aalib - An ASCII art GFX library 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. Now my linux boots with a nice penguin logo at secondary display (yes! Like Win95 does:) AA-lib API is designed to be similar to other graphics libraries. Learning a new API would be a piece of cake! --- aalib-devel - headers and static libraries The header files and static libraries are only needed for development of programs using the AAlib. --- aide - AIDE - system integrity check tool AIDE aims to be the free version of Tripwire, and helps to detect integrity violations by using hashes like MD5. Please read README.CONECTIVA (at documentation directory) for more details. --- alsaconf - ALSA configurator ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) configurator. --- alsa-lib - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) lib Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) libs. Modularized architecture with support for a large range of ISA and PCI cards. Fully compatible with OSS/Lite (kernel sound drivers), but contains many enhanced features. --- alsa-lib-devel - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) development files This package has the necessary files to compile applications that use the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) libraries. It is not needed to simply run ALSA programs. --- alsasound - Init script for ALSA Init script for ALSA --- alsa-utils - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) utils Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) utils. Modularized architecture with support for a large range of ISA and PCI cards. Fully compatible with OSS/Lite (kernel sound drivers), but contains many enhanced features. --- amanda - A network-capable tape backup solution A network-capable tape backup solution. --- amanda-client - The client side of Amanda This package should be installed on machines that are to be backed up by Amanda. (Including, the server if it should be backed up.) --- amanda-server - The server side of Amanda This package should be installed on the machine that has the device (such as a tape drive) where backups will be written. --- am-utils - Automount utilities including an updated version of Amd. 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. Warning: this service does not make use of the autofs kernel module. --- anonftp - A fast, read-only, anonymous FTP server. Anonftpd is a fast, read-only, anonymous FTP server. Anonymous FTP access allows anyone to download files from an FTP server. Anonymous FTP is a popular way of making files available via the Internet. Install the anonftp package if you would like to enable anonymous FTP downloads from your FTP server. --- apache - Leading World Wide Web server Apache is a full featured web server that is freely available, and also mappens to be the most widely used. --- apache-devel - Header files from apache for developing/compiling 3rd party modules This package includes the header files for Apache, as well as the 'apxs' binary for building dynamic shared objects (DSOs). This package needs to be installed if you want to compile or develop additional modules for Apache. --- apache-doc - Apache documentation This package contains the Apache documentation and some examples. --- apmd - Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS utilities for laptops. This is a Advanced Power Management daemon and utilities. It can watch your notebook's battery and warn all users when the battery is low. Patches to Rik Faith's original version have been added for shutting down the PCMCIA sockets before a suspend. --- apt - Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support A port of Debian's apt tools for RPM based distributions, or at least for Conectiva. It provides the apt-get utility that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features. Under development, use at your own risk! --- apt-devel - Development files and documentation for APT's libapt-pkg This package contains the header files and static libraries for developing with APT's libapt-pkg package manipulation library, modified for RPM. Under development, use at your own risk! --- aptitude - curses-based apt frontend Aptitude is a curses-based apt frontend with a number of useful extended features, including a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible and extreme flexibility and customization. Despite the version number, aptitude is quite usable; it does almost everything that dselect and console-apt do, and has its own extra features as well. --- arpwatch - Network monitoring tools for tracking IP addresses on a network. The arpwatch package contains arpwatch and arpsnmp. Arpwatch and arpsnmp are both network monitoring tools. Both utilities monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address pairs, and can report certain changes via email. Install the arpwatch package if you need networking monitoring devices which will automatically keep traffic of the IP addresses on your network. --- ash - A smaller version of the Bourne shell. 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 job spooler at and batch read commands from standard input or a specified file which are to be executed at a later time, using /bin/sh. --- audiofile - Library to handle various audio file formats. The Audio File Library is a partial implementation of the SGI Audio File library. This library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFC, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun). This software is not complete and is still under development. Many sound file formats work well. Some will not. --- audiofile-devel - Libraries, includes and other files to develop audiofile applications. Libraries, include files and other resources you can use to develop audiofile applications. --- aumix - curses based audio mixer This program provides a tty based, interactive method of controlling a sound cards mixer. It lets you adjust the input levels from the CD, microphone, and on board synthesizers as well as the output volume. --- aumix-common - curses based audio mixer (common files) This program provides a tty based, interactive method of controlling a sound cards mixer. It lets you adjust the input levels from the CD, microphone, and on board synthesizers as well as the output volume. Common files for both versions --- aumix-minimal - curses based audio mixer (without ncurses and X11 support) This program provides a tty based, interactive method of controlling a sound cards mixer. It lets you adjust the input levels from the CD, microphone, and on board synthesizers as well as the output volume. This is the version without any kind of graphical support --- authconfig - Text-mode tool for setting up NIS, LDAP and shadow passwords. Authconfig is a terminal mode program for setting up Network Information Service (NIS), LDAP authentication and shadow (more secure) passwords on your system. Authconfig also configures the system to automatically turn on NIS at system startup. --- autoconf - A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code 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. --- autofs - autofs daemon autofs is a daemon which automatically mounts filesystems when you use them, and unmounts them later when you are not using them. This can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies, and so forth. --- autofs-ldap - LDAP map support for the autofs package. 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 to use automount maps stored on an LDAP server with autofs. The schema the LDAP server should use is documented at http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/directory/411ext/nis/mapping.htm --- automake - A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles 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. --- awesfx - Utility programs for the AWE32 sound driver. Awesfx contains various utility programs for controlling AWE32 driver. It includes the soundfont loader (sfxload), chorus/reverb effect loader (setfx), control parameter set up (aweset) and others. If you use an AWE32 sound card, you may want to install this package. --- awesfx-devel - Development files for AWE Development files for AWE sound driver. --- awesfx-sfbank - SF Banks for AWE SoundFont banks for AWE sound driver. --- basesystem - The skeleton package which defines a simple Conectiva Linux system Basesystem defines the components of a basic Conectiva 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. --- bash1 - GNU Bourne Again Shell (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 - The GNU Bourne Again shell (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-doc - Documentation for the GNU Bourne Again shell (bash). This is a separate documentation package for the GNU Bourne Again shell. --- bb - A demo for the AA-lib ASCII art graphics library. The bb program is a portable demo based on the AA-lib ASCII art graphics library, created to display the capabilities of AA-lib. If you're familiar with Amiga and PC demos, you'll understand, and if you aren't, well, you'll be entertained. You'll need to also have the aalib package installed to run bb. --- bc - GNU 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. --- bdflush - System Cache flusher This program flushes the disk buffers the kernel keeps to prevent them from growing too stale. --- bin86 - Real mode 80x86 assembler and linker This package provides an assembler and linker for real mode 80x86 instructions. Programs that run in real mode, including LILO and the kernel's bootstrapping code, need to have this package installed to be built from the sources. --- bind - An Internet name server. 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 starts named as user "named", not root. --- bind-devel - Include files and libraries needed for bind DNS development. 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-doc - BIND documentation The bind-doc package contains all the documentation files for bind versions 8.x.x. --- bind-utils - DNS utilities: host, dig, dnsquery, and nslookup. 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. --- binutils - GNU Binary Utility Development Utilities 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 - A GNU general-purpose parser generator. 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. --- bootp - bootp/DHCP server and test programs This is a server for the bootp protocol; which allows network administrators to setup networking information for clients via an /etc/bootptab on a server so that the clients can automatically get their networking information. While this server includes rudimentary DHCP support as well, we suggest using the dhcpd package if you need DHCP support, as it is much more complete. --- bootparamd - A server process which provides boot information to diskless clients. The bootparamd process provides bootparamd, a server process which provides the information needed by diskless clients in order for them to successfully boot. Bootparamd looks first in /etc/bootparams for an entry for that particular client; if a local bootparams file doesn't exist, it looks at the appropriate Network Information Service (NIS) map. Some network boot loaders (notably Sun's) rely on special boot server code on the server, in addition to the RARP and TFTP servers. This bootparamd server process is compatible with SunOS bootparam clients and servers which need that boot server code. You should install bootparamd if you need to provide boot information to diskless clients on your network. --- byacc - A public domain Yacc parser generator. 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 - Extremely powerful file compression utility 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 - Header files and libraries needed for bzip2 development This package includes the header files and libraries needed for developing programs using bzip2 --- caching-nameserver - installs the config files to start your own caching namserver Includes configuration files for bind (the DNS nameserver) which make it behave as a simple caching nameserver. Many users on dialup connections use this package (along with bind) and make the it's own nameserver to speed up name resoultions. --- cdp - full screen text mode program for playing audio CD's This program allows you to play audio CD's on your computers CDROM drive. It provides a version with a full screen interface as well as a command line version. --- chkconfig - A system tool for maintaining the /etc/rc.d hierarchy 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 - Simple interface for editing the font path for the X font server. This is a simple terminal mode program for adding, removing and listing the directories contained 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 - INN spam filter Cleanfeed is an automatic filter for INN that removes spam from incoming newsfeeds. --- comanche - A front-end for configuring the Apache Web server. Comanche (COnfiguration MANager for apaCHE) is a front-end for the Apache Web server, the most popular Web server used on the Internet. Comanche aims to to make it easier to manage and configure Apache. --- compat-bzip2 - Old bzip2 shared libraries This package includes the old shared libraries necessary to run bzip2 applications. --- compat-kdelibs - K Desktop Environment - Libraries Libraries for the K Desktop Environment: KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kfile (file access), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation), mediatool (sound, mixing and animation). --- compat-kdesupport - K Desktop Environment - Support Libraries Support Libraries used by the K Desktop Environment, but which are not part of KDE itself. Libraries included: uulib, mimelib; depending on the Red Hat release, libraries gdbm, jpeg and gif are either also included, or the versions supplied by Red Hat are required. library QwSpriteField and js is also included. --- compat-libstdc++ - GNU old c++ library This is the GNU implementation of the standard C++ libraries This package includes the old shared libraries necessary to run C++ applications. --- conectiva-release - Conectiva Linux release file Conectiva Linux release file --- conjugue - Script capable to conjugate verbs in the portuguese language Conjugue is an awk script capable to conjugate verbs in the portuguese language, using a paradigm data base built by grammar consulting. Author: Ricardo Ueda Karpischek (ueda@ime.usp.br) --- console-tools - Tools for configuring the console 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. --- console-tools-devel - Header files and libraries needed for console-tools development This package includes the header files and libraries needed for developing programs using console-tools. --- control-center - The GNOME control center. Control-center is a configuration tool for easily setting up your GNOME environment. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name, but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It's a powerful, easy to configure environment which helps to make your computer easy to use. --- control-center-devel - GNOME control-center development files. If you're interested in developing panels for the GNOME control center, you'll want to install this package. Control-center-devel helps you create the 'capplets' which are used in the control center. --- cpio - A GNU archiving program 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. --- cpp - The C Preprocessor Cpp (or cccp) is the GNU C-Compatible Compiler Preprocessor. Cpp is a macro processor which is used automatically by the C compiler to transform your program before actual compilation. It is called a macro processor because it allows you to define macros, abbreviations for longer constructs. The C preprocessor provides four separate functionalities: the inclusion of header files (files of declarations that can be substituted into your program); macro expansion (you can define macros, and the C preprocessor will replace the macros with their definitions throughout the program); conditional compilation (using special preprocessing directives, you can include or exclude parts of the program according to various conditions); and line control (if you use a program to combine or rearrange source files into an intermediate file which is then compiled, you can use line control to inform the compiler about where each source line originated). You should install this package if you are a C programmer and you use macros. --- cproto - Generates function prototypes and variable declarations from C code. Cproto generates function prototypes and variable declarations from C source code. Cproto can also convert function definitions between the old style and the ANSI C style. This conversion will overwrite the original files, however, so be sure to make a backup copy of your original files in case something goes wrong. Since cproto uses a Yacc generated parser, it shouldn't be confused by complex function definitions as much as other prototype generators) because it uses a Yacc generated parser. Cproto will be useful for C programmers, so install cproto if you are going to do any C programming. --- cracklib - A password-checking library. 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 standard CrackLib dictionaries. 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 - Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs. 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. --- ctags - A C programming language indexing and/or cross-reference tool. Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of C language objects found in C source and header files. The index makes it easy for text editors or other utilities to locate the indexed items. Ctags can also generate a cross reference file which lists information about the various objects found in a set of C language files in human readable form. Exuberant Ctags improves on ctags because it can find all types of C language tags, including macro definitions, enumerated values (values inside enum{...}), function and method definitions, enum/struct/union tags, external function prototypes, typedef names and variable declarations. Exuberant Ctags is far less likely to be fooled by code containing #if preprocessor conditional constructs than ctags. Exuberant ctags supports output of emacs style TAGS files and can be used to print out a list of selected objects found in source files. Install ctags if you are going to use your system for C programming. --- cups-devel - Common Unix Printing System - development environment The Common Unix Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX(TM) operating systems. This is the development package for creating additional printer drivers, printing software, and other CUPS services. --- cups-libs - Common Unix Printing System - client libraries CUPS libraries that are needed by the CUPS clients. --- cvs - A version control system. 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. --- cvs-doc - Additional CVS documentation Additional CVS documentation --- cyclom2x-tools - utilities for configuring a cyclom 2x (r) serial sync board utilities for configuring a cyclom 2x (r) serial sync board --- desktop-backgrounds - Desktop Background Images. If you use a desktop environment like GNOME you can use these images to spruce up your background. --- dev - The most commonly-used entries in the /dev directory 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 Linux system and it needs to be installed. --- dhcp - Dynamic Host Control Protocol Server and Clients. This is the second release of the dhcp package from the Internet Software Consortium. It provides a server and a relay agent. --- dhcpcd - DHCPC Daemon dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09 (when -r option is not speci- fied) and RFC1541 (when -r option is specified). It gets the host information (IP address, netmask, broad- cast address, etc.) from a DHCP server and configures the network interface of the machine on which it is running. It also tries to renew the lease time according to RFC1541 or draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09. --- dia - A diagram drawing program. The Dia drawing program is designed to be like the Windows(TM) Visio program. Dia can be used to draw different types of diagrams, and includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), entity relationship modeling, and network diagrams. Dia can load and save diagrams to a custom file format, can load and save in .xml format, and can export to PostScript(TM). --- dialog - A program to build tty dialog boxes Dialog is a utility that allows you to build user interfaces in a TTY (text mode only). You can call dialog from within a shell script to ask the user questions or present with choices in a more user friendly manner. See /usr/share/doc/dialog-*/samples for some examples. --- diffstat - Provides diff file statistics 'diffstat' provides a number of statistics on a patch generated by diff, including number of additions, number of removals, and total number of changes. It can be useful, for example, to find out what changes have been made to a program, just by feeding the update patch to diffstat. --- diffutils - A GNU collection of diff utilities. 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. --- dip - dip modem dialer dip is a program to allow for automatic scripting of modem dialing. It's useful for setting up PPP and SLIP connections, but isn't required for either. It is used by netcfg for setting up SLIP connections. --- doc-licenses - Common licenses Common licenses found on Conectiva Linux. --- dos2unix - Text file format converter Dos2unix converts DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format. --- dosemu - A DOS emulator. Dosemu is a DOS emulator. Once you've installed dosemu, start the DOS emulator by typing in the dos command. You need to install dosemu if you use DOS programs and you want to be able to run them on your Conectiva Linux system. You may also need to install the freedos package. --- dosfstools - A program which creates MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux systems. 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. --- drbd-utils - Utilities to manage DRBD devices DRBD is a block device which is designed to build High Availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (maybe dedicated) network. You could see it as a network RAID 1. This package contains the utils to manage DRBD devices. --- dump - Programs for backing up and restoring filesystems. 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 - Tools for the second extended (ext2) filesystem This package includes a number of utilities for creating, checking, and repairing ext2 filesystems. --- e2fsprogs-devel - e2fs static libs and headers Libraries and header files needed to develop ext2 filesystem-specific programs. --- ed - GNU Line Editor This is the GNU line editor. It is an implementation of one of the first editors under *nix. Some programs rely on it, but in general you probably don't *need* it. --- ee - The Electric Eyes image viewer application. The ee package contains the Electric Eyes image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Electric Eyes is primary an image viewer, but it also allows many types of image manipulations. Electric Eyes can handle almost any type of image. Install the ee package if you need an image viewer. --- efax - A program for faxing using a Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem. Efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that sends and receives faxes using any Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem. You need to install efax if you want to send faxes and you have a Class 1, 2 or 2.0 fax modem. --- egcs-stackguard - The GNU Compiler Collection. The egcs package contains the GNU Compiler Collection: cc, gcc and egcs. You'll need this package in order to compile C/C++ code. --- eject - A program that ejects removable media using software control. 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 - A debugger which detects memory allocation violations. 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. --- elm - The elm mail user agent. Elm is a popular terminal mode email user agent. Elm includes all standard mailhandling features, including MIME support via metamail. Elm is still used by some people, but is no longer in development. If you've used Elm before and you're devoted to it, you should install the elm package. If you would like to use metamail's MIME support, you'll also need to install the metamail package. --- emacs - The libraries needed to run the GNU Emacs text editor. 