to resolve complicated choices, and a fall-back algorithm when this one fails. - Can also be used to print out a human-readable list of selected objects found in source files. - Supports output of Emacs-style TAGS files ("etags"). - Supports UNIX, MSDOS, Windows 95/NT, OS/2, QNX, Amiga, QDOS, VMS, and Cray. Some pre-compiled binaries are available on the web site.
cvs 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.
cvsweb The cgi-script cvsweb.cgi is written by Bill Fenner <fenner@freebsd.org> for the freebsd project. It allows browsing of CVS repositories with an HTML browser. This package contains the version of cvsweb script modified by Henner Zeller <zeller@think.de>, Henrik Nordstr^m <hno@hem.passagen.se> and Alexey Nogin <nogin@cs.cornell.edu>
ddd-doc This package contains various DDD documentation and a manual page.
ddd-dynamic Fully dynamically linked DDD binary that uses Motif 1.2 shared library - lesstif v0.88.0 or higher will work. The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX, and XDB, the popular UNIX debuggers. Besides ``classical'' front-end features such as viewing source texts, DDD provides a graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs. A simple mouse click dereferences pointers or views structure contents, updated each time the program stops. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by viewing its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source code. Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Java, Perl, Pascal, Modula-2, or Modula-3; machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, backtrace, and history editors; preferences and settings editors; program execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the Motif user interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line interface with full editing, history, search, and completion capabilities. DDD has been designed to compete with well-known commercial debuggers. For more info on DDD see http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
ddd-semistatic Dynamically linked DDD binary with Motif 1.2 library statically linked in, as supplied from lestiff v0.88.1. The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX, and XDB, the popular UNIX debuggers. Besides ``classical'' front-end features such as viewing source texts, DDD provides a graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs. A simple mouse click dereferences pointers or views structure contents, updated each time the program stops. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by viewing its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source code. Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Java, Perl, Pascal, Modula-2, or Modula-3; machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, backtrace, and history editors; preferences and settings editors; program execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the Motif user interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line interface with full editing, history, search, and completion capabilities. DDD has been designed to compete with well-known commercial debuggers. For more info on DDD see http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
ddd-static Completely statically linked DDD binary. The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX, and XDB, the popular UNIX debuggers. Besides ``classical'' front-end features such as viewing source texts, DDD provides a graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs. A simple mouse click dereferences pointers or views structure contents, updated each time the program stops. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by viewing its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source code. Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Java, Perl, Pascal, Modula-2, or Modula-3; machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, backtrace, and history editors; preferences and settings editors; program execution in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host; on-line manual; interactive help on the Motif user interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line interface with full editing, history, search, and completion capabilities. DDD has been designed to compete with well-known commercial debuggers. For more info on DDD see http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
dev The Linux operating system uses file system entries to represent devices (CD-ROMs, floppy drives, etc.) attached to the machine. All of these entries are in the /dev tree (although they don't have to be). This package contains the most commonly used /dev entries. The dev package is a basic part of your Red Hat Linux system and it needs to be installed.
dhcp This is the second release of the dhcp package from the Internet Software Consortium. It provides a server and a relay agent.
dhcp-client The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client, dhclient, provides a means for configuring one or more network interfaces using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, BOOTP protocol, or if these protocols fail, by statically assigning an address.
diffstat The diff command compares files line by line. Diffstat reads the output of the diff command and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions and modifications in each file. Diffstat is commonly used to provide a summary of the changes in large, complex patch files. Install diffstat if you need a program which provides a summary of the diff command's output. You'll need to also install diffutils.
diffutils Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both persons' changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.
dosfstools The mkdosfs program is used to create an MS-DOS FAT file system on a Linux system device, usually a disk partition. The mkdosfs package should be installed if your machine needs to support MS-DOS style file systems.
dump The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups. Install dump if you need a system for both backing up filesystems and restoring filesystems after backups.
e2fsprogs This package includes a number of utilities for creating, checking, and repairing ext2 filesystems.
e2fsprogs-devel Libraries and header files needed to develop ext2 filesystem-specific programs.
ed Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably won't use it much.
eject The eject program allows the user to eject removable media (typically CD-ROMs, floppy disks or Iomega Jaz or Zip disks) using software control. Eject can also control some multi- disk CD changers and even some devices' auto-eject features. Install eject if you'd like to eject removable media using software control.
ElectricFence If you know what malloc() violations are, you'll be interested in ElectricFence. ElectricFence is a tool which can be used for C programming and debugging. It uses the virtual memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns malloc() buffer boundaries, and/or to detect any accesses of memory released by free(). ElectricFence will then stop the program on the first instruction that caused a bounds violation and you can use your favorite debugger to display the offending statement. This package will install ElectricFence, which you can use if you're searching for a debugger to find malloc() violations.
elisp-manual Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. This documentation is useful for Emacs users that want to write complex elisp macros.
elvis Elvis is a small, lightweight vi clone. It includes support for color and is fairly extensible. ViM is a more robust vi, but elvis is being used as the default vi for TurboLinux.
emacs Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news and more without leaving the editor. This package included Mule 4.1 feature.
emacs-nox This package include executable emacs file to use without X11.
emacs-po_mode Package contain extension for helping GNU gettext lovers to edit PO files under emacs.
emacs-X11 This package include executable emacs file to use with X11.
enscript Enscript is a print filter. It can take ASCII input and format it into PostScript output. At the same time, it can also do nice transformations like putting two ASCII pages on one physical page (side by side) or changing fonts.
escpf Escpf,escpagef can print out text files in English as well as EUC, JIS kanji characters. In case of escpagef, Width ratio between ANK (English) and KANJI may be 1:2. And, this version includes test for supported ESC/Psuper.
esound EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that mixes several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For example, if you're listening to music on a CD and you receive a sound-related event from ICQ, the two applications won't have to jockey for the use of your sound card. Install esound if you'd like to let sound applications share your audio device. You'll also need to install the audiofile package.
esound-devel The esound-devel Libraries, include files and other resources you can use to develop EsounD applications. Install esound-devel if you want to develop EsounD applications.
etcskel This is part of the Base TurboLinux system. It contains the files that go in /etc/skel, which are in turn placed in every new user's home directory when new accounts are created.
expect Expect is a tcl extension for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect is also useful for testing the named applications. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. Install the expect package if you'd like to develop scripts which interact with interactive applications. You'll also need to install the tcl package.
extfile extfile is an input preprocessor for less. Please read a manual page of less for details of the input preprocessor. To use extfile, set an environment variable LESSOPEN as follows. csh -- setenv LESSOPEN "/usr/bin/extfile %s" bsh -- LESSOPEN "/usr/bin/extfile %s"; export LESSOPEN If there is $HOME/.extfile.cf, it is refered to extfile. If not, /usr/lib/extfile.cf is done to.
faq The faq package includes the text of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Linux from the SunSITE website (http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/linux-faq/Linux-FAQ). The Linux FAQ is a great source of information about Linux. Install faq if you'd like to read the Linux FAQ off your own machine.
fetchmail Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, and well-documented remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt, elm, pine, (x)emacs/gnus, or mailx. Comes with an interactive GUI configurator suitable for end-users.
file The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats. You should install the file package, since the file command is such a useful utility.
filesystem The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed on a Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for the directories.
