"apr":"Provides a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible.",
"apr-util":"Provides a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible. This package contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing, and more.",
"atop":"An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level.",
"bc":"bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of statements.",
"bind":"The named daemon and support utilities such as dig, host, and nslookup. Sample configuration files for running a simple caching nameserver are included.",
"bwm-ng":"A small and simple curses-based bandwidth monitor for Linux or other systems with \/proc\/net\/dev or net-tools netstat. You can choose whether to show all interfaces or only those interfaces that are up.",
"cksfv":"Check SFV creates simple file verification (.sfv) It can also list and verify existing sfv files. It uses the crc32 checksum. This is used to verify that the files that you received are the same as the originals.",
"cpio":"A program to manage archives of files. This package also includes mt, a tape drive control program. cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive, which is a file that contains other files plus information about them, such as their pathname, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.",
"ddrescue":"A data recovery tool that copies data from one file or block device to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. Every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps.",
"dstat":"A versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.",
"exiftool":"A platform-independent Perl library (Image::ExifTool) plus a command-line application (exiftool) for reading, writing, and editing meta information in image, audio, and video files. ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP, FlashPix, AFCP, and ID3, and maker notes of many digital cameras.",
"expect":"A program that talks to other interactive programs according to a script. Following the script, it knows what can be expected from a program and what the correct response should be.",
"fasd":"A command-line productivity booster. Fasd offers quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. Fasd keeps track of files and directories you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line.",
"git":"A fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. git can mean anything, depending on your mood. Git was originally written by Linus Torvalds and is currently maintained by Junio C. Hamano.",
"idle3-tools":"Provides a linux\/unix utility that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives. It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility, without the need to reboot in a DOS environement. A power off\/on cycle of the drive will still be mandatory for new settings to be taken into account.",
"iftop":"It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question why is our link so slow?",
"inotify-tools":"inotify-tools is a set of command-line programs for Linux providing a simple interface to inotify. These programs can be used to monitor and act upon filesystem events. For more information see the inotifywait and inotifywatch man pages.",
"iotop":"A Python program with a top-like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I\/O going on.",
"iperf":"A tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. For each test it reports the bandwidth, loss, and other parameters. Iperf3 is a redesign of an original version developed at NLANR\/DAST",
"jhead":"jhead displays and manipulates data contained in the Exif header of JPEG images from digital cameras. For many tasks, jhead remains the simplest and most effective tool for the job, especially if used for automated or scripted tasks.",
"kbd":"Load and save keyboard mappings. Needed if you are not using the US keyboard map. This package also contains utilities to change your console fonts - if you install it you ll get a menu later on that lets you select from many different fonts. If you like one, you can make it your default font. A new default font can be chosen at any time by typing setconsolefont.",
"ksh93":"KornShell is a powerful interactive shell offering a robust programming language with such features as associative arrays and built in integer math operations.",
"lftp":"A program that allows sophisticated ftp and http connections to other hosts. lftp can handle many file access methods including ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp, fish and file. Every operation in lftp is reliable, that is any non-fatal error is ignored and the operation is retried. lftp has shell-like command syntax. Has a built in mirror feature which can download or upload a whole directory tree. To learn about many more features of lftp, see man lftp.",
"lrzip":"A file compression program designed to do particularly well on very large files containing long distance redundancy. The larger the file and the more memory you have, the better the compression advantage this will provide. A variety of compression options allow optimizing for size or speed.",
"lshw":"A small tool to provide detailed information 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 or EFI (IA-64) systems and on some PowerPC machines.",
"lynx":"A distributed hypertext browser with full World Wide Web capabilities. Lynx can be used to access information on the World Wide Web, or to build information systems intended primarily for local access.",
"mcelog":"The user space backend for logging machine check errors reported by the hardware to the kernel. Decodes the logs the errors.",
"md5deep":"A cross-platform set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files. Has the following additional features: Recursive operation, Comparison mode, Time estimation, Piecewise hasing, and File type mode.",
"mosh":"remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.",
"multitail ":"MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console.",
"nc":"A simple utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable back-end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.",
"neon":"neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C language API. Bindings for other languages may also be available. Used by projects such as subversion.",
"netcat-openbsd":"A featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable back-end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.",
"nload":"nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transfered data an min/max network usage.",
"nodejs":"A platform built on Chrome V8 JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.",
"parallel":"A shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.",
"perl":"Larry Walls Practical Extraction and Report Language . It is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It s also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).",
"python":"An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. Its basic power can be extended with your own modules written in C or C++. It is also adaptable as an extension language for existing applications.",
"python3":"Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. This is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.",
"rar2fs":"FUSE based file system that can mount a source RAR archive or a directory containing any number of RAR archives and read the contents as regular files on-the-fly.",
"readline":"Provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously entered command lines, to recall and perhaps edit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.",
"screen":"A full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and several control functions from the ISO 6492 (ECMA 48, ANSI X3.64) and ISO 2022 standards.",
"slocate":"An enhanced version of locate, a command to help you locate files on the system. Like the original version of locate, it maintains a database of files on the system, updating it nightly. Unlike the original, it indexes every file on the machine rather than only the ones that can be seen by everyone. The secure part of slocate is that it will only return matches if the user is allowed to see the files.",
"sshfs-fuse":"This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there s nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.",
"strace":"Allows you to trace the execution of a command. It runs the specified command until it exits, intercepting signals and system calls and dumping the information to the standard error.",
"stunnel":"Designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local or remote servers. The goal is to facilitate SSL encryption and authentication for non-SSL-aware programs. stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP-2, POP-3 and IMAP servers without any changes in the program code.",
"subversion":"A version control system which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), and keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, similar to other such systems like CVS, RCS or SCCS. Subversion keeps all the information to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time.",
"sysstat":"The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux. These include the iostat, mpstat, pidstat, sadf, and sar tools.",
"tcpdump":"A tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. You can use it to dump information on all the packets on a network that match a boolean expression.",
"tmux":"A terminal multiplexer. It enables a number of terminals to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal.",
"unrar":"Utility is for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver version 1.50 and above.",
"utempter":"Provides a utility and shared library that allows terminal applications such as xterm and screen to update \/var\/run\/utmp and \/var\/log\/wtmp without requiring root privileges.",
"vim":"Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, command line history, filename completion, block operations, and more. Vim s development is led by Bram Moolenaar. This package also contains the Exuberant Ctags program written by Darren Hiebert.",
"virtualenv":"A tool to create isolated Python environments.",
"xinetd":"A powerful inetd replacement. It has access control mechanisms, extensive logging capabilities, the ability to make services available based on time, can place limits on the number of servers that can be started, and has a configurable defence mechanisms to protect against port scanners.",
"zpaq":"Manages journaling archives for incremental user-level local or remote backups that conform to The ZPAQ Open Standard Format for Highly Compressed Data (see AVAILABILITY). The format supports encrypted, deduplicated, and compressed single or multi-part archives with rollback capability. It supports archives as large as 1000 times available memory or up to 250 TB and 4 billion files, interoperable between Windows and Unix\/Linux\/OS X.",
"zsh":"A UNIX command interpreter which resembles the Korn shell It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customizing its behavior, filename globbing."