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 includes the libraries you need to run the Emacs editor, so you need to install this package if you intend to use Emacs. You also need to install the actual Emacs program package (emacs-nox or emacs-X11). Install emacs-nox if you are not going to use the X Window System; install emacs-X11 if you will be using X. --- emacs-el - The sources for elisp programs included with Emacs. Emacs-el contains the emacs-elisp sources for many of the elisp programs included with the main Emacs text editor package. You need to install emacs-el only if you intend to modify any of the Emacs packages or see some elisp examples. --- emacsen-common - Files common to all emacsen This package contains a few files that are common to all emacsen. --- emacs-leim - Emacs Lisp code for input methods for internationalization. The Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international character scripts. --- emacs-nox - The Emacs text editor without support for the X Window System. Emacs-nox is the Emacs text editor program without support for the X Window System. You need to install this package only if you plan on exclusively using Emacs without the X Window System (emacs-X11 will work both in X and out of X, but emacs-nox will only work outside of X). You'll also need to install the emacs package in order to run Emacs. --- emacs-po-mode - For helping GNU gettext lovers to edit PO files with emacs This package provides the tools meant to help editing PO files, as documented in the GNU gettext user's manual. See this manual for user documentation, which is not repeated here. --- emacs-X11 - The Emacs text editor for the X Window System. Emacs-X11 includes the Emacs text editor program for use with the X Window System (it provides support for the mouse and other GUI elements). Emacs-X11 will also run Emacs outside of X, but it has a larger memory footprint than the 'non-X' Emacs package (emacs-nox). Install emacs-X11 if you're going to use Emacs with the X Window System. You should also install emacs-X11 if you're going to run Emacs both with and without X (it will work fine both ways). You'll also need to install the emacs package in order to run Emacs. --- enscript - Converts plain ASCII to PostScript. 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. --- epic - Enhanced console IRC client EPIC is a enhanced console IRC client almost fully backwards-compatible with the irc][ client. --- esound - The Enlightened Sound Daemon. EsounD -- the Enlightened Sound Daemon -- is a server process that allows multiple applications to share a single sound card. For example, when you're listening to music from your CD and you receive a sound-related event from ICQ, your applications won't have to jockey for the attention of your sound card. EsounD mixes several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. Install esound if you'd like to allow for such event sharing by your audio device. --- esound-devel - Libraries, includes and more to develop EsounD applications. Libraries, include files and other resources you can use to develoop EsounD applications. --- etcskel - Red Hat Linux default files for new users' home directories. The etcskel package is part of the basic Red Hat system. Etcskel provides the /etc/skel directory's files. These files (.Xdefaults, .bash_logout, .bash_profile, .bashrc) are then placed in every new user's home directory when new accounts are created. --- etherboot - Free software package for booting x86 PCs over a network Etherboot is a free software package for booting x86 PCs over a network. --- etherboot-netboot - Support package to allow a diskless PC to boot using etherboot This package allows a diskless PC to boot an operating system using a TCP/IP based ethernet network. --- ethereal - Graphical network analyzer Ethereal is a graphical network traffic analyzer that uses the Gtk+ toolkit and allows you to explore network traffic in an intuitive way. --- everybuddy - A Universal Instant Messanging Client Everybuddy is designed to become a Universal Instant Messaging client and designed to seamlessly integrate all existing Instant Messaging clients and provide a single consistant user interface. Currently, Everybuddy supports sending and reciveing messages in AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN. IRC support is possibly planned to be incorporated in future releases. --- expect - A tcl extension for simplifying program-script interaction. 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. --- ext2ed - An ext2 filesystem editor. Ext2ed is a program which provides a text and window interface for examining and editing an ext2 filesystem. Ext2ed is supposed to be easier to use than debugfs, but debugfs is more powerful. Note that this program should only be used by someone who is very experienced at hacking filesystems. Install ext2ed if you want to examine and/or edit your ext2 filesystem, and you know what you're doing. --- fake - Switches in redundant servers using arp spoofing Fake is a utility that enables the IP address be taken over by bringing up a second interface on the host machine and using gratuitous arp. Designed to switch in backup servers on a LAN. --- faq - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Linux. The faq package includes the text of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Linux from the SunSITE website (http://www.ibiblio.org/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. --- fbi - fbi is image viewer for framebuffer machines, This is a image viewer for linux framebuffer devices. It supports PhotoCD, JPEG and PPM directly. GIF, TIFF and PNG are handled with the netpbm tools, for anything else convert from the ImageMagick package is used as external converter. --- fbset - Framebuffer utilities for changing video modes. fbset is a utility for querying and changing video modes of fbcon consoles. --- fetchmail - Full-featured POP/IMAP mail retrieval daemon 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. --- fetchmailconf - A GUI configurator for generating fetchmail configuration files A GUI configurator for generating fetchmail configuration file written in python --- file - A utility for determining file types 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 basic directory layout for a Linux system 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 - The GNU versions of common file management utilities 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 GNU versions of find utilities 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 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 - The finger client and 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 package includes a standard finger client and server. The server daemon (fingerd) runs from /etc/inetd.conf, which must be modified to disable finger requests. You should install finger if your system is used by multiple users and you'd like finger information to be available. --- finger-server - The finger daemon 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 - GNU fast lexical analyzer generator This is the GNU fast lexical analyzer generator. It generates lexical tokenizing code based on a lexical (regular expression based) description of the input. It is designed to work with both yacc and bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. --- fnlib - Color font rendering library for X11R6 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 Headers, static libraries and documentation for Fnlib. --- fortune-mod - fortune cookie program with bug fixes This is the ever popular fortune program. It will gladly print a random fortune when run. Is usually fun to put in the .login for your users on a system so they see something new every time they log in. --- fortune-pt_BR - Portuguese fortunes Portuguese fortunes. This is an addiction to the fortune program. use with: fortune fortunes-pt_BR --- fping - A tool to ping multiple hosts at once. fping is a like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending to one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion. --- freedos - A FreeDOS hdimage for dosemu, a DOS emulator, to use. Generally, the dosemu DOS emulator requires either that your system have some version of DOS available or that your system's partitions were formatted and installed with DOS. If your system does not meet either of the previous requirements, you can instead use the freedos package, which contains an hdimage file which will be installed in the /var/lib/dosemu directory. The hdimage file is already bootable with FreeDOS. You will need to edit your /etc/dosemu.conf file to add the image to the list of disk 'drives' used by dosemu. Install freedos if you are installing the dosemu package and you don't have a version of DOS available on your system, and your system's partitions were not formatted and installed with DOS. --- freeswan - FreeS/WAN is an IPSec implementation for Linux FreeS/WAN is an IPSec implementation for Linux --- freetype - Free TrueType font rasterizer library. 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, not a stand-alone application, though some utility applications are included. --- freetype-devel - Header files and static library for development with FreeType. This package is only needed if you intend to develop or compile applications which rely on the FreeType library. If you simply want to run existing applications, you won't need this package. --- freetype-utils - Several utilities to manipulate and examine TrueType fonts. This package contains several utilities which allow you to view and manipulate true type fonts. They are mainly useful for debugging and testing purposes, and are not required for using the FreeType library. --- fte - Text editor for console and X Window System. Multiple file/window editing, Column blocks, configurable menus and keyboard bindings, mouse support, undo/redo, regular expression search and replace, folding, background compiler execution, Color syntax highlighting for C/C++, HTML, PERL, TEX, and many more. --- ftp - Standard Unix ftp (file transfer protocol) client This provides the standard Unix command-line ftp client. ftp is the standard Internet file transfer protocol, which is extremely popular for both file archives and file transfers between individuals. --- fwhois - finger-style whois This is the ``whois'' program. It will allow you to find out information on people stored in the whois databases around the world. --- gal - G App Libs This module contains some library functions that came from Gnumeric and Evolution. The idea is to reuse those widgets across various larger GNOME applications that might want to use these widgets. --- gal-devel - gal static libraries and headers The static libraries and include files needed to compile apps that use gal. --- gated - GateD daemon for 2.0.x kernels GateD is a routing daemon that handles multiple routing protocols and replaces routed and egpup. GateD currently handles the RIP, BGP, EGP, HELLO, and OSPF routing protocols. The gated process can be configured to perform all routing protocols or any subset of them. It is curently maintained by Merit. --- gawk - GNU utilities text processor. This is GNU Awk. It should be upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. Gawk can be used to process text files and is considered a standard Linux tool. --- gawk-doc - Documentation on awk This package contains documentation on the text utility awk. --- gcc - The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) The GCC package contains the GNU Compiler Collection. It includes all of the support for compiling C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Java, and Chill programs. --- gcc-c++ - C++ support for gcc 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. --- gcc-chill - CHILL support for gcc This package adds support for compiling CHILL programs with the GNU compiler. Chill is the "CCITT High-Level Language", where CCITT is the old name for what is now ITU, the International Telecommunications Union. It is is language in the Modula2 family, and targets many of the same applications as Ada (especially large embedded systems). Chill was never used much in the United States, but is still being used in Europe, Brazil, Korea, and other places. --- gcc-g77 - Fortran 77 support for gcc The gcc-g77 package provides support for compiling Fortran 77 programs with the GNU gcc compiler. You should install gcc-g77 if you are going to do Fortran development and you would like to use the gcc compiler. You will also need gcc. --- gcc-java - Java support for gcc This package adds experimental support for compiling Java(tm) programs and bytecode into native code. To use this you will also need the libgcj package. --- gcc-objc - Objective C support for gcc gcc-objc provides Objective C support for the GNU C compiler (gcc). Mainly used on systems running NeXTSTEP, Objective C is an object-oriented derivative of the C language. Install gcc-objc if you are going to do Objective C development and you would like to use the gcc compiler. You'll also need gcc. --- gdb - A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++ and Fortran 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. 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 - A GNU set of database routines which use extensible hashing 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 - Development libraries and header files for the gdbm library. 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. --- gdk-pixbuf - The GdkPixBuf image handling library The GdkPixBuf library provides a number of features, including : - GdkPixbuf structure for representing images. - Image loading facilities. - Rendering of a GdkPixBuf into various formats: drawables (windows, pixmaps), GdkRGB buffers. - Fast scaling and compositing of pixbufs. - Simple animation loading (ie. animated gifs) In addition, this module also provides a little libgnomecanvaspixbuf library, which contains a GNOME Canvas item to display pixbufs with full affine transformations. --- gdk-pixbuf-devel - Libraries and include files for developing GdkPixBuf applications. Libraries and include files for developing GdkPixBuf applications. --- gedit - gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME. gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions. You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit. --- genromfs - Tool for creating romfs filesystems Genromfs is a tool for creating romfs filesystems, which are lightweight, read-only filesystems supported by the Linux kernel. --- gettext - Libraries and utilties for program national language support 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. --- gettext-extras - Extra scripts for i18n development Extra scripts for i18n development --- gettext-tupdate - perl script, similar to msgmerge perl script, similar to msgmerge --- getty_ps - The getty and uugetty programs. 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. --- gfcc - GTK firewall control center gfcc (GTK+ Firewall Control Center) is a GTK+ application which can control Linux firewall policies and rules, based on ipchains package. --- ghostscript - PostScript interpreter and renderer, all printer drivers 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. Most applications use PostScript for printer output. In addition, the package contains filters which transfer the raw bitmap of GhostScript into the protocol of some additional printer models, and some tools for maintenance of Lexmark printers (cartridge changing and head aligning). You should install ghostscript if you need to display PostScript files, or if you have a non-PostScript printer. --- ghostscript-fonts - Fonts for the GhostScript interpreter These fonts can be used by the GhostScript interpreter during text rendering. They are in addition to the shared fonts between GhostScript and X11. --- ghostscript-svgalib - PostScript interpreter and renderer (additional support for SVGALIB) Ghostscript is a PostScript interpreter. It can render both PostScript and PDF compliant files to devices which include many printer formats (including support for colour printers), and popular graphics file formats. This version enhances ghostscript with console output using SVGALIB. --- gif2png - tools for converting websites from using GIFs to using PNGs Tools for converting GIFs to PNGs. The program gif2png converts GIF files to PNG files. The Python script web2png converts an entire web tree, also patching HTML pages to keep IMG SRC references correct. --- giftrans - converts and manipulates GIFs This program can convert and manipulate GIF images from the command line. It is most useful for making a color transparent for web sites. --- gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for Web pages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo. The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP FTP site has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are so inclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts. Install the GIMP if you need a powerful image manipulation program. You may also want to install other GIMP packages: gimp-libgimp if you're going to use any GIMP plug-ins and gimp-data-extras, which includes various extra files for the GIMP. --- gimp-data-extras - The GNU Image Manipulation Program Patterns, gradients etc. for gimp. This package isn't required, but contains lots of goodies for gimp. --- gimp-devel - GIMP plugin and extension development kit Static libraries and header files for writing GIMP plugins and extensions. --- gimp-perl - GIMP perl extensions and plugins. The gimp-perl package contains all the perl extensions and perl plugins. --- glade - A GTK+ GUI builder. GLADE is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). GLADE can produce C source code; C++, Ada95, Python and Perl support is also available, via external tools which process the XML interface description files output by GLADE. GLADE supports most GTK+ 1.2 widgets. Support for styles, however, is not complete. Install glade if you need an interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME. --- glib - Handy library of utility functions Handy library of utility functions. Development libs and headers are in glib-devel. --- glibc - The GNU libc libraries. 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 - Header and object files for development using standard C libraries. 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 GNU libc libraries, including support for gprof profiling. 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. --- glib-devel - GIMP Toolkit and GIMP Drawing Kit support library Static libraries and header files for the support library for the GIMP's X libraries, which are available as public libraries. GLIB includes generally useful data structures. --- Glide_V3-DRI - Glide runtime for 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 boards This library allows the user to use a 3dfx Interactive Voodoo Banshee or Voodoo3 card under Linux with DRI support. The source support DRI or non-DRI versions of Glide. --- gmc - Midnight Commander visual shell (GNOME version). Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only with way more features. This is the GNOME version. It's coolest feature is the ability to ftp, view tar, zip files and poke into RPMs for specific files. The GNOME version of Midnight Commander is not yet finished though. :-( --- gmp - A GNU arbitrary precision library 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 - Development tools for the GNU MP arbitrary precision library 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. --- gnome-audio - Sounds for GNOME events. If you use the GNOME desktop environment, you may want to install this package of complementary sounds. --- gnome-audio-extra - Optional sounds for the GNOME desktop. This package contains extra sound files useful for customizing the sounds that the GNOME desktop environment makes. --- gnome-core - The core programs for the GNOME GUI desktop environment. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on Open Source software. The gnome-core package includes the basic programs and libraries that are needed to install GNOME. You should install the gnome-core package if you would like to use the GNOME desktop environment. You'll also need to install the gnome-libs package. If you want to use linuxconf with a GNOME front end, you'll also need to install the gnome-linuxconf package. --- gnome-core-devel - GNOME core libraries, includes and more. Panel libraries and header files for creating GNOME panels. --- gnome-libs - The libraries needed by the GNOME GUI desktop environment. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on Open Source software. The gnome-libs package includes libraries that are needed by GNOME. You should install the gnome-libs package if you would like to use the GNOME desktop environment. You'll also need to install the gnome-core package. If you would like to develop GNOME applications, you'll also need to install gnome-libs-devel. If you want to use linuxconf with a GNOME front end, you'll also need to install the gnome-linuxconf package. --- gnome-libs-devel - Libraries and include files for developing GNOME applications. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on Open Source software. 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. If you are going to develop GNOME applications and/or you're going to use the GNOME desktop environment, you'll also need to install the gnome-core and gnome-libs packages. If you want to use linuxconf with a GNOME front end, you'll also need to install the gnome-linuxconf package. --- gnome-libs-devel-doc - GNOME documentation This package contains some documentation that may be useful to developers of applications that use Gnome. --- gnome-linuxconf - The GNOME front-end for linuxconf. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on Open Source software. The gnome-linuxconf package includes GNOME's front end for the linuxconf system configuration utility. You should install the gnome-linuxconf package if you would like to use GNOME's linuxconf front end. You'll also need to install the gnome-core and gnome-libs packages. If you would like to develop GNOME applications, you'll also need to install gnome-libs-devel. --- gnome-media - GNOME media programs GNOME media programs. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It makes using your computer easy, powerful, and easy to configure. --- gnome-network - GNOME network programs GNOME network programs. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It makes using your computer easy, powerful, and easy to configure. --- gnome-objc - GNOME Objective C libraries Basic libraries you must have installed to use GNOME programs that are built with Objective C. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It makes using your computer easy, powerful, and easy to configure. --- gnome-objc-devel - Libraries, includes, etc to develop Objective C GNOME applications Libraries, include files, etc you can use to develop Objective C GNOME applications. --- gnome-pim - The GNOME Personal Information Manager. The GNOME Personal Information Manager consists of applications to make keeping up with your busy life easier. Currently these apps are present: - gnomecal : personal calendar and todo list - gnomecard: contact list of friends and business associates --- gnome-print - GNOME print GNOME print contains the necessary libraries to help GNOME programs print. --- gnome-print-devel - Libraries and include files for GNOME print This package contains the necessary libraries and include files to compile applications that use GNOME print. --- gnome-start - Startup script and gnomeinitrc for GNOME. Replacement for startx and xinitrc to start GNOME in a convenient way. You have to use the 'gnome' command instead of 'startx' to start GNOME. --- gnome-utils - GNOME utility programs GNOME utility programs. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It makes using your computer easy, powerful, and easy to configure. --- gnorpm - A graphical front end to the Red Hat Package Manager, for GNOME Gnome RPM is a graphical front end to RPM, similar to Glint, but written with the GTK widget set and the GNOME libraries. It is currently under development, so there are some features missing, but you can currently query packages in the filesystem and database, install upgrade, uninstall and verify packages. --- gnotepad+ - Simple but versatile editor for X11. gnotepad+ is an easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple text editor for systems running X11 and using GTK+. It is designed for as little bloat as possible, while still providing many of the common features found in a modern GUI-based text editor. --- gnumeric - The full-featured GNOME spreadsheet. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. This powerful environment is both easy to use and easy to configure. This package will install Gnumeric the GNOME spreadsheet program. This program is intended to be a replacement for a commercial spreadsheet, so quite a bit of work has gone into the program. Install this package if you want to use the GNOME spreadsheet Gnumeric. --- gnupg - GPL public key crypto 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). --- gnuplot - A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats. Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation. --- gpart - Guesses and recovers damaged Master Boot Records Gpart is a small tool which tries to guess what partitions are on a PC type harddisk in case the primary partition table was damaged. --- gphone - internet phone with a gtk interface gphone is an "internet phone" -- it lets you talk (out loud, not by typing) over a network connection. --- gphoto - gPhoto - the GNU Digital Camera Program gPhoto is part of the GNU project - and is an universal, free GTK+ application and library framework that lets you download images from several different digital camera models, and from the local harddrive, and generate HTML albums. --- gpm - A mouse server for the Linux console. 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 should be installed if you intend to use a mouse with your Red Hat Linux system. --- gpm-devel - Libraries and header files for developing mouse driven programs. 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 grep pattern matching utilities. 