fileutils These are the GNU file management utilities. It includes programs to copy, move, list, etc, files. The ls program in this package now incorporates color ls!
findutils The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate files on your system. The find utility searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a filename pattern). The locate utility searches a database (create by updatedb) to quickly find a file matching a given pattern. The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists of file names generated by the find command). You should install findutils because it includes tools that are very useful for finding things on your system.
finger Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they've been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger package includes a standard finger client. You should install finger if you'd like to retreive finger information from other systems.
finger-server Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they've been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger-server package includes a standard finger server. The server daemon (fingerd) runs from /etc/inetd.conf, which must be modified to disable finger requests. You should install finger-server if your system is used by multiple users and you'd like finger information to be available.
flex The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code. Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. You should install flex if you are going to use your system for application development.
fnlib Fnlib is a library that provides full, scalable 24-bit color font rendering abilities for X.
fnlib-devel Headers, static libraries and documentation for Fnlib.
freetype The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. Note that FreeType is a *library*. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is *not* a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is extremely easy, as demo-ed by the test programs. This package contains the files needed to run programs that use the FreeType engine.
freetype-demo The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. Note that FreeType is a *library*. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is *not* a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is extremely easy, as demo-ed by the test programs. This package contains several programs bundled with the FreeType engine for testing and demonstration purposes.
freetype-devel The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. Note that FreeType is a *library*. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is *not* a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is extremely easy, as demo-ed by the test programs. This package contains all supplementary files you need to develop your own programs using the FreeType engine.
from Prints out the mail header lines from the invoker's mailbox.
ftp The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. FTP is a widely used protocol for transferring files over the Internet and for archiving files. If your system is on a network, you should install ftp in order to do file transfers.
fvwm2 fvwm is a window manager providing a 3-D look for window decorations and a virtual desktop, nifty module interface. Color Icons are also supported.
fvwm2-extras This package contains some modules that don't get built automatically.
fvwm2-icons This package contains icons, bitmaps, and pixmaps for fvwm2.
gawk The gawk packages contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Gawk should be upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs research version of awk and is almost completely compliant with the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility. Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.
gcal gcal is an extended calendar program. It is terminal mode, but does highlighting of holidays and other fancy features.
gcc The GNU C compiler. Nuff said.
gcc-chill gcc-chill is the GNU CHILL (CCITT High-Level Language) compiler. It is a language in the Modula2 family and targets many of the same applications as Ada (especially for large embedded systems). For more information, please refer to: http://egcs.cygnus.com/chill.html
gcc-g++ The GNU C++ compiler.
gcc-g77 The GNU Fortan77 compiler.
gcc-java The GNU Java bytecode compiler.
gcc-objc The GNU Objective C compiler.
gd Gd is a graphics library for drawing .gif files. Gd allows your code to quickly draw images (lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cutting and pasting from other images, flood fills) and write out the result as a .gif file. Gd is particularly useful in web applications, where .gifs are commonly used as inline images. Note, however, that gd is not a paint program. Install gd if you are developing applications which need to draw .gif files. If you install gd, you'll also need to install the gd-devel package.
gd-devel These are the development libraries and header files for gd, the .gif graphics library. If you're installing the gd graphics library, you must install gd-devel.
gdb Gdb is a full featured, command driven debugger. Gdb allows you to trace the execution of programs and examine their internal state at any time. Gdb works for C and C++ compiled with the GNU C compiler gcc. If you are going to develop C and/or C++ programs and use the GNU gcc compiler, you may want to install gdb to help you debug your programs.
gdbm Gdbm is a GNU database indexing library, including routines which use extensible hashing. Gdbm works in a similar way to standard UNIX dbm routines. Gdbm is useful for developers who write C applications and need access to a simple and efficient database or who are building C applications which will use such a database. If you're a C developer and your programs need access to simple database routines, you should install gdbm. You'll also need to install gdbm-devel.
gdbm-devel Gdbm-devel contains the development libraries and header files for gdbm, the GNU database system. These libraries and header files are necessary if you plan to do development using the gdbm database. Install gdbm-devel if you are developing C programs which will use the gdbm database library. You'll also need to install the gdbm package.
gedit gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed expressly for GNOME. It includes such features as split-screen mode, a plugin API, which allows gEdit to be extended to support many features while remaining small at its core, multiple document editing through the use of a `tabbed' notebook and many more functions. GNOME is required to use gEdit (Gnome-Libs and Gtk+).
gettext The gettext library provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs. It is a powerfull and simple method for internationalizing programs. Supportet languages (in messages): da, de, es, fr, nl, no, no@nynorsk, ko, pl, pt, sl, sv.
ghostscript Ghostscript is a PostScript interpretor. It can render both PostScript and PDF compliant files to devices which include an X window, many printer formats (including support for color printers), and popular graphics file formats.
ghostscript-fonts These fonts can be used by the GhostScript interpreter during text rendering.
giftrans Giftrans will convert an existing GIF87 file to GIF89 format. In other words, Giftrans can make one color in a .gif image (normally the background) transparent. Install the giftrans package if you need a quick, small, one-purpose graphics program to make transparent .gifs out of existing .gifs.
glib GLib is a handy library of utility functions. This C library is designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require. GLib is used by GDK, GTK+ and many applications. You should install th glib package because many of your applications will depend on this library.
glib-devel The glib-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the support library for the GIMP's X libraries (GTK+ and GDK), which are available as public libraries. Install glib-devel if you want to develop programs which will use GLib.
glibc Contains the standard libraries that are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to ease upgrades, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This package contains the most important sets of shared libraries, the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these, a Linux system will not function. It also contains national language (locale) support and timezone databases.
glibc-devel To develop programs which use the standard C libraries (which nearly all programs do), the system needs to have these standard header files and object files available for creating the executables.
glibc-locale glibc locale data for japanese
glibc-profile When programs are being profiled used gprof, they must use these libraries instrad of the standard C libraries for gprof to be able to profile them correctly.
gmc GMC (GNU Midnight Commander) is a file manager based on the terminal version of Midnight Commander, with the addition of a GNOME GUI desktop front-end. GMC can FTP, view TAR and compressed files and look into RPMs for specific files. Install gmc if you're installing GNOME and you'd like to use the Midnight Commander file manager with it.
gmp The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, signed integers operations, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast for several reasons: It uses fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops and it generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations. Install the gmp package if you need a fast arbitrary precision library.
gmp-devel The static libraries, header files and documentation for using the GNU MP arbitrary precision library in applications. If you want to develop applications which will use the GNU MP library, you'll need to install the gmp-devel package. You'll also need to install the gmp package.
gn This is a gopher server. Gopher is an information sharing system designed shortly before the WWW. It is now getting superceded by the web because it doesn't support graphics and there are text based web browsers.
gnewt gNewt is a replacment library for the text mode library newt.
gnewt-devel The gnewt-devel package contains the header files and libraries necessary for developing applications which use gnewt. Install gnewt-devel if you want to develop applications which will use gnewt.
gnome-core GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-core package includes the basic programs and libraries that are needed to install GNOME.
gnome-core-devel The gnome-core-devel package contains the libraries and header files for creating panels for the GNOME GUI desktop environment. If you're developing GNOME panels, you'll need to install gnome-core-devel.
gnome-libs GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-libs package includes libraries that are needed to run GNOME.
