Graphical package management program using apt.

Synaptic (previously known as raptor) is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+

Debians Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support.

A port of Debians apt tools for RPM based distributions, or at least originally for Conectiva and now Red Hat Linux. It provides the apt-get utility that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features.

The RPM package management system.

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc.

RPM installer/updater

Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically prompting the user as necessary.

Package Installation, Removal and Update Tools

pirut (pronounced "pirate") provides a set of graphical tools for managing software.

GNOME Control Center.

GNOME (the GNU Network Object Model Environment) is an attractive and easy-to-use GUI desktop environment. The control-center package provides the GNOME Control Center utilities that allow you to setup and configure your systems GNOME environment (things like the desktop background and theme, the screensaver, system sounds, and mouse behavior). If you install GNOME, you need to install control-center.

A system documentation reader from the Gnome project.

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool.

Desktop print icon

Desktop-printing contains eggcups, a program for user print job notification and control.

GNOME utility programs.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package includes a set of small "desk accessory" utility applications for GNOME such as a calculator.

Nautilus is a file manager for GNOME.

Nautilus integrates access to files, applications, media, Internet-based resources and the Web. Nautilus delivers a dynamic and rich user experience. Nautilus is an free software project developed under the GNU General Public License and is a core component of the GNOME desktop project.

Easy to use CD burning for Gnome

An easy to use CD burning package, well integrated with Nautilus and the Gnome desktop.

File Roller is a tool for viewing and creating archives.

File Roller is an application for creating and viewing archives files, such as tar files.

A utility for unpacking zip files.

The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)s PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the programs options and default behaviors do differ in some respects. Install the unzip package if you need to list, test or extract files from a zip archive.

Utilities for manipulating Macintosh file formats.

The macutils package includes a set of utilities for manipulating files that are commonly used by Macintosh machines. Macutils includes utilities like binhex, hexbin, macunpack, etc. Install macutils if you need to manipulate files that are commonly used by Macintosh machines.

Simple process monitor

gnome-system-monitor is a simple process and system monitor.

GRUB - the Grand Unified Boot Loader.

GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is an experimental boot loader capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating systems.

A text-based tool for simple configuration of ethernet devices.

A text-based tool for simple configuration of ethernet devices.

A remote display system.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view a computing desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC server.

Wireless ethernet configuration tools

This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats for wireless networking equipment.

gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME.

gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions. Youll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.

GNOME Terminal

GNOME terminal emulator application.

A hardware browser.

A browser for your current hardware configuration.

Hardware lister

lshw is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work). Information can be output in plain text, XML or HTML.

Linux USB utilities.

This package contains utilities for inspecting devices connected to a USB bus.

Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files.

The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the log files on your system.