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 - GNU groff text formatting package 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-extras - Extra groff scripts The package contains some extra scripts, mainly in perl. --- groff-gxditview - GNU groff X previewer 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. --- grub - GRUB - the Grand Unified Boot Loader This is GRUB - the Grand Unified Boot Loader, a experimental boot loader capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating systems. --- gsl - GNU Scientific library This is the GNU scientific library. Linking against it gives access to functions for handling many problems that arise in scientific computing. --- gsl-devel - Development tools for gsl applications The header files, libraries and documentation needed for developing gsl applications. --- gtk+ - The Gimp Toolkit The X libraries originally written for the GIMP, which are now used by several other programs as well. --- gtk+-devel - GIMP Toolkit and GIMP Drawing Kit - Development libraries Static libraries and header files for the GIMP's X libraries, which are available as public libraries. GLIB includes generally useful data structures, GDK is a drawing toolkit which provides a thin layer over Xlib to help automate things like dealing with different color depths, and GTK is a widget set for creating user interfaces. --- gtk-engines - Default GTK+ theme engines These are the graphical engines for the various GTK+ toolkit themes. Included themes are: - Notif - redmond95 - Pixmap - Metal (Java swing-like) --- Gtk-Perl - Perl extensions for GTK+ (the Gimp ToolKit). This package includes Perl extensions for GTK+ (the Gimp ToolKit), a library used for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. The extensions provided in this package allow you to write graphical interfaces using Perl and GTK+. If you install this package, you'll need to also have Perl and GTK+ installed. --- gtksee - A Image viewer based on X-Window system and GTK+. A Image viewer based on X-Window system and GTK+. The main purpose is to port ACD See, which is a very popular image viewer in M$ world, to Unix platform. --- gtm - GNOME Transfer Manager GTransferManager allows the user to retrieve multiple files from the web. These files can be retrieved in multiple parts and each part retrieved on a separate session that the user is connected to the Internet. This is most useful to users with dialup connections. The program performs this tasks using wget as it's back-end. --- gtop - GNOME System Monitor GNOME System Monitor. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It makes using your computer easy, powerful, and easy to configure. --- guile - A GNU implementation of Scheme for application extensibility 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. You'll also need to install the guile-devel package. --- guile-devel - The libraries and header files for the GUILE extensibility library. 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 - Enhanced frontend for ghostscript gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. gv is based upon an earlier program known as ghostview. --- g-wrap - A utility for automatically generating glue code to export C libraries to Guile Scheme and RScheme. g-wrap is a tool for specifying types, functions, and constants to import into a Scheme interpreter, and for generating code (in C) to interface these to the Guile and RScheme interpreters in particular. --- g-wrap-devel - Header files and static libs for g-wrap used by gnucash Header files and static libs needed to compile gnucash --- GXedit - A multi-function text editor using GTK+ Here is a fast, easy-to-use editor which is both network- oriented and very secure. GXedit is a graphical text editor which features a toolbar, network bar and tooltips, spell checking, inline help, the ability to send text as e-mail, macros and more. GXedit was designed to balance these and many other features without becoming too bloated. You'll need GTK+ to use GXedit. --- gzip - GNU gzip file compression This is the popular GNU file compression and decompression program, gzip. --- hdparm - utility for setting (E)IDE performance parameters This is a utility for setting Hard Drive parameters. It is useful for tweaking performance and for doing things like spinning down hard drives to conserve power. --- heartbeat - heartbeat - heartbeat subsystem for High-Availability Linux heartbeat is a basic heartbeat subsystem for Linux-HA. It will run scripts at initialization, and when machines go up or down. This version will also perform IP address takeover using gratuitious ARPs. It works correctly for a 2-node configuration, and is extensible to larger configurations. It implements the following kinds of heartbeats: - Bidirectional Serial Rings ("raw" serial ports) - UDP/IP braodcast (ethernet, etc) - Bidirectional Serial PPP/UDP Rings (using PPP) There's also a daemon to redirect requests and do load balancing. --- hfsutils - Tools for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes A portable, free implementation of routines for accessing HFS volumes. Provided through several command-line programs, a tk-based front end for browsing and copying files, and a Tcl package and interface for scriptable access to volumes. --- hfsutils-devel - C library for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes A portable, free implementation of routines for accessing HFS volumes via a C library for low-level access to volumes. --- htdig - A web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet 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. --- icecast - Icecast - streaming MP3 server 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. --- icepref - This is a GTK-based configuration tool for Icewm IcePref is a small graphical utility (written with python and the Gtk toolkit) designed to simplify the configuration of Ice Window Manager. --- icewm - X11 Window Manager 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. --- icewm-themes - X11 Window Manager Themes Themes for icewm window manager. --- icmpinfo - ICMP message logger Icmpinfo is a tool for looking at the icmp messages received on the running host. --- ImageMagick - An X application for displaying and manipulating images ImageMagick is a powerful image display, coversion and manipulation tool. It runs in an X session. With this tool, you can view, edit and display a variety of image formats. This package installs the necessary files to run ImageMagick. --- ImageMagick-devel - Static libraries and header files for ImageMagick app development. If you want to create applications that will use ImageMagick code or APIs, you'll need to install these packages as well as ImageMagick. These additional packages aren't necessary if you simply want to use ImageMagick, however. ImageMagick-devel is an addition to ImageMagick which includes static libraries and header files necessary to develop applications. --- ImageMagick-perl - Perl Module to use ImageMagick This packages provides a perl module to access ImagickMagick functions from perl scripts. --- imap - Server daemons for IMAP and POP network mail protocols. 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 provides the functionality of POP, but 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 - Libraries, includes, etc to develop IMAP applications Libraries, include files, etc to develop POP/IMAP applications --- imlib - An image loading and rendering library for X11R6. 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 - A configuration editor for the Imlib library. 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 - Development tools for Imlib applications. 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. --- indent - GNU C indenting program This is the GNU indenting program. It is used to beautify C program source files. --- indexhtml - Conectiva html index page Conectiva html index page --- inews - Sends Usenet articles to a local news server for distribution. 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 - A stand-alone TTY-based reader for GNU texinfo documentation. 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 inittab file and the /etc/rc.d scripts. 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. --- initscripts-translations - Translations for all initscritps in /etc/rc.d/init.d Translations for all initscritps in /etc/rc.d/init.d --- inn - The InterNetNews (INN) system, an Usenet news server. 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 (InterNetNews) library. 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. --- intimed - time server for clock synchornization intimed is a server that will tell networked machines what time it currently has. It is useful for keeping networks of machines in sync with the proper time. --- ipchains - IP Firewalling Chains. Linux IP Firewalling Chains is an update to (and hopefully an improvement upon) the normal Linux Firewalling code, for 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. It lets you do things like firewalls, IP masquerading, etc. --- ipmasqadm - ipmasqadm utility This tool allows ipmasq addtional setup, it is needed if you want to activate port forwarding or auto forwarding in 2.1 kernels. --- ippl - IP packet logger IPPL logs IP packets sent to a system. --- iproute - Enhanced IP routing and network devices configuration tools Linux 2.2 maintains compatibility with the basic configuration utilities of the network (ifconfig, route) but a new utility is required to exploit the new characteristics and features of the kernel. This package includes the new utilities (/sbin/ip, /sbin/rtmon). --- iptraf - IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring program IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring program that displays information about IP traffic. This program can be used to determine the type of traffic on your network, and what kind of service is the most heavily used on what machines, among others. --- ipvsadm - administration tool for Virtual Server ipvsadm is a utility to administer the IP virtual server services offered by the Linux kernel with virtual server patch. The virtual server alters kernel routing tables to masquerade actual servers to appear as a single virtual server. --- ipxutils - Tools for configuring and debugging IPX interfaces and networks. The ipxutils package includes utilities (ipx_configure, ipx_internal_net, ipx_interface, ipx_route) necessary for configuring and debugging IPX interfaces and networks under Linux. IPX is the low-level protocol used by Novell's NetWare file server system to transfer data. Install ipxutils if you need to configure IPX networking on your network. --- ircd - Popular Unix Irc server This is a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server. --- ircii - Popular Unix Irc client This is a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It is a program used to connect to IRC servers around the globe so that the user can ``chat'' with others. --- irda-utils - Utilities for infrared communication between devices. IrDA(TM) (Infrared Data Association) is an industry standard for wireless, infrared communication between devices. IrDA speeds range from 9600 bps to 4 Mbps, and IrDA can be used by many modern devices including laptops, LAN adapters, PDAs, printers, and mobile phones. The Linux-IrDA project is a GPL'd implementation, written from scratch, of the IrDA protocols. Supported IrDA protocols include IrLAP, IrLMP, IrIAP, IrTTP, IrLPT, IrLAN, IrCOMM and IrOBEX. The irda-utils package contains a collection of programs that enable the use of IrDA protocols. Most IrDA features are implemented in the kernel, so IrDA support must be enabled in the kernel before any IrDA tools or programs can be used. Some configuration outside the kernel is required, however, and some IrDA features, like IrOBEX, are actually implemented outside the kernel. --- isapnptools - Utilities for configuring ISA Plug-and-Play (PnP) devices. The isapnptools package contains utilities for configuring ISA Plug-and-Play (PnP) cards/boards which are in compliance with the PnP ISA Specification Version 1.0a. ISA PnP cards use registers instead of jumpers for setting the board address and interrupt assignments. The cards also contain descriptions of the resources which need to be allocated. The BIOS on your system, or isapnptools, uses a protocol described in the specification to find all of the PnP boards and allocate the resources so that none of them conflict. Note that the BIOS doesn't do a very good job of allocating resources. So isapnptools is suitable for all systems, whether or not they include a PnP BIOS. In fact, a PnP BIOS adds some complications. A PnP BIOS may already activate some cards so that the drivers can find them. Then these tools can unconfigure them or change their settings, causing all sorts of nasty effects. If you have PnP network cards that already work, you should read through the documentation files very carefully before you use isapnptools. Install isapnptools if you need utilities for configuring ISA PnP cards. --- ispell - The GNU interactive spelling checker program. 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...). --- ispell-american - Ispell dictionary for American English Ispell dictionary for American English --- ispell-brazilian - Ispell dictionary for Brazilian Portuguese Ispell dictionary for Brazilian Portuguese. It contains the br.ispell package by Ricardo Ueda Karpischek. There is another package called ispell-portuguese for Portuguese, as it is spelled in Portugal. --- ispell-british - Ispell dictionary for British English Ispell dictionary for British English --- ispell-portuguese - Ispell dictionary for Portuguese spelled in Portugal This package contains the ispell files for Portuguese, as it is spelled in Portugal (there is another package called ispell-brazilian for the spelling of Brazilian Portuguese). --- ispell-spanish - Ispell dictionary for Spanish Ispell dictionary for Spanish --- itcl - object oriented mega widgets for tcl [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 - A fast, compact editor based on the slang screen library. 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 - Files needed by any Jed editor. The jed-common package contains files (such as .sl files) that are needed by any jed binary in order to run. --- jed-xjed - The X Window System version of the Jed text editor. 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. --- jikes - Java Compiler JikesTM is a compiler from Java source code to bytecode. If you need more information, see http://OSS.Software.IBM.Com/developerworks/opensource/jikes/project/ --- joe - An easy to use, modeless text editor. Joe is an easy to use, modeless text editor which would be very appropriate for novices. Joe uses the same WordStar keybindings used in Borland's development environment. You should install joe if you've used it before and you liked it, or if you're still deciding what text editor you'd like to use, or if you have a fondness for WordStar. If you're just starting out, you should probably install joe because it is very easy to use. --- kbdconfig - Text tool for setting and loading a keyboard map This is a terminal mode program for setting the keyboard map for your system. Keyboard maps are necessary for using non US default keyboards. Kbdconfig loads the selected keymap before exiting and configures your machine to use that keymap automatically after rebooting. --- kdeadmin - K Desktop Environment - Admin tools Administration tools for the K Desktop Environment. Included with this package are: kpackage, kdat, kwuftpd --- kdebase - K Desktop Environment - core files Core applications for the K Desktop Environment. Included are: kdm (replacement for xdm), kwm (window manager), konqueror (filemanager, web browser, ftp client, ...), konsole (xterm replacement), kpanel (application starter and desktop pager), kaudio (audio server), kdehelp (viewer for kde help files, info and man pages), kthememgr (system for managing alternate theme packages) plus other KDE components (kcheckpass, kikbd, konsole, kscreensaver, kcontrol, kfind, kfontmanager, kmenuedit, kappfinder). --- kdegames - K Desktop Environment - Games Games for the K Desktop Environment. Included with this package are: kabalone, kasteroids, kblackbox, kmahjongg, kmines, konquest, kpat, kpoker, kreversi, ksame, kshisen, ksokoban, ksmiletris, ksnake, ksirtet, katomic, kjumpingcube, ktuberling. --- kdegraphics - K Desktop Environment - Graphics Applications Graphics applications for the K Desktop Environment. Includes: kdvi (displays TeX .dvi files); kfax (displays fax files); kfract (a fractal generator); kghostview (displays postscript files); kiconedit (icon editor); kpaint (a simple drawing program); ksnapshot (screen capture utility); kview (image viewer for GIF, JPEG, TIFF, etc.). --- kde-i18n-de - German language support for KDE German language support for KDE --- kde-i18n-en_GB - Brisish English support for KDE British English language support for KDE --- kde-i18n-es - Spanish language support for KDE Spanish language support for KDE --- kde-i18n-fr - French language support for KDE French language support for KDE --- kde-i18n-it - Italian language support for KDE Italian language support for KDE --- kde-i18n-pt - Portuguese language support for KDE Portuguese language support for KDE --- kde-i18n-pt_BR - Brazil Portuguese language support for KDE Brazil Portuguese language support for KDE --- kdelibs - K Desktop Environment - Libraries Libraries for the K Desktop Environment: KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kfile (file access), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation), arts (sound, mixing and animation). --- kdelibs-devel - Header files and documentation for compiling KDE applications. This package includes the header files you will need to compile applications for KDE. Also included is the KDE API documentation in HTML format for easy browsing. --- kdemultimedia - Multimedia applications for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a GUI desktop for the X Window System. The kdemultimedia package contains multimedia applications for KDE, including kmedia, a media player; kmid, a midi/karaoke player; kmidi, a midi-to-wav player/converter; kmix, a mixer; and kscd, and audio CD player. Install kdemultimedia if you need multimedia applications for KDE. If you're installing KDE, you'll also need to install kdebase, kdelibs and kdesupport. --- kdenetwork - K Desktop Environment - Network Applications Networking applications for the K Desktop Environment. --- kdepim - Personal Information Management (PIM) for KDE kdepim is a collection of Personal Information Management (PIM) tools for the K Desktop Enviromnent (KDE) kdepim contains the following applications: KOrganizer: a complete calendar and scheduling program. KOrganizer supports information interchange with other calendar applications through the industry standard vCalendar file format. Empath: an E-Mail client abbrowser: an address book reader kpilot: Syncronization tool for 3com Palm Pilots and compatible devices twister: A PIM client --- kdesupport - K Desktop Environment - Support Libraries Support Libraries for the K Desktop Environment, but not part of it. Libraries included are: QwSpriteField, js (javascript), uulib, mimelib, and rdb. --- kdesupport-devel - Header files and documentation for KDE Support Libraries This package includes some header files you will need to compile applications for KDE. --- kdeutils - K Desktop Environment - Utilities Utilities for the K Desktop Environment. Includes: ark (tar/gzip archive manager); kab (address book); karm (personal time tracker); kcalc (scientific calculator); kedit (simple text editor); kfloppy (floppy formatting tool); khexedit (hex editor); kjots (note taker); klipper (clipboard tool); kljettool(HP printer configuration tool); klpq (print queue manager) knotes (post-it notes for the desktop); kpm (process manager similar to 'top', but more advanced);kwrite (improved text editor). --- kernel - The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Conectiva Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. --- kernel - The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Conectiva Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. --- kernel - The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Conectiva Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. --- kernel-BOOT - Kernel version 2.2.17 used on the installation boot disks. This package includes a trimmed down version of the Linux 2.2.17 kernel. This kernel is used on the installation boot disks only and should not be used for an installed system, as many features in this kernel are turned off because of the size constraints. --- kernel-doc - Various documentation bits found in the kernel source. 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 also might want install this package if you need a reference to the options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time. --- kernel-enterprise - Kernel version 2.2.17 compiled for big servers. This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for the typical large enterprise server. This includes SMP support for multiple processor machines, support for large memory configurations, support for large file I/O, and other appropriate items. --- kernel-headers - Header files for the Linux kernel. 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. The header files are also needed for rebuilding the kernel. --- kernel-ibcs - Files which allow iBCS2 programs to run. This package allows you to run programs in the iBCS2 (Intel Binary Compatibility Standard, version 2) and related executable formats. iBCS is a standard for binary portability between UNIX and UNIX-like systems. --- kernel-install - Install script for new kernels Install script for new kernels --- kernel-pcmcia-cs - The daemon and device drivers for using PCMCIA adapters. Many laptop machines (and some non-laptops) support PCMCIA cards for expansion. Also known as "credit card adapters," PCMCIA cards are small cards for everything from SCSI support to modems. PCMCIA cards are hot swappable (i.e., they can be exchanged without rebooting the system) and quite convenient to use. The kernel-pcmcia-cs package contains a set of loadable kernel modules that implement an applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events by loading and unloading drivers on demand. The daemon also supports hot swapping, so that the cards can be safely inserted and ejected at any time. Install the kernel-pcmcia-cs package if your system uses PCMCIA cards. --- kernel-smp - Kernel version 2.2.17 compiled for SMP machines. This package includes a SMP version of the Linux 2.2.17 kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. --- kernel-smp - Kernel version 2.2.17 compiled for SMP machines. This package includes a SMP version of the Linux 2.2.17 kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. --- kernel-smp - Kernel version 2.2.17 compiled for SMP machines. This package includes a SMP version of the Linux 2.2.17 kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes. --- kernel-source - The source code for the Linux kernel. 