gnome-libs-devel GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-libs-devel package includes the libraries and include files that you will need to develop GNOME applications. You should install the gnome-libs-devel package if you would like to develop GNOME applications. You don't need to install gnome-libs-devel if you just want to use the GNOME desktop environment.
gnome-objc This package installs basic libraries you must have to use GNOME programs that are built with Objective C. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. It's a powerful, pleasing, easy to use and configure environment for your computer.
gnome-objc-devel Libraries, include files and other files you can use to develop Objective C GNOME applications. If you're interested in developing GNOME applications, you should install this package.
gnome-users-guide-jp GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The Japanese gnome-users-guide package will install the Users' Guide for the GNOME Desktop Environment on your computer. You should install this package if you are going to use GNOME and you need a quick, handy reference.
gnome-utils GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package includes a set of utilities for GNOME, including Gcalc, Gdialog, Gdiskfree, and many others.
gnupg GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use IDEA or RSA it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is in compliance with the OpenPGP specification (RFC2440).
gpm Gpm provides mouse support to text-based Linux applications like the emacs editor, the Midnight Commander file management system, and other programs. Gpm also provides console cut-and-paste operations using the mouse and includes a program to allow pop-up menus to appear at the click of a mouse button.
gpm-devel The gpm-devel program contains the libraries and header files needed for development of mouse driven programs. This package allows you to develop text-mode programs which use the mouse. Install gpm-devel if you need to develop text-mode programs which will use the mouse. You'll also need to install the gpm package.
grep The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches one or more input files for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep. You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text files, for system administration tasks, etc.
groff The groff text formatting system can be used to create professional looking documents on both paper and a computer screen. All the man pages are processed with groff, so you'll need this package to read man pages.
groff-gxditview The package contains the gxditview program, which can be used to format and view groff documents in X Windows. For example, man pages can be read using gxditview.
groff-tools Miscellaneous tools used with groff, which pertain to font handling and aoutmatic option processing.
gtk+ The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for X.
gtk+-devel The gtk+-devel package contains the static libraries and header files needed for developing GTK+ (GIMP ToolKit) applications. The gtk+-devel package contains glib (a collection of routines for simplifying the development of GTK+ applications), GDK (the General Drawing Kit, which simplifies the interface for writing GTK+ widgets and using GTK+ widgets in applications), and GTK+ (the widget set). Install gtk+-devel if you need to develop GTK+ applications. You'll also need to install the gtk+ package.
gtkfind gtkfind is a graphical file finding program, similar to the utilities on other operating systems.
gtop GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. This powerful environment is both easy to use and easy to configure. This package will install the GNOME system monitor gtop, which shows memory graphs and processes.
guile GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the guile package if you'd like to add extensibility to programs that you are developing.
guile-devel The guile-devel package includes the libraries, header files, etc., that you'll need to develop applications that are linked with the GUILE extensibility library. You need to install the guile-devel package if you want to develop applications that will be linked to GUILE. You'll also need to install the guile package.
gv Gv provides a user interface for the ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter. Derived from the ghostview program, gv can display PostScript and PDF documents using the X Window System. Install the gv package if you'd like to view PostScript and PDF documents on your system. You'll also need to have the ghostscript package installed, as well as the X Window System.
gzip The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension. Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program.
hdparm Shell utility to access/tune ioctl features of the linux hard disk and (E)IDE drivers for kernel 1.3.61+. Primary use is for enabling irq-unmasking and IDE multiplemode.
hexedit view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII. hexedit shows a file both in ASCII and in hexadecimal. The file can be a device as the file is not whole read. You can modify the file and search through it.
howto Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Linux HOWTOs are a great source of practical information about your system. The latest versions of these documents are located at http://metalab.unc.edu/put/Linux/docs/HOWTO. Install the howto package if you'd like to be able to access the Linux HOWTO documentation from your own system.
howto-chinese The howto-chinese package contains the Linux HOWTO documents that have been translated into Chinese. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents describing a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-chinese package if you'd like to use the Linux HOWTO documentation in Chinese. Please note that not all of the HOWTOs have been translated. If you need to have a complete set of HOWTOs, you'll need to install the English version (the howto package).
howto-chinese-html This package contains the Linux HOWTO documents in HTML format, so they can be viewed with a web browser. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-html package if you'd like to view the Linux HOWTOs with your web browser off your own machine, or if you'd like to provide the HTML HOWTOs from your web server. Please note that not all of the HOWTOs have been translated. If you need to have a complete set of HOWTOs, you'll need to install the English version (the howto package).
howto-chinese-sgml The howto-sgml package contains the Linux HOWTO documents in SGML format. The SGML format documents are the ``source'' files. Other file formats (text, PostScript(TM), DVI, HTML) are translated from the SGML documents. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-sgml package if you'd like to use the Linux HOWTO documents in SGML format. Please note that not all of the HOWTOs have been translated. If you need to have a complete set of HOWTOs, you'll need to install the English version (the howto package).
howto-html This package contains the Linux HOWTO documents in HTML format, so they can be viewed with a web browser. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-html package if you'd like to view the Linux HOWTOs with your web browser off your own machine, or if you'd like to provide the HTML HOWTOs from your web server.
howto-japanese This package contains the Linux HOWTO documents that have been translated into Japanese. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-japanese package if you'd like to use the Linux HOWTOs in Japanese. Please note that not all of the HOWTOs have been translated. If you need to have a complete set of HOWTOs, you'll need to install the English version (the howto package).
howto-japanese-html This package contains the Linux HOWTO documents in HTML format, so they can be viewed with a web browser. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-html package if you'd like to view the Linux HOWTOs with your web browser off your own machine, or if you'd like to provide the HTML HOWTOs from your web server. Please note that not all of the HOWTOs have been translated. If you need to have a complete set of HOWTOs, you'll need to install the English version (the howto package).
howto-japanese-sgml The howto-sgml package contains the Linux HOWTO documents in SGML format. The SGML format documents are the ``source'' files. Other file formats (text, PostScript(TM), DVI, HTML) are translated from the SGML documents. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-sgml package if you'd like to use the Linux HOWTO documents in SGML format. Please note that not all of the HOWTOs have been translated. If you need to have a complete set of HOWTOs, you'll need to install the English version (the howto package).
howto-sgml The howto-sgml package contains the Linux HOWTO documents in SGML format. The SGML format documents are the ``source'' files. Other file formats (text, PostScript(TM), DVI, HTML) are translated from the SGML documents. Linux HOWTOs are detailed documents which describe a specific aspect of configuring or using Linux. Install the howto-sgml package if you'd like to use the Linux HOWTO documents in SGML format.
icecast Icecast is an Internet based broadcasting system based on the Mpeg Layer III streaming technology. It was originally inspired by Nullsoft's Shoutcast and also mp3serv by Scott Manley. The icecast project was started for several reasons: a) all broadcasting systems were pretty much closed source, non-free software implementations, b) Shoutcast doesn't allow you to run your own directory servers, or support them, and c) we thought it would be a lot of fun.
ImageMagick ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed work in the original format or a different one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating thumbnail images, and more. ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate and display images. If you'd also like to develop your own applications which use ImageMagick code or APIs, you'll need to install ImageMagick-devel as well.
