Installed RPMS on my Red Hat 9 System

4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object-databases. It contains the following components:

4DOM is an implementation of the W3C's standard DOM API for HTML and XML content manipulation. 4DOM has full distributed-object support based on the IDL used in the formal DOM spec.

4XSLT is a powerful XSLT processor based on the latest draft of the W3C's XSLT specification. One of its many uses is to render XML documents as customized and stylized HTML for current Web browsers. 4XSLT also provides a powerful programming API for applications to use for low-level, customized transformations of XML documents.

4XPath is a library implementating of the W3C's XPath language for ndicating and selecting portions of an XML document.

4RDF is a toolkit and library for RDF processing.

4XPointer a library that can resolve XML link ends based on the W3C's specification for the XPointer 1.0 Candidate Recommendation.

The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM). A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), and medias.

This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.

Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script.

The alchemist is a back-end configuration architecture, which provides multi-sourced configuration at the data level, postponing translation to native format until the last stage. It uses XML as an intermediary data encoding, and can be extended to arbitrarily large configuration scenarios.

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.

This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Red Hat Linux 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 Red Hat Linux packages are executed each day.

Angband is one of the more successful roguelike games available. Please see it's homepage at http://thangorodrim.angband.org for a more complete description.

This version is packaged with Dr. Andrew P. White's BORG auto-player. The most recent version is always available at http://itctel.com/~apwhite/download/293borg.zip

Angband is one of the more successful roguelike games available. Please see it's homepage at http://thangorodrim.angband.org for a more complete description.

This package provides the angband patched with the Dr. Andrew P. White's "borg" auto-player

Angband is one of the more successful roguelike games available. Please see it's homepage at http://thangorodrim.angband.org for a more complete description.

This package provides common files for use with angband, or the apwborg enabled version of angband

APMD is a set of programs for controlling the Advanced Power Management daemon and utilities found in most modern laptop computers. APMD can watch your notebook's battery and warn users when the battery is low. APMD is also capable of shutting down the PCMCIA sockets before a suspend.

Install the apmd package if you need to control the APM system on your laptop.

arts (analog real-time synthesizer) is the sound system of KDE 3.

The principle of arts is to create/process sound using small modules which do certain tasks. These may be create a waveform (oscillators), play samples, filter data, add signals, perform effects like delay/flanger/chorus, or output the data to the soundcard.

By connecting all those small modules together, you can perform complex tasks like simulating a mixer, generating an instrument or things like playing a wave file with some effects.

arts (analog real-time synthesizer) is the sound system of KDE 3.

The principle of arts is to create/process sound using small modules which do certain tasks. These may be create a waveform (oscillators), play samples, filter data, add signals, perform effects like delay/flanger/chorus, or output the data to the soundcard.

By connecting all those small modules together, you can perform complex tasks like simulating a mixer, generating an instrument or things like playing a wave file with some effects.

Install arts-devel if you intend to write applications using arts (such as KDE applications using sound).

A shell is a basic system program that interprets keyboard and mouse commands. The ash shell is a clone of Berkeley's Bourne shell (sh). Ash supports all of the standard sh shell commands, but is considerably smaller than sh. The ash shell lacks some Bourne shell features (for example, command-line histories), but it uses a lot less memory.

You should install ash if you need a lightweight shell with many of the same capabilities as the sh shell.

asp2php converts WWW Active Server Pages (ASP) files that run on the Microsoft IIS Web Server into PHP pages to run on Apache.

gtk+ frontend to asp2php

Aspell is a spelling checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. Aspell's primary advantage (over Ispell) is a greater skill at suggesting correct spellings. Aspell includes both compile-time and run-time support for non-English languages and can spellcheck (La)TeX and HTML files.

Aspell is a spelling checker. The aspell-devel package includes the static libraries and header files needed for Aspell development. Note that the recommended way to use aspell is through the Pspell library.

At and batch read commands from standard input or from a specified file. At allows you to specify that a command will be run at a particular time. Batch will execute commands when the system load levels drop to a particular level. Both commands use /bin/sh.

You should install the at package if you need a utility for time-oriented job control. Note: If it is a recurring job that will need to be repeated at the same time every day/week, etc. you should use crontab instead.

The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for adding accessibility support to applications and graphical user interface toolkits. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used with tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input devices.

The atk-devel package includes the static libraries, header files, and developer docs for the atk package.

Install atk-devel if you want to develop programs which will use ATK.

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.

The Audio File library is an implementation of SGI's Audio File Library, which provides an API for accessing audio file formats like AIFF/AIFF-C, WAVE, and NeXT/Sun .snd/.au files. This library is used by the EsounD daemon.

Install audiofile if you are installing EsounD or you need an API for any of the sound file formats it can handle.

The audiofile-devel package contains libraries, include files, and other resources you can use to develop Audio File applications.

Aumix is a tty-based, interactive method of controlling a sound card mixer. It lets you adjust the input levels from the CD, microphone, and board synthesizers, as well as the output volume. Aumix can adjust audio mixers from the command line, from a script, or interactively at the console or terminal with an ncurses-based interface.