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). --- kgcc - The GNU C Compiler for kernel compilation The kgcc package contains the GNU C Compiler. It is based on egcs 1.1.2. You'll need this package in order to compile the Linux kernel. --- koffice - Set of office applications for KDE Office applications for the K Desktop Environment 2.0. KOffice contains KWord (word processor), KSpread (spreadsheet), KPresenter (Presentations) and KChart (diagram generator). --- ksymoops - Kernel oops and error message decoder The Linux kernel produces error messages that contain machine specific numbers which are meaningless for debugging. ksymoops reads machine specific files and the error log and converts the addresses to meaningful symbols and offsets. --- kudzu - Hardware probing tool Kudzu is a hardware probing tool run at system boot time to determine what hardware has been added or removed from the system. --- kudzu-devel - The development library for hardware probing. The kudzu-devel package contains the libkudzu and libmodules libraries, which are libraries used for hardware probing and configuration. --- lam - LAM MPI LAM (Local Area Multicomputer) is an MPI programming environment and development system for heterogeneous computers on a network. With LAM, a dedicated cluster or an existing network computing infrastructure can act as one parallel computer solving one problem. LAM features extensive debugging support in the application development cycle and peak performance for production applications. LAM features a full implementation of the MPI communication standard. --- ldconfig - Creates shared library cache and maintains symlinks ldconfig scans a running system and sets up the symbolic links that are used to load shared libraries properly. It also creates /etc/ld.so.cache which speeds the loading programs which use shared libraries. --- ld.so - Shared library configuration tool and old dynamic loader This package contains the shared library configuration tool, ldconfig, which is required by many packages. It also includes the shared library loader and dynamic loader for Linux libc 5. --- less - text file browser -- less is more less is a text file viewer much like 'more', only better. --- libc - The compatibility libraries needed by old libc.so.5 applications. Older Linux systems (including all Red Hat Linux releases between 2.0 and 4.2, inclusive) were based on libc version 5. The libc package includes the libc5 libraries and other libraries based on libc5. With these libraries installed, old applications which need them will be able to run on your glibc (libc version 6) based system. The libc package should be installed so that you can run older applications which need libc version 5. --- libdockapp - DockApp Making Standard Library --- libdockapp-devel - Development files for DockApp Making Standard Library --- libgcj - Java runtime library for gcc The Java runtime library. You will need this package to compile your Java programs using the gcc Java compiler (gcj). --- libgd - Images manipulating library This is the gd image manipulating library. It was created to allow graphs, charts and the like to be generated on the fly for use on the World wide Web, but is useful for any application in which custom images are useful. It is not a paint program; it is a library. --- libgd-devel - header files and libraries needed for gd development This package includes the header files and libraries needed for developing programs using gd. --- libghttp - GNOME http client library Library for making HTTP 1.1 requests. --- libghttp-devel - GNOME http client development Libraries and includes files you can use for libghttp development --- libglade - libglade allows you to load glade interface files in a program at runtime Libglade 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. --- libglade-devel - The files needed for libglade application development. The libglade-devel package contains the libraries, include files, etc., that you can use to develop libglade applications. --- libgr - A library for handling different graphics file formats. The libgr package contains a library of functions which support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable pitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps), .ppm (portable pixmaps) and others. --- libgr-devel - Development tools for programs which will use the libgr library. The libgr-devel package contains the header files and static libraries, etc., for developing programs which can handle the various graphics file formats supported by the libgr library. Install libgr-devel if you want to develop programs for handling the graphics file formats supported by the libgr library. You'll also need to have the libgr package installed. --- libgr-progs - Tools for manipulating graphics files in libgr supported formats. The libgr-progs package contains a group of scripts for manipulating the graphics files in formats which are supported by the libgr library. For example, libgr-progs includes the rasttopnm script, which will convert a Sun rasterfile into a portable anymap. Libgr-progs contains many other scripts for converting from one graphics file format to another. If you need to use these conversion scripts, you should install libgr-progs. You'll also need to install the libgr package. --- libgsm - GSM audio encoding/decoding library This is a free and public implementation of GSM audio encoding and decoding. The gsm library is used in many free software projects including 'rplay', but has never been packaged as a stand-alone shared libary. GSM encoding has specific uses in transmission of packetized audio over the Internet. --- libgsm-devel - GSM audio library development package This is a free and public implementation of GSM audio encoding and decoding. The gsm library is used in many free software projects including 'rplay', but has never been packaged as a stand-alone shared libary. GSM encoding has specific uses in transmission of packetized audio over the Internet. This packet is used for compiling programs that use GSM library. --- libgtkxmhtml - The GNOME gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget This package contains the dynamic library for the gtkxmhtml widget, which is used to render HTML pages. You won't need this package if you have gnome-libs installed. --- libgtkxmhtml-devel - The GNOME gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget, development package This package contains the include files and static library for the gtkxmhtml widget, which is used to render HTML pages. You won't need this package if you have gnome-libs installed. --- libgtop - LibGTop library 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. --- libgtop-devel - Libraries, includes, etc to develop LibGTop applications Libraries, include files, etc you can use to develop GNOME applications. --- libgtop-examples - Examples for LibGTop Examples for LibGTop. --- libjpeg - Library for handling different jpeg files. This package is a library of functions that manipulate jpeg images, along with simple clients for manipulating jpeg images. --- libjpeg-devel - headers and static libraries for developing programs using libjpeg This package is all you need to develop programs that manipulate jpeg images, including documentation. --- libole2 - libole2 provides an API to access OLE2 streams as used by Microsoft libole2 provides an API to access OLE2 streams as used by Microsoft in their compound files. Such common file formats as Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Visio use this system. --- libpcap - A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture. Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application. Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring on your network. --- libpng - A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files. 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 - Development tools for programs to manipulate PNG image format files. 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. --- libPropList - libPropList, a required library for WindowMaker Library for reading/writing GNUstep-style defaults databases. WindowMaker requires libPropList to function. --- librep - embeddable LISP environment 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. --- librep-devel - librep include files and link libraries Link libraries and C header files for librep development. --- librtp - real time protocol implementation librtp is a Real Time Protocol (RTP) implementation for linux. Used in programs like gphone it provides support for voip applications. --- librtp-devel - librtp development package Development files needed for compiling programs that uses librtp. --- libsigc++ - The Typesafe Signal Framework for C++ This library implements a full callback system for use in widget libraries, abstract interfaces, and general programming. Originally part of the Gtk-- widget set, libsigc++ is now a seperate library to provide for more general use. It is the most complete library of its kind with the ablity to connect an abstract callback to a class method, function, or function object. It contains adaptor classes for connection of dissimilar callbacks and has an ease of use unmatched by other C++ callback libraries. Package GTK-- (gtkmm), which is a C++ binding to the GTK+ library, starting with version 1.1.2, uses libsigc++. --- libsigc++-devel - development tools for the Typesafe Signal Framework for C++ The libsigc++-devel package contains the static libraries and header files needed for development with libsigc++. --- libsigc++-examples - examples and tests for the Typesafe Signal Framework for C++ The libsigc++-devel package contains source code of example and test programs for libsigc++. --- libstdc++ - GNU c++ library The libstdc++ package contains a snapshot of the GCC Standard C++ Library v3, an ongoing project to implement the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library. --- libstdc++-devel - Header files and libraries for C++ development This is the GNU implementation of the standard C++ libraries. This package includes the header files and libraries needed for C++ development. This includes SGI's implementation of the STL. --- libtermcap - library for accessing the termcap database This is the library for accessing the termcap database. It is necessary to be installed for a system to be able to do much of anything. --- libtermcap-devel - development libraries and header files for termcap library This is the package containing the development libaries and header files for writing programs that access the termcap database. It may be necessary to build some other packages as well. --- libtiff - Library for handling TIFF files. This package is a library of functions that manipulate TIFF images. --- libtiff-devel - headers and static libraries for developing programs using libtiff This package is all you need to develop programs that manipulate tiff images. --- libtool - The GNU libtool, which simplifies the use of shared libraries. 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 - A library for manipulating GIF format image files. 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 - Development tools for programs which will use the libungif library. 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 - Programs for manipulating GIF format image files. 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. --- libunicode - library for manipulating Unicode characters and strings libunicode is a library for manipulating Unicode characters and strings. It understands both the UTF-8 and UCS-2 encodings, and has a framework for adding support for new encodings. --- libunicode-devel - libunicode static libraries and headers The static libraries and include files needed to compile apps that use libunicode. --- libxml - libXML library This library allows you to manipulate XML files. --- libxml-devel - Libraries, includes, etc to develop libxml applications Libraries, include files, etc you can use to develop libxml applications. --- libxmltok - XML Parser Toolkit, runtime libraries Libraries for XML parsing in C, which contains the shared libraries, libxmltok and libxmlparser. These libraries are being used, for instance, for XML support to Netscape 5, Perl module, XML::Parser and the PHP3 module, mod-php3-xml. --- libxmltok-devel - XML Parser Toolkit, developer libraries Libraries for XML parsing in C. It aims to be fully conforming. It is currently not a validating XML processor. The library libxmltok contains a low-level library for tokenizing XML. The library libxmlparse contains an XML parser library which is built on top of the xmltok library. --- licq - An ICQ clone and more for Unix Licq is an ICQ clone written in C++ using the Qt widget set. It implements all major features of ICQ including messaging, urls, chat, file transfer, and user information. In addition, Licq is highly configurable and has support for skins and different icon packs. --- lilo - Boot loader for Linux and other operating systems Lilo is repsonsible for loading your linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and giving it control of the system. It can also be used to boot many other operating sysetms, including the BSD variants, DOS, and OS/2. --- lilo-doc - Documentation on lilo Documentation on lilo --- linbot - Site Management Tool for webmasters 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 --- LinNeighborhood - GUI for a Network Neighborhood in LINUX This application gives you a GUI similar to the Win9x/NT network neighborhood. It makes you able to browse entire networks and mount shares. At least Samba (http://www.samba.org) is required with smbmount/smbumount/smbmnt. Or Samba without smbmount/smbumount/smbmnt but with smbfs installed. Please read the README and CONFIGURATION in /usr/share/doc/LinNeighborhood-0.6.1. --- linuxconf - An extremely capable system configuration tool. Linuxconf is an extremely capable system configuration tool. Linuxconf provides four different interfaces for you to choose from: command line, character-cell (like the installation program), an X Window System based GUI and a web-based interface. Linuxconf can manage a large proportion of your system's operations, including networking, user accounts, file systems, boot parameters, and more. Linuxconf will simplify the process of configuring your system. Unless you are completely happy with configuring your system manually, you should install the linuxconf package and use linuxconf instead. --- linuxconf-accountbatch - Linuxconf module to create/update many user accounts at once. Linuxconf module to create/update many user accounts at once. --- linuxconf-amandaconf - Linuxconf module to configure the Amanda backup system. Linuxconf module to configure the Amanda backup system. --- linuxconf-apache - Linuxconf module to configure the apache server. Linuxconf module to configure the apache server. --- linuxconf-aptconf - Linuxconf module to configure apt. Linuxconf module to configure apt. --- linuxconf-cl_ha_conf - Conectiva Linux High Availability Setup Tool This is the Conectiva Linux High Availability Setup Tool. --- linuxconf-cnc_rbc - Linuxconf module to configure and administer Remote Boot Servers Module developed to configure and administer a Remote Boot Server through Linuxconf. Actually it allows one to install the server and manage the packages intended to be used by the stations. --- linuxconf-devel - The tools needed for developing linuxconf modules. Linuxconf is an extremely capable system configuration tool. It provides a variety of interfaces through which you can configure your Linux system and manage a large proportion of the system's operations. This package provides the components necessary for developing Linuxconf modules outside of the linuxconf source tree and/or developing stand-alone utilities using the linuxconf interface toolkit. Install linuxconf-devel if you want to develop Linuxconf modules. --- linuxconf-dhcpd - Linuxconf module to configure the dhcpd server. Linuxconf module to configure the dhcpd server. --- linuxconf-dialout - Linuxconf module to configure dialout connections. Linuxconf module to configure dialout connections. --- linuxconf-dnsconf - Linuxconf module to configure the bind dns server. Linuxconf module to configure the bind dns server. --- linuxconf-drbdconf - Linuxconf module to configure DRBD devices. Linuxconf module to configure DRBD devices. --- linuxconf-fetchmailconf - Linuxconf module to configure the fetchmail program. Linuxconf module to configure the fetchmail program. --- linuxconf-firewall - Linuxconf module to configure a firewall. Linuxconf module to configure a firewall. --- linuxconf-fsbrowser - Linuxconf module for general purpose file system browsing. Linuxconf module for general purpose file system browsing. --- linuxconf-grubconf - Linuxconf module to configure the grub boot loader. Linuxconf module to configure the grub boot loader. --- linuxconf-gurus - Linuxconf module providing gurus for basic system configuration. Linuxconf module providing gurus for basic system configuration. --- linuxconf-heartbeatconf - Linuxconf module to configure heartbeat. Linuxconf module to configure heartbeat. --- linuxconf-inetdconf - Linuxconf module to configure the inetd server. Linuxconf module to configure the inetd server. --- linuxconf-inittab - Linuxconf module to configure inittab. Linuxconf module to configure inittab. --- linuxconf-ircdconf - Linuxconf module to configure the ircd server. Linuxconf module to configure the ircd server. --- linuxconf-isapnpconf - Linuxconf module to configure ISA Plug & Play devices. Linuxconf module to configure ISA Plug & Play devices. --- linuxconf-isdnadmin - ISDN system admin using Linuxconf and isdn4linux This ISDN module for Linuxconf includes menus to help administrate ISDN devices on Linux (using isdn4linux). --- linuxconf-kernelconf - Linuxconf module for kernel configurations. Linuxconf module for kernel configurations. --- linuxconf-lib - Shared librairy providing the linuxconf UI toolkit This provide the dll and support files for standalone utilities other than Linuxconf which are using the Linuxconf user interface toolkit. --- linuxconf-liloconf - Linuxconf module to configure the lilo boot loader. Linuxconf module to configure the lilo boot loader. --- linuxconf-mailconf - Linuxconf module to configure the sendmail server. Linuxconf module to configure the sendmail server. --- linuxconf-managerpm - Linuxconf module for RPM packages management. Linuxconf module for RPM packages management. --- linuxconf-mgettyconf - Linuxconf module to configure the mgetty serial port manager. Linuxconf module to configure the mgetty serial port manager. --- linuxconf-modemconf - Linuxconf module to configure a modem device. Linuxconf module to configure a modem device. --- linuxconf-motd - Linuxconf module to set the message of the day. Linuxconf module to set the message of the day. --- linuxconf-mrtg - Linuxconf module to configure the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. Linuxconf module to configure the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. --- linuxconf-netadm - Linuxconf module to configure remote hosts using linuxconf. Linuxconf module to configure remote hosts using linuxconf. --- linuxconf-opensshd - Linuxconf module to configure the OpenSSH Daemon. Linuxconf module to configure the OpenSSH Daemon. --- linuxconf-postfixconf - Linuxconf module to configure postfix. Linuxconf module to configure postfix. --- linuxconf-pppdialin - Linuxconf module to configure dialin connections. Linuxconf module to configure dialin connections. --- linuxconf-pppoe - Linuxconf module to manage an ADSL/PPPoE internet connection This module lets you manage an ADSL link using the PPP over Ethernet protocol (PPPoE). It has been tested with the Canadian Sympatico HSE (High Speed Edition) service. This package is only a configuration module, you will require the package rp-pppoe to make it work. --- linuxconf-printer - Linuxconf module to configure printers. Linuxconf module to configure printers. --- linuxconf-pslaveconf - Linuxconf module for Portslave configuration. Linuxconf module for Portslave configuration. --- linuxconf-rarp - Linuxconf module to configure RARP. Linuxconf module to configure RARP. --- linuxconf-redhatppp - Linuxconf module to configure PPP connections. Linuxconf module to configure PPP connections. --- linuxconf-samba - Linuxconf module to configure the samba server. Linuxconf module to configure the samba server. --- linuxconf-shellmod - Linuxconf module to use shell modules in linuxconf. Linuxconf module to use shell modules in linuxconf. --- linuxconf-squid - Linuxconf module to configure the squid server. Linuxconf module to configure the squid server. --- linuxconf-status - Linuxconf module to view current system status in linuxconf. Linuxconf module to view current system status in linuxconf. --- linuxconf-syslogconf - Linuxconf module to configure the syslog server. Linuxconf module to configure the syslog server. --- linuxconf-tcptool - Linuxconf module to test TCP services. Linuxconf module to test TCP services. --- linuxconf-tools - Various development tools for Linuxconf (yet general purpose) This is a set of tools used in the Linuxconf project. Those tools are of general interest. They include a powerful C/C++ prototype extractor, documentation system and a revision control system. You do not need this just to compile Linuxconf. You may need this if you intend to modify linuxconf (not essential, nicer though). --- linuxconf-treemenu - Linuxconf module to enable tree menu view. Linuxconf module to enable tree menu view. --- linuxconf-userinfo - Linuxconf module to manage information about users in linuxconf. This modules lets you define extra fields in the user account dialog. For each field, you define the type and title. This module could be used as a basis for small to medium size Internet service provider administration. --- linuxconf-usermenu - Linuxconf module to create custom user menus. Linuxconf module to create custom user menus. --- linuxconf-uucp - Linuxconf module to configure a UUCP network. Linuxconf module to configure a UUCP network. --- linuxconf-vregistry - Linuxconf module to add virtual registry features in linuxconf. Linuxconf module to add virtual registry features in linuxconf. --- linuxconf-wineconf - Linuxconf module to configure the Wine windows emulator. Linuxconf module to configure the Wine windows emulator. --- linuxconf-wuftpd - Linuxconf module to configure the wuftpd server. Linuxconf module to configure the wuftpd server. --- linux_logo - ASCII Tux (Linux Penguin) This package contains an ASCII Linux-Penguin. --- lm_sensors - Hardware monitoring tools. Package for monitoring hardware. It consists of a collection of modules for general SMBus access and hardware monitoring. --- lm_sensors-devel - Development files for programs which will use sensors. Libraries and headers file to develop applications which want to make use of sensor data. --- logcheck - Log analyzer Logcheck is software package that is designed to automatically run and check system log files for security violations and unusual activity. --- logrotate - Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files 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 - Programs for setting up and configuring loopback devices. 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. --- LPRng - LPRng Print Spooler for UNIX and NT 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. --- LPRng-doc - LPRng documentation LPRng documentation --- lrzsz - The lrz and lsz modem communications programs. 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 - Lists files open by processes Lsof's name 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. --- ltrace - Shows runtime library call information for dynamically linked executables 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. --- lvm - Heinz Mauelshagen's LVM (Logical Volume Manager) for Linux LVM includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, multiple devices (MD) or even loop devices), creating volume groups (virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (logical partitions) in volume groups. --- lynx - Text based browser for the world wide web This a terminal based WWW browser. While it does not make any attempt at displaying graphics, it has good support for HTML text formatting, forms, and tables. --- m4 - GNU Macro Processor This is the GNU Macro processing language. It is useful for writing text files that can be parsed logically. Many programs use it as part of their build process. --- macutils - utilities for manipulating Macintosh file formats This is a set of utilities for manipulating files from the Macintosh. Popular utilities like macunpack, hexbin, and binhex are included. --- mailcap - Associates helper applications with particular file types. 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. --- mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System Mailman -- The GNU Mailing List Management System -- is a mailing list management system written mostly in Python. Features: o Most standard mailing list features, including: moderation, mail based commands, digests, etc... o An extensive Web interface, customizable on a per-list basis. o Web based list administration interface for *all* admin-type tasks o Automatic Web based hypermail-style archives (using pipermail or other external archiver), including provisions for private archives o Integrated mail list to newsgroup gatewaying o Integrated newsgroup to mail list gatewaying (polling-based... if you have access to the nntp server, you should be able to easily do non-polling based news->mail list gatewaying; email viega@list.org, I'd like to help get that going and come up with instructions) o Smart bounce detection and correction o Integrated fast bulk mailing o Smart spam protection o Extensible logging o Multiple list owners and moderators are possible o Optional MIME-compliant digests o Nice about which machine you subscribed from if you're from the right domain See the Mailman home site for current status, including new releases and known problems: http://www.list.org. --- mailx - /bin/mail - the "traditional" way to mail via shell scripts, etc The /bin/mail program can be used to send quick mail messages, and is often used in shell scripts. --- make - GNU Make The program make is used to coordinate the compilation and linking of a set of sources into a program, recompiling only what is necessary, thus saving a developer a lot of time. In fact, make can do a lot more - read the info docs. --- MAKEDEV - Creates and maintains device files in /dev 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 - manual page reader 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-pages - Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project A large collection of man pages (reference material) 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) Section 8: System administration (intro only) Section 9: kernel functions --- man-pages-es - System manual pages - Spanish versions A large collection of man pages covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc. 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) Section 8 = system administration (intro only) This is the translation to spanish of the Linux man pages. --- man-pages-pt_BR - System manual pages - Brazilian versions A large collection of man pages covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc. 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) Section 8 = system administration (intro only) This is the translation to portuguese of the Linux man pages. --- mars-nwe - NetWare file and print servers which run on Linux systems. 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. --- mawk - Mike's New/Posix AWK Interpreter Mawk is a version of awk, which is a powerful text processing program. In some areas mawk can outperform gawk, which is the standard awk program on Linux. --- mc - A user-friendly file manager and visual shell. Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only with way more features. It is text mode, but also includes mouse support if you are running GPM. Its coolest feature is the ability to ftp, view tar, zip files, and poke into RPMs for specific files. :-) --- mcserv - Server for the Midnight Commander network file management system. 