chkconfig

system tool to enable or disable system services

Chkconfig is a utility to update and query runlevel information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/init.d/, to relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links. In Debian, there are several tools with similar functionality, but users coming from other Linux distributions will find the tools in this package more familiar.

glibc

The GNU libc libraries

coreutils

GNU core utilities

This package contains the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system. Specifically, this package includes: arch base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false flock fmt fold groups head hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc numfmt od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir runcon sha*sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test timeout touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes

glibc-common

Common binaries and locale data for glibc

cracklib-dicts

The standard CrackLib dictionaries

makedev

creates device files in /dev

The MAKEDEV executable is used to create device files, often in /dev. Device files are special files through which applications can interact with hardware. This package is not necessary for most modern Linux systems, where the udev subsystem provides a more dynamic mechanism for device file management.

gnupg2

GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement (dummy transitional package)

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC4880. This is a dummy transitional package that provides symlinks from gpg2 to gpg.

pam

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) library

cracklib

A library used to enforce strong passwords

cyrus-sasl-lib

applications which use Cyrus SASL

libselinux

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a

number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.

info

Standalone GNU Info documentation browser

The Info file format is an easily-parsable representation for online documents. This program allows you to view Info documents, like the ones stored in /usr/share/info. Much of the software in Debian comes with its online documentation in the form of Info files, so it is most likely you will want to install it.

libcap

Library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities

libuser

user and group account administration library - utilities

The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources. Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password suite are included: lchsh, lchfn, lid, lnewusers, lgroupadd, luseradd, lgroupdel, luserdel, lusermod, lgroupmod, lchage and lpasswd.

kpartx

create device mappings for partitions

Kpartx can be used to set up device mappings for the partitions of any partitioned block device. It is part of the Linux multipath-tools.

procps-ng

Utilities for monitoring your system and its processes

systemd

system and service manager

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you boot with init=/bin/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.

kmod

tools for managing Linux kernel modules

This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux. It replaces module-init-tools.

util-linux

miscellaneous system utilities

This package contains a number of important utilities, most of which are oriented towards maintenance of your system. Some of the more important utilities included in this package allow you to view kernel messages, create new filesystems, view block device information, interface with real time clock, etc.

iputils

Network monitoring tools, including ping

plymouth-scripts

Plymouth related scripts

dracut

Low-level tool for generating an initramfs image

Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has (basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on. Having the root on MD, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI, NBD and FCOE with dracut-network.

mingetty

Console-only getty

Mingetty is a small, efficient, console-only getty for Linux. "getty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command. It is normally invoked by init(8)." mingetty is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles. Unlike the getty in the util-linux or mgetty packages, mingetty is not suitable for serial lines, which is why it's smaller.

module-init-tools

transitional dummy package (module-init-tools to kmod)

This dummy package is provided to support the transition from module-init-tools to kmod and should be removed afterwards.

libselinux-utils

SELinux libselinux utilies

psmisc

utilities that use the proc file system

This package contains miscellaneous utilities that use the proc FS: - fuser: identifies processes that are using files or sockets. - killall: kills processes by name (e.g. "killall -HUP named"). - peekfd: shows the data traveling over a file descriptor. - pstree: shows currently running processes as a tree. - prtstat: print the contents of /proc/<pid>/stat

procps

/proc file system utilities

This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to provide information about the status of entries in its process table (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie"). It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.

net-tools

NET-3 networking toolkit

This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach, mii-tool) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr). In the upstream package 'hostname' and friends are included. Those are not installed by this package, since there is a special "hostname*.deb".

yum-utils

Utilities based around the yum package manager

Yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and more powerful to use. The commands provided are: * repo-graph: output a full package dependency graph in dot format * repo-rss: generate an RSS feed from one or more yum repositories * repoclosure: display a list of unresolved dependencies for a yum repository * repodiff: list differences between two or more yum repositories * repomanage: list the newest or oldest packages in a yum repository * repoquery: query information from yum repositories * reposync: synchronize yum repositories to a local directory * repotrack: track a package and its dependencies and download them * yum-builddep: install missing dependencies for building an RPM package * yum-complete-transaction: attempt to complete failed or aborted yum transactions * yum-config-manager: manage yum configuration options and yum repositories * yum-groups-manager: create and edit group metadata for a yum repository * yumdb: query and alter the yum database * yumdownloader: download RPM packages from yum repositories On Debian and derived systems, this package can be useful for installing and managing chroots or lxc containers of yum-based distributions. The utilities for querying and managing yum repositories may also be useful for maintaining repositories of RPM packages on a Debian host.