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Package Descriptions

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This package descriptions are exported from the latest ROCK Linux development snapshot. Packages marked with an asteric (*) did not compile without errors in the last reference build and need some fixing.

Package List - Repository 'base'

  Package Version Short Description
  00-dirtree 0000 Directory tree framework
  a2ps 4.13b Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM)
  a52dec 0.7.4 A free ATSC A/52 stream decoder
  acl 2.2.45-1 POSIX Access Control Lists
  alsa-driver 1.0.13 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture kernel drivers
  alsa-firmware 1.0.17 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  alsa-lib 1.0.17a Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  alsa-oss 1.0.17 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  alsa-plugins 1.0.17 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  alsa-tools 1.0.17 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  alsa-utils 1.0.17 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  apache 2.2.8 Apache web server
  ash 0.2 NetBSD's ash (Almquist sh) for Linux
  aspell 0.60.6 A More Intelligent Ispell
  aspell-de 0.50-2 The German dictonary for aspell
  aspell-en 6.0-0 The English dictonary for aspell
  aspell-es 1.9a-1 The Spanish dictonary for aspell
  aspell-fr 0.50-3 The French dictonary for aspell
  at 3.1.8 Job spooling tools
  attr 2.4.39-1 Extended Attributes Of Filesystem Objects
  audiofile 0.2.6 A library for accessing various audio file formats
  autoconf 2.61 A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code
  autofs 4.1.4 A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems
  automake 1.7.9 1.8.5 1.9.6 A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
  bash 2.05b 3.2 The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) 2.x The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) 3.x
  bc 1.06 GNU's bc (a numeric processing language) and dc (a calculator)
  bdb 3.3.11 4.0.14 4.1.25 4.2.52 4.4.20 Sleepycat Berkley DB Version 3.3 Sleepycat Berkley DB Version 4.0 Sleepycat Berkley DB Version 4.1 Sleepycat Berkley DB Version 4.2
  biff+comsat 0.17 A mail checker client and the comsat mail checking server
  bind 9.4.1-P1 The ISC DNS server, resolver library and utilities
  binutils 2.18.50.0.7 A GNU collection of binary utilities
  bison 2.4 The GNU general-purpose parser generator
  bize 0.7 ROCK-Linux .tar.bz2 package manager
  boehm-gc 6.8 A garbage collector for C and C++
  bonnie++ 1.03a Bonnie++ hard drive and file system benchmark suite
  bsd-finger 0.17 A finger utility
  bsd-games 2.17 Ports of all the games from NetBSD-current that are free
  bzip2 1.0.4 A file compression utility
  cairomm 1.4.6 C++ wrapper for the cairo graphics library
  ccache 2.4 a fast compiler cache
  ccbench 0.2 The C Compiler Benchmark
  cdparanoia III-alpha9.8 CDDA extraction tool (aka ripper)
* cdrdao 1.2.1 Disk-At-One CD creation tool
  cdrtools 2.01 A command line CD/DVD recording program
  coreutils 6.9 GNU core utilities
  cpio 2.9 A GNU archiving program
  cracklib 2.8.14 A library for checking passwords.
