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update-apt-xapian-index allows plugins to be installed in /usr/share/apt-xapian-index to index all sorts of extra information, such as Debtags tags, popcon information, package ratings and anything else that would fit.

The index generated by update-apt-xapian-index is self-documenting, as it contains an autogenerated README file with information on the index layout and all the data that can be found in it.

Debug symbols for the aptitude package manager

This package contains the debugging symbols for aptitude. You only need these if you want to generate debugging backtraces of aptitude; if you do, you probably also want the debug package for the cwidget library.

English manual for aptitude, a terminal-based package manager

install packages using the apt protocol - GTK+ frontend

install packages using the apt protocol - common data

AptUrl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does so for him).

This package contains the common data shared between the frontends.

Hardware architecture detector

This package provides the 'archdetect' tool, which displays the current machine architecture and subarchitecture. The architecture corresponds to that built into dpkg, and describes the CPU (and possibly kernel) types; the subarchitecture distinguishes machines with different boot arrangements that require special handling.

This package would be called 'archdetect', but a udeb of that name already existed for use in the installer.

Highly configurable text format for writing documentation

AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing articles, books, manuals and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML (with or without stylesheets), DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc command. AsciiDoc can also be used to build and maintain websites.

You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed directly or translated to other presentation formats

Use at to run the job at a specified time batch to run the job when system load levels permit

Utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes

A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name.

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

This package allows a package to be started as non-root but still bind to low ports, without any changes to the application.

automatic configure script builder

The standard for FSF source packages. This is only useful if you write your own programs or if you extensively modify other people's programs.

automatic configure script builder documentation

Obsolete compatibility package of Autoconf 2.13. For use only with packages that cannot easily be updated to use Autoconf 2.50+.

This package provides compatibility wrappers for autoconf, autoheader, and autoreconf that attempt to automatically choose which version of Autoconf to use, based on some simple heuristics. For information on these heuristics or how to force use of a particular Autoconf version, see /usr/share/doc/autoconf2.13/README.Debian.gz.

automatic configure script builder (obsolete version)

Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre-configured maps.

automated text file generator

Included with AutoGen is a tool that virtually eliminates the hassle of processing options, keeping usage text up to date and so on. This tool allows you to specify several program attributes, innumerable options and option attributes, then it produces all the code necessary to parse and handle the command line and initialization file options.

AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized.

A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles

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.

Automake 1.9 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 did, so has been renamed so that the previous version can continue to be made available.

automatic moc for Qt 4 packages

This package contains the automoc4 binary which is used to run moc on the right binaries in a Qt 4 or KDE 4 application.

Moc is the meta object compiler which is a much used tool when using the Qt toolkit.

automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages

autopkgtest runs tests on binary packages. The tests are run on the package as installed on a testbed system (which may be found via a virtualisation or containment system). The tests are expected to be supplied in the corresponding Debian source package.

Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub} files

It also documents in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz best practices and guidelines for using autoconf, automake and friends on Debian packages. This is a must-read for any developers packaging software that uses the GNU autotools, or GNU gettext.

Avahi IPv4LL network address configuration daemon

This tool implements IPv4LL, "Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses" (IETF RFC3927), a protocol for automatic IP address configuration from the link-local 169.254.0.0/16 range without the need for a central server. It is primarily intended to be used in ad-hoc networks which lack a DHCP server.

Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon

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.

Avahi - debugging symbols

This package contains detached debugging symbols for the binary packages produced by the avahi source.