Package: acct
Description-md5: 2411ebcaa9bca02b21c19f927d3e1bda
Description-en_CA: GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting
 GNU Accounting Utilities is a set of utilities which reports and
 summarizes data about user connect times and process execution statistics.
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 "Login accounting" provides summaries of system resource usage based on
 connect time, and "process accounting" provides summaries based on the
 commands executed on the system.
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 The 'last' command is provided by the util-linux package and not included
 here.

Package: acpid
Description-md5: 6a7c4e4695f570d8fbcaec667cdcfcfe
Description-en_CA: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon
 Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
 (ACPI) to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query
 battery and configuration status.
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 ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering
 ACPI events. It listens on netlink interface (or on the deprecated file
 /proc/acpi/event), and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle
 the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of
 configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the
 admin.

Package: adduser
Description-md5: 0e61515c925d932d3824e3dc6af2842b
Description-en_CA: add and remove users and groups
 This package includes the 'adduser' and 'deluser' commands for creating
 and removing users.
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  - 'adduser' creates new users and groups and adds existing users to
    existing groups;
  - 'deluser' removes users and groups and removes users from a given
    group.
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 Adding users with 'adduser' is much easier than adding them manually.
 Adduser will choose appropriate UID and GID values, create a home
 directory, copy skeletal user configuration, and automate setting initial
 values for the user's password, real name and so on.
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 Deluser can back up and remove users' home directories and mail spool or
 all the files they own on the system.
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 A custom script can be executed after each of the commands.

Package: aide
Description-md5: 5cf26f0af8c95254f9ec7920c1214cbe
Description-en_CA: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary
 AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the
 local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that
 it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be
 used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest
 algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check
 the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative
 ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for
 inconsistencies.
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 This package contains the statically linked binary for "normal" systems.

Package: aide-common
Description-md5: 7a8490e442a29581e6cca1b191be3f62
Description-en_CA: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files
 AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the
 local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that
 it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be
 used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest
 algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check
 the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative
 ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for
 inconsistencies.
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 This package contains base and configuration files that are needed to run
 the actual binaries.
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 You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in
 /etc/aide/aide.conf or drop your own config snippets into
 /etc/aide/aide.conf.d.

Package: alsa-base
Description-md5: 14d30d1beb8026b3d2636c32c5a92cca
Description-en_CA: ALSA driver configuration files
 This package contains various configuration files for the ALSA drivers.
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 For ALSA to work on a system with a given sound card, there must be an
 ALSA driver for that card in the kernel. Linux 2.6 as shipped in linux-
 image packages contains ALSA drivers for all supported sound cards in the
 form of loadable modules. A custom alsa-modules package can be built from
 the sources in the alsa-source package using the m-a utility (included in
 the module-assistant package). Please read the README.Debian file for more
 information about loading and building modules.
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 ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

Package: amavisd-new
Description-md5: d95fd9c270e69763b2674a7c7629b731
Description-en_CA: Interface between MTA and virus scanner/content filters
 AMaViSd-new is a script that interfaces a mail transport agent (MTA) with
 zero or more virus scanners, and spamassassin (optional).
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 It supports all common virus scanners (more than 20 different AVs), with
 direct talk-to-daemon support for ClamAV, OpenAntiVirus, Trophie, AVG,
 f-prot, and Sophos AVs.
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 AMaViSd-new supports all MTAs through its generic SMTP/LMTP filter mode
 (ideal for postfix and exim).  It is faster and safer to use the SMTP/LMTP
 filter mode than using the AMaViS pipe client.  It supports sendmail
 milter through the amavisd-new-milter package.

Package: anacron
Description-md5: cd9f07726e1ee3bc93fcfdb799520070
Description-en_CA: cron-like program that doesn't go by time
 Anacron (like "anac(h)ronistic") is a periodic command scheduler.  It
 executes commands at intervals specified in days.  Unlike cron, it does
 not assume that the system is running continuously.  It can therefore be
 used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or
 anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a
 day.  When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that
 the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine
 uptime permits.
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 This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian
 system.  You should install this program if your system isn't powered on
 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages
 are executed each day.