Install aumix if you need to control an audio mixer. If you want to use Aumix's GUI, you'll need to install ncurses and gpm for mouse support.

Aumix-X11 is a gtk-based, interactive method of controlling a sound card mixer. It lets you adjust the input levels from the CD, microphone, and board synthesizers, as well as the output volume. Aumix can adjust audio mixers from the command line, from a script, or interactively at the console or terminal with an ncurses-based interface.

Install aumix if you need to control an audio mixer from X11.

Authconfig is a terminal mode program which can configure a workstation to use shadow (more secure) passwords. Authconfig can also configure a system to be a client for certain networked user information and authentication schemes.

Authconfig-gtk is a GUI program which can configure a workstation to use shadow (more secure) passwords. Authconfig-gtk can also configure a system to be a client for certain networked user information and authentication schemes.

GNU's Autoconf is a tool for configuring source code and Makefiles. Using Autoconf, programmers can create portable and configurable packages, since the person building the package is allowed to specify various configuration options.

You should install Autoconf if you are developing software and would like to create shell scripts that configure your source code packages. If you are installing Autoconf, you will also need to install the GNU m4 package.

Note that the Autoconf package is not required for the end-user who may be configuring software with an Autoconf-generated script; Autoconf is only required for the generation of the scripts, not their use.

Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when you use them and unmount them after a period of inactivity. Filesystems can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies, and others.

Install this package if you want a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems. If your Red Hat Linux machine is on a network, you should install autofs.

Automake is an experimental Makefile generator. Automake was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.

You should install Automake if you are developing software and would like to use its ability to automatically generate GNU standard Makefiles. If you install Automake, you will also need to install GNU's Autoconf package.

Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in' files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards.

This package contains Automake 1.4, an older version of automake. You should install it if you need to run automake in a project that has not yet been updated to work with newer version of Automake.

Automake is an experimental Makefile generator. Automake was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets.

You should install Automake if you are developing software and would like to use its ability to automatically generate GNU standard Makefiles. If you install Automake, you will also need to install GNU's Autoconf package.

The autorun utility recognizes all of the CD-ROM drives on your system, mounts the drive when a CD-ROM is inserted and executes an autorun executable (if one exists) on the CD. If you want to give users (instead of just root) the autorun ability, you'll need to add user,exec options to the CD-ROM line in /etc/fstab.

Basesystem defines the components of a basic Red Hat Linux system (for example, the package installation order to use during bootstrapping). Basesystem should be the first package installed on a system, and it should never be removed.

The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. This package (bash) contains bash version 2.05b, which improves POSIX compliance over previous versions. However, many old shell scripts will depend upon the behavior of bash 1.14, which is included in the bash1 package. Bash is the default shell for Red Hat Linux. It is popular and powerful, and you'll probably end up using it.

Documentation for bash version 2.05b is contained in the bash-doc package.

The bash-doc package contains documentation for the GNU Bourne Again shell version 2.05b.

The bc package includes bc and dc. Bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing arithmetic language. Dc is an interactive arbitrary precision stack based calculator, which can be used as a text mode calculator.

Install the bc package if you need its number handling capabilities or if you would like to use its text mode calculator.

The bdflush process starts the kernel daemon which flushes dirty buffers back to disk (i.e., writes all unwritten data to disk). This helps to prevent the buffers from growing too stale. Bdflush is a basic system process that must run for your system to operate properly.

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly.

Bind-utils contains a collection of utilities for querying DNS (Domain Name System) name servers to find out information about Internet hosts. These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names, as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses.

You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS name servers.

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).

Bison is a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Bison can be used to develop a wide range of language parsers, from ones used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upwardly compatible with Yacc, so any correctly written Yacc grammar should work with Bison without any changes. If you know Yacc, you shouldn't have any trouble using Bison. You do need to be very proficient in C programming to be able to use Bison. Bison is only needed on systems that are used for development.

If your system will be used for C development, you should install Bison.

The bitmap-fonts package provides a number of bitmap fonts selected from the XFree86 package designed for use locations such as terminals.

BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) is a standard library which provides a number of basic algorithms for numerical algebra. Man pages for blas are available in the blas-man package.

Bluefish is a GTK+ HTML editor for the experienced web designer or programmer. It is not finished yet, but already a very powerful site creating environment. Bluefish has extended support for programming dynamic and interactive websites, there is for example a lot of PHP support.

Blursk is a visualization plugin for the Linux XMMS MP3 player (a clone of WinAmp). It was inspired by the "Blur Scope" plugin, but Blursk goes far beyond that. It supports a wide variety of colormaps, blur patterns, plotting styles, and other options. The only things that haven't changed are portions of the XMMS interface and configuration code.

Bonobo is a component system based on CORBA. It's used by the GNOME desktop environment.

bonobo-activation is a framework for object activation. That is, it allows programs to obtain references to Bonobo components. bonobo-activation launches or loads components and makes them available to clients.

bonobo-activation is a framework for object activation. That is, it allows programs to obtain references to Bonobo components. bonobo-activation launches or loads components and makes them available to clients.

