Translations by Michael Vogt

This package includes the gettext and ngettext programs which allow other packages to internationalize the messages given by shell scripts.

Library for developing EFI applications

GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement

GNOME partition editor

GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted.

GNU privacy guard - signature verification tool

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.

GNU grep, egrep and fgrep

'grep' is a utility to search for text in files; it can be used from the command line or in scripts. Even if you don't want to use it, other packages on your system probably will.

The GNU family of grep utilities may be the "fastest grep in the west". GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to look at every character. The result is typically many times faster than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing will run more slowly, however.)

GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)

This package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. These utilities, together with the man-db package, are essential for displaying the on-line manual pages.

groff-base is a stripped-down package containing the necessary components to read manual pages in ASCII, Latin-1, and UTF-8, plus the PostScript device (groff's default). Users who want a full groff installation, with the standard set of devices, fonts, macros, and documentation, should install the groff package.

utility to set/show the host name or domain name

Standalone GNU Info documentation browser

The Info file format is an easily-parsable representation for online documents. This program allows you to view Info documents, like the ones stored in /usr/share/info.

Much of the software in Debian comes with its online documentation in the form of Info files, so it is most likely you will want to install it.

administration tools for packet filtering and NAT

Tool to send ICMP echo requests to an ARP address

The arping command acts like the standard ping command except it pings a machine by its ARP address instead of its IP address. It is typically used to locate a machine if its hardware address is known but its IP address is unknown

Tools to test the reachability of network hosts

The ping command sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host in order to test if the host is reachable via the network.

This package includes a ping6 utility which supports IPv6 network connections.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol like BOOTP (actually dhcpd includes much of the functionality of bootpd). It gives client machines "leases" for IP addresses and can automatically set their network configuration. If your machine depends on DHCP (especially likely if it's a workstation on a large network, or a laptop, or attached to a cable modem), keep this or another DHCP client installed.

tools for managing Linux kernel modules

ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

Contains the runtime environment required by programs that make use of extended attributes.

Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.

high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime

This package contains libbzip2 which is used by the bzip2 compressor.

The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its predecessor, bzip (.bz).

GNU C Library: Shared libraries

Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math library, as well as many others.

common error description library

libcomerr is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use.

This package contains the (user-space) shared library for accessing the device-mapper; it allows usage of the device-mapper through a clean, consistent interface (as opposed to through kernel ioctls).

XML parsing C library - runtime library

GCC support library

LGPL Crypto library - runtime library

GNU dbm ('gdbm') is a library of database functions that use extendible hashing and works similarly to the standard UNIX 'dbm' functions.

The basic use of 'gdbm' is to store key/data pairs in a data file, thus providing a persistent version of the 'dictionary' Abstract Data Type ('hash' to perl programmers).

OpenLDAP libraries

These are the run-time libraries for the OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) servers and clients.

It provides gettext(), dgettext(), dcgettext(), textdomain(), bindtextdomain(), bind_textdomain_codeset(), ngettext(), dcngettext() and dngettext().

Lightweight Resolver Library used by BIND

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain name server. BIND is the most widely-used name server software on the Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium, www.isc.org.

This package delivers the liblwres shared library used by BIND's daemons and clients.

data compression library

LZO is a portable, lossless data compression library. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.