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. --- memtest86 - Thorough, stand alone memory test for i386 systems Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for i386 architecture systems. --- Mesa - Free OpenGL implementation. Runtime environment 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. However, the author makes no claim that Mesa is in any way a compatible replacement for OpenGL or associated with Silicon Graphics, Inc. Those who want a licensed implementation of OpenGL should contact a licensed vendor. This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, see the LICENSE file for details. * OpenGL(R) is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. --- Mesa-devel - Development environment for Mesa The static version of the Mesa libraries and include files needed for development. --- metamail - A program for handling multimedia mail using the mailcap file 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 - A getty replacement for use with data and fax modems. 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 - Provides support for sending faxes over a modem. 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 - An X Window System fax viewer. 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 - A program for using your modem and mgetty as an answering machine. 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. --- MHonArc - A Perl mail-to-HTML converter. MHonArc is a Perl mail-to-HTML converter. MHonArc provides HTML mail archiving with index, mail thread linking, etc. It also has other capabilities including support for MIME and powerful user customization features. --- mingetty - a compact, console-only getty mingetty, by Florian La Roche, is a lightweight, minimalist getty for use on virtual consoles only. mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (the author recommends using `mgetty' for that purpose). --- minicom - TTY mode communications package ala Telix Minicom is a communications program that resembles the MSDOS Telix somewhat. It has a dialing directory, color, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language and more. --- mkbootdisk - Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes an initial ramdisk image which will load any necessary SCSI modules for the system. --- mkfontpkg - Packages TrueType fonts from a local Windows installation for use in X mkfontpkg gathers TrueType fonts from a local Microsoft(tm) Windows(tm) installations and makes them available for X11. For better file management, it builds an RPM package containing the fonts to be installed. --- mkinitrd - Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules. Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI, RAID or LVM) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/conf.modules file. --- mkisofs - Creates an image of an ISO9660 filesystem. The mkisofs program is used as a pre-mastering program; i.e., it generates the ISO9660 filesystem. Mkisofs takes a snapshot of a given directory tree and generates a binary image of the tree which will correspond to an ISO9660 filesystem when written to a block device. Mkisofs is used for writing CD-ROMs, and includes support for creating bootable El Torito CD-ROMs. Install the mkisofs package if you need a program for writing CD-ROMs. --- mkkickstart - Writes a kickstart description of the current machine. The mkkickstart program writes a kickstart description from the host machine. The kickstart description can then be used, during a CD-ROM or NFS installation, to automatically build that machine's configuration of Conectiva Linux on one or more other machines. Install mkkickstart if you want to use the kickstart method to automatically install Conectiva Linux. --- mktemp - A small utility for safely making /tmp files 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 - Red Hat X Authority Utility `mkxauth' aids in the creation and maintenance of X authentication databases (.Xauthority files). Use it to create a ~/.Xauthority file or merge keys from another local or remote .Xauthority file. Remote .Xauthority files can be retrieved via ftp (using ncftp) or via rsh. For security, mkxauth does not create any temporary files containing authentication keys. --- mod_auth_ldap - This is a LDAP authentication module for Apache This is an authentication module for Apache that allows you to authenticate HTTP clients using user entries in an LDAP directory. --- mod_auth_mysql - Apache authentication via MySQL With mod_auth_mysql you are able to authenticate in Apache using MySQL. --- mod_auth_pgsql - Apache authentication via PostgreSQL With mod_auth_pgsql you are able to authenticate in Apache using PostgreSQL --- mod_auth_radius - Apache authentication via Radius With mod_auth_radius you are able to authenticate in Apache using Radius. --- mod_dav - Apache authentication via MySQL "WebDAV stands for 'Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning'. It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. mod_dav provides complete class 1 and 2 DAV services to DAV clients via the Apache webserver (1.3.4 or later). --- mod_fastcgi - FastCGI module for Apache This module provides support for the FastCGI protocol. FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance and persistence without the limitations of server specific APIs. --- mod_perl - A Perl interpreter for the Apache Web server. Mod_perl incorporates a Perl interpreter into the Apache web server, so that the Apache web server can directly execute Perl code. Mod_perl links the Perl runtime library into the Apache web server and provides an object-oriented Perl interface for Apache's C language API. The end result is a quicker CGI script turnaround process, since no external Perl interpreter has to be started. Install mod_perl if you're installing the Apache web server and you'd like for it to directly incorporate a Perl interpreter. --- mod_php4 - The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language for use with Apache. 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_php4 module enables the Apache web server to understand and process the embedded PHP language in web pages. This package contains PHP version 4.0.3pl1. You'll also need to install the Apache web server. --- mod_roaming - Netscape Roaming Access server for Apache With mod_roaming you can use your Apache webserver as a Netscape Roaming Access server. This allows you to store your Netscape Communicator 4.5 preferences, bookmarks, address books, cookies etc. on the server so that you can use (and update) the same settings from any Netscape Communicator 4.5 that can access the server. --- mod_throttle - On-the-fly decompression of HTML files With mod_throttle you are able to authenticate in Apache using MySQL. --- modutils - The kernel daemon (kerneld) and kernel module utilities 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. --- mon - "mon" is a tool for monitoring the availability of services "mon" is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. Services may be network-related, environmental conditions, or nearly anything that can be tested with software. It is extremely useful for system administrators, but not limited to use by them. It was designed to be a general-purpose problem alerting system, separating the tasks of testing services for availability and sending alerts when things fail. To achieve this, "mon" is implemented as a scheduler which runs the programs which do the testing, and triggering alert programs when these scripts detect failure. None of the actual service testing or reporting is actually handled by "mon". These functions are handled by auxillary programs. --- mon-perl - Client Perl modules for Mon, a system monitoring tool This is the Perl5 module for interfacing with the Mon system monitoring package. Currently only the client interface is implemented, but more things like special logging routines and persistent monitors are being considered. "mon" is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. More information can be found at http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/. --- mount - Programs for mounting and unmounting filesystems. 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. --- mountapp - A Window Maker dock app which simplifies managing mountable devices This is a Window Maker dock app which allows you to browse all your mount points and to mount/unmount devices in a simple point and click manner. --- mouseconfig - The Red Hat Linux mouse configuration tool. Mouseconfig is a text-based mouse configuration tool. Mouseconfig sets up the files and links needed for configuring and using a mouse on a Red Hat Linux system. The mouseconfig tool can be used to set the correct mouse type for programs like gpm, and can be used with Xconfigurator to set up the mouse for the X Window System. --- mpage - places multiple pages of text onto a single postscript page mpage formats multiple pages of ASCII text onto a single page of PostScript. It supports many different layouts for the final pages. --- mpg123 - MP3 Audio Player Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It supports MPEG 1.0/2.0 layers 1, 2 and 3 ("mp3" files). For full CD quality playback (44 kHz, 16 bit, stereo) a Pentium CPU is required. Mono and/or reduced quality playback (22 kHz or 11 kHz) is possible on 486 CPUs. For information on the MP3 License, please visit: http://www.mpeg.org/ --- mrtg - Multi Router Traffic Grapher The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. --- mtools - Programs for accessing MS-DOS disks without mounting the disks. Mtools is a collection of utilities for accessing MS-DOS files. Mtools allow you to read, write and move around MS-DOS filesystem files (normally on MS-DOS floppy disks). Mtools supports Windows95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks, and 2m disks. Mtools should be installed if you need to use MS-DOS disks. --- mtr - Ping/Traceroute network diagnostic tool Mtr is a network diagnostic tool which combines Ping and Traceroute into one program. Mtr also has two interfaces: An ncurses interface, useful for using Mtr from a telnet session and a Gtk interface if you are using X. --- mtr-gtk - Ping/Traceroute network diagnostic tool - GTK Interface Mtr is a network diagnostic tool which combines Ping and Traceroute into one program. Mtr also has two interfaces: An ncurses interface, useful for using Mtr from a telnet session and a Gtk interface if you are using X Windows. This is the GTK interface for mtr. --- mt-st - Programs to control tape device operations. 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. --- mutt - Mutt, the best Mail User Agent Mutt is a small but very poweful full-screen Unix mail client. Features include MIME support, color, POP3 support, message threading, bindable keys, and threaded sorting mode. GPG must be installed and PGP is highly recommended. --- mutt-ldap - A simple perl script used in mutt to query a LDAP server This perl script can be called from within mutt (with the Q key) and it will lookup users in a LDAP server. --- MySQL - A very fast and reliable SQL database engine 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-client - MySQL - Client This package contains the standard MySQL clients. --- MySQL-devel - MySQL - Development header files and libraries This package contains the development header files and libraries necessary to develop MySQL client applications. --- nc - NetCat - Network test and debugging tool NetCat is a minimal network client. It can be used to make terminal TCP connections to arbitrary ports and can fake connections over UDP. It can also listen on ports. --- ncftp - ftp client with a nice interface Ncftp is a ftp client with many advantageous over the standard one. It includes command line editing, command histories, support for recurisive gets, automatic logins, and much more. --- ncpfs - Utilities for the ncpfs filesystem, a NetWare client for Linux. Ncpfs is a filesystem which understands the Novell NetWare(TM) NCP protocol. Functionally, NCP is used for NetWare the way NFS is used in the TCP/IP world. For a Linux system to mount a NetWare filesystem, it needs a special mount program. The ncpfs package contains such a mount program plus other tools for configuring and using the ncpfs filesystem. Install the ncpfs package if you need to use the ncpfs filesystem to use Novell NetWare files or services. --- ncurses4 - A CRT screen handling and optimization package. 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 - A CRT screen handling and optimization package. 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 development files for applications which use ncurses. 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. --- ncurses-term - Terminfo database for extra terminals (less used) Terminfo database for extra terminals. The most used terminal capabilities are already in ncurses main package. --- netatalk - AppleTalk networking programs This package enables Linux to talk to Macintosh computers via the AppleTalk networking protocol. It includes a daemon to allow Linux to act as a file server over EtherTalk or IP for Mac's. --- netatalk-devel - Headers and static libraries for Appletalk development This packge contains the header files, and static libraries for building Appletalk networking programs. --- netkit-base - The ping and inetd networking programs 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. --- netpeek - NetPeek is a GUI-based network monitoring and diagnosis tool. NetPeek is a GUI-based network monitoring and diagnosis tool. It captures packets from the local network and displays them to the user in two forms: - A short one-line form, similar to that produced by "tcpdump". - A long form, detailing all fields in a packet, with explainatory comments where necessary. The display is similar to that produced by the commercial EtherPeek program. --- netscape-common - Code shared between navigator and communicator Files shared between the Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator web browsers. --- netscape-communicator - Netscape Communicator internet browser, news reader, and mail client Netscape Communicator is the industry-leading web browser. It supports the latest HTML standards, Java, and JavaScript. It also includes full-featured Usenet news reader as well as a complete email client. --- netscape-navigator - Netscape Navigator internet browser Netscape Navigator is the industry-leading web browser. It supports the latest HTML standards, Java, and JavaScript. --- net-tools - The basic tools for setting up networking. The net-tools package contains the basic tools needed for setting up networking: arp, rarp, ifconfig, netstat, ethers and route. --- newt - A development library for text mode user interfaces 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 - Newt windowing toolkit development files. 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. --- nfs-server - User-space NFS server daemon This is an alternative (userland process) NFS server that can be used if kNFSd is not adequate for your environment. This package DOES NOT contain NFS client tools - it is not necessary to e.g. mount remote NFS volumes. --- nfs-utils - The utilities for Linux NFS client and server The nfs-utils package provides the utilities for Linux NFS client and server. --- nmap - Network exploration tool and security scanner Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host operating system identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy scanning, determination of TCP sequence predictability characteristics, reverse-identd scanning, and more. --- nscd - A Name Service Caching Daemon (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. --- nss_ldap - NSS library for LDAP nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions 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). --- ntsysv - A system tool for maintaining the /etc/rc.d hierarchy. 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. --- oaf - Object activation framework for GNOME OAF is an object activation framework for GNOME. It uses ORBit. --- oaf-devel - Libraries and include files for OAF Libraries and include files for OAF --- open - Tools for creating virtual consoles This program runs a command on an given virtual console number. It can also run the program on the first virtual console which isn't already in use. --- openldap - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server / clients OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP applications and development tools. The suite includes: stand-alone LDAP server (slapd) stand-alone LDAP replication server (slurpd) libraries implementing the LDAP protocol, and utilities, tools, and sample clients. --- openldap-devel - OpenLDAP development libraries and header files This package includes the development libraries and header files needed for compilation of applications that are making use of the LDAP internals. Install this package only if you plan to develop or will need to compile cutomized LDAP clients. --- openssh - OpenSSH free Secure Shell (SSH) implementation 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 - OpenSSH X11 passphrase dialog 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 X11 passphrase dialog. --- openssh-askpass-gnome - OpenSSH GNOME passphrase dialog 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 GNOME passphrase dialog. --- openssh-clients - OpenSSH Secure Shell protocol 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-server - OpenSSH Secure Shell protocol server (sshd) 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 - Secure Sockets Layer and cryptography libraries and tools The openssl certificate management tool and the shared libraries that provide various encryption and decription algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4, RSA and SSL. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com). --- openssl-devel - Secure Sockets Layer and cryptography static libraries and headers The static libraries and include files needed to compile apps with support for various cryptographic algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4, RSA and SSL. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com). Patches for many networking apps can be found at: ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSLapps/ --- ORBit - High-performance CORBA Object Request Broker ORBit is a high-performance CORBA ORB (object request broker). 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. --- ORBit-devel - Development libraries, header files and utilities for ORBit. ORBit is a high-performance CORBA ORB (object request broker) 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. This package contains the header files, libraries and utilities necessary to write programs that use CORBA technology. --- pam - A security tool which provides authentication for applications. 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_smb - pluggable authentication module for authentication against SMB server pam_smb is a PAM module that allows user authentication against a SMB server, which can be a Samba or Windows NT server. It can be very useful in "Windows networks" where all workstation users are registered NetBIOS users too, because passwords are kept only at the SMB server. --- pam_smb_passwd - pluggable authentication module for SMB remote password update pam_smb_passwd is a PAM module that can update the user's password in a remote SMB server. It can be used in conjunction with pam_smb to create a complete SMB server-centric authentication scheme. --- parted - Flexible partitioning tool GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. --- parted-devel - Files required to compile software that uses libparted This package includes the header files and libraries needed to statically link software with libparted. --- passwd - The passwd utility for setting/changing passwords using PAM. 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 - GNU patch Utilities 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 - Linux PCI utilities. This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus. The utilities provided require kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (supporting the /proc/bus/pci interface). --- pciutils-devel - Linux PCI development library. This package contains a library for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus. --- pdksh - A public domain clone of the Korn shell (ksh). 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 - The Perl programming language. 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-bin - Utilites for the Perl programming language. This package contains utilities needed by some modules --- perl-Convert-BER - Perl Convert::BER module Convert::BER is a perl object class implementation to encode and decode objects as described by ITU-T standard X.209 (ASN.1) using Basic Encoding Rules (BER) --- perl-Crypt-SSLeay - Perl Crypt::SSLeay module Perl Interface to OpenSSL and support for https request thru perl-libwww-perl --- perl-Digest-MD5 - Perl Digest::MD5 module Perl module Digest::MD5 - Extension interface to MD5, MD2, NIST SHA-1 --- perl-doc - Documentation for the Perl programming language. This package contains documentation on the Perl programming language, as an extra set of man pages and pod files (Perl plain documentation). --- perl-ExtUtils-F77 - Perl ExtUtils::F77 module This module tries to figure out how to link C programs with Fortran subroutines on your system. Basically one must add a list of Fortran runtime libraries. The problem is their location and name varies with each OS/compiler combination! --- perl-gettext - Perl gettext module Perl module gettext - This module give acces to the C library functions for internatialization gettext. --- perl-HTML-Parser - Perl HTML::Parser module Perl module HTML::Parser - A collection of modules that parse and extract information from HTML documents. --- perl-IO-stringy - IO-stringy - I/O on in-core objects like strings and arrays This toolkit primarily provides modules for performing both traditional and object-oriented i/o) on things *other* than normal filehandles; in particular, IO::Scalar, IO::ScalarArray, and IO::Lines. --- perl-lib - Shared lib for embending perl into other apps This package provides libperl.so for applications that want to embend the Perl interpreter. This is not needed by the Perl interpreter itself. --- perl-libnet - Perl libnet module Perl module libnet - A collection of modules which provides a API to the client side of various protocols. --- perl-libwww-perl - Perl libwww module Perl module libwww - A collection of perl modules that provides a simple and consistent API to the World-Wide Web. --- perl-MailTools - MailTools - a set of perl modules related to mail applications This is MailTools, a set of perl modules related to mail applications --- perl-MIME-Base64 - Perl MIME::Base64 module Perl module MIME::Base64 - base64 and quoted-printable encoder/decoder --- perl-MIME-tools - MIME-tools - Perl modules for parsing (and creating!) MIME entities MIME-tools is a collection of Perl5 MIME:: modules for parsing, decoding, *and generating* single- or multipart (even nested multipart) MIME messages. (Yes, kids, that means you can send messages with attached GIF files). --- perl-Parse-RecDescent - Perl Parse::RecDescent module RecDescent incrementally generates top-down recursive-descent text parsers from simple yacc-like grammar specifications. --- perl-PDL - Perl PDL module 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 which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. e.g. $a=$b+$c can add two 2048x2048 images in only a fraction of a second. --- perl-Period - Perl Time::Period module The Perl module Time::Period determines if a given time is within a given time period. --- perl-Safe-Hole - Perl Safe::Hole module Safe::Hole - make a hole to the original main compartment in the Safe compartment --- perl-Storable - Perl Storable module The Storable extension brings persistency to your data. --- perl-TermReadKey - Perl Term::ReadKet module This module, ReadKey, provides ioctl control for terminals so the input modes can be changed (thus allowing reads of a single character at a time), and also provides non-blocking reads of stdin, as well as several other terminal related features, including retrieval/modification of the screen size, and retrieval/modification of the control characters. --- perl-Term-ReadLine-Perl - Perl Term::ReadLine module This is a quick implementation of the minimal interface to Readline libraries. --- perl-Time-HiRes - Perl Time::HiRes module: High resolution time, sleep and alarm. Perl module to implement usleep, ualarm, and gettimeofday, as well as wrappers to implement time, sleep and alarm, that know about non-integral seconds. --- perl-URI - Perl URI module Perl module URI - This package contains the URI.pm module to manipulate Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) from RFC 2396. --- php4 - The PHP 4 scripting language PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Version 4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. With additional modules it supports direct communication with postgresql, mysql, msql databases, dbf files, and it has an interface to the libgd graphics library. --- php4-doc - The PHP manual, in HTML format. The php4-doc package provides comprehensive documentation for the PHP HTML-embedded scripting language, in HTML format. --- php4-imap - A module for PHP applications that use IMAP. The php4-imap package contains a dynamic shared object that will add IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) support to PHP. IMAP is a protocol for retrieving, uploading, and manipulating e-mail messages on mail servers. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need IMAP support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php4 or mod_php4 package. --- php4-ldap - A module for PHP applications that use LDAP. The php4-ldap package contains a dynamic shared object that will add LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) support to PHP. