Package: acct Description-md5: b24f45ef7d67937aa65ecb8e36a7e5a1 Description-en_CA: The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting GNU Accounting Utilities is a set of utilities which reports and summarizes data about user connect times and process execution statistics. . "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system. . The 'last' command is provided by the sysvinit package and not included here. Package: acl Description-md5: 75eddab5ddd2597445b43aa18f0db77a Description-en_CA: Access control list utilities This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists. Package: acpid Description-md5: 6a7c4e4695f570d8fbcaec667cdcfcfe Description-en_CA: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and configuration status. . ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events. It listens on netlink interface (or on the deprecated file /proc/acpi/event), and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the admin. Package: adduser Description-md5: 7965b5cd83972a254552a570bcd32c93 Description-en_CA: add and remove users and groups This package includes the 'adduser' and 'deluser' commands for creating and removing users. . - 'adduser' creates new users and groups and adds existing users to existing groups; - 'deluser' removes users and groups and removes users from a given group. . Adding users with 'adduser' is much easier than adding them manually. Adduser will choose appropriate UID and GID values, create a home directory, copy skeletal user configuration, and automate setting initial values for the user's password, real name and so on. . Deluser can back up and remove users' home directories and mail spool or all the files they own on the system. . A custom script can be executed after each of the commands. . Development mailing list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/adduser-devel/ Package: aide Description-md5: 5cf26f0af8c95254f9ec7920c1214cbe Description-en_CA: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. . This package contains the statically linked binary for "normal" systems. Package: aide-common Description-md5: 7a8490e442a29581e6cca1b191be3f62 Description-en_CA: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. . This package contains base and configuration files that are needed to run the actual binaries. . You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in /etc/aide/aide.conf or drop your own config snippets into /etc/aide/aide.conf.d. Package: alien Description-md5: 250884c1c7113f08b8c335ac3cf22206 Description-en_CA: convert and install rpm and other packages Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. Package: alsa-base Description-md5: 14d30d1beb8026b3d2636c32c5a92cca Description-en_CA: ALSA driver configuration files This package contains various configuration files for the ALSA drivers. . For ALSA to work on a system with a given sound card, there must be an ALSA driver for that card in the kernel. Linux 2.6 as shipped in linux- image packages contains ALSA drivers for all supported sound cards in the form of loadable modules. A custom alsa-modules package can be built from the sources in the alsa-source package using the m-a utility (included in the module-assistant package). Please read the README.Debian file for more information about loading and building modules. . ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Package: amavisd-new Description-md5: d95fd9c270e69763b2674a7c7629b731 Description-en_CA: Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters AMaViSd-new is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent (MTA) with zero or more virus scanners, and spamassassin (optional). . It supports all common virus scanners (more than 20 different AVs), with direct talk-to-daemon support for ClamAV, OpenAntiVirus, Trophie, AVG, f-prot, and Sophos AVs. . AMaViSd-new supports all MTAs through its generic SMTP/LMTP filter mode (ideal for postfix and exim). It is faster and safer to use the SMTP/LMTP filter mode than using the AMaViS pipe client. It supports sendmail milter through the amavisd-new-milter package. Package: anacron Description-md5: cd9f07726e1ee3bc93fcfdb799520070 Description-en_CA: cron-like program that doesn't go by time Anacron (like "anac(h)ronistic") is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine uptime permits. . This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian system. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages are executed each day. Package: ant Description-md5: 5ceb3b9317ae6734ab188db300acaade Description-en_CA: Java based build tool like make A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the scripts and the core tasks libraries. Package: ant-doc Description-md5: 57a585c539546126acd9aa0e320f0d4d Description-en_CA: Java based build tool like make - API documentation and manual A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the manual of ant as well as the Javadoc API documentation. Package: ant-optional Description-md5: ccdbce1086b391c7aabff03d95a69d02 Description-en_CA: Java based build tool like make - optional libraries A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". This package contains the optional tasks libraries. Package: anthy Description-md5: 7ddaacfe3551af98af20a59f6fd95f97 Description-en_CA: input method for Japanese - backend, dictionary and utility Anthy is a Japanese input method working on X11 and Emacs. It converts hiragana text to mixed kana and kanji. It is implemented as a library and stores private information securely in ~/.anthy/. Thus, Anthy is simple and secure (information is protected from spoofing and snooping). Package: antlr Description-md5: 21a2d2105df695e242797a7829b2c9b5 Description-en_CA: language tool for constructing recognizers, compilers etc ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions [You can use PCCTS 1.xx to generate C-based parsers]. . Computer language translation has become a common task. While compilers and tools for traditional computer languages (such as C or Java) are still being built, their number is dwarfed by the thousands of mini-languages for which recognizers and translators are being developed. Programmers construct translators for database formats, graphical data files (e.g., PostScript, AutoCAD), text processing files (e.g., HTML, SGML). ANTLR is designed to handle all of your translation