ImageMagick-devel Image-Magick-devel contains the static libraries and header files you'll need to develop ImageMagick applications. ImageMagick is an image manipulation program. If you want to create applications that will use ImageMagick code or APIs, you'll need to install ImageMagick-devel as well as ImageMagick. You don't need to install it if you just want to use ImageMagick, however.
imap The imap package provides server daemons for both the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) mail access protocols. The POP protocol uses a "post office" machine to collect mail for users and allows users to download their mail to their local machine for reading. The IMAP protocol allows a user to read mail on a remote machine without downloading it to their local machine. Install the imap package if you need a server to support the IMAP or the POP mail access protocols.
imap-devel The imap-devel package contains the header files and static libraries for developing programs which will use the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) library.
imlib Imlib is a display depth-independent image loading and rendering library. Imlib is designed to simplify and speed up the process of loading images and obtaining X Window System drawables. Imlib provides many simple manipulation routines which can be used for common operations. Install imlib if you need an image loading and rendering library for X11R6. You may also want to install the imlib-cfgeditor package, which will help you configure Imlib.
imlib-cfgeditor The imlib-cfgeditor package contains the imlib_config program, which you can use to configure the Imlib image loading and rendering library. imlib_config can be used to control how Imlib uses color and handles gamma corrections, etc. If you're installing the imlib package, you should also install imlib_cfgeditor.
imlib-devel The header files, static libraries and documentation needed for developing Imlib applications. Imlib is an image loading and rendering library for X11R6. Install the imlib-devel package if you want to develop Imlib applications. You'll also need to install the imlib and imlib_cfgeditor packages.
indexhtml The indexhtml package contains the HTML page and graphics for a welcome page shown by your Web browser, which you'll see after you've successfully installed TurboLinux.
inetd The netkit-base package contains the basic networking tool inetd inetd. Inetd listens on certain Internet sockets for connection requests, decides what program should receive each request, and starts up that program. xinetd is the replacement for inetd, and offers a quicker, more secure super server. inet is being provided here for only backwards compatibility for 3rd part products that don't ship with xinetd configurations.
inews The inews program is used by some news programs (for example, inn and trn) to post Usenet news articles to local news servers. Inews reads an article from a file or standard input, adds headers, performs some consistency checks and then sends the article to the local news server specified in the inn.conf file. Install inews if you need a program for posting Usenet articles to local news servers.
info The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. The info package provides a standalone TTY-based browser program for viewing texinfo files. You should install info, because GNU's texinfo documentation is a valuable source of information about the software on your system.
initscripts This package contains the scripts use to boot a system, change run levels, and shut the system down cleanly. It also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces.
inn INN (InterNetNews) is a complete system for serving Usenet news and/or private newsfeeds. INN includes innd, an NNTP (NetNews Transport Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a newsreader that is spawned for each client. Both innd and nnrpd vary slightly from the NNTP protocol, but not in ways that are easily noticed. Install the inn package if you need a complete system for serving and reading Usenet news. You may also need to install inn-devel, if you are going to use a separate program which interfaces to INN, like newsgate or tin.
inn-devel The inn-devel package contains the INN (InterNetNews) library, which several programs that interface with INN need in order to work (for example, newsgate and tin). If you are installing a program which must interface with the INN news system, you should install inn-devel.
ip-tools This is a small collection of tools for converting ip-addresses to host names and vice versa, especially useful in ip-up and ip-down scripts.
ipchains Linux ipchains is a rewrite of the Linux IPv4 firewalling code (which was mainly stolen from BSD) and a rewrite of ipfwadm, which was a rewrite of BSD's ipfw, I believe. It is required to administer the IP packet filters in Linux kernel versions 2.1.102 and above.
iplog iplog is a TCP/IP traffic logger. Currently, it is capable of logging TCP, UDP and ICMP traffic to syslog. Major features include a packet filter and detection of scans and attacks. Caution: iplog may significantly affect performance on a server under heavy load.
iputils arping, clockdiff, ping, tracepath, rdisc.
iputils-ipv6 ping6, tracepath6, traceroute6.
irquery Register your dynamic IP address (as obtained via DHCP, PPP or other means) with a static domain name through Webworks' free dynamic DNS service in the ddns.org domain. This allows people to refer to your computer with an unchanging name even though your IP address can change. Also includes a program to find people's dynamic IP addresses based on their e-mail addresses. Added Mail Forwarding, and HTTP Redirection.
ispell Ispell is the GNU interactive spelling checker. Ispell will check a text file for spelling and typographical errors. When it finds a word that is not in the dictionary, it will suggest correctly spelled words for the misspelled word. You should install ispell if you need a program for spell checking (and who doesn't...).
itcl [incr Tcl] is an object-oriented extension of the Tcl language. It was created to support more structured programming in Tcl. Tcl scripts that grow beyond a few thousand lines become extremely difficult to maintain. This is because the building blocks of vanilla Tcl are procedures and global variables, and all of these building blocks must reside in a single global namespace. There is no support for protection or encapsulation. [incr Tcl] introduces the notion of objects. Each object is a bag of data with a set of procedures or "methods" that are used to manipulate it. Objects are organized into "classes" with identical characteristics, and classes can inherit functionality from one another. This object-oriented paradigm adds another level of organization on top of the basic variable/procedure elements, and the resulting code is easier to understand and maintain.
jed Jed is a fast, compact editor based on the slang screen library. Jed features include emulation of the Emacs, EDT, WordStar and Brief editors; support for extensive customization with slang macros, colors, keybindings, etc.; and a variety of programming modes with syntax highlighting. You should install jed if you've used it before and you like it, or if you haven't used any text editors before and you're still deciding what you'd like to use. You'll also need to have slang installed.
jed-common The jed-common package contains files (such as .sl files) that are needed by any jed binary in order to run.
jed-xjed Xjed is a version of the Jed text editor that will work with the X Window System. You should install xjed if you like Jed and you'd like to use it with X. You'll also need to have the X Window System installed.
kbd This package contains utilities to load console fonts and keyboard maps. It also includes a number of different fonts and keyboard maps.
kernel The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (image), the core of your Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.
kernel-doc This package contains documentation files form the kernel source. Various bits of information about the Linux kernel and the device drivers shipped with it are documented in these files. You'll want to install this package if you need a reference to the options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time.
kernel-headers Kernel-headers includes the C header files for the Linux kernel. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the kernel.
kernel-ramdisk This package contains the kernels used to boot from the ramdisk on S/390 machines. For this kernel, the dasd driver is modularized.
kernel-source The kernel-source package contains the source code files for the Linux kernel. These source files are needed to build most C programs, since they depend on the constants defined in the source code. The source files can also be used to build a custom kernel that is better tuned to your particular hardware, if you are so inclined (and you know what you're doing).
kernel-utils The kernel-utils package contains ksymoops, a utility that can be used for decrypting the kernel's OOPS output.
knfsd The knfsd package provides the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users.
knfsd-clients The knfsd-clients package contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. This package is not needed to mount NFS volumes. Install knfsd-clients if you'd like to use the showmount tool for querying NFS servers.
konfont This package contains fonts for KON.
kterm Kterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator based on xterm(1). The major differences of kterm from xterm is that it can handle multi-lingual text encoded in ISO2022, can display colored text, and has the statusline function. To input multi-lingual text, both X Input Method (XIM) protocol and kinput2 protocol can be used.
lang-extra small script for extra lang determination
ldconfig Ldconfig is a basic system program which determines run-time link bindings between ld.so and shared libraries. Ldconfig scans a running system and sets up the symbolic links that are used to load shared libraries properly. It also creates a cache (/etc/ld.so.cache) which speeds the loading of programs which use shared libraries.
