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9. Required, Important and Standard Packages

For reference, this is a list of all required, important and standard packages in Debian 2.2 ("potato"). While the current Debian release has nearly 4000 packages in main, the usual 90/10 rules applies (only 10% of the packages are installed on most systems).

adduser Add users and groups to the system. ae Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor apt Advanced front-end for dpkg at Delayed job execution and batch processing base-files Debian base system miscellaneous files base-passwd Debian Base System Password/Group Files bash The GNU Bourne Again SHell bc The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language biff a mail notification tool bin86 16-bit assembler and loader binutils The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities. bison A parser generator that is compatible with YACC. bsdmainutils More utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. bsdutils Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite. console-data Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback tables for console-tools console-tools Linux console and font utilities. console-tools-libs Shared libraries for Linux console and font manipulation. cpio GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files. cpp The GNU C preprocessor. cron management of regular background processing dc The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator debian-policy Debian Policy Manual and related documents debianutils Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian. diff File comparison utilities dnsutils Utilities for Querying DNS Servers doc-debian Debian Project documentation, Debian FAQ and other documents doc-linux-text Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII format dpkg Package maintenance system for Debian dpkg-dev Package building tools for Debian dpkg-ftp Ftp method for dselect. dpkg-perl Perl interface modules for dpkg e2fsprogs The EXT2 file system utilities and libraries. ed The classic unix line editor emacs20 The GNU Emacs editor. emacsen-common Common facilities for all emacsen. exim Exim Mailer fdflush A disk-flushing program. file Determines file type using "magic" numbers fileutils GNU file management utilities. findutils utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate finger User information lookup program. fingerd Remote user information server. flex A fast lexical analyzer generator. ftp The FTP client. g++ The GNU C++ compiler. gcc The GNU C compiler. gdb The GNU Debugger gettext-base GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system gpm General Purpose Mouse Interface grep GNU grep, egrep and fgrep. groff GNU troff text-formatting system. gzip The GNU compression utility. hostname A utility to set/show the host name or domain name iamerican An American English dictionary for ispell. ibritish A British English dictionary for ispell. info Standalone GNU Info documentation browser ispell International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector) ldso The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities. less A file pager program, similar to more(1) libc6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data libc6-dev GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files. libgdbmg1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). [libc6 version] libident simple RFC1413 client library - runtime liblockfile1 Shared library with NFS-safe locking functions. Includes the libncurses4 Shared libraries for terminal handling libncurses5 Shared libraries for terminal handling libnet-perl Implementation of Internet protocols for Perl libopenldap-runtim OpenLDAP runtime files for libopenldap libopenldap1 OpenLDAP libraries. libpam-modules Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM libpam-runtime Runtime support for the PAM library libpam0g Pluggable Authentication Modules library libpcre2 Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Regular Expression library libpng2 PNG library - runtime libpopt0 lib for parsing cmdline parameters libreadline4 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries. libstdc++2.10 The GNU stdc++ library libstdc++2.10-dev The GNU stdc++ library (development files) libwrap0 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library lilo LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and others locales GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [binary] lockfile-progs Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes. login System login tools logrotate Log rotation utility lpr BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system lsof-2.2 List open files. lynx Text-mode WWW Browser m4 a macro processing language mailx A simple mail user agent. make The GNU version of the "make" utility. makedev Creates special device files in /dev. man-db Display the on-line manual. manpages Man pages about using a Linux system. manpages-dev Linux-development man pages. mawk a pattern scanning and text processing language mbr Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible computers. mime-support MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and support programs modutils Linux module utilities. mount Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems. mpack Tools for encoding/decoding MIME messages. mtools Tools for manipulating MSDOS files mutt Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. ncurses-base Descriptions of common terminal types ncurses-bin Terminal-related programs and man pages ncurses-term Additional terminal type definitions netbase Basic TCP/IP networking binaries nfs-common NFS support files common to client and server nfs-server User space NFS server. nvi 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi. passwd Change and administer password and group data. patch Apply a diff file to an original perl-5.005 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language. perl-5.005-base The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister perl-5.005-doc Man pages and pod docs for Perl perl-5.005-suid Runs setuid Perl scripts. perl-base Fake package assuring that one of the -base package is installed pidentd TCP/IP IDENT protocol server. ppp Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. procmail Versatile e-mail processor. procps The /proc file system utilities. rcs The GNU Revision Control System sed The GNU sed stream editor. setserial Controls configuration of serial ports. sharutils shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode shellutils The GNU shell programming utilities. slang1 The S-Lang programming library - runtime version. strace A system call tracer. sysklogd Kernel and system logging daemons sysvinit System-V like init. talk Talk to another user. talkd Remote user communication server. tar GNU tar tcpd Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities tcsh TENEX C Shell, an enhanced version of Berkeley csh. tcsh-i18n TENEX C Shell message catalogs telnet The telnet client. telnetd The telnet server. tetex-base basic teTeX library files tetex-bin teTeX binary files tetex-lib shared libkpathsea for teTeX texinfo Documentation system for on-line information and printed output textutils The GNU text file processing utilities. time The GNU time command. update daemon to periodically flush filesystem buffers. util-linux Miscellaneous system utilities. wenglish English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict whois whois client xfree86-common X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure xlib6g shared libraries required by X clients zlib1g compression library - runtime

In addition, most sites will also want most of these optional packages from main. Several of these packages are only used when building Debian packages.

apache Versatile, high-performance HTTP server apache-common Support files for all Apache webservers apache-dev Apache webserver development kit autoconf automatic configure script builder automake A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles. bzip2 A high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities cvs Concurrent Versions System cvsweb a CGI interface to your CVS repository debhelper helper programs for debian/rules debiandoc-sgml DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools debiandoc-sgml-doc Documentation for DebianDoc-SGML debmake Debianizing Tool and automated binary generation debsums Tools to handle md5sums for installed packages debview Emacs mode for viewing Debian packages devscripts Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier elm-me+ MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader [enhanced] fakeroot Gives a fake root environment. gs Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview support. gsfonts Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter kernel-package Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. lftp Sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs libgc5 Conservative garbage collector for C libgc5-dev Conservative garbage collector for C (development) libmysqlclient6 mysql database client library libmysqlclient6-de mysql database development files lintian Debian package checker mysql-client mysql database client binaries mysql-doc mysql database documentation mysql-gpl-client mysql database client binaries mysql-gpl-doc mysql database documentation mysql-server mysql database server binaries odbc-postgresql ODBC support for PostgreSQL postgresql Object-relational SQL database, descended from POSTGRES. postgresql-client Front-end programs for PostgreSQL postgresql-contrib Additional facilities for PostgreSQL postgresql-dev Header files for libpq (postgresql library) postgresql-doc Documentation for the PostgreSQL database. postgresql-pl A procedural language for PostgreSQL samba A LanManager like file and printer server for Unix. samba-common Samba common files used by both the server and the client. smbclient A LanManager like simple client for Unix. smbfs mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than 2.0.x) sudo Provides limited super user privileges to specific users.

... And these optional packages from non-US:

gnupg GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement. libssl09 SSL shared libraries libssl09-dev SSL development libraries openssl Secure Socket Layer and related cryptographic libraries/tools. ssh Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)

Finally, you will need the kernel source.


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