  cron 3.0pl1-86 The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times
  cups 1.3.5 Common Unix Printing System
  curl 7.19.7 client and library for (HTTP, FTP, HTTPS, ...) transfers
  cvs 1.11.21 A version control system
  cyrus-sasl2 2.1.21 SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer
  dbus 1.2.4 message bus system
  dbus-glib 0.76 message bus system - glib bindings
  dbus-qt3 0.62 Qt3 bindings for dbus
* devfsd 1.3.25 Daemon controlling devfs
  device-mapper 1.02.27 Device-Mapper
  dhcp 4.0.0b2 DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent
  dialog 1.1-20080819 A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes
  dietlibc 0.29 A libc optimized for small size
  diffstat 1.45 a histogram view for patches
  diffutils 2.8.1 The GNU collection of diff utilities
  disktype 9 disk type identification utility
  dmapi 2.2.8-1 the data management library for the xfs filesystem
  dosfstools 2.11 Utilities to create and check MS-DOS filesystems
  dump 0.4b41 The Linux Ext2 filesystem dump/restore utilities
  dvd+rwtools 7.0 DVD+RW/+R/-R[W] utility for Linux
  e2fsprogs 1.41.0 Utilities for use with the ext2 filesystem
  ed 0.5 The GNU line editor
  eject 2.1.5.20081104.6 Eject removable medias from their drives
  electricfence 2.1.13-0.1 A debugger which detects memory allocation violations
  emacs 21.4a The emacs text editor
  esound 0.2.40 EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon
  etcnet 0.8.5 /etc/net Linux network configuration system
  ethtool 6 Display or change ethernet card settings
  expat 2.0.0 XML parser library
  faac 1.24 a Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
  fam 2.7.0 a filesystem support library
  fbset 2.1 utility to show or change the settings of the frame buffer
* ffmpeg 0.5 A complete audio and video stream library
  file 5.03 File type identification utility
  findutils 4.3.8 GNU find utils
  flac 1.1.2 An Free Lossless Audio Codec
  flex 2.5.35 fast lexical analyzer generator
  fribidi 0.10.7 The Bidirectional Algorithm library
  gawk 3.1.6 GNU Awk
  gcc 2.95.3 3.2.3 3.3.6 3.4.6 4.0.4 4.1.2 4.2.4 4.3.3 The GNU Compiler Collection (aka GNU C Compiler)
  gdb 6.8 The GNU Debugger
  gdbm 1.8.3 The GNU database manager
  genromfs 0.5.1 create a romfs image
* gettext 0.16.1 GNU gettext
  glibc 2.2.5 2.3.6 2.5.1 2.6.1 2.7 2.9 The GNU C library.
  gmp 4.2.4 The GNU MP (multiple precision arithmetic) library
  gnupg 1.4.10 The GNU Privacy Guard
  gnupg2 2.0.13 The GNU Privacy Guard
  gperf 3.0.3 Gnu Perfect Hash Function
  gpgme 1.1.8 GnuPG Made Easy
* gpm 1.20.1 General Purpose Mouse (GPM) Daemon
  graphicsmagick 1.3.5 command line tools for manipulating raster and vector images
  grep 2.5.3 This is GNU grep, the "fastest grep in the west" (we hope).
  groff 1.19.2 The GNU groff document formatting system
  gsl 1.10 This is GSL, the GNU Scientific Library.
  gzip 1.3.12 The gzip (GNU zip) compression utility
  hal 0.5.11 Hardware Abstraction Layer
  hal-info 20081013 Hardware Data for HAL
  hdparm 9.15 get/set hard disk parameters
  hfsutils 3.2.6 utilities to access Macintosh disks in Unix
  hotplug 2004_09_23 User space part of the LINUX kernel hotplug support.
  howtos 0000 The LDP HOWTOs and Mini-HOWTOs
  hpijs 2.8.9 HP Linux InkJet Driver Project
  htdig 3.2.0b6 WWW Search Engine Software
  hwinfo 15.3 probe for hardware
  id-utils 3.2 The GNU ID utilities
* ifhp 3.5.20 general purpose print filter
  ifplugd 0.28 A daemon to automatically configure a ethernet device on state change
  indent 2.2.9 indent and transform a C program
  inkscape 0.46 A GNOME SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphic) application
  installer 001 ROCK Linux Operation System Installer
  iproute2 2.6.28 Tools for advanced Linux IP Configuration
  iptables 1.4.1 IP packet filter administration
  ircii 20040820 Internet Relay Chat system client
  irda-utils 0.9.18 IrDA Utilities
* isdn4k-utils v3.2p1 Bundled Utilities for configuring an using ISDN4Linux
  iw 0.9.9 show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration
  jfsutils 1.1.12 JFS filesystem utilities
  joe 3.5 Joe's Own Editor
  kaffeine 0.8.5 A xine based media player for KDE3
  kbd 1.12 Keyboard and console utilities for Linux
  kiss 0.21 The Keep It Simple Shell
  ksymoops 2.4.11 A utility to decode Linux kernel Oops
  lame 3.97 LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder
  lcap 0.0.6 Linux Kernel Capability Bounding Set Editor
  lcms 1.15 Color management library
  leafnode 1.11.2 An NNTP server for small leaf sites.
  less 382 A paginator similar to "more" or "pg"
  libassuan 1.0.5 An IPC library used by the next generation of GnuPG.
  libcap 2.09 A library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities.