ldp This is the contents of the Linux Documentation Project in exploded HTML format. It is most useful for the HOWTOs.
less Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. Also, less does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so with large input files it starts up faster than text editors like vi (1). Less uses termcap (or terminfo on some systems), so it can run on a variety of terminals. There is even limited support for hardcopy terminals. (On a hardcopy terminal, lines which should be printed at the top of the screen are prefixed with a caret.) Commands are based on both more and vi. Commands may be preceded by a decimal number, called N in the descriptions below. The number is used by some commands, as indicated. ========================================================================= This is the distribution of enhanced less. It support ISO 2022 code extension techniques and Japanese codes. Please report any problems of it to the author at jam@pobox.com. See http://www.pobox.com/~jam/less/ for the latest info. =========================================================================
lesstif Lesstif is an API compatible clone of the Motif toolkit. Currently Lesstif is partially implemented with most of the API in place. Having said this, some of the internal functionality is still missing. Many Motif applications compile and run out-of-the-box with LessTif, and we want to hear about those that don't.
lesstif-clients Uil and xmbind.
lesstif-devel This package contains the lesstif static library and header files required to develop motif-1.2-based applications. It includes man pages for the whole API and mxmkmf for Lesstif.
lesstif-mwm MWM is a window manager that adheres largely to the Motif mwm specification.
lftp LFTP is a shell-like command line ftp client. It is reliable: can retry operations and does reget automatically. It can do several transfers simultaneously in background. You can start a transfer in background and continue browsing the ftp site or another one. This all is done in one process. Background jobs will be completed in nohup mode if you exit or close modem connection. Lftp has reput, mirror, reverse mirror among its features. Since version 2.0 it also supports http protocol.
libautocontrol This is a high-level library for TCP or UNIX-domain socket communications. It was designed to allow configuration tools to provide a generalized output method that could be used by external user interfaces such as perl-Tk scripts, web-based cgi scripts, or anything else.
libautocontrol-devel Static libraries and include files for libautocontrol.
libelf The libelf package contains a library for accessing ELF object files. Libelf allows you to access the internals of the ELF object file format, so you can see the different sections of an ELF file. Libelf should be installed if you need access to ELF object file internals.
libghttp Library for making HTTP 1.1 requests.
libghttp-devel Libraries and includes files you can use for libghttp development
libglade The libglade library allows you to load user interfaces which are stored externally into your program. This allows for alteration of the interface without recompilation of the program. The interfaces can also be edited with GLADE. Currently libglade supports all of the widgets in current releases, keyboard accelerators and automatic signal connection.
libglade-devel The libglade-devel package contains the libraries, include files, etc., that you can use to develop libglade applications.
libgtop A library that fetches information about the running system such as CPU and memory useage, active processes and more. On Linux systems, this information is taken directly from the /proc filesystem while on other systems a server is used to read that information from other /dev/kmem, among others.
libgtop-devel Install this package if you wish to develop applications that access information on system statistics such as CPU and memory usage.
libgtop-examples Install this package for a set of programs that are examples of developing with libgtop.
libjpeg This package is a library of functions that manipulate jpeg images, along with simple clients for manipulating jpeg images.
libjpeg-devel This package is all you need to develop programs that manipulate jpeg images, including documentation.
libkfc libkfc
libkfc-devel libkfc-devel
libpcap Libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture. Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Applications include network statistics collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc. Libpcap has system-independent API that is used by several applications, including tcpdump and arpwatch.
libpng The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.
libpng-devel The libpng-devel package contains the header files and static libraries necessary for developing programs using the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) library. If you want to develop programs which will manipulate PNG image format files, you should install libpng-devel. You'll also need to install the libpng package.
librep This is a lightweight Lisp environment for UNIX. It contains a Lisp interpreter, byte-code compiler and virtual machine. Applications may use the Lisp interpreter as an extension language, or it may be used for standalone scripts. Originally inspired by Emacs Lisp, the language dialect combines many of the elisp features while trying to remove some of the main deficiencies, with features from Common Lisp and Scheme.
librep-devel Link libraries and C header files for librep development.
libstdc++ This is the GNU Standard C++ Library. You'll need it for any application that is uses C++ and is dynamically compiled.
libtermcap The libtermcap package contains a basic system library needed to access the termcap database. The termcap library supports easy access to the termcap database, so that programs can output character-based displays in a terminal-independent manner.
libtermcap-devel This package includes the libraries and header files necessary for developing programs which will access the termcap database. If you need to develop programs which will access the termcap database, you'll need to install this package. You'll also need to install the libtermcap package.
libtiff The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large. The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files.
libtiff-devel This package contains the header files and static libraries for developing programs which will manipulate TIFF format image files using the libtiff library. If you need to develop programs which will manipulate TIFF format image files, you should install this package. You'll also need to install the libtiff package.
libtool The libtool package contains the GNU libtool, a set of shell scripts which automatically configure UNIX and UNIX-like architectures to generically build shared libraries. Libtool provides a consistent, portable interface which simplifies the process of using shared libraries. If you are developing programs which will use shared libraries, you should install libtool.
libungif The libungif package contains a shared library of functions for loading and saving GIF format image files. The libungif library can load any GIF file, but it will save GIFs only in uncompressed format (i.e., it won't use the patented LZW compression used to save "normal" compressed GIF files). Install the libungif package if you need to manipulate GIF files. You should also install the libungif-progs package.
libungif-devel This package contains the static libraries, header files and documentation necessary for development of programs that will use the libungif library to load and save GIF format image files. You should install this package if you need to develop programs which will use the libungif library functions for loading and saving GIF format image files. You'll also need to install the libungif package.
libungif-progs The libungif-progs package contains various programs for manipulating GIF format image files. Install this package if you need to manipulate GIF format image files. You'll also need to install the libungif package.
libxml This library allows you to manipulate XML files.
libxml-devel Libraries, include files, etc you can use to develop libxml applications.
logcheck Logcheck is software package that is designed to automatically run and check system log files for security violations and unusual activity. Logcheck utilizes a program called logtail that remembers the last position it read from in a log file and uses this position on subsequent runs to process new information. All source code is available for review and the implementation was kept simple to avoid problems. This package is a clone of the frequentcheck.sh script from the Trusted Information Systems Gauntlet(tm) firewall package. TIS has granted permission for me to clone this package. Unfortunately, all logcheck really does is flood root's mailbox with warnings about totally unrelated stuff. Don't count on this to watch your system for you.
logrotate The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the log files on your system.
losetup Linux supports a special block device called the loop device, which maps a normal file onto a virtual block device. This allows for the file to be used as a "virtual file system" inside another file. Losetup is used to associate loop devices with regular files or block devices, to detach loop devices and to query the status of a loop device.
lout Lout is a high-level language for document formatting. Lout reads a high-level description of a document (similar in style to LaTeX) and can produce a PostScript(TM) file for printing or produce plain text. Lout supports the typesetting of documents which contain floating figures, table, diagrams, rotated and scaled text or graphics, footnotes, running headers, footers, an index, a table of contents and bibliography, cross-references, mathematical equations and statistical graphs. Lout can be extended with definitions that should be easier to write than other languages, since Lout is a high-level language. Lout supports (with hyphenation) a variety of languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. Install the lout package if you'd like to try the Lout document formatting system. Unless you're already a Lout expert, you'll probably want to also install the lout-doc package, which contains the documentation for Lout.
lout-doc The lout-doc package includes all of the documentation for the Lout document formatting language. The documentation includes manuals for regular users and for experts, written in Lout and available as PostScript(TM) files. The documentation provides good examples for how to write large documents with Lout. If you're installing the lout package, you should install the lout-doc package.
