Translations by Michael Vogt

add and remove users and groups

This package includes the 'adduser' and 'deluser' commands for creating and removing users.

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.

cron-like program that doesn't go by time

Debian base system miscellaneous files

Debian base system master password and group files

These are the canonical master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group), containing the Debian-allocated user and group IDs. The update-passwd tool is provided to keep the system databases synchronized with these master files.

Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

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).

The programs in this package are used to assemble, link and manipulate binary and object files. They may be used in conjunction with a compiler and various libraries to build programs.

Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. Documentation of the program is in the bison-doc package.

GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files

GNU cpio is a tool for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. It handles a number of cpio formats as well as reading and writing tar files.

This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C preprocessor.

A macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation.

This package has been separated from gcc for the benefit of those who require the preprocessor but not the compiler.

The GNU C preprocessor is a macro processor that is used automatically by the GNU C compiler to transform programs before actual compilation.

Output from the commands is usually mailed to the system administrator (or to the user in question); you should probably install a mail system as well so that you can receive these messages.

GNU dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited precision arithmetic. It also allows you to define and call macros.

Debian configuration management system

full internationalization support for debconf

This package provides full internationalization for debconf, including translations into all available languages, support for using translated debconf templates, and support for proper display of multibyte character sets.

Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian

This package provides a number of small utilities which are used primarily by the installation scripts of Debian packages, although you may use them directly.

File comparison utilities

`diff' shows differences between two files, or each corresponding file in two directories. `cmp' shows the offsets and line numbers where two files differ. `cmp' can also show all the characters that differ between the two files, side by side. `diff3' shows differences among three files. `sdiff' merges two files interactively.

The set of differences produced by `diff' can be used to distribute updates to text files (such as program source code) to other people. This method is especially useful when the differences are small compared to the complete files. Given `diff' output, the `patch' program can update, or "patch", a copy of the file.

Debian package management system

This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages.

For Debian package development tools, install dpkg-dev.

ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files.

red is a restricted ed: it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands.

support files for all Exim MTA (v4) packages

Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. exim4-base provides the support files needed by all exim4 daemon packages. You need an additional package containing the main executable. The available packages are:

If you build exim4 from the source package locally, you can also build an exim4-daemon-custom package tailored to your own feature set.

configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)

Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. exim4-config provides the configuration for the exim4 daemon packages. The configuration framework has been split off the main package to allow sites to replace the configuration scheme with their own without having to change the actual exim4 packages.

Sites with special configuration needs (having a lot of identically configured machines for example) can use this to distribute their own custom configuration via the packaging system, using the magic available with dpkg's conffile handling, without having to do local changes on all of these machines.

Foomatic is a printing system designed to make it easier to set up common printers for use with Debian (and other operating systems). It provides the "glue" between a print spooler (like CUPS or lpr) and your actual printer, by telling your computer how to process files sent to the printer.

This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C++ compiler.

This is the GNU C++ compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C++.

This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C compiler.

This package contains files common to all languages and libraries contained in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C.

GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system