  libcddb 1.2.1 CDDB server access library
  libcdio 0.77 libcdio - Encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control
  libdaemon 0.12 A lightweight C library which eases the writing of UNIX daemons
  libdca 0.0.2 a free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder
  libdvbpsi 0.1.5 a library for decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables
  libdvdcss 1.2.9 implements the CSS decryption
  libdvdnav 0.1.10 A DVD Navigator library
  libdvdread 0.9.7 A library for accessing DVD drives
  libelf 0.8.9 ELF object file access library.
  libevent 1.3d An event notification library for event-driven network servers.
  libexif 0.6.16 EXIF tag parsing library
  libgcrypt 1.4.4 A general-purpose cryptographic library based on GnuPG.
  libgpg-error 1.4 Library that defines common error values for GnuPG components.
  libidn 0.6.12 A library for preparing internationalized strings.
  libjpeg 6b The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
  libksba 1.0.2 KSBA is a library to access X.509 and CMS data structures.
  liblockfile 1.06.1 NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfile program
  libmikmod 3.1.10 library for sound files in various MOD formats
  libmng 1.0.9 A library of functions for manipulating MNG imaage files.
  libmpeg2 0.4.0b The MPEG Library - version 2
  libmusicbrainz 2.1.5 MusicBrainz Client Library
  libnfsidmap 0.15 Library to help mapping id's, mainly for NFSv4.
  libogg 1.1.3 The Ogg container format
  libpcap 1.0.0 system-independent packet captureing library
  libpng 1.2.22 Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library
  libsafe 2.0-16 detection and protection against stack smashing attacks
  libsdl 1.2.13 A cross-platform Graphic API
  libsdl_console 2.1 a drop-down console window for SDL programs
  libsdl_gfx 2.0.19 a graphics primitive toolkit for SDL
  libsdl_image 1.2.7 a cross-platform Graphic API
  libsdl_mixer 1.2.8 Simple Directmedia Layer - Mixer
  libsdl_net 1.2.7 a simple cross-platform network library
  libsdl_perl 1.20.0 the glue between SDL and perl
  libsdl_sound 1.0.3 a library to decode popular audio formats
  libsdl_ttf 2.0.9 a library to use TrueType fonts in SDL applications
  libsdlmm 0.1.8 a C++ class-based wrapper for SDL
  libsigc++ 2.2.3 Typesafe Signal Framework for C++
  libtiff 3.8.2 A library for reading and writing TIFF files
  libtool 1.5.22 generic library support script
  libungif 4.1.4 reading and writing gif images
  libusb 1.0.6 OS independent USB device access
  libusb-compat-0.1 0.1.3 OS independent USB device access (0.1 legacy api)
  libvorbis 1.1.2 The Vorbis audio compression codec
  libxml 1.8.17 XML parser library for Gnome
  libxml2 2.6.32 XML parser library for Gnome
  libxslt 1.1.24 A XSLT library
  linux 2.4.34.4 2.6.32.2 Linux Kernel
  lm_sensors 2.10.5 hardware monitoring via the SMBus
* lprng 3.8.28 Next Generation Line-Printer-Spooler
  lrzsz 0.12.20 X/Y/ZModem tools
  lshw B.02.06 Hardware Lister (lshw)
  lsof 4.78 list open files
* ltrace 0.5 library call tracer
  lvm 1.0.8 Logical Volume Management
  lvm-wrapper 1.0 LVM wrapper package
  lvm2 2.02.25 Logical Volume Management (Version 2)
  lynx 2.8.6rel.5 Web Browser for the Terminal
  lzo 2.02 A fast compression library
  m4 1.4.12 The m4 macro processor
  mad 0.15.1b MPEG Audio Decoder
  mailutils 2.0 GNU mail utilities
  make 3.81 GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs
  man 1.6e format and display the on-line manual pages
  man-pages 2.67 Over 1100 man pages for Linux.
  mbuffer 20051006 buffer i/o operations and displays the throughput rate
  mdadm 2.6.2 Raid Configuration Tool
  mdnsresponder 107.6 Multicast DNS Responder
  mine 0.25 The ROCK Linux Package Manager
  minicom 2.1 friendly serial communication program
  miscfiles 1.4.2 The GNU miscfiles distribution
  mktemp 1.5 make temporary filename (unique)
  mmv 1.01b move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard patterns.
  module-init-tools 3.2.2 The programs needed to load and unload Linux Kernel Modules.
  modutils 2.4.27 The programs needed to load and unload Linux Kernel Modules.