LPRng The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. While providing the same interface and meeting RFC1179 requirements, the implementation is completely new and provides support for the following features: lightweight (no databases needed) lpr, lpc, and lprm programs; dynamic redirection of print queues; automatic job holding; highly verbose diagnostics; multiple printers serving a single queue; client programs do not need to run SUID root; greatly enhanced security checks; and a greatly improved permission and authorization mechanism. The source software compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX systems, and is compatible with other print spoolers and network printers that use the LPR interface and meet RFC1179 requirements. LPRng provides emulation packages for the SVR4 lp and lpstat programs, eliminating the need for another print spooler package. These emulation packages can be modified according to local requirements, in order to support vintage printing systems. An NT version is also available. For users that require secure and/or authenticated printing support, LPRng supports Kerberos V, MIT Kerberos IV Print Support, and PGP authentication. LPRng is being adopted by MIT for use as their Campus Wide printing support system. Additional authentication support is extremely simple to add. LPRng is Open Source Software, and the current public distribution is available from the listed FTP and Web Sites.
lrzsz Lrzsz (consisting of lrz and lsz) is a cosmetically modified zmodem/ymodem/xmodem package built from the public-domain version of the rzsz package. Lrzsz was created to provide a working GNU copylefted Zmodem solution for Linux systems. You should install lrzsz if you're also installing a Zmodem communications program that uses lrzsz. If you're installing minicom, you need to install lrzsz.
lsof Lsof stands for LiSt Open Files, and it does just that: it lists information about files that are open by the processes running on a UNIX system.
lynx Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices such as vt100 terminals, or any other character-cell display. It will display Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp, wais, nntp, finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts.
m4 A GNU implementation of the traditional UNIX macro processor. M4 is useful for writing text files which can be logically parsed, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. M4 has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. The autoconf program needs m4 for generating configure scripts, but not for running configure scripts. Install m4 if you need a macro processor.
mailcap The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type of file with a particular program that a mail agent or other program can call in order to handle the file. Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to handle non-text files.
mailx The mailx package installs the /bin/mail program, which is used to send quick email messages (i.e., without opening up a full-featured mail user agent). Mail is often used in shell scripts. You should install mailx because of its quick email sending ability, which is especially useful if you're planning on writing any shell scripts.
make A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make allows users to build and install packages without any significant knowledge about the details of the build process. The details about how the program should be built are provided for make in the program's makefile. The GNU make tool should be installed on your system because it is commonly used to simplify the process of installing programs.
MAKEDEV The /dev directory contains important files which correspond to the hardware on your system, such as sound cards, serial or printer ports, tape and CD-ROM drives and more. MAKEDEV is a script which helps you create and maintain the files in your /dev directory. These are the files needed to install MAKEDEV.
man The man page suite, including man, apropos, and whatis. These programs are used to read most of the documentation available on a Linux system. The whatis and apropos programs can be used to find documentation related to a particular subject.
man-man2html pure manroff -> html converter
man-pages A large collection of man pages (documentation) from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP). The man pages are organized into the following sections: Section 1, user commands (intro only); Section 2, system calls; Section 3, libc calls; Section 4, devices (e.g., hd, sd); Section 5, file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs); Section 6, games (intro only); Section 7, conventions, macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii); and Section 8, system administration (intro only).
man-pages-ja The japanese man pages.
mars-nwe The mars_nwe (MARtin Stover's NetWare Emulator) package enables Linux to provide both file and print services for NetWare clients (i.e., providing the services of a Novell NetWare file server). Mars_nwe allows the sharing of files between Linux machines and Novell NetWare clients, using NetWare's native IPX protocol suite. Install the mars_nwe package if you need a Novell NetWare file server on your Red Hat Linux system.
mc Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also includes mouse support if you are running GPM. Midnight Commander's coolest features are its abilities to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for specific files.
mcserv The Midnight Commander file management system will allow you to manipulate the files on a remote machine as if they were local. This is only possible if the remote machine is running the mcserv server program. Mcserv provides clients running Midnight Commander with access to the host's file systems. Install mcserv on machines if you want to access their file systems remotely using the Midnight Commander file management system.
metamail Metamail is a system for handling multimedia mail, using the mailcap file. Metamail reads the mailcap file, which tells Metamail what helper program to call in order to handle a particular type of non-text mail. Note that metamail can also add multimedia support to certain non-mail programs. Metamail should be installed if you need to add multimedia support to mail programs and some other programs, using the mailcap file.
mgetty The mgetty package contains a "smart" getty which allows logins over a serial line (i.e., through a modem). If you're using a Class 2 or 2.0 modem, mgetty can receive faxes. If you also need to send faxes, you'll need to install the sendfax program. If you'll be dialing in to your system using a modem, you should install the mgetty package. If you'd like to send faxes using mgetty and your modem, you'll need to install the mgetty-sendfax program. If you need a viewer for faxes, you'll also need to install the mgetty-viewfax package.
mgetty-sendfax Sendfax is a standalone backend program for sending fax files. The mgetty program (a getty replacement for handling logins over a serial line) plus sendfax will allow you to send faxes through a Class 2 modem. If you'd like to send faxes over a Class 2 modem, you'll need to install the mgetty-sendfax and the mgetty packages.
mgetty-viewfax Viewfax displays the fax files received using mgetty in an X11 window. Viewfax is capable of zooming in and out on the displayed fax. If you're installing the mgetty-viewfax package, you'll also need to install mgetty.
mgetty-voice The mgetty-voice package contains the vgetty system, which enables mgetty and your modem to support voice capabilities. In simple terms, vgetty lets your modem act as an answering machine. How well the system will work depends upon your modem, which may or may not be able to handle this kind of implementation. Install mgetty-voice along with mgetty if you'd like to try having your modem act as an answering machine.
mingetty The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program instead for that purpose).
mktemp The mktemp utility takes a given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a unique file name. This allows shell scripts and other programs to safely create and use /tmp files. Install the mktemp package if you need to use shell scripts or other programs which will create and use unique /tmp files.
mkxauth The mkxauth utility helps create and maintain X authentication databases (.Xauthority files). Mkxauth is used to create an .Xauthority file or to merge keys from another local or remote .Xauthority file. .Xauthority files are used by the xauth user-oriented access control program, which grants or denies access to X servers based on the contents of the .Xauthority file. The mkxauth package should be installed if you're going to use user-oriented access control to provide security for your X Window System (a good idea).
modutils The Linux kernel allows new kernel pieces to be loaded and old ones to be unloaded while the kernel continues to run. These loadable pieces are called modules, and can include device drivers and filesystems among other things. This package includes program to load and unload programs both automatically and manually. This set does not include `request-route' script (still present in sources).
mount The mount package contains the mount, umount, swapon and swapoff programs. Accessible files on your system are arranged in one big tree or hierarchy. These files can be spread out over several devices. The mount command attaches a filesystem on some device to your system's file tree. The umount command detaches a filesystem from the tree. Swapon and swapoff, respectively, specify and disable devices and files for paging and swapping.
