Re: Favorite Debian packages?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:05:30PM +0200, Claes Andersson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Given the huge amount of available packages it is difficult to know if you
> have the best subset installed. Perhaps there are some less known "killer
> apps" around that many people don't know about. Debian has some great
> inventions like apt and kernel-package. What else is there that should get
> greater attention for someone quite new to Debian?
>
>
> So I ask you - what are your favourite packages, that you would install
> again if you had a pretty bare-bones Debian box to set up as it suits you?
> Or what packages are likely already installed that are perhaps not widely
> known although very useful? I am especially interested to hear what packages
> makes Debian easier to set up, administrate or enhances the "experience".
> Some of mine include msttcorefonts (good true type fonts), multicd (to burn
> cd-backups of directory trees), a2ps (any 2 postscript, pretty wellknown
> perhaps), wget/curl (for downloading, probably also well known) etc.
> Not many pure debianisms here, but I would love to hear of some!
I will point out the "update" utilities, update-alternatives,
update-rc.d etc. See -
$ man -k update
Also for kernel management look into the kernel-package, kpkg.
hth,
kent
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