Debian Package of the Day 58
A user writes "The Debian project has started a new webpage: the 'Debian package of the day.' It does what it says — every day another package from the Debian repository is posted with an elaborate description and some nice screenshots. As Debian (and all the other distributions as well) contains way too many packages for it to be feasible to inspect all of them yourself, this is then a nice way of learning about all kinds interesting software packages."
Not really official (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:OMG (Score:5, Informative)
ATM there's only 72 rc-bugs to be squashed before Etch will be ready (Debian-installer rc2 will be out soon too). Soon enough the most stable Linux distribution ever is released. Thanks to all debian developers around the world.
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My Recommendation for Today (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Screenshots for all packages? ;-) (Score:2, Informative)
Try PopCon (Score:5, Informative)
http://popcon.debian.org/ [debian.org]
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a2p: Awk to perl. Converts an awk script to a perl script that does the same. Creates a poor script really.
a2ps used to be ascii2postscript, now anything to postscript. Generic converter.
aclocal Part of autoconf, handles checking where things are on the local machine (.pkginfo IIRC)
aclocal-1.9 Ditto for 1.9 (the latest version)
aconnect Dunno
acpi_fakekey Not sure
acpi_listen Monitor for ACPI events (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, which I know far too much due to owning a crap MB)
acpitool Send ACPI commands, query ACPI state
acroread Yeah, I still have acrobat - kpdf doesn't have rotate yet
activation-client Dunno
adddebug Dunno
addftinfo Dunno
addr2line Dunno
adept Nice gui for apt.
adept_batch Backend adept uses to do the commands
adept_installer Backend adept uses to install packages, has a gui
adept_notifier The little widget that goes on your kicker
adept_updater Runs aptitude update
afmdiff.awk Adobe Fount Manager no doubt, but dunno
afmtodit Used by TeX somewhere, font conversion no doubt
akode-config Replacement for ARTS I think
akodeplay See above, does the playing
akregator Really Simple Syndication for KDE
alistat Dunno
alsamixer Does both HW and SW mixing, can be compiled to have a GUI but normally curses
amarok Great music interface
amarokapp The actual binary (don't run gdb against amark, use amarkapp instead...)
amarok_daapserver.rb provides data for itunes clients
amarok_proxy.rb Dunno, though the name gives a strong hint...
amidi From the alsa toolsuite, never needed to use it but no doubt is alsa's interface to MIDI devices
amixer See above, I prefer alsamixer
amor An Amusing Misuse Of Resources. Hadn't realised this was still installed. Puts a silly smiley on windows
animate Dunno
annotate-output Dunno
ant Apache/Jakata. Build system. Supposed to be quite good
anytopnm Convert any image to pnm, uses imagemagick
aplay Alsa player
aplaymidi See above, for
apm Old version of ACPI, this command much like acpitool
apm_available As above, check features MB supports.
apmount Not sure
apmsleep can be sent using apm, but some people might forget the difference between S1 and S3 I suppose
apogee_ppi Dunno
appletproxy Dunno, probably java
appletviewer Ancient java program, not used much since doesn't get used for apps any more.
appres Not sure
apr-config Apache Portable Runtime?
apropos One of the misunderstood and misprounced english words. In this context, much like in LISP, it searches help by keword.
apt A Packaging Tool.
apt-cache Caches dpkgs and Package.gz
apt-cdrom APT method for reading off CDroms (as opposed to normal people, who read off HTTP)
apt-config Query apt from a script for how it is installed
apt-extracttemplates One of apt's internal tools, puls out the 'what this package does'
apt-ftparchive Not sure, probably for reading ftp:// [ftp]
apt-get Get the stuff
aptitude Nice replacement for APT
apt-key GPG key management for APT.
apt-sortpkgs Internal apt tool, I've only seen it used to present lists in alphabetical order but I'm sure it has more features.
apu-config Dunno, sounds familiar.
ar Arrrrr, tar hasn't taken over the world yet... We still have ranlib!
archpath Dunno
arecord alsa recording features
arecordmidi See above
ark KDE archiver. Uses tar rather than ar (I think).
arm2hpdl Dunno
arping Address resolution protocol, look up a host and check it is online/available
artsbuilder clearly ARTS related, but I can't remember exactly what this one does.
artscat See above
artsc-config For checking arts' install state from a script
artscontrol Mute, vol, etc.
artsd The main Adaptive Real Time Synthesiser Daemon
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