  mpfr 2.3.2 multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding library
  mplayer 1.0rc2 A powerful movie player for Linux with subtitles and console support
  mtools 3.9.10 utilities to directly access DOS disks in Unix
  mtr 0.72 Matt's TraceRoute
  mutt 1.5.18 The Mutt mail reader.
  mysql 4.1.22 5.0.41 MySQL DB server
  nas 1.7 A network-transparent, client/server audio transport system.
  ncftp 3.2.2 A cool FTP client
* ncompress 4.2.4 Ncompress (an improved version of compress 4.1).
  ncurses 5.6 The ncurses (new curses) library
  neon 0.28.4 A HTTP and WebDAV client library
  net-snmp 5.4.1 NET-SNMP (UCD-SNMP)
  net-tools 1.60 Configuration tools for Linux networking
  netkit-base 0.17 netkit-base for Linux
  netkit-ftp 0.17 netkit-ftp for Linux
  netkit-ntalk 0.17 netkit-ntalk for Linux
  netkit-routed 0.17 netkit-routed for Linux
  netkit-rsh 0.17 netkit-rsh for Linux
  netkit-telnet 0.17 netkit-telnet for Linux
  nfs-utils 1.1.3 Linux NFS client and server utilities
  ntfsprogs 1.13.1 NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities
  ntp 4.2.0 Network Time Protocol (NTP) utilities
  nvi 1.49 The vi (nvi) editor
  openexr 1.2.2 OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format
  openldap 2.3.43 An open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
  openssh 4.7p1 An open re-implementation of the SSH package
* openssl 0.9.8i Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
  oprofile 0.9.3 System-wide profiler for Linux systems
  pam 0.99.8.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux
  parted 1.8.7 GNU partition editor
  patch 2.5.4 apply a diff file to an original
  patchutils 0.2.31 A collection of tools that operate on patch files
  pciutils 3.1.4 Linux PCI Utilities
  pcmciautils 014 Userspace tools for PCMCIA support in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
  pcre 7.1 Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
  pdksh 5.2.14 The Public domain Korn shell
  perl5 5.8.8 The Perl programming language - Version 5
  php 4.4.7 5.2.2 Scripting language especially suited for Web development.
  pidentd 3.0.19 An RFC1413 identification server
  pine 4.64 The Pine mail/news client and related programs
  pinentry 0.7.5 pinentry TODO
  pkgconfig 0.22 pkgconfig
  pmount 0.9.13 mount removable devices as normal user
  policykit 0.9 Policy framework for HAL
  popt 1.7 The popt command line option parsing library
  portmap 4 RPC portmapper
  postfix 2.5.2 It is an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
  postgresql postgresql-8.2.6 PostgreSQL Database Management System
  ppp 2.4.4 The PPP user level programs
  pptp-linux 1.7.1 Linux PPTP Client
  prelink 20050610 Prelinking object files for faster application startup
  procinfo 18 Procinfo, lsdev and socklist
  procmail 3.22 The procmail mail processing program.
  procps 3.2.7 Utilities for monitoring your system and processes on your system
  psmisc 22.6 Little utilities that use the proc FS
  psutils p17 PostScript Utilities
  pth 2.0.6 GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads
  python 2.6.2 The Python programming language
  qca 1.0 Qt Cryptographic Architecture
  qca2 2.0.1 Qt Cryptographic Architecture, version 2
  qca2-cyrus-sasl 2.0.0-beta3 OpenSSL plugin for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture, version 2
  qca2-ossl 2.0.0-beta3 OpenSSL plugin for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture, version 2
  qca2-pkcs11 2.0.0-beta2 PKCS11 plugin for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture, version 2
  quota 3.14 Userlevel tools for Linux diskquotas
  rcs 5.7 Revision Control System
  readline 6.0 The Gnu Readline Library
  recode 3.6 The 'recode' library converts files between character sets and usages.
  reiser4progs 1.0.6 filesystem utilities for Reiser4
  reiserfsprogs 3.6.20 filesystem utilities for ReiserFS
  rfc 0000 Request for Comments (RFCs) - The Internet Standards and more
  rng-tools 2 Random Number Generator Deamon for i810 boards
  rock-debug 0000 The ROCK Linux Internal Debug Package
  rock-src 0000 The ROCK Linux Source Code
  rockinitrd 20080112 The new ROCK initrd code
  rocknet 0000 ROCK Network system
  rockplug 0.1.0 The ROCK hardware setup and hotplugging scripts.