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services over the Internet. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need LDAP support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php4 or mod_php4 package. --- php4-mysql - A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases. The php4-mysql package contains a dynamic shared object that will add MySQL database support to PHP. MySQL is an object-relational database management system. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need MySQL support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php4 or mod_php4 package. --- php4-pgsql - A module for PHP applications that use PostgreSQL databases. The php4-pgsql package contains a dynamic shared object that will add PostgreSQL database support to PHP. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system that supports almost all SQL constructs. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need PostgreSQL support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php4 or mod_php4 package. --- pidentd - An implementation of the RFC1413 identification server. The pidentd package contains identd, which implements the RFC1413 identification server. Identd looks up specific TCP/IP connections and returns either the user name or other information about the process that owns the connection. --- pinfo - Przemek's Info Viewer Hypertext info file viewer. User interface similar to lynx. It is based on ncurses. It can handle now as well info pages as man pages. Regexp searching included. --- playmidi - Play midi files on FM, GUS and MIDI devices Plays MIDI sound files through a sound card synthesizer. It includes basic drum samples for use with simple FM synthesizers. --- plugger - Streaming Netscape Plugin Streaming Multimedia plugin for UNIX Netscape. --- pmake - Berkeley's Parallel Make The program make is used to coordinate the compilation and linking of a set of sources into a program, recompiling only what is necessary, thus saving a developer a lot of time. In fact, make can do a lot more - read the info docs. Pmake is a particular version of make which supports some additional syntax not in the standard make program. Some berkeley programs have Makefiles written for pmake. --- popt - A C library for parsing command line parameters 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. --- popt-devel - Development portion of popt Include files to develop applications with the popt library. --- popt-doc - Popt extra documentation Popt extra documentation. --- portmap - RPC port mapper The portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols such as NFS and NIS. The portmap server must be running on machines which act as servers for protocols which make use of the RPC mechanism. This portmapper supports hosts.{allow,deny} type access control. --- portslave - A client for RADIUS servers. A RADIUS system works by storing security information in a central location (the RADIUS server, which is provided in the radiusd-cistron package). Portslave is a RADIUS client, which communicates with the server to authenticate users. --- postgresql - PostgreSQL server. Postgresql 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 if you want to create and maintain your own PostgreSQL databases and/or your own PostgreSQL server. If you are installing postgresql, you should also install postgresql-data, which will help you get started with PostgreSQL. --- postgresql-clients - The client programs needed for accessing a PostgreSQL server. This package includes only the clients needed to access a PostgreSQL server. The server is included in the main package. If all you need is to connect to another PostgreSQL server, then this is the package you need to install together with postgresql-lib. In this package there are client libraries available for C, C++ and PERL, as well as several command-line utilities you can use to manage your databases on a remote PostgreSQL server. --- postgresql-clients-X11 - clients X11 to access a PostgreSQL server This package includes only the X11 clients needed to access an PostgreSQL server. The server is included in the main package. --- postgresql-devel - PostgreSQL development header files and libraries. This package contains the header files and libraries needed to compile applications which will directly interact with a PostgreSQL server. Install this package if you want to develop applications which will interact with a PostgreSQL server. --- postgresql-doc - PostgreSQL documentation The postgreql-doc package contains documentation to postgresql. There's a tutorial and documentation for admin, programmer, user and more. --- postgresql-jdbc - The java-based client programs needed for accessing a PostgreSQL server. postgresql-jdbc includes the jar file that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL database management system server. --- postgresql-lib - PostgreSQL shared library This package contains the shared library needed by other programs. --- postgresql-odbc - The ODBC driver needed for accessing a PostgreSQL server. Postgresql-odbc includes the odbc driver and sample configuration files that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL database management system server. --- postgresql-perl - The perl-based client programs needed for accessing a PostgreSQL server. postgresql-perl includes the perl-based client programs and client libraries that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL database management system server. --- postgresql-python - The python-based client programs needed for accessing a PostgreSQL server. postgresql-python includes the python-based client programs and client librariesthat you'll need to access a PostgreSQL database management system server. --- postgresql-tcl - The tcl-based client programs needed for accessing a PostgreSQL server. postgresql-tcl includes the tcl-based client programs and client libraries that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL database management system server. This package contains the tcl client libraries, as well as pgaccess, a wish-based utility for manipulating PostgreSQL databases. --- postgresql-test - The test suite distributed with PostgreSQL. postgresql-test includes the source and pre-built binaries of the various tests included with PostgreSQL, such as the regression tests and benchmarks. --- ppp - The PPP daemon and documentation The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon and documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. The ppp package should be installed if your machine need to support the PPP protocol. --- procmail - procmail mail delivery agent Conectiva Linux uses procmail for all local mail delivery. In addition to regluar mail delivery duties, procmail can be used to do many different automatic filtering, presorting, and mail handling jobs. It is the basis for the SmartList mailing list processor. --- procps - Utilities for monitoring your system and processes on your system 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 - X based process monitoring utilities. The procps-X11 package contains the XConsole shell script, a backwards compatibility wrapper for the xconsole program. --- psacct - Process accounting tools The tools necessary for accounting the activities of processes are included here. --- psmisc - Utilities for managing processes on your system 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. --- pump - Bootp and dhcp client for automatic IP configuration DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and BOOTP (Boot Protocol) are protocols which allow individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address, etc.) from network servers. The overall purpose of DHCP and BOOTP is to make it easier to administer a large network. Pump is a combined BOOTP and DHCP client daemon, which allows your machine to retrieve configuration information from a server. You should install this package if you are on a network which uses BOOTP or DHCP. --- pump-devel - Header files and static libraries for pump Header files and static libraries for pump. --- pvm - Parallel Virtual Machine PVM provides a message-passing library and runtime configurable parallel environment on a variety of multiprocessing platforms. Please, take a look at the documentation directory for a suggested .bashrc for the pvm user. --- pvm-xpvm - X interface to PVM system This packages provides a nifty X interface to the PVM system. --- pwdb - The password database library. 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. --- pygnome - Python bindings for the GNOME libraries PyGNOME is an extension module for python that gives you access to the base GNOME libraries. This means you have access to more widgets, simple configuration interface, metadata support and many other features. --- pygtk - Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set 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. --- pygtk-libglade - A wrapper for the libglade library for use with PyGTK This module contains a wrapper for the libglade library. Libglade is a library similar to the pyglade module, except that it is written in C (so is faster) and is more complete. --- python - An interpreted, interactive object-oriented programming language 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-doc package. --- python-devel - The libraries and header files needed for Python development. 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-doc package, which contains Python documentation. --- python-doc - Documentation for the Python programming language. The python-doc package contains documentation on the Python programming language and interpreter. The documentation is provided in ASCII text and Postscript files. Install the python-doc package if you'd like to use the documentation for the Python language. --- python-intl - Special Python internationalization modules This package contains a Python module for internationalization. --- pythonlib - A library of Python code used by various Red Hat Linux programs. 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. --- python-MySQLdb - (Yet another) Python interface to MySQL (Yet another) Python interface to MySQL MySQLdb is an interface to the popular MySQL database server for Python. The design goals are: - Compliance with Python database API version 2.0 - Thread-safety - Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other) - Compatibility with MySQL 3.22 This module should be mostly compatible with an older interface written by Joe Skinner and others. However, the older version is a) not thread-friendly, b) written for MySQL 3.21, c) apparently not actively maintained. No code from that version is used in MySQLdb. MySQLdb is distributed free of charge under a license derived from the Python license. --- python-orbit - This package contains a Python binding for ORBit ORBit-Python is a project to develop Python bindings for ORBit. --- qt1 - Shared library for the Qt GUI toolkit Qt is a GUI software toolkit. Qt simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (graphical user interface) applications for X Windows. Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. It has everything you need to create professional GUI applications. And it enables you to create them quickly. Qt is a multi-platform toolkit. When developing software with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11) or Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95/98. Simply recompile your source code on the platform you want. This package contains the shared library needed to run Qt applications, as well as the README files for Qt. --- qt1-devel - Development files and documentation for the Qt GUI toolkit Contains the files necessary to develop applications using Qt: header files, the Qt meta object compiler, man pages, HTML documentation and example programs. See http://www.troll.no for more information about Qt, or file:/usr/lib/qt/html/index.html for Qt documentation in HTML. --- qt2 - The shared library for the Qt GUI toolkit. Qt is a GUI software toolkit which simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System. Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. This package contains the shared library needed to run Qt applications, as well as the README files for Qt. --- qt2-devel - Development files and documentation for the Qt GUI toolkit. The qt2-devel package contains the files necessary to develop applications using the Qt GUI toolkit: the header files, the Qt meta object compiler, and the static libraries. See the address http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt.html for more information about Qt. Install qt-devel if you want to develop GUI applications using the Qt toolkit. --- qt2-NSPlugin - An add-on for creating Netscape plug-ins using the Qt GUI toolkit. An add-on for developing Netscape plug-ins with the Qt GUI toolkit. --- qt2-Xt - An Xt (X Toolkit) compatibility add-on for the Qt GUI toolkit. An Xt (X Toolkit) compatibility add-on for the Qt GUI toolkit. --- quota - System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage. The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and limiting users' and or groups' disk usage, per filesystem. --- qvwm - Windows 95/98 like window manager for X11 Windows 95/98 like window manager for X11 --- radiusd-cistron - Cistron RADIUS daemon (with PAM) RADIUS server with a lot of functions. Short overview: - PAM support - Supports access based on huntgroups - Multiple DEFAULT entries in users file - All users file entries can optionally "fall through" - Caches all config files in-memory - Keeps a list of logged in users (radutmp file) - "radwho" program can be installed as "fingerd" - Logs both UNIX "wtmp" file format and RADIUS detail logfiles - Supports Simultaneous-Use = X parameter. Yes, this means that you can now prevent double logins! --- raidtools - Tools for creating and maintaining software RAID devices. This package includes the tools you need to set up and maintain a software RAID device under Linux. It only works with Linux 2.2 kernels and later, or 2.0 kernel specifically patched with newer raid support. --- rcs - RCS - version control system The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of files. RCS automates the storing, retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of revisions. RCS is useful for text that is revised frequently, for example programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form letters. --- readline - A library for reading and returning lines from a terminal 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 - Development files for programs which will use the readline library 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. --- redir - Redir is a port redirector. Redir is a port redirector. --- reiserfs-utils - This package contains ReiserFS filesystem's utilities This package contains utilities to manage ReiserFS filesystems. It includes mkreiserfs, reiserfsck and their manpages. Also included but not really intended for general use are resize_reiserfs, dumpreiserfs and unpackreiserfs. --- rep-gtk - GTK+ binding for librep Lisp environment This is a binding of GTK+ for the librep Lisp interpreter. It is based on Marius Vollmer's guile-gtk package (initially version 0.15, updated to 0.17), with a new glue-code generator. --- rep-gtk-gnome - GNOME binding for librep This is a binding of the various GNOME libraries for the librep Lisp interpreter. It include support for the basic GNOME functions, the GNOME user interface widgets, the GNOME Canvas architecture, and the GNOME version of libglade. --- rep-gtk-libglade - librep binding for the libglade library for loading user interfaces. This is a binding of libglade for the librep Lisp interpreter. libglade allows applications to dynamically load XML descriptions of GTK+ widget hierarchies. These hierarchies may be created by the GLADE GUI builder. --- rhs-printfilters - Red Hat print filters, for use with the printtool. The rhs-printfilters package contains a set of print filters which are primarily meant to be used with the Red Hat printtool. These print filters provide an easy way for users to handle printing numerous file formats. --- rman - Converts man pages in *roff format to other formats. PolyglotMan (nee RosettaMan) is a filter for UNIX manual pages. It takes as input man pages for a variety of UNIX flavors and produces as output a variety of file formats. --- rmt - Provides certain programs with access to remote tape devices. The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for restoring files from a backup) and tar (an archiving program). --- rootfiles - root dot files This package contains all the startup files for the root user. These are basically the same files that are in the etcskel package. --- routed - The routing daemon which maintains routing tables. 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 - RPM Package Manager The RPM 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-build - Scripts and executable programs used to build packages. This package contains scripts and executable programs that are used to build packages using RPM. --- rpm-devel - Development files for applications which will manipulate RPM packages. 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 files 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. --- rpm-python - Python bindings for apps which will manipulate RPM packages. The rpm-python package contains a module which permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by RPM (RPM Package Manager) libraries. This package should be installed if you want to develop Python programs that will manipulate RPM packages and databases. --- rp-pppoe - PPP Over Ethernet (xDSL support) PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) is a protocol used by many ADSL Internet Service Providers. Roaring Penguin has a free client for Linux systems to connect to PPPoE service providers. The client is a user-mode program and does not require any kernel modifications. It is fully compliant with RFC 2516, the official PPPoE specification. --- rsh - Clients and servers for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp). 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 --- rsync - Program for efficient remote updates of files. rsync is a faster flexible replacement for rcp allowing rapid and network efficient synchronization of files or directories on different machines by transferring just the differences between those directories in a compressed form. It doesn't need either machine to have a copy of what is on the other. A technical report describing the rsync algorithm is included in this package. --- rusers - Displays the users logged into machines on the local network The rusers program allows users to find out who is logged into various machines on the local network. The rusers command produces output similar to who, but for the specified list of hosts or for all machines on the local network. Install rusers if you need to keep track of who is logged into your local network. --- rusers-server - Server for the rusers protocol. The rusers program allows users to find out who is logged into various machines on the local network. The rusers command produces output similar to who, but for the specified list of hosts or for all machines on the local network. The rusers-server package contains the server for responding to rusers requests. Install rusers-server if you want remote users to be able to see who is logged into your machine. --- rwall - Client and server for sending messages to users on remote host The rwall client sends a message to an rwall daemon running on a remote machine, which relays the message to all of the users on the remote machine. The rwall daemon is run from /etc/inetd.conf, and is disabled by default on Red Hat systems. --- rwho - Displays who is logged in to local network machines. The rwho command displays output similar to the output of the who command (it shows who is logged in) for all machines on the local network running the rwho daemon. Install the rwho command if you need to keep track of the users who are logged in to your local network. --- rxvt - A color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. Rxvt is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. Rxvt is intended to be an xterm replacement for users who don't need the more esoteric features of xterm, like Tektronix 4014 emulation, session logging and toolkit style configurability. Since it doesn't support those features, rxvt uses much less swap space than xterm uses. This is a significant advantage on a machine which is serving a large number of X sessions. The rxvt package should be installed on any machine which serves a large number of X sessions, if you'd like to improve that machine's performance. --- samba - Samba SMB client and server Samba provides an SMB server which can be used to provide network services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager") clients, including various versions of MS Windows, OS/2, and other Linux machines. Samba also provides some SMB clients, which complement the built-in SMB filesystem in Linux. Samba uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT need NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol. Samba-2 features an almost working NT Domain Control capability and includes the new SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) that allows samba's smb.conf file to be remotely managed using your favourite web browser. For the time being this is being enabled on TCP port 901 via inetd. Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt document for fixup information. This binary release includes encrypted password support. Please read the smb.conf file and ENCRYPTION.txt in the docs directory for implementation details. NOTE: Red Hat Linux 5.X Uses PAM which has integrated support for Shadow passwords. Do NOT recompile with the SHADOW_PWD option enabled. Red Hat Linux has built in support for quotas in PAM. --- samba-clients - Samba SMB client samba-clients provides some SMB clients, which complement the built-in SMB filesystem in Linux. These allow the accessing of SMB shares, and printing to SMB printers. --- samba-doc - Samba documentation Samba documentation --- samba-swat - Samba SWAT and Web documentation SWAT - Web-based Samba configuration tool package --- sane - SANE - Easy local and networked scanner access SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) is a sane and simple interface to both local and networked scanners and other image acquisition devices like digital still and video cameras. SANE currently includes modules for accessing a range of scanners, including models from Agfa SnapScan, Apple, Artec, Canon, CoolScan, Epson, HP, Microtek, Mustek, Nikon, Siemens, Tamarack, UMAX, Connectix, QuickCams and other SANE devices via network. For the latest information on SANE, the SANE standard definition, and mailing list access, see http://www.mostang.com/sane/ This package does not enable network scanning by default; if you wish to enable it, read the saned(1) manpage. --- sane-clients - SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) clients The clients that use the SANE modules. --- sane-devel - SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) development toolkit Static libraries and header files for writing SANE modules. --- sash - Statically linked shell w/ some basic commands built in Sash is a very simple, statically linked shell. It includes simplified versions built in commands like ls, dd, and gzip. Sash can be quite usefull for system recovery. --- sasl - SASL API implementation This is an implemention of the SASL API, useful for adding authentication, authorization, and security to network protocols. The SASL protocol itself is documented in rfc2222; the API standard is a work in progress. --- sasl-devel - SASL development headers and examples This includes the header files and documentation needed to develop applications which use SASL. --- sasl-plug-anonymous - SASL ANONYMOUS mechanism plugin This plugin implements the SASL ANONYMOUS mechanism, used for anonymous authentication. --- sasl-plug-crammd5 - SASL CRAM-MD5 mechanism plugin This plugin implements the SASL CRAM-MD5 mechanism. CRAM-MD5 is the mandatory-to-implement authentication mechanism for a number of protocols; it uses MD5 with a challenge/response system to authenticate the user. --- sasl-plug-digestmd5 - SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism plugin This plugin implements the latest draft of the SASL DIGEST-MD5 mechanism. Although not yet finalized, this is likely to become the new mandatory-to-implement authentication system in all new protocols. It's based on the digest md5 authentication system designed for HTTP. --- sasl-plug-plain - SASL PLAIN mechanism plugin This plugin implements the SASL PLAIN mechanism. Although insecure, PLAIN is useful for transitioning to new security mechanisms, as this is the only mechanism which gives the server a copy of the user's password. --- sawfish - An extensible window manager for the X Window System. Sawfish is an extensible window manager which uses a Lisp-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable and the basic idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled through the Lisp language. Configuration can be accomplished by writing Lisp code in a personal .sawfishrc file, or using a GTK+ interface. Sawfish is mostly GNOME compliant --- sawfish-themer - A GUI for creating sawfish window manager themes. The sawfish-themer package contains an optional theme builder for the sawfish window manager. sawfish-themer allows static window themes to be created and edited in a graphical environment. --- screen - A screen manager that supports multiple logins on one terminal. The screen utility allows you to have multiple logins on just one terminal. Screen is useful for users who telnet into a machine or are connected via a dumb terminal, but want to use more than just one login. Install the screen package if you need a screen manager that can support multiple logins on one terminal. --- secure-pop3 - Script to use SPOP3 (POP3 via SSL) - uses stunnel This is only an init.d script which starts stunnel in order to provide SPOP3 (port 995) services. You will have to create a certificate file and put its name in /etc/sysconfig/stunnel before running this script. --- sed - GNU Stream Editor Sed copies the named files (standard input default) to the standard output, edited according to a script of commands. --- sendmail - sendmail mail transport agent Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible configuration. If you need the ability to send and receive mail via the internet you'll need sendmail. --- sendmail-cf - sendmail configuration files and m4 macros This package contains all the configuration files used to generate the sendmail.cf file distributed with the base sendmail package. You'll want this package if you need to reconfigure and rebuild your sendmail.cf file. For example, the default sendmail.cf is not configured for UUCP. If you need to send and receive mail over UUCP, you may need this package to help you reconfigure sendmail. --- sendmail-doc - sendmail documentation This package includes release notes, the sendmail FAQ, and a few papers written about sendmail. The papers are available in PostScript and troff. --- setserial - Serial interface configuration program Setserial is a program which allows you to look at and change various attributes of a serial device, including its port, its IRQ, and other serial port options. --- setup - A set of system configuration and setup files 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. --- setuptool - Text-mode Configuration Tool setup is a friendly text-mode menu program that gives you easy, instant access to all the text-mode configuration programs in Conectiva Linux. --- shadow-utils - Utilities for managing shadow password files and user/group accounts. 