Translations by Steve Langasek

Magic print filter with automatic file type recognition

apsfilter makes printing many file formats much easier. It features on-the-fly decompression and conversion, and works on both PostScript and non-PostScript (via Ghostscript) graphical printers.

Among the supported formats are: gzip, bzip2, compress, freeze, pack, ASCII, BMP, data (PCL, etc.), DVI, FBM, FIG, FITS, GIF, Group 3 fax, HTML, IFF ILBM, JPEG, Kodak Photo CD, MGR, MIFF, PBM/PGM/PNM/PPM, PDF, PNG, PostScript, RLE, SGI, Sketch, Sun raster, Targa, TIFF, troff, WPG, X pixmap, XCF. Note that actual support depends on the installed filter programs.

sfinfo and sfconvert tools

The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data).

This package contains the sfinfo and sfconvert tools.

Display information about pending events on login

Given a list of the dates of various different events, works out and displays a list of those which will come up in the next couple of weeks. This was originally designed for birthdays, but can equally be used for reminders about yearly events, or for a running diary.

Note that if you want to use vcf2birthday script you will need perl.

DebiChem Cheminformatics

This metapackage will install cheminformatics packages useful for chemists.

evilwm is based on aewm by Decklin Foster. It's minimalist in that it omits unnecessary stuff like window decorations and icons. But it's very usable in that it provides good keyboard control with repositioning and maximize toggles, solid window drags, snap-to-border support, and virtual desktops.

Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.

There are far over 15000 different cookies in this package.

You'll need the fortune-mod package to display the cookies.

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.

Perl module for dumping Perl objects from/to XML

XML::Dumper dumps Perl data to a structured XML format.

XML::Dumper can also read XML data that was previously dumped by the module and convert it back to Perl.

This might be useful for dumping Perl objects to files using an XML format that can be reloaded or accessed by other programs. Maybe even other languages.

graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files

MediaInfo is a utility used for retrieving technical information and other metadata about audio or video files.

program to create offline atlases for GPS/cell phone applications

automatic display manager

This package prepares the system to automatically start an X session at system boot. It is meant for devices like smartphones, but can be used on a regular computer as well, if the security implications are acceptable.

reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with enhancements

OpenTTD is a reimplementation of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" with lots of new features and enhancements.

pyparted is a set of Python modules that provide Python programmers an interface to libparted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted), the GNU parted library for disk partitioning and file system manipulation.

skinnable AJAX based webmail solution for IMAP servers - metapackage

This package will install a full roundcube application.

RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality expected from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters.

The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.

This package contains the shared libraries.

This package provides the CLI client.

Extracts URLs from text

This utility is used to extract URL from text files, especially from mail messages in order to launch some browser to view them. This used to be a part of mutt but has now become an independent tool.

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).

SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is free and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).

assembler for the Zilog Z80 microprocessor

The Z80 microprocessor is used in old home computers, such as the ZX spectrum and MSX, and in several newer devices, such as the TI-83 graphical calculator and (a stripped down version) in the (original) GameBoy.

This assembler is meant for developers who write code (in assembly) for such devices.

to-do list manager

Zaz is an arcade action puzzle game where the goal is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order and making triplets. It currently includes 12 different levels. The game's name is recursive and stands for "Zaz ain't Z".

Turkish spellcheck server

Zemberek is an open source, platform independent, general purpose Natural Language Processing library and toolset designed for Turkic languages, especially Turkish.

This package contains spellchek server which works via TCP/IP and DBUS.