* rpm 4.1 The RedHat Package Manager
  rsync 2.6.9 rsync is a replacement for rcp that has many more features.
  rtsp 2007.02.20 A set of C++ libraries for multimedia streaming
  samba 3.2.4 Samba the SMB fileserver/client
  sane-backends 1.0.17 Scanner Access Now Easy - The backends
  screen 4.0.3 screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
  sed 4.1.5 This is the GNU implementation of the POSIX stream editor 'sed'.
  sendmail 8.14.1 electronic mail transport agent
  setserial 2.17 Utility for doing run-time configuration of the serial driver.
  shadow 4.0.14 Utils for managing users and (shadow) passwords
  shadowfs r36 various filesystem wrappers
  sharutils 4.7 This is the set of GNU shar utilities.
  slang 2.0.7 The S-Lang embedded interpreted language.
  smartmontools 5.37 Control and monitor storage systems using the S.M.A.R.T system.
* softdog 1.21 software watchdog timer
  stone 0000 the ROCK Linux system configuration tool and installer
  stow 1.3.3 local software package installation manager
  strace 4.5.18 trace system calls and signals
  submaster 105 a system for distributed software development(cmdline-clients)
  subversion 1.6.3 A compelling replacement for CVS
  sudo 1.6.9p17 sudo (superuser do)
  swig 1.3.39 toolkit for connecting C and C++ programs with script languages
  sysfiles 0000 System files
  sysfsutils 2.1.0 utilities for the Linux kernel sysfs filesystem
  sysklogd 1.5 Linux system logging utilities
  sysstat 6.0.2 The sar and iostat commands for Linux
  sysvinit 2.86 This is the Linux System V init.
  taglib 1.5 Audio Meta-Data Library
  tar 1.19 The GNU version of the tar (Tape - ARchiver) program.
  tcl 8.4.15 The Tcl scripting language
  tcp_wrappers 7.6 The TCP/IP daemon wrapper package
  tcpdump 4.0.0 tcpdump is a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition.
  tcpflow 0.21 tcpflow -- A TCP Flow Recorder (A program like 'tcpdump')
  tcsh 6.15.00 C shell with file name completion and command line editing
  termcap 1.3.1 terminal capability database
* tetex 3.0 The teTeX distribution of LaTeX.
  texinfo 4.9 The texinfo documentation system
  tftp-hpa 0.48 A portable tftp server and client
  time 1.7 measuring program resource use
  traceroute 1.4a12 print the route packets take to network host
  tree 1.5.1.1 list contents of directories in a tree-like format.
  tunepimp 0.4.2 TunePimp Library
  udev 141 A Userspace Implementation of devfs
  uml_utilities 20060323 Utilities for user-mode linux kernel
  units 1.86 unit conversion program
  unrar 3.6.7 Extract, test and view RAR archives
  unzip 5.52 UnZip is a PKUNZIP compatible extraction
  usbutils 0.86 Linux USB Utilities
  util-linux 2.12r Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux.
  util-linux-ng 2.15.1 Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux.
  uudeview 0.5.20 A powerful decoder for binary files
* valgrind 3.4.1 memory debugger and profiler
  vim 7.1 VI Improved
* vlc 1.0.4 a cross-platform media player and streaming server
  vobcopy 0.5.16 Copies DVD .vob files to harddisk.
  w3m 0.5.1 WWW capable pager
  wdiff 0.5 The 'word diff'
  wget 1.11.4 GNU Wget, a non-interactive network retriever
  whois 4.7.24 whois searches for an object in a RFC-812 database
  wireless-tools 29 Configuration tools for Linux wireless networking
* workbone 2.4 The WorkBone text-mode cd player
  wu-ftpd 2.6.2 wu-ftpd is an ftp server for Un*x systems
  wv2 0.2.3 Microsoft Word file access library
  wxwidgets 2.8.10 wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows)
  x264 20100101-2245 a free H264/AVC encoder
  xfsdump 2.2.46-1 backup/restore tool for xfs filesystems
  xfsprogs 2.9.4-1 XFS filesystem utilities
  xine-lib 1.1.16.2 An open source media player
  xine-ui 0.99.5 A GUI for xine
  zip 231 PKZIP compatible compression and file packaging utility
  zlib 1.2.3 The zlib general purpose data compression library.
  zsh 4.3.4 Z-Shell