Translations by Wylmer Wang

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.

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.

Application Installer (data files for partner applications/repositories)

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).

Apport intercepts program crashes, collects debugging information about the crash and the operating system environment, and sends it to bug trackers in a standardized form. It also offers the user to report a bug about a package, with again collecting as much information about it as possible.

This package extends Apport by some "symptom" scripts, so that bug reporters do not have to guess the correct package, but report problems based on symptoms that they have (like "sound problem"), through an interactive process.

transaction based package management service

Aptdaemon allows normal users to perform package management tasks, e.g. refreshing the cache, upgrading the system, installing or removing software packages.

Currently it comes with the following main features:

install packages using the apt protocol - GTK+ frontend

install packages using the apt protocol - common data

Set of lenses needed by libaugeas0 to parse config files

Augeas parses configuration files described in lenses into a tree structure, which it exposes through its public API. Changes made through the API are written back to the initially read files.

Lenses are the building blocks of the file <-> tree transformation; they combine parsing a file and building the tree (the get transformation), with turning the tree back into an (updated) file (the put transformation).

The transformation works very hard to preserve comments and formatting details. It is controlled by ``lens'' definitions that describe the file format and the transformation into a tree. This package includes the official set of lenses.

Allows non-root programs to bind() to low ports

Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's from files called `Makefile.am'.

The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer).

The `Makefile.am' is basically a series of `make' macro definitions (with rules being thrown in occasionally). The generated `Makefile.in's are compliant with the GNU Makefile standards.

This package installs an up-to-date version of config.guess and config.sub, used by the automake and libtool packages. It provides the canonical copy of those files for other packages as well.

This package contains the Avahi Daemon which represents your machine on the network and allows other applications to publish and resolve mDNS/DNS-SD records.

This package contains several utilities that allow you to interact with the Avahi daemon, including publish, browsing and discovering services.

bash completion extends bash's standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.

This package contains the distributable documentation, all the examples and the main changelog.

font converter to generate console fonts from BDF source fonts

This package provides a command-line converter that can be used in scripts to build console fonts from BDF sources automatically. The converter comes with a collection of font encodings that cover many of the world's languages. The output font can use a different character encoding from the input. When the source font does not define a glyph for a particular symbol in the encoding table, that glyph position in the console font is not wasted but used for another symbol.

When deciding about the position in the font for a particular glyph, the converter takes into account that in text video modes the video adapter copies the eighth column of the glyph matrix of symbols positioned in the pseudographic area to the ninth column. In order to create fonts for text video modes, the width of the glyph matrix of the source BDF font should be seven, eight, or nine pixels; otherwise the converter creates fonts suitable for framebuffer only.

This package provides various documents that are useful for maintaining a working BIND installation.

This package provides various utilities that are useful for maintaining a working BIND installation.

This package consists of the documentation for the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities in info format.

This package contains the PDF and Info documentation for Bison.

This package contains the headers and libraries needed to extend or embed BLT.

Bluetooth tools and daemons

This package contains a driver to let CUPS print to Bluetooth-connected printers.

This package contains tools and system daemons for using Bluetooth devices.

Ben's Own Graphics Library - graphical terminal

This package contains bterm, a UTF-enabled framebuffer terminal.

Standalone shell setup for initramfs

This package contains the bzip2 user manual.

Run a "live" preinstalled system from read-only media

audio extraction tool for sampling CDs (debug)

anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface

anti-virus utility for Unix - base package

anti-virus utility for Unix - scanner daemon

anti-virus utility for Unix - documentation

This package contains the documentation for the ClamAV suite.

anti-virus utility for Unix - virus database update utility

CMake data files (modules, templates and documentation)

This package provides CMake architecture independent data files (modules, templates, documentation etc.). Unless you have cmake installed, you probably do not need this package.