mpage The mpage utility takes plain text files or PostScript(TM) documents as input, reduces the size of the text, and prints the files on a PostScript printer with several pages on each sheet of paper. Mpage is very useful for viewing large printouts without using up tons of paper. Mpage supports many different layout options for the printed pages. Mpage should be installed if you need a useful utility for viewing long text documents without wasting paper.
mpeg_lib The MPEG Library is a collection of C routines to decode MPEG movies and dither them in a variety of colour schemes. Most of the code in the library comes directly from the Berkely MPEG player, an X11-specific implementation that works fine, but suffers from minimal documentation and a lack of modularity. A front end to the Berkeley decoding engine was developed by Greg Ward at the Montreal Neurological Institute in May/June 1994 to facilitate the development of an MPEG player specifically for Silicon Graphics workstations; the decoding engine together with the MNI front end constitute the MPEG Library.
mpeg_lib-devel This package contains the mpeg_lib static libraries and header files required to develop mpeg_lib based applications.
mt-st The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices) can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more. This package can help you manage tape drives.
mtrace mtrace is a tool that was included with the glibc 2.1.2 library that is used to trace malloc()'s. This package include the perl script mtrace and libraries needed to use it.
mutt Mutt is a text mode mail user agent. Mutt supports color, threading, arbitrary key remapping, and a lot of customization. You should install mutt if you've used mutt in the past and you prefer it, or if you're new to mail programs and you haven't decided which one you're going to use.
MySQL MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. MySQL was originally developed because we at Tcx needed a SQL server that could handle very big databases with magnitude higher speed than what any database vendor could offer to us. We have now been using MySQL since 1996 in a environment with more than 40 databases, 10,000 tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is about 50G of mission critical data. The base upon which MySQL is built is a set of routines that have been used in a highly demanding production environment for many years. While MySQL is still in development, it already offers a rich and highly useful function set. See the documentation for more information"
MySQL-bench This package contains MySQL benchmark scripts and data. For a description of MySQL see the base MySQL RPM or http://www.mysql.com
MySQL-client This package contains the standard MySQL clients.
MySQL-devel This package contains the development header files and libraries necessary to develop MySQL client applications. For a description of MySQL see the base MySQL RPM or http://www.mysql.com
nag The nag package contains the Linux Documentation Project's Network Administrators' Guide. The NAG covers the wide world of Linux networking, including TCP/IP, UUCP, SLIP, DNS, mail systems, NNTP and news systems, and NFS. Be sure to check the LDP's website at http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/ldp.html for possible updates to the NAG. Install the nag package if you'd like to use the LDP's Network Administrators' Guide off your own machine.
ncftp Ncftp is an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets, automatic anonymous logins and more. Install ncftp if you use FTP to transfer files and you'd like to try some of ncftp's additional features.
ncompress The ncompress package contains the compress and uncompress file compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions). These utilities can't handle gzipped (.gz file extensions) files, but gzip can handle compressed files.
ncurses The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4BSD classic curses library.
ncurses-devel The header files and libraries for developing applications that use the ncurses CRT screen handling and optimization package. Install the ncurses-devel package if you want to develop applications which will use ncurses.
ncurses3 The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4BSD classic curses library.
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nenscript nenscript is a print filter. It can take ASCII input and format it into PostScript output and at the same time can do nice transformations like putting 2 ASCII pages on one physical page (side by side).
net-tools This is a collection of the basic tools necessary for setting up networking on a Linux machine. It includes ifconfig, route, netstat, rarp, and various other tools.
newt Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a /usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library.
newt-devel The newt-devel package contains the header files and libraries necessary for developing applications which use newt. Newt is a development library for text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the slang library. Install newt-devel if you want to develop applications which will use newt.
nkf Nkf is a yet another kanji code converter among networks, hosts and terminals. It converts input kanji code to designated kanji code such as 7-bit JIS, MS-kanji (shifted-JIS) or EUC.
nls This is a package of files used by some older X11R5 binaries such at Netscape. It isn't required by versions of Netscape greater than 3.0, however.
nmh Nmh is an email system based on the MH email system and is intended to be a (mostly) compatible drop-in replacement for MH. Nmh isn't a single comprehensive program. Instead, it consists of a number of fairly simple single-purpose programs for sending, receiving, saving, retrieving and otherwise manipulating email messages. You can freely intersperse nmh commands with other shell commands or write custom scripts which utilize nmh commands. If you want to use nmh as a true email user agent, you'll want to also install exmh to provide a user interface for it--nmh only has a command line interface. If you'd like to use nmh commands in shell scripts, or if you'd like to use nmh and exmh together as your email user agent, you should install nmh.
nscd nscd caches name service lookups; it can dramatically improve performance with NIS+, and may help with DNS as well. You cannot use nscd with 2.0 kernels, due to bugs in the kernel-side thread support. nscd happens to hit these bugs particularly hard.
ntalk This package provides a client and daemon for the Internet talk protocol, which allows one-on-one chatting between users on different systems.
ntp Network Time Protocol clients The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths, in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability.
ntp-server Network Time Protocol (NTP) server The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example. Typical NTP configurations utilize multiple redundant servers and diverse network paths, in order to achieve high accuracy and reliability.
ntsysv Ntsysv provides a simple interface for setting which system services are started or stopped in various runlevels (instead of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d). Unless you specify a runlevel or runlevels on the command line (see the man page), ntsysv configures the current runlevel (5 if you're using X).
nvi-m17n Nex/nvi is a reimplementation of the ex/vi text editors originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley.
nvi-m17n-canna nex/nvi with Canna input support.
open The open command starts a specified command with the first available virtual console, or on a virtual console that you specify. Install the open package if you regularly use virtual consoles to run programs.
openldap LDAP servers and clients, as well as interfaces to other protocols. Note that this does not include the slapd interface to X.500 and therefore does not require the ISODE package.
openldap-devel Header files and libraries for developing applications that use LDAP.
openldap-libs These are the open LDAP libs that may be required by various system utilities such as am-utils.
openldap-servers The servers (daemons) that come with LDAP.
openssh Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's rework of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to seperate libraries (OpenSSL). This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server. To make this package useful, you should also install openssh-clients, openssh-server, or both.
openssh-askpass Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's rework of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to seperate libraries (OpenSSL). This package contains Jim Knoble's <jmknoble@pobox.com> X11 passphrase dialog.
openssh-clients Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's rework of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to seperate libraries (OpenSSL). This package includes the clients necessary to make encrypted connections to SSH servers.
openssh-extras Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's rework of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to seperate libraries (OpenSSL). This package contains ssh-copy-id (shell script to automate the process of adding your public key to a remote machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file) and make-ssh-known-hosts.pl (Perl script to generate ssh_known_hosts files by trawling through the DNS).
openssh-server Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's rework of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to seperate libraries (OpenSSL). This package contains the secure shell daemon. The sshd is the server part of the secure shell protocol and allows ssh clients to connect to your host.
openssl The openssl certificate management tool and the shared libraries that provide various encryption and decription algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4, RSA and SSL.
openssl-devel The static libraries and include files needed to compile apps with support for various cryptographic algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4, RSA and SSL.
ORBit ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they're written in or the operating system they run on. You will need to install this package and ORBIT-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology.