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. --- shapecfg - Traffic shaper device configurator Configure and adjust traffic shaper bandwidth limiters. This package requires a kernel that has support for the shaper module. Currently this is the case with the 2.0.36 or later kernels and with late 2.1.X kernels. --- sharutils - GNU shar utils - shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode The shar utilities can be used to encode and package a number of files, binary and/or text, in a special plain text format. This format can safely be sent through email or other means where sending binary files is difficult. --- sh-utils - GNU shell utilities The GNU shell utilities provide many of the basic common commands used (among other things) for shell programming, hence the name. Nearly all shell scripts use at least one of these programs. --- slang - The shared library for the S-Lang extension language. 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 - The static library and header files for development using S-Lang. 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. --- sliplogin - A login program for SLIP connections. The sliplogin utility turns the terminal line on standard input into a SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) link to a remote host. Sliplogin is usually used to allow dial-in SLIP connections. Install the sliplogin package if you need to support dial-in SLIP connections. --- slocate - Finds files on a system via a central database slocate searches through a central database (updated nightly) for files which match a given glob pattern. This allows you to quickly find files anywhere on your system. --- slrn - A powerful, easy to use, threaded Internet news reader. slrn is a powerful, easy to use, threaded Internet news reader. slrn is highly customizable and allows you to design complex filters to sort or kill news articles. slrn works well over slow network connections, and includes a utility for reading news off-line. Install slrn if you need a full-featured news reader, if you have a slow network connection, or if you'd like to save on-line time by reading your news off-line. --- slrn-pull - Offline news reading support for slrn. This package provides slrnpull, which allows set up of a small news spool for offline news reading. --- sndconfig - Red Hat Sound Configuration tool The Red Hat sound package includes the sndconfig tool whichs is a text based sound configuration tool. You can use it to set the proper sound type for programs which use the devices /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, and /dev/mixer. Sound settings are saved via the use of aumix and sysV runlevel scripts. --- sniffit - A network protocol analyzer. Sniffit is a robust non-commercial network protocol analyzer or packet sniffer. A packet sniffer basically listens to network traffic and produces analysis based on the traffic and/or translates packets into some level of human readable form. --- soffice52-wrapper - StarOffice 5.2 wrapper This script tests the existence of a pre-installed StarOffice 5.2. If exists, it is called transparently. If non existent, it asks to be runned as root, asks for a CD mount and proceed with the software instalation. --- sox - general purpose sound file conversion tool The self described "swiss army knife of sound tools", sox can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions. --- sox-devel - sox library files Libraries that can be used to compile applications using sox libraries. --- squid - Squid Internet Object Cache Squid is a caching/proxy daemon for HTTP/FTP/Gopher. --- stat - A tool for finding out information about a specified file. The stat utility prints out filesystem level information about a specified file, including size, permissions, link count, inode, etc. --- statnet - Network traffic analyzer Statnet views the statistics of your Ethernet and PLIP/PPP/SLIP for TCP, IP, IPX, Appletalk, and whatever else it notices. --- statserial - displays status of the serial lines in a terminal Statserial displays a table of the signals on a standard 9-pin or 25-pin serial port, and indicates the status of the handshaking lines. It can be useful for debugging problems with serial ports or modems. --- strace - Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process. The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional purposes. Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and received by a process. --- stunnel - Program that wraps normal socket connections with SSL/TLS The stunnel program is designed to work as SSL encryption wrapper between remote clients and local (inetd-startable) or remote servers. The concept is that having non-SSL aware daemons running on your system you can easily set them up to communicate with clients over secure SSL channels. stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP-2, POP-3, and IMAP servers, to standalone daemons like NNTP, SMTP and HTTP, and in tunneling PPP over network sockets without changes to the source code. This RPM package has a new configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/stunnel) and an init script both designed primary for use with openldap 1.2.x. --- sudo - Allows command execution as root for specified users Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis, it is not a replacement for the shell. --- svgalib - library for full screen [S]VGA graphics SVGAlib is a library which allows applications to use full screen graphics on a variety of hardware platforms. Many games and utilities are avaiable which take advantage of SVGAlib for graphics access, as it is more suitable for machines with little memory then X Windows is. --- svgalib-devel - development libraries and include files for [S]VGA graphics These are the libraries and header files that are needed to build programs which use SVGAlib. SVGAlib allows programs to use full screen graphics on a variety of hardware platforms and without the overhead X requires. --- SVGATextMode - SVGATextMode enhanced text mode switching SVGATextMode allows the screen mode of the Linux console to be controlled in detail. This allows more characters on screen, more stable text, less characters on screen, less stable text, etc. also, on badly designed hardware, you could sometimes achieve a melted monitor. Extra fonts are required to work fully, though without them useful effects can still be achieved. --- swatch - System log watcher and alarm Swatch is used to monitor log files. When it sees a line matching a pattern you specify, it can highlight it and print it out, or run external programs to notify you through mail or some other means. --- sxid - sXid is a suid, sgid file and directory checking program. sXid is a suid, sgid file and directory checking program. --- symlinks - symbolic link sanity checker This program check for a number of problems with symlinks on a system, including symlinks which point to nonexistant files (dangling symlinks). It can also automatically convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks. --- sysklogd - System logging and kernel message trapping daemons. 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 System V system initialization program 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. --- tacp2rad - Tacacs / Radius AAA converter From the webpage at http://homepage.cistron.nl/~miquels/radius/ "We bought a Cisco 4000M for ISDN30 (PRI) access, and what do you think - it didn't support RADIUS. It does support TACACS+, though. So I wrote tacp2rad. This daemon sits between a TACACS+ client (a Cisco access server) and a RADIUS server, translating Authentication, Authorization and Accounting requests." --- talk - Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting. The ntalk package provides client and daemon programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different systems. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user. Install ntalk if you'd like to use talk for chatting with users on different systems. --- taper - Menu driven backup system with support for compression This is a tape backup and restore program that provides a friendly user interface to allow backing/restoring files to a tape drive. Alternatively, files can be backed up to hard disk files. Selecting files for backup and restore is very similar to the Midnight Commander interface and allows easy traversal of directories. Recursively selected directories are supported. Incremental backup and automatic most recent restore are defaults settings. SCSI, ftape, zftape, and removable drives are supported --- tar - GNU Tape Archiver (tar) GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. If you wish to do remote backups with tar, you will need to install the `rmt' package as well. --- task-alsa - Metapackage for ALSA This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) components. --- task-c++-devel - Metapackage for C++ development This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for a complete environment for development of programs in the C++ programming language. It itself includes no software, only dependencies on software. --- task-c-devel - Metapackage for C development This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for a complete environment for development of programs in the C programming language. It itself includes no software, only dependencies on software. --- task-config-tools - Metapackage for configuration tools This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for configuration tools (kbdconfig, mouseconfig, linuxconf, etc). --- task-debug - Metapackage for debugging programs This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for a complete debugging environment. It itself includes no software, only dependencies on software. --- task-gnome - Metapackage for the GNOME This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running the GNOME. --- task-ha - Metapackage for High Availability Tools This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running HA tools. --- task-kde - Metapackage for the KDE This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running the K Desktop Environment. --- task-kernel-compiling - Metapackage for kernel compiling This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for a complete environment to compiling Linux kernel. It itself includes no software, only dependencies on software. --- task-mail-server - Metapackage for a mail server This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for a complete mail server. It itself includes no software, only dependencies on software. --- task-python-devel - Metapackage for Python development This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for a complete environment for development of programs in Python. It itself includes no software, only dependencies on software. --- task-qvwm - Metapackage for qvwm This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running qvwm. --- task-windowmaker - Metapackage for WindowMaker This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running WindowMaker. --- task-x-window-system - Metapackage for the X Window System This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running the X Window System. --- tcl - An embeddable scripting language. 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. --- tcllib - A library of utility modules for Tcl. Tcllib is a collection of utility modules for Tcl. These modules provide a wide variety of functionality, from implementations of standard data structures to implementations of common networking protocols. The intent is to collect commonly used function into a single library, which users can rely on to be available and stable. --- tclx - Tcl/Tk extensions for POSIX systems. 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. --- tcpdump - A network traffic monitoring tool. Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria. Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic. --- tcp_wrappers - A security tool which acts as a wrapper for TCP daemons. 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 - Enhanced C-Shell "tcsh" is an enhanced version of csh (the C shell), with additional features such as command history, filename completion, and fancier prompts. --- telnet - The client programs for the telnet remote login protocol Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The telnet package provides a command line telnet client. --- telnet-server - The server program for the telnet remote login protocol. Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The telnet-server package provides a telnet daemon, which will support remote logins into the host machine. The telnet daemon is disabled by default. You may enable the telnet daemon by editing /etc/inetd.conf. --- termcap - The terminal feature database used by certain applications. 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 - Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files. 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 - GNU Text Utilities These are the GNU text file (actually, file contents) processing utilities. They include programs to split, join, compare, and modify files. --- tftp - Client and daemon for the trivial file transfer protocol (tftp) The trivial file transfer protocol (tftp) is normally used only for booting diskless workstations. It provides very little security, and should not be enabled unless it is needed. The tftp server is run from /etc/inetd.conf, and is disabled by default on Red Hat systems. --- time - GNU time Utility The 'time' utility is used as a sort of 'stopwatch' to time the execution of a specified command. It can aid in the optimization of programs for maximum speed, as well as a number of other uses. --- timeconfig - Text mode tools for setting system time parameters. The timeconfig package contains two utilities: timeconfig and setclock. Timeconfig provides a simple text mode tool for configuring the time parameters in /etc/sysconfig/clock and /etc/localtime. The setclock tool sets the hardware clock on the system to the current time stored in the system clock. --- timed - Programs for maintaining networked machines' time synchronization. The timed package contains the timed daemon and the timedc program for controlling the timed program. Timed synchronizes its host machine's time with the time on other local network machines. The timedc program is used to control and configure the operation of timed. Install the timed package if you need a system for keeping networked machines' times in synchronization. --- timidity++ - A software wavetable MIDI synthesizer. TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and player. Install timitidy++ if you'd like to play MIDI files and your sound card doesn't natively support wave table format. If you want to use TiMidity++ with X, you should instead install the timidity++-X11 package. --- timidity++-instruments - Basic instruments for TiMidity++ TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and player. This package includes a basic set of instruments (patches). --- timidity++-X11 - A software wavetable MIDI synthesizer using the GTK toolkit. TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and player. This package includes a version of TiMidity++ with a GUI written using the GTK+ widget set for the X Window System. Install timitidy++-X11 if you'd like to play MIDI files using X and your sound card doesn't natively support wave table format. --- tin - A basic Internet news reader. Tin is a basic, easy to use Internet news reader. Tin can read news locally or remotely via an NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) server. Install tin if you need a basic news reader. --- tix - A set of capable widgets for Tk. 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 GUI toolkit for Tcl, with shared libraries 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 - A graphical user interface for the Python scripting language. 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. --- tmpwatch - A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed. The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time. Tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp). Tmpwatch ignores symlinks, won't switch filesystems and only removes empty directories and regular files. --- traceroute - Traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network. The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute displays the IP number and host name (if possible) of the machines along the route taken by the packets. Traceroute is used as a network debugging tool. If you're having network connectivity problems, traceroute will show you where the trouble is coming from along the route. Install traceroute if you need a tool for diagnosing network connectivity problems. --- trafshow - trafshow - Text mode network traffic sniffer Trafshow is a text mode network packet sniffer. --- trn - Threaded News Reader `trn' is one of the original threaded news readers. this version is configured to read news from an NNTP news server. --- ttcp - Benchmark to test TCP and UDP performance Ttcp is a benchmark that times the transmission and reception of data between two systems using the UDP or TCP protocols. --- ttf-dividebyzero - Fonts selected from Tom 7's collection A collection of TrueType fonts created by Tom Murphy 7. Most fonts are decorative and best suited for titles and headlines. This package includes the following fonts: ActionJackson, Conventional Wisdom, Dissonant Fractured, Dysprosium, Fresnel, Geodesic, Greenwich Mean Time, Guild of Professional Actors, Hydrogen, I Suck At Golf, Meta Language, Non-Blocking Socket, Null Pointer, One Constant, Pinball Data, Potassium Scandal, Prefix, Ransom, Signal To Noise, Submerged, Tetanus, Tombats 1, Tombats 3, Tombats 4, Tombats Smilies, Tombots, Tom's Headache, Tom's New Roman, Two Turtle Doves, Valium --- ttf-uddiuddi - Free TrueType fonts from the Uddi Uddi team A collection of TrueType fonts created by the Uddi Uddi team. This package include the following fonts: Andover, Aragones, Bungnipper, Buttercrumb, Captain Podd, Draggletail, Druillet, Dubbem, Fusty Luggs, Gaggers, Glimstick, Hasty Pudding, Herbert, Hucklebuff, Inkburrow, Jobernole, Larson, Olli Compolli, Pickabilly, Scrubadoo, Spider Shank, Staggering Bob, Wiffles, Whoobub. --- tunelp - configures kernel parallel port driver `tunelp' aids in configuring the kernel parallel port driver. --- ucd-snmp - A collection of SNMP protocol tools from UC-Davis. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management (hence the name). The UCD-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools: an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons, documentation, etc. Install the ucd-snmp package if you need network management tools. You will probably also want to install the ucd-snmp-utils package, which contains UCD-SNMP utilities. --- ucd-snmp-devel - The development environment for the UCD-SNMP project. The ucd-snmp-devel package contains the development libraries and header files for use with the UCD-SNMP project's network management tools. Install the ucd-snmp-devel package if you would like to develop applications for use with the UCD-SNMP project's network management tools. You'll also need to have the ucd-snmp and ucd-snmp-utils packages installed. --- ucd-snmp-utils - Network management utilities using SNMP, from the UCD-SNMP project The ucd-snmp package contains various utilities for use with the UCD-SNMP network management project. Install this package if you need utilities for managing your network using the SNMP protocol. You'll also need to install the ucd-snmp package. --- umb-scheme - An implementation of the Scheme programming language. UMB Scheme is a public domain implementation of the Scheme programming language. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language, designed with clear and simple semantics and a minimal number of ways to form expressions. Install the umb-scheme package if you need an implementation of the Scheme programming language. --- unzip - unpacks .zip files such as those made by pkzip under DOS unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive, commonly found on MS-DOS systems. A companion program, zip, creates ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with archives created by PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many cases the program options or default behaviors differ. --- urw-fonts - Free versions of the 35 standard PostScript fonts. Free versions of the 35 standard PostScript fonts. With newer releases of ghostscript quality versions of the standard 35 Type 1 PostScript fonts are shipped. They were donated and licenced under the GPL by URW. The fonts.dir was specially made to match the original Adobe names of the fonts, e.g. Times, Helvetica etc. With X, LaTeX, or Ghostscript, these fonts are a must to have! --- usermode - Graphical tools for certain user account management tasks The usermode package contains several graphical tools for users: userinfo, usermount and userpasswd. Userinfo allows users to change their finger information. Usermount lets users mount, unmount, and format filesystems. Userpasswd allows users to change their passwords. Install the usermode package if you would like to provide users with graphical tools for certain account management tasks. --- utempter - Privledged helper for utmp/wtmp updates Utempter is a utility which allows some non-privileged programs to have required root access, yet without compromising system security. It accomplishes this task by acting as a buffer between root and the programs. --- util-linux - A collection of basic system utilities 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. --- uucp - GNU uucp UUCP is a Unix to Unix transfer mechanism. It is used primarily for remote sites to download and upload email and news files to local machines. If you didn't already know that, you probably don't need this package installed. :-) --- uudeview - UUDeview, the nice and friendly decoder Smart multi-file multi-part decoder for UUencoded, XXencoded, Base64 and BinHex encoded files. Includes a similarly powerful encoder as well. --- vim-common - Files needed by any vim editor The VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and feature-added clone of the 'vi' editor that comes with almost all UN*X systems. It adds multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highliting, and many other features to the standard vi program. The vim-common package contains files (such as help) that are needed by any vim binary in order to run. --- vim-enhanced - VIsual editor iMproved with all sorts of finery The VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and feature-added clone of the 'vi' editor that comes with almost all UN*X systems. It adds multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highliting, and many other features to the standard vi program. This package contains a version of vim which has many of the extra features that have recently been introduced to vim such as perl and python interpreters. --- vim-help - VIM help files VIM help files, available using :h --- vim-minimal - a vi-like editor. The VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and feature-added clone of the 'vi' editor that comes with almost all UN*X systems. It adds multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highliting, and many other features to the standard vi program. The vim-minimal package installs a version of vim into /bin/vi that is suitable for running when only the root partition is present. --- vim-syntax - VIM language syntax highlighting files VIM language syntax highlighting files. Lots of languages already supported: ada, amiga, asm, asmh8300, asmselect, asn, atlas, awk, basic, bib, c, clean, clipper, cobol, colortest, cpp, csh, css, cterm, dcl, diff, dosbatch, dosini, dracula, dtd, eiffel, elmfilt, esqlc, expect, exports, fortran, fvwm, gp, help, hitest, html, idl, inform, java, javacc, javascript, jgraph, lace, lex, lilo, lisp, lite, lotos, lss, mail, make, man, maple, matlab, mf, mib, model, modula2, mp, msql, muttrc, nasm, nosyntax, nroff, objc, ocaml, pascal, pcap, perl, php3, phtml, pike, pmfile, po, pod, postscr, pov, procmail, prolog, purifylog, python, rc, rexx, sather, scheme, scripts, sdl, sgml, sh, sicad, simula, skill, slang, slrnrc, slrnsc, sm, spec, sql, st, syntax, tags, tcl, tex, tf, tsalt, uil, verilog, vgrindefs, vhdl, vim, viminfo, vrml, whitespace, xdefaults, xmath, xml, xpm, yacc, zsh and more. --- vim-X11 - VIM with X-Windows support The VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and feature-added clone of the 'vi' editor that comes with almost all UN*X systems. It adds multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highliting, and many other features to the standard vi program. This package is a version of VIM with the X-Windows libraries linked in, allowing you to run VIM as an X-Windows application with a full GUI interface and mouse support. You just run 'gvim'. --- vixie-cron - The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times. 