Package: app-install-data
Description-md5: f60778a916e4cfc34f4e6d08cae5fa94
Description-en_CA: Ubuntu applications (data files)
 This package contains the Ubuntu specific application data and icons for
 software-center (and similar tools).

Package: apport
Description-md5: c04626471654f9246cf5e28b560d262e
Description-en_CA: automatically generate crash reports for debugging
 apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a
 problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook
 provided by the Ubuntu kernel.
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 This package also provides a command line frontend for browsing and
 handling the crash reports. For desktops, you should consider installing
 the GTK+ or Qt user interface (apport-gtk or apport-kde).

Package: apport-gtk
Description-md5: 2f45e17d5bf22355d7921dba196ae6dd
Description-en_CA: GTK+ frontend for the apport crash report system
 apport automatically collects data from crashed processes and compiles a
 problem report in /var/crash/. This utilizes the crashdump helper hook
 provided by the Ubuntu kernel.
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 This package provides a GTK+ frontend for browsing and handling the crash
 reports.

Package: apport-retrace
Description-md5: 7608c287131a28c4611767ba61f02050
Description-en_CA: tools for reprocessing Apport crash reports
 apport-retrace recombines an Apport crash report (either a file or a
 Launchpad bug) and debug symbol packages (.ddebs) into fully symbolic
 stack traces. This can optionally use a sandbox for installing debug
 symbol packages and doing the processing, so that entire process of
 retracing crashes can happen with normal user privileges without changing
 the system.
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 You need to install gdb-multiarch if you want to be able to retrace crash
 reports which happened on a different architecture than the one you run
 apport-retrace on.

Package: apt-listchanges
Description-md5: ff242d11e25a826706c61be7ebf92ad4
Description-en_CA: package change history notification tool
 The tool apt-listchanges can compare a new version of a package with the
 one currently installed and show what has been changed, by extracting the
 relevant entries from the Debian changelog and NEWS files.
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 It can be run on several .deb archives at a time to get a list of all
 changes that would be caused by installing or upgrading a group of
 packages. When configured as an APT plugin it will do this automatically
 during upgrades.

Package: apturl
Description-md5: 0ff87045fbbd2d7c44b70b7ac3d409e1
Description-en_CA: install packages using the apt protocol - GTK+ frontend
 AptUrl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows
 the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the
 operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants
 the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does
 so for him).
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 This package contains the GTK+ frontend.

Package: apturl-common
Description-md5: 1a9a3582fbd6f80810cf5bf2bc1a5249
Description-en_CA: install packages using the apt protocol - common data
 AptUrl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows
 the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the
 operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants
 the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does
 so for him).
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 This package contains the common data shared between the frontends.

Package: aspell
Description-md5: 21dcab5448cba7f61ba8df4ace46f1af
Description-en_CA: GNU Aspell spell-checker
 GNU Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a standalone
 application or embedded in other programs.  Its main feature is that it
 does a much better job of suggesting possible spellings than just about
 any other spell-checker available for the English language, including
 Ispell and Microsoft Word.  It also has many other technical enhancements
 over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently
 handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open
 at once.
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 Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell.

Package: aspell-doc
Description-md5: 33c68b861d6f2e2ef1b189909b98b741
Description-en_CA: Documentation for GNU Aspell spell-checker
 This package contains the documentation for GNU Aspell in various formats.
 The aspell package comes with minimal man pages.  Install this package if
 you need further information on the development process and workings of
 Aspell.

Package: aspell-en
Description-md5: c94b13744f65f4d57e191f183fc7c9c9
Description-en_CA: English dictionary for GNU Aspell
 This package contains all the required files to add support for English
 language to the GNU Aspell spell checker.
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 American, British, Canadian and Australian spellings are included.

Package: at
Description-md5: 97e204a9f4ad8c681dbd54ec7c505251
Description-en_CA: Delayed job execution and batch processing
 At and batch read shell commands from standard input storing them as a job
 to be scheduled for execution in the future.
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 Use
  at    to run the job at a specified time
  batch to run the job when system load levels permit


Package: attr
Description-md5: eba64610d62d0ff261b3286c19b2e130
Description-en_CA: utilities for manipulating filesystem extended attributes
 A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects,
 in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also
 provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same
 name.