ORBit-devel ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker) with support for the C language. This package contains the header files, libraries and utilities necessary to write programs that use CORBA technology. If you want to write such programs, you'll also need to install the ORBIT package.
pam PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a powerful, flexible, extensible authentication system which allows the system administrator to configure authentication services individually for every pam-compliant application without recompiling any of the applications.
pam_ntdom pam_ntdom is a module for PAM (plugable authentication modules) used by all Linux systems that use PAM for user authentication. This module allows you to authenticate users who log into your system against a Samba or Windows NT server.
pam_smb pam_smb is a PAM module which allows authentication of UNIX users using an NTserver.
pamconfig This package has been made obsolete by pam-0.56, and is provided for compatibility purposes only. If the command: rpm -q --whatrequires pamconfig returns no package names, you may remove this package with: rpm -e pamconfig
passwd The passwd package contains a system utility (passwd) which sets and/or changes passwords, using PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). To use passwd, you should have PAM installed on your system.
password This utility is intended for system administrators that have a need for passwords creation. This tool help system administrator in automatically creating passwords.
patch Patch is a program to aid in patching programs. :-) You can use it to apply `diff's. Basically, you can use diff to note the changes in a file, send the changes to someone who has the original file, and they can use `patch' to combine your changes to their original.
pciutils This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus. It requires kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (supporting the /proc/bus/pci interface).
pciutils-devel This package contains a library for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus.
pdksh The pdksh package contains PD-ksh, a clone of the Korn shell (ksh). The ksh shell is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell script use. Ksh's command language is a superset of the sh shell language. Install the pdksh package if you want to use a version of the ksh shell.
perl Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications (and what it excels at) are probably system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.
perl-Date-Calc Note that this package projects the Gregorian calendar back until the year 1 A.D. -- even though the Gregorian calendar was only adopted in 1582 by most (not all) European countries, in obedience to the corresponding decree of catholic pope Gregor I in that year.
perl-DBI The Perl Database Interface (DBI) is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for the Perl language. The Perl DBI API specification defines a set of functions, variables, and conventions that provide a consistent database interface independent of the actual data being used.
perl-File-Tail The primary purpose of File::Tail is reading and analysing log files while they are being written, which is especialy usefull if you are monitoring the logging process with a tool like Tobias Oetiker's MRTG. The module tries very hard NOT to "busy-wait" on a file that has little traffic. Any time it reads new data from the file, it counts the number of new lines, and divides that number by the time that passed since data were last written to the file before that. That is considered the average time before new data will be written. When there is no new data to read, File::Tail sleeps for that number of seconds. Thereafter, the waiting time is recomputed dynamicaly. Note that File::Tail never sleeps for more than the number of seconds set by maxinterval.
perl-Getopt-Mixed This perl module makes full GNU style argument processing (for example providing --help and -h options) easy. It provides several ways of interfacing with the argument parser depending on the complexity of the parsing you wish to do.
perl-gettext This perl module serves the same function as the gettext libraries in C, except it works for Perl programs. This library was developed by Koji Ashida for use with international (non-English) versions of TurboLinux.
perl-Graph This is Graph, the Perl module for graph operations as the code was for the 1st edition of "Mastering Algorithms with Perl", by Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, and John Macdonald, published in August 1999 by the O'Reilly and Associates.
perl-Gtk-Perl Perl extensions for GTK+ (the Gimp ToolKit), a library used for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. The extensions allow you to write graphical interfaces using Perl and GTK+.
perl-Heap This is a collection of routines for managing a heap data structure. A heap package basically keeps a collection of elements and is able to return the smallest one. The heap component interface is defined in Heap(3) and must be supported by all heap packages. Currently there are three heap components provided: Heap::Fibonacci (the preferred one) Heap::Binomial Heap::Binary See the book "Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest for details of the three heap packages.
perl-HTML-Parser HTML Parser module for Perl-5.6.0.
perl-jcode This perl module allows perl to convert japanese codes.
perl-libnet This package provides access to various networking protocols from within perl. These are FTP, SMTP, Telnet, Time, NNTP and POP3. It also provides support in the form of parsing for .netrc files and a module to identify your own hosts domain.
perl-libwww Libwww-perl provides many different WWW client related functions. It also covers such areas as HTML parsing and generation. It is very useful, for example, for building WWW robots for such tasks as link checking, HTML validation and mirroring. Libwww-perl also comes with programs such as HEAD and GET which provide a command line interface to the World Wide Web. Very useful within scripts and other programs.
perl-MailTools MailTools module for perl
perl-MD5 This perl module allows perl to interface with the RSA MD5 message digest algorithm.
perl-MIME-Base64 MIME Base64 module for Perl-%{PERL_VER}.
perl-MLDBM MLDBM is a database system based on dbm that can be used to store any perl data structure in a file and reload it quickly using an indexing key. It uses one of the underlying dbm style packages to do this and can provide fast and convenient storage of large amounts of data under the right circumstances. It is very easy to use.
perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library
perl-Term-ReadLine-Perl GNU Readline history and completion in Perl
perl-TermReadKey No description was provided
perl-Tie-IxHash This package provides an indexed hash class which, at the cost of speed provides many advantages over the standard perl hashes. The main difference is that the hash keeps the order in which items are added to it.
perl-Time-HiRes Time::HiRes module: High resolution time, sleep, and alarm. Implement usleep, ualarm, and gettimeofday for Perl, as well as wrappers to implement time, sleep, and alarm that know about non-integral seconds.
perl-TimeDate TimeDate module provides routines to format dates into ASCII strings. They correspond to the C library routines strftime and ctime. - time2str(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE]) time2str converts TIME into an ASCII string using the conversion specification given in TEMPLATE. ZONE if given specifies the zone which the output is required to be in, ZONE defaults to your current zone. - strftime(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE]) strftime is similar to time2str with the exception that the time is passed as an array, such as the array returned by localtime. - ctime(TIME [, ZONE]) ctime calls time2str with the given arguments using the conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y\n" - asctime(TIME [, ZONE]) asctime calls time2str with the given arguments using the conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y\n"
perl-Tk Tk is a port of John Osterhout's Tk toolkit, modified for use with perl5. It is a library of widgets for making X11 applications.
php PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled web page with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts. The mod_php module enables the Apache web server to understand and process the embedded PHP language in web pages. This package contains PHP. If you use applications which specifically rely on PHP/FI (PHP v2 and earlier), you should instead install the PHP/FI module contained in the phpfi package. If you're just starting with PHP, you should install this package. You'll also need to install the Apache web server.
php-imap This is a dynamic shared object (DSO) for Apache that will add IMAP support to PHP4. If you need to have IMAP support for PHP4 applications, you will need to install this package in addition to the main php package.
php-ldap This is a dynamic shared object (DSO) for Apache that will add LDAP support to PHP4. If you need to have LDAP support for PHP4 applications, you will need to install this package in addition to the main php package.
php-manual Comprehensive documentation for PHP4, viewable through any web browser.
php-mysql this is a dynamic shared object (DSO) for Apache that will add MySQL database support to PHP4. If you need back-end support for MySQL, you should install this package in addition to the main php package.
php-pgsql this is a dynamic shared object (DSO) for Apache that will add PostgreSQL database support to PHP4. If you need back-end support for PostgreSQL, you should install this package in addition to the main php package.
pinglogger Logs ping requests
popt Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more