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. --- vlock - A program which locks one or more virtual consoles. The vlock program locks one or more sessions on the console. Vlock can lock the current terminal (local or remote) or the entire virtual console system, which completely disables all console access. The vlock program unlocks when either the password of the user who started vlock or the root password is typed. Install vlock if you need to disable access to one console or to all virtual consoles. --- vnc - A remote display system. Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where VNC is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of architectures. VNC is different from X in several ways: no state is stored at the VNC viewer, VNC is small and simple, VNC is truly platform-independent, and one desktop can be displayed and used by several viewers at once. --- vtun - Virtual tunnel over TCP/IP networks VTun provides the method for creating Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks and allows to shape, compress, encrypt traffic in that tunnels. Supported type of tunnels are: PPP, IP, Ethernet and most of other serial protocols and programs. VTun is easily and highly configurable, it can be used for various network task like VPN, Mobil IP, Shaped Internet access, IP address saving, etc. It is completely user space implementation and does not require modification to any kernel parts. --- wallpapers - Wallpapers Wallpaper images. --- webalizer - Web server log file analysis program 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). --- weblint - HTML validator This package validates HTML pages as correct, as well as offers tips for cleaner HTML. --- webxref - Web link checker This package will check a set of HTML pages for any broken links. --- wget - Retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP GNU Wget is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off. The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands /robots.txt). Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping getting the document until it is fully retrieved. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it. Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Both HTTP and FTP retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has. By default, Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. However, if you are behind a firewall that requires that you use a socks style gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support for socks. Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to install a global startup file (/etc/wgetrc on RedHat) for site settings. --- which - Finds a program 'which' is in one of the directories on your PATH Give it a program name, and it tells you if it is on your 'PATH'. For example, 'which ls' would print '/bin/ls', because the ls program, which is in one of the directories listed in your PATH environment variable, is located in the /bin directory. --- WindowMaker - NeXT-alike window manager WindowMaker is a window manager designed to emulate the look and feel of the NEXTSTEP(tm) GUI. It's supposed to be fast, relatively small, feature rich, and easy to configure, with a simple and elegant appearance borrowed from NEXTSTEP(tm). This package has compiled with kde and gnome support. The GNUstep directory is /usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep. --- WindowMaker-devel - WindowMaker development files Libraries and header files for WindowMaker-based programs --- wmakerconf - This is a GTK-based configuration tool for Window Maker wmakerconf is a GTK+ based configuration tool for the window manager Window Maker. Support of all Window Maker attributes: Font selection browser, pixmap preview browser, color selection dialog, shortcut dialog, file selection dialog, ... Tooltips with short description of every attribute. New attributes can be simply integrated by changing the wmakerconf proplist --- wmaker-themes - Windowmaker Themes A lot of themes to WindowMaker. --- wmCalClock - An nice clock with calendar dock application for WindowMaker dock wmCalClock is a simple Calendar Clock that uses anti-aliased characters and drop shadows. Doesnt do much except tell time... --- wmconfig - A configuration tool for X window managers. The wmconfig program is a helper program which provides output for use in configuring window managers. Wmconfig will produce a list of menu definitions for a specified X window manager (currently, FVWM2, FVWM95, AfterStep, MWM, IceWM and KDE are supported). Wmconfig's output can be placed into your .rc file or you can use the output for other configuration purposes. --- wmpixmaps - Icons and pixmaps for many Window Managers This package contain various pixmaps for many Window Managers --- words - English dictionary for /usr/share/dict This package contains the english dictionary in /usr/share/dict. It is used by programs like ispell as a database of words to check for spelling and so forth. --- wserv - Support program to IRC clients This is an support program to some IRC clients. --- WSoundPrefs - Window Maker Sound Preferences WSoundPrefs is a WINGs-based application to configure the Window Maker Sound Server (WMSound). It is actually a replacement of the Author's older program called WMSound Setup (aka wmss). Basically it provides the following options: - Which sound to play on which sound-event - Which sound-device to use - What are the search-paths for Sounds and SoundSets - Loading and Saving of Soundsets --- WSoundServer - WindowMaker Sound Server This is the Window Maker sound server. Adds sound on various events like minimizing/hiding/etc. --- WSoundServer-data - WSoundServer default sounds The standard WSoundServer sounds. --- WSoundServer-devel - Development files from WindowMaker Sound Server Header and development libraries from WSoundServer --- wu-ftpd - An FTP daemon provided by Washington University. 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. --- wvdial - Automatic dialer for pppd Wvdial is a pseudo-intelligent dialer that will attempt to automatically guess username and password prompts, and start pppd automatically. Use the associated program wvdialconf to probe for modems and create a default configuration file. --- Xaw3d - X athena widgets in 3d Xaw3d is an enhanced version of the MIT Athena Widget set for X Windows that adds a 3-dimensional look to the applications with minimal or no source code changes. --- Xaw3d-devel - Files for developing programs that use Xaw3d Xaw3d is an enhanced version of the MIT Athena Widget set for X Windows that adds a 3-dimensional look to the applications with minimal or no source code changes. This package includes the header files and static libraries for developing programs that take full advantage of Xaw3d's features. --- xchat - Gtk+ IRC client 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. --- Xconfigurator - The Red Hat Linux configuration tool for the X Window System. Xconfigurator is a full-screen, menu-driven program which walks you through setting up your X server. Xconfigurator is based on the sources for xf86config, a utility from XFree86. You should install Xconfigurator if you are installing the X Window System. --- xdosemu - A DOS emulator for the X Window System. Xdosemu is a version of the dosemu DOS emulator that runs with the X ]Window System. Xdosemu provides VGA graphics and mouse support. Install xdosemu if you need to run DOS programs on your system, and you'd like to do so with the convenience of graphics support and mouse capabilities. --- XFree86-100dpi-fonts - X Window System 100dpi fonts. 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. This package contains a set of 100 dpi fonts used on most Linux systems. 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 - Part of the XFree86 implementation of the X Window System. If you want to install the X Window System (TM) on your machine, you'll need to install 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 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. In addition to installing this package, 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. --- XFree86-75dpi-fonts - A set of 75 dpi resolution fonts for the X Window System. 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. You may also need to install other XFree86 font packages. 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-apm - The XFree86 driver for Alliance Promotion The XFree86 driver for Alliance Promotion --- XFree86-ati - The XFree86 driver for ATI Technologies The XFree86 driver for ATI Technologies --- XFree86-chips - The XFree86 driver for Chips and Technologies The XFree86 driver for Chips and Technologies --- XFree86-cirrus - The XFree86 driver for Cirrus Logic The XFree86 driver for Cirrus Logic --- XFree86-cyrillic-fonts - Cyrillic fonts - only needed on the server side. The Cyrillic fonts included with XFree86 3.3.2 and higher. Those who use a language requiring the Cyrillic character set should install this package. --- XFree86-cyrix - The XFree86 driver for VIA Cyrix chip The XFree86 driver for VIA Cyrix chip --- XFree86-devel - X11R6 static libraries, headers and programming man pages. XFree86-devel includes the libraries, header files and documentation you'll need to develop programs which run in X clients. XFree86 includes the base Xlib library as well as the Xt and Xaw widget sets. For guidance on programming with these libraries, O'Reilly & Associates produces a series on X programming which you might find useful. Install XFree86-devel if you are going to develop programs which will run as X clients. --- XFree86-doc - Documentation on various X11 programming interfaces XFree86-doc provides a great deal of extensive PostScript documentation 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-fbdev - The XFree86 driver for Linux FBDev The XFree86 driver for Linux FBDev --- XFree86-glint - The XFree86 driver for 3DLabs Permedia The XFree86 driver for 3DLabs Permedia --- XFree86-i740 - The XFree86 driver for Intel i740 The XFree86 driver for Intel i740 --- XFree86-i810 - The XFree86 driver for Intel i810 The XFree86 driver for Intel i810 --- XFree86-imstt - The XFree86 driver for Integrated Micro Solutions Twin Turbo 128 The XFree86 driver for Integrated Micro Solutions Twin Turbo 128 --- XFree86-latin2-fonts - Latin2 fonts - only needed on the server side. The Latin2 fonts included with XFree86 4.0 and higher. Those who use a language requiring the Latin2 character set should install this package. --- XFree86-libs - Shared libraries needed by the X Window System version 11 release 6. 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 the XFree86 package, the XFree86-75dpi-fonts package or the XFree86-100dpi-fonts package (depending upon your monitor's resolution), the Xconfigurator package and the X11R6-contrib package. And, finally, if you are going to be developing applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install XFree86-devel. --- XFree86-mga - The XFree86 driver for Matrox Cards The XFree86 driver for Matrox Cards --- XFree86-neomagic - The XFree86 driver for NeoMagic Cards The XFree86 driver for NeoMagic Cards --- XFree86-nv - The XFree86 driver for NVidia Cards The XFree86 driver for NVidia Cards --- XFree86-r128 - The XFree86 driver for ATI Rage 128 The XFree86 driver for ATI Rage 128 --- XFree86-rendition - The XFree86 driver for Rendition (Micron) Cards The XFree86 driver for Rendition (Micron) Cards --- XFree86-s3virge - The XFree86 driver for S3 Virge Cards The XFree86 driver for S3 Virge Cards --- XFree86-Server - The XFree86 server for most framebuffer devices. Modular X server from the XFree86 Project. --- XFree86-sis - The XFree86 driver for SiS Cards The XFree86 driver for SiS Cards --- XFree86-tdfx - The XFree86 driver for Voodoo Cards The XFree86 driver for Voodoo Cards --- XFree86-trident - The XFree86 driver for Trident Cards The XFree86 driver for Trident Cards --- XFree86-tseng - The XFree86 driver for Tseng Cards The XFree86 driver for Tseng Cards --- XFree86-vesa - The XFree86 driver for Generic VESA Cards The XFree86 driver for Generic VESA Cards --- XFree86-vga - The XFree86 driver for Generic VGA Cards The XFree86 driver for Generic VGA Cards --- XFree86-xfs - Font server for XFree86 This is a font server for XFree86. You can serve fonts to other X servers remotely with this package, and 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 - A nested XFree86 server. Xnest is an X Window System server which runs in an X window. Xnest is a 'nested' window server, 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 - A virtual framebuffer X Windows System server for XFree86. Xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer) is an X Windows System server that is capable of running 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. --- xinetd - xinetd is a powerful and secure replacement for inetd. xinetd is a powerful replacement for inetd. xinetd has access control machanisms, extensive logging capabilities, the ability to make services available based on time, and can place limits on the number of servers that can be started, among other things. xinetd has the ability to redirect TCP streams to a remote host and port. This is useful for those of that use ip masquerading, or NAT, and want to be able to reach your internal hosts. xinetd also has the ability to bind specific services to specific interfaces. This is useful when you want to make services available for your internal network, but not the rest of the world. Or to have a different service running on the same port, but different interfaces. --- xinetd-devel - Static libraries and header files for xinetd xinetd is a powerful replacement for inetd. xinetd has access control machanisms, extensive logging capabilities, the ability to make services available based on time, and can place limits on the number of servers that can be started, among other things. xinetd has the ability to redirect TCP streams to a remote host and port. This is useful for those of that use ip masquerading, or NAT, and want to be able to reach your internal hosts. xinetd also has the ability to bind specific services to specific interfaces. This is useful when you want to make services available for your internal network, but not the rest of the world. Or to have a different service running on the same port, but different interfaces. Install the xinetd-devel package if you want to develop applications that will use the xinetd library. --- xinitrc - Default startup script for X Windows This package contains the basic X windows startup script used by the "startx" command. --- xkeycaps - A keymap editor for the X window system xkeycaps is a graphical front-end to xmodmap. It opens a window that looks like a keyboard; moving the mouse over a key shows what KeySyms and Modifier bits that key generates. Clicking on a key simulates KeyPress/KeyRelease events on the window of your choice. It is possible to change the KeySyms and Modifiers generated by a key through a mouse-based interface. This program can also write an input file for xmodmap to recreate your changes in future sessions. See the man page for more details. --- xloadimage - X based image viewer Xloadimage displays images in an X11 window, loads them onto the root window, or writes them into a file. Many image types are recognized. --- xlockmore - An X terminal locking program The xlockmore utility is an enhanced version of the standard xlock program, which allows you to lock an X session so that other users can't access it. Xlockmore runs a provided screensaver until you type in your password. Install the xlockmore package if you need a locking program to secure X sessions. --- xmms - Sound player with the WinAmp GUI, for Unix-based systems. XMMS is a sound player written from scratch. Since it uses the WinAmp GUI, it can use WinAmp skins, and play mp3s, mods, s3ms, and other formats. It now has support for input, output, and general plugins, and has also been GPL'd. --- xmms-devel - Required tools for compiling XMMS plugins. Static libraries and header files required for compiling xmms plugins. --- xmms-mesa - Visualisation plugin with Mesa OpenGL capabilities. Visualisation plugin with Mesa OpenGL capabilities. --- xmms-skins - A variety of skins for xmms This package adds a variety of skins to xmms. --- xmp - Extended Module Player, a multi-format module player xmp is a multi-format module player for UNIX. In machines with GUS or AWE cards xmp takes advantage of the OSS sequencer to play modules with virtually no system load. Using software mixing, xmp plays at sampling rates up to 48kHz in mono or stereo, 8 or 16 bits, signed or unsigned, little or big endian samples with 32 bit linear interpolation. --- xmp-X11 - X windows interface to XMP sound player X windows interface to XMP sound player. --- xntp3 - Network Time Protocol utilities This package contains utilities and daemons to help synchronize your computer's time to UTC standard time. It includes ntpdate, a program similar to rdate, and xntpd, a daemon which adjusts the system time continuously. --- xscreensaver - A set of X Window System screensavers. The xscreensaver package contains a variety of screensavers for your mind-numbing, ambition-eroding, time-wasting, hypnotized viewing pleasure. Install the xscreensaver package if you need screensavers for use with the X Window System. --- xscreensaver-gl - A set of GL screensavers The xscreensaver-gl package contains even more screensavers for your mind-numbing, ambition-eroding, time-wasting, hypnotized viewing pleasure. These screensavers require OpenGL or Mesa support. --- xwc - A filemanager for X X file manager for X11 written using the FOX toolkit. (http://cyberia.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html) It has Windows Commander or MS-Explorer look and it's very fast and simple. The main features are: file associations, mount/umount devices, directory tree for quick cd, change file attributes, auto save registry, compressed archives view/creation/extraction, automatic query/install/upgrade of rpm's, and much more. Not required but strongly encouraged to get full use of default file associations : . ee for graphics . xmms for audios . mtvp for videos . gxtar for compressed archives rpm utility and text viewer are provided. --- ypbind - The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain. The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS clients to an NIS domain. Ypbind must be running on any machines which are running NIS client programs. Install the ypbind package on any machines which are running NIS client programs (included in the yp-tools package). If you need an NIS server, you'll also need to install the ypserv package to a machine on your network. --- ypserv - The NIS (Network Information Service) server The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package provides the NIS server, which will need to be running on your network. NIS clients do not need to be running the server. Install ypserv if you need an NIS server for your network. You'll also need to install the yp-tools and ypbind packages onto any NIS client machines. --- yp-tools - NIS (or YP) client programs. The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package's NIS implementation is based on FreeBSD's YP and is a special port for glibc 2.x and libc versions 5.4.21 and later. This package only provides the NIS client programs. In order to use the clients, you'll need to already have an NIS server running on your network. An NIS server is provided in the ypserv package. Install the yp-tools package if you need NIS client programs for machines on your network. You will also need to install the ypbind package on every machine running NIS client programs. If you need an NIS server, you'll need to install the ypserv package on one machine on the network. --- ytalk - A chat program. The YTalk program is essentially a chat program for multiple users. YTalk works just like the UNIX talk program and even communicates with the same talk daemon(s), but YTalk allows for multiple connections (unlike UNIX talk). YTalk also supports redirection of program output to other users as well as an easy-to-use menu of commands. Install the ytalk package if you need a chat program for multiple users. --- zip - A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP. The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program. --- zlib - The zlib compression and decompression library. 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 - Header files and libraries for developing apps which will use zlib. 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. --- Zope - An application server and portal toolkit for building Web sites. 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. For a fully functional installation of Zope, install this single huge package and then _either_ the Zope-zserver RPM, for a minimal Python-based web server; or the Zope-pcgi RPM, for use with Apache's CGI facility. If you only want portions of Zope, there are subpackages available for each subsystem and you should _not_ install this RPM. --- Zope-components - A group of standalone Python binary extension modules. The Zope-components package includes a group of standalone Python extension modules, including BTree, cPickle/cStringIO, ExtensionClass, Acquisition, MethodObject, MultiMapping, ThreadLock, Missing, Sync, Record, ComputedAttribute and zlib. These modules can be used with the Zope application server and portal toolkit or standalone. --- Zope-core - Central Core of Zope w/General Extensions 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. The Zope-core package contains the central core programs and general extensions needed to run Zope. For a fully functional installation of Zope, install Zope, Zope-components, Zope-core, Zope-services, Zope-zpublisher, and Zope-ztemplates, and one of the following packages: Zope-zserver, for a minimal Python-based Web server; or Zope-pcgi, for using Zope with Apache's CGI facility. --- Zope-pcgi - Persistent CGI (PCGI) capabilities for Zope. Persistent CGI (PCGI) is an architecture designed by Digital Creations (http://www.digicool.com) for publishing Web objects as long-running server processes in order to improve the performance of serving Web pages. This package is PCGI for use with the Zope application server and portal toolkit. It is not necessary for ZServer to actually listen for incoming HTTP requests. If you want Apache to do the actual listening and serving, then you can use ZServer's PCGI component to communicate with Apache. Please note that versions of the Apache Web server prior to 1.3 do not have a sufficiently implemented rewrite module to provide authentication for Zope. You'll need to upgrade your Apache if you're using a version prior to 1.3. For PCGI HOWTO information, see: http://starship.python.net/crew/jbauer/persistcgi/ --- Zope-services - Middle-level services for Zope. The Zope-services package contains a group of middle-level services needed by the Zope application server and portal toolkit (but not specifically tied to Zope). Services included are DateTime, SearchIndex and StructuredText. --- Zope-zpublisher - An object publishing mechanism for Zope. Zpublisher is a Python-based object publishing mechanism that maps URLs to an object hierarchy and handles the interface between the Web server and the Web application, hiding many complex details. Zpublisher is used with the Zope application server and portal toolkit, but it can be used standalone as well. Zpublisher was called Bobo before Zope came along. --- Zope-ztemplates - A template for creating dynamic HTML for Zope. The Zope-ztemplates package contains a Python-based template mechanism for creating dynamic HTML sources, with Python expressions, looping constructs, etc. The Z Template system can be used with the Zope application server and portal tookit, or it can be used standalone. Z Template was called DocumentTemplate in the olden days (before Zope). --- zsh - A shell similar to ksh, but with improvements 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. ---