tasks. Package: antlr-doc Description-md5: 2c7eadb8bcc6ff951791285f19c40007 Description-en_CA: language tool for constructing recognizers, compilers etc This package contains the documentation and examples for antlr. ANTLR stands for ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS). It is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions [You can use PCCTS 1.xx to generate C-based parsers]. . See antlr package for a complete description Package: apache2 Description-md5: d24f049cd70ccfc178dd8974e4b1ed01 Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server metapackage The Apache Software Foundation's goal is to build a secure, efficient and extensible HTTP server as standards-compliant open source software. The result has long been the number one web server on the Internet. . It features support for HTTPS, virtual hosting, CGI, SSI, IPv6, easy scripting and database integration, request/response filtering, many flexible authentication schemes, and more. Package: apache2-doc Description-md5: 268d5339b3063f1f4a1f8ba078480a2a Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server documentation This package provides the documentation for Apache 2. For more details see the apache2 package description. Package: apache2-mpm-event Description-md5: a80d3fe69689b28f8aea325690e6e8f5 Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server - event driven model Each Apache Multi-Processing Module provides a different "flavour" of web server binary, compiled with a different processing model. . The event MPM is designed to allow more requests to be served simultaneously by passing off some processing work to supporting threads, freeing up the main threads to work on new requests. It is especially suitable for sites that see extensive KeepAlive traffic. . This MPM is experimental and less tested than the worker and prefork MPMs. Package: apache2-mpm-prefork Description-md5: b1e3963f43f27f985efabc714e30a17e Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server - traditional non-threaded model Each Apache Multi-Processing Module provides a different "flavour" of web server binary, compiled with a different processing model. . The prefork MPM provides a non-threaded implementation using a variable number of processes where each process handles only one connection at the same time. It is not as fast as threaded models, but is considered to be more stable. It is appropriate for sites that need to maintain compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries, and is the best MPM for isolating each request, so that a problem with a single request will not affect any other. Package: apache2-mpm-worker Description-md5: 5c9df5383d0a2631ae15ced2ca0389d7 Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server - high speed threaded model Each Apache Multi-Processing Module provides a different "flavour" of web server binary, compiled with a different processing model. . The worker MPM provides the default threaded implementation. It is recommended especially for high-traffic sites because it is faster and has a smaller memory footprint than the traditional prefork MPM. Package: apache2-prefork-dev Description-md5: 131f1c35d98f8bc3fbed9f8a41149dd8 Description-en_CA: Apache development headers - non-threaded MPM This package provides the development headers and apxs2 binary for apache2 -mpm-prefork; see the apache2 package description for more details. . This should only be used when you absolutely *must* support a non-threaded environment (for PHP, for example). Package: apache2-threaded-dev Description-md5: dcab973a966982dea149a93e2310d0a1 Description-en_CA: Apache development headers - threaded MPM This package provides the development headers and apxs2 binary for threaded versions of apache2; see the apache2 package description for more details. Package: apache2-utils Description-md5: 65b11c04f19387d5e961a795a115c791 Description-en_CA: utility programs for webservers Provides some add-on programs useful for any webserver. These include: - ab (Apache benchmark tool) - logresolve (Resolve IP addresses to hostname in logfiles) - htpasswd (Manipulate basic authentication files) - htdigest (Manipulate digest authentication files) - dbmmanage (Manipulate basic authentication files in DBM format, using perl) - htdbm (Manipulate basic authentication files in DBM format, using APR) - rotatelogs (Periodically stop writing to a logfile and open a new one) - split-logfile (Split a single log including multiple vhosts) - checkgid (Checks whether the caller can setgid to the specified group) - check_forensic (Extract mod_log_forensic output from Apache log files) - httxt2dbm (Generate dbm files for use with RewriteMap) Package: apache2.2-bin Description-md5: a99a5e28b18db91922ca15fab5acb2b3 Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server common binary files The Apache Software Foundation's goal is to build a secure, efficient and extensible HTTP server as standards-compliant open source software. The result has long been the number one web server on the Internet. . This package contains all binaries but no configuration or support scripts. To get a stand-alone server, you need to install one of the apache2-mpm-* packages, such as worker or prefork. Other packages like gnome-user-share may bring their own Apache configuration, though. Package: apache2.2-common Description-md5: 214ca4adfc4cb3d8083d736c7fe47647 Description-en_CA: Apache HTTP Server common files The Apache Software Foundation's goal is to build a secure, efficient and extensible HTTP server as standards-compliant open source software. The result has long been the number one web server on the Internet. . This package contains the configuration and support scripts. However, it does *not* include the server itself; for this you need to install one of the apache2-mpm-* packages, such as worker or prefork. Package: app-install-data Description-md5: f60778a916e4cfc34f4e6d08cae5fa94 Description-en_CA: Ubuntu applications (data files) This package contains the Ubuntu specific application data and icons for software-center (and similar tools). Package: apparmor Description-md5: 35c06b71e31a437828d84b93a41bd493 Description-en_CA: User-space parser utility for AppArmor This provides the system initialization scripts needed to use the AppArmor Mandatory Access Control system, including the AppArmor Parser