Package: acct Description-md5: 59c271feb67ca780ce47c3f06fb5425e Description-en_CA: GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting GNU Accounting Utilities is a set of utilities which reports and summarizes data about user connect times and process execution statistics. . "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the commands executed on the system. . The 'last' command is provided by the sysvinit package and not included here. Package: acpid Description-md5: 6a7c4e4695f570d8fbcaec667cdcfcfe Description-en_CA: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and configuration status. . ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events. It listens on netlink interface (or on the deprecated file /proc/acpi/event), and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the admin. Package: adduser Description-md5: 0e61515c925d932d3824e3dc6af2842b Description-en_CA: add and remove users and groups This package includes the 'adduser' and 'deluser' commands for creating and removing users. . - 'adduser' creates new users and groups and adds existing users to existing groups; - 'deluser' removes users and groups and removes users from a given group. . 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. Package: aide Description-md5: 5cf26f0af8c95254f9ec7920c1214cbe Description-en_CA: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. . This package contains the statically linked binary for "normal" systems. Package: aide-common Description-md5: 7a8490e442a29581e6cca1b191be3f62 Description-en_CA: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. . This package contains base and configuration files that are needed to run the actual binaries. . You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in /etc/aide/aide.conf or drop your own config snippets into /etc/aide/aide.conf.d. Package: alsa-base Description-md5: 14d30d1beb8026b3d2636c32c5a92cca Description-en_CA: ALSA driver configuration files This package contains various configuration files for the ALSA drivers. . For ALSA to work on a system with a given sound card, there must be an ALSA driver for that card in the kernel. Linux 2.6 as shipped in linux- image packages contains ALSA drivers for all supported sound cards in the form of loadable modules. A custom alsa-modules package can be built from the sources in the alsa-source package using the m-a utility (included in the module-assistant package). Please read the README.Debian file for more information about loading and building modules. . ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Package: amavisd-new Description-md5: d95fd9c270e69763b2674a7c7629b731 Description-en_CA: Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters AMaViSd-new is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent (MTA) with zero or more virus scanners, and spamassassin (optional). . It supports all common virus scanners (more than 20 different AVs), with direct talk-to-daemon support for ClamAV, OpenAntiVirus, Trophie, AVG, f-prot, and Sophos AVs. . AMaViSd-new supports all MTAs through its generic SMTP/LMTP filter mode (ideal for postfix and exim). It is faster and safer to use the SMTP/LMTP filter mode than using the AMaViS pipe client. It supports sendmail milter through the amavisd-new-milter package. Package: anacron Description-md5: cd9f07726e1ee3bc93fcfdb799520070 Description-en_CA: cron-like program that doesn't go by time Anacron (like "anac(h)ronistic") is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine uptime permits. . This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian system. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages are executed each day. Package: app-install-data Description-md5: f60778a916e4cfc34f4e6d08cae5fa94 Description-en_CA: Ubuntu applications (data files) This package contains the Ubuntu specific application data and icons for software-center (and similar tools). Package: apport Description-md5: c04626471654f9246cf5e28b560d262e Description-en_CA: automatically generate crash reports for debugging apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package also provides a command line frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. For desktops, you should consider installing the GTK+ or Qt user interface (apport-gtk or apport-kde). Package: apport-gtk Description-md5: 2f45e17d5bf22355d7921dba196ae6dd Description-en_CA: GTK+ frontend for the apport crash report system apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook provided by the Ubuntu kernel. . This package provides a GTK+ frontend for browsing and handling the crash reports. Package: apport-retrace Description-md5: 7608c287131a28c4611767ba61f02050 Description-en_CA: tools for reprocessing Apport crash reports apport-retrace recombines an Apport crash report (either a file or a Launchpad bug) and debug symbol packages (.ddebs) into fully symbolic stack traces. This can optionally use a sandbox for installing debug symbol packages and doing the processing, so that entire process of retracing crashes can happen with normal user privileges without changing the system. . You need to install gdb-multiarch if you want to be able to retrace crash reports which happened on a different architecture than the one you run apport-retrace on. Package: apt-listchanges Description-md5: ff242d11e25a826706c61be7ebf92ad4 Description-en_CA: package change history notification tool The tool apt-listchanges can compare a new version of a package with the one currently installed and show what has been changed, by extracting the relevant entries from the Debian changelog and NEWS files. . It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all changes that would be caused by installing or upgrading a group of packages. When configured as an APT plugin it will do this automatically during upgrades. Package: apturl Description-md5: 0ff87045fbbd2d7c44b70b7ac3d409e1 Description-en_CA: install packages using the apt protocol - GTK+ frontend 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 GTK+ frontend. Package: apturl-common Description-md5: 1a9a3582fbd6f80810cf5bf2bc1a5249 Description-en_CA: 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. Package: aspell Description-md5: 21dcab5448cba7f61ba8df4ace46f1af Description-en_CA: GNU Aspell spell-checker GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone application or embedded in other programs. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about any other spell-checker available for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once. . Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell. Package: aspell-doc Description-md5: 33c68b861d6f2e2ef1b189909b98b741 Description-en_CA: Documentation for GNU Aspell spell-checker This package contains the documentation for GNU Aspell in various formats. The aspell package comes with minimal man pages. Install this package if you need further information on the development process and workings of Aspell. Package: aspell-en Description-md5: c94b13744f65f4d57e191f183fc7c9c9 Description-en_CA: English dictionary for GNU Aspell This package contains all the required files to add support for English language to the GNU Aspell spell checker. . American, British, Canadian and Australian spellings are included. Package: at Description-md5: 97e204a9f4ad8c681dbd54ec7c505251 Description-en_CA: Delayed job execution and batch processing At and batch read shell commands from standard input storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution in the future. . Use at to run the job at a specified time batch to run the job when system load levels permit Package: attr Description-md5: eba64610d62d0ff261b3286c19b2e130 Description-en_CA: 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.