Translations by Steve Langasek

Internet Routing Daemon

Remote control of Linux virtual consoles

Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it. It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of a GUI conspy takes control of a text mode virtual console. Unlike VNC, conspy does not require a server to be installed prior to being used.

tool for verification of installed package files against MD5 checksums

debsums can verify the integrity of installed package files against MD5 checksums installed by the package, or generated from a .deb archive.

common files for the Debian Desktop

This package contains various miscellaneous files which are used by Debian Desktop installations. Currently, it provides some Debian-related artwork and themes, .desktop files containing links to Debian related material (suitable for placement on a user's desktop), and other common files between the available desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

telnet client

Highlight Java and C++ sources for WWW presentation

java2html can highlight your source for presentation in the WWW. It can also be used as a CGI script and can detect whether the client browser supports compressed data to save bandwidth.

lbreakout2 is a game similar to the classics breakout and xboing, featuring a number of added graphical enhancements and effects. You control a paddle at the bottom of the playing-field, and must destroy bricks at the top by bouncing balls against them.

libbash is a tool for managing bash scripts that contain functions you may want to use in various scripts. It provides mechanism to define dependencies between scripts and facility for script loading.

D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

transitional package

High-level client library for accessing Music Player Daemon

LibMpd is a library that provides high-level, callback-based access to Music Player Daemon (mpd).

type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime

These are the runtime files for libsigc++, needed only if you wish to run software which depends on it.

SSH2 client-side library

This package provides the development files.

This package contains the runtime library.

Displays extended system information

Displays system info, such as kernel revision, glibc version, processor type and memory size, in general by parsing /proc/cpuinfo.

Chinese Lunar Calendar conversion utility

The program performs date conversion between the Gregorian Solar Calendar (SC) and the Chinese Lunar Calendar (LC). Given a date in either calendar, the program also outputs the corresponding "shengxiao" animal of the year) and "ganzhi" characters. The date range currently covered is from about 1900 A.D. to 2049 A.D.

PPP over Ethernet driver

PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a protocol used by many ADSL Internet service providers. This package allows you to connect to those PPPoE service providers.

transitional dummy package

speaks the current time through your sound card

Say the current time through your sound card. Requires you have a sound output device available.

additional scribus templates

These templates are distributed in addition to the three example templates present in the main scribus package. Some of them were prepared by members of the core Scribus development team and some were contributions by the community members.

This package contains the shared libraries.

GUI editor for SQLite databases

The telnet command is used for interactive communication with another host using the TELNET protocol.

Tool to draw/modify/move geometric figures & text for ASCII art

It completes existing console-based software to a 'textbased only office' and offers a simple and easy way to draw ascii graphics for documentations, presentations, mails and much more.

Chinese Input Method Library

100 dpi ISO 8859-5 encoded Cyrillic fonts for X (Cronyx collection)

This package provides a set of bitmapped Cyrillic fonts at 100 dots per inch. These are ISO 8859-5 fonts and support the Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian and Serbian scripts. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients.

This package and xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-75dpi provide the same set of fonts, rendered at different resolutions; only one or the other is necessary, but both may be installed. xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large screen resolutions (over 1024x768).

like "tail -f", but works on truncated files, directories, more

Note that xtail isn't a graphical (X11) program, it runs on a plain tty. The name likely comes from "eXtended tail" or such.

Terminal-based Chinese automatic encoding converter

yyt is a pseudo-tty program that converts Chinese terminal output encoded in GB/BIG5 to a preset encoding automatically. It is useful for users who have to work with multiple Chinese encoding in console applications. Now it also converts input to the incoming encoding if the incoming encoding is set explicitly.