which is required to convert AppArmor text profiles into machine-readable policies that are loaded into the kernel for use with the AppArmor Linux Security Module. Package: apparmor-utils Description-md5: 22a5090997862bae53e19125fba08de9 Description-en_CA: Utilities for controlling AppArmor This provides the utilities to operate on AppArmor profiles, as well as the Perl modules needed for AppArmor audit log parsing. Profiles can be created, updated, enforced, set to complain mode, and disabled. Package: apport Description-md5: c04626471654f9246cf5e28b560d262e Description-en_CA: automatically generate crash reports for debugging apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package also provides a command line frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. For desktops, you should consider installing the GTK+ or Qt user interface (apport-gtk or apport-kde). Package: apport-gtk Description-md5: 2f45e17d5bf22355d7921dba196ae6dd Description-en_CA: GTK+ frontend for the apport crash report system apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package provides a GTK+ frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. Package: apport-retrace Description-md5: 7608c287131a28c4611767ba61f02050 Description-en_CA: tools for reprocessing Apport crash reports apport-retrace recombines an Apport crash report (either a file or a Launchpad bug) and debug symbol packages (.ddebs) into fully symbolic stack traces. This can optionally use a sandbox for installing debug symbol packages and doing the processing, so that entire process of retracing crashes can happen with normal user privileges without changing the system. . You need to install gdb-multiarch if you want to be able to retrace crash reports which happened on a different architecture than the one you run apport-retrace on. Package: apt-listchanges Description-md5: ff242d11e25a826706c61be7ebf92ad4 Description-en_CA: package change history notification tool The tool apt-listchanges can compare a new version of a package with the one currently installed and show what has been changed, by extracting the relevant entries from the Debian changelog and NEWS files. . It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all changes that would be caused by installing or upgrading a group of packages. When configured as an APT plugin it will do this automatically during upgrades. Package: aptitude Description-md5: 6077c8b6794c43d6b34dfc9169fe4ee5 Description-en_CA: terminal-based package manager aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect- like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get. . aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken. Package: aptitude-dbg Description-md5: 1113502e17f6968feafa2dabfeba01a0 Description-en_CA: Debug symbols for the aptitude package manager aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect- like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get. . This package contains the debugging symbols for aptitude. You only need these if you want to generate debugging backtraces of aptitude; if you do, you probably also want the debug package for the cwidget library. Package: aptitude-doc-en Description-md5: 2d2da927067ef4b395df37dd2ad5ed3f Description-en_CA: English manual for aptitude, a terminal-based package manager aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect- like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get. . This package contains the English version of the aptitude user's manual in HTML format. Package: apturl Description-md5: 0ff87045fbbd2d7c44b70b7ac3d409e1 Description-en_CA: install packages using the apt protocol - GTK+ frontend AptUrl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does so for him). . This package contains the GTK+ frontend. Package: apturl-common Description-md5: 1a9a3582fbd6f80810cf5bf2bc1a5249 Description-en_CA: install packages using the apt protocol - common data AptUrl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does so for him). . This package contains the common data shared between the frontends. Package: asciidoc Description-md5: db604821694f4714e2ebf12b4f45105d Description-en_CA: Highly configurable text format for writing documentation AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing articles, books, manuals and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML (with or without stylesheets), DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc command. AsciiDoc can also be used to build and maintain websites. . You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed directly or translated to other presentation formats Package: aspell Description-md5: 21dcab5448cba7f61ba8df4ace46f1af Description-en_CA: GNU Aspell spell-checker GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about any other spell-checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. . Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell. Package: aspell-doc Description-md5: 33c68b861d6f2e2ef1b189909b98b741 Description-en_CA: Documentation for GNU Aspell spell-checker This package contains the documentation for GNU Aspell in various formats. The aspell package comes with minimal man pages. Install this package if you need further information on the development process and workings of Aspell. Package: aspell-en Description-md5: 33430e0431f04d392965162affa799eb Description-en_CA: English dictionary for GNU Aspell This package contains all the required files to add support for English language to the GNU Aspell spell checker. . American, British and Canadian spellings are included. Package: at Description-md5: 97e204a9f4ad8c681dbd54ec7c505251 Description-en_CA: Delayed job execution and batch processing At and batch read shell commands from standard input storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution in the future. . Use at to run the job at a specified time batch to run the job when system load levels permit Package: attr Description-md5: 06768ac28dead3beb310d915f4822f45 Description-en_CA: Utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name. Package: dh-apport Description-md5: a5c779df9e0b356100c76151d7cef527 Description-en_CA: debhelper extension for the apport crash report system apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package provides a debhelper extension to make it easier for other packages to include apport hooks.