This package contains header files used to compile programs that use bonobo-activation.

Bonobo configuration moniker.

This package provides the necessary development libraries and include files to allow you to develop programs using the Bonobo configuration moniker.

This package provides the necessary development libraries and include files that allow you to develop programs using the Bonobo document model.

Bug-buddy is a bug reporting utility for the GNOME desktop GUI environment. Bug-buddy can obtain a stack trace from a core file or crashed application; it can determine the versions of packages installed on your system; it can be started from gmc (by double-clicking on a core file) and from the crash dialog; and it supports the GNOME, KDE, Debian, and Ximian bug tracking systems.

Byacc (Berkeley Yacc) is a public domain LALR parser generator which is used by many programs during their build process.

If you are going to do development on your system, you will want to install this package.

Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at decompression than those techniques. Bzip2 is not the fastest compression utility, but it does strike a balance between speed and compression capability.

Install bzip2 if you need a compression utility.

Libraries for applications using the bzip2 compression format.

The caching-nameserver package includes the configuration files which will make BIND, the DNS name server, act as a simple caching nameserver. Many users on dialup connections use this package along with BIND for such a purpose.

If you would like to set up a caching name server, you'll need to install the caching-nameserver package; you'll also need to install bind.

Cdda2wav is a sampling utility for CD-ROM drives that are capable of providing a CD's audio data in digital form to your host. Audio data read from the CD can be saved as .wav or .sun format sound files. Recording formats include stereo/mono, 8/12/16 bits and different rates. Cdda2wav can also be used as a CD player.

The cdecl package includes the cdecl and c++decl utilities, which are used to translate English to C or C++ function declarations and vice versa.

Cdlabelgen is a utility which generates frontcards and traycards (in PostScript(TM) format) for CD jewelcases.

Cdp is an interactive text-mode program for playing audio CDs.

Install cdp to play audio CDs on your system.

Cdparanoia (Paranoia III) reads digital audio directly from a CD, then writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM format. Cdparanoia doesn't contain any extra features (like the ones included in the cdda2wav sampling utility). Instead, cdparanoia's strength lies in its ability to handle a variety of hardware, including inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. Cdparanoia is also good at reading and repairing data from damaged CDs.

The cdparanoia-devel package contains the static libraries and header files needed for developing applications to read CD Digital Audio disks.

The cdparanoia-libs package contains the dynamic libraries needed for applications which read CD Digital Audio disks.

Cdrdao records audio CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode, based on a textual description of the CD contents. Recording in DAO mode writes the complete disc (lead-in, one or more tracks, and lead-out) in a single step. DAO allows full control over the length and the contents of pre-gaps, the pause areas between tracks.

Cdrecord is an application for creating audio and data CDs. Cdrecord works with many different brands of CD recorders, fully supports multi-sessions and provides human-readable error messages.

Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevel information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links.

This is a simple terminal mode program for configuring the directories in the X font server's path. It is mostly intended to be used `internally' by RPM when packages with fonts are added or removed, but it may be useful as a stand-alone utility in some instances.

You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel. - Do not let ANY enemy ships get past your fighters! Each enemy ship that makes it past the bottom of the screen will attack the Chromium, and you lose a fighter. - Use your fighters as weapons! Crash into enemies to destroy them before they can get past you. - Strategic suicide is a powerful tactic! When the Chromium launches a new fighter, it releases a high energy burst which destroys all enemies in range. - Self-destruct to preserve your ammunition! A double-right-click will cause your current fighter to self-destruct. Before the ship blows up, it ejects its ammunition so that the next fighter can pick it up.

CIPE (the name is shortened from Crypto IP Encapsulation) is a package for an encrypting IP tunnel device. This can be used to build encrypting routers for VPN (Virtual Private Networks) and similar applications.

The libstdc++ package contains a snapshot of the GCC Standard C++ Library v3, an ongoing project to implement the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library.

This package contains images for the components included in Red Hat Linux as well as some tools for working with the comps file

GNOME (the GNU Network Object Model Environment) is an attractive and easy-to-use GUI desktop environment. The control-center package provides the GNOME Control Center utilities that allow you to setup and configure your system's GNOME environment (things like the desktop background and theme, the screensaver, the window manager, system sounds, and mouse behavior).

If you install GNOME, you need to install control-center.

These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Archives are files which contain a collection of other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar and POSIX.1 tar. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, so that they are compatible with older cpio programs. When it is extracting files from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order.

Install cpio if you need a program to manage file archives.

Cpp is the GNU C-Compatible Compiler Preprocessor. Cpp is a macro processor which is used automatically by the C compiler to transform your program before actual compilation. It is called a macro processor because it allows you to define macros, abbreviations for longer constructs.

The C preprocessor provides four separate functionalities: the inclusion of header files (files of declarations that can be substituted into your program); macro expansion (you can define macros, and the C preprocessor will replace the macros with their definitions throughout the program); conditional compilation (using special preprocessing directives, you can include or exclude parts of the program according to various conditions); and line control (if you use a program to combine or rearrange source files into an intermediate file which is then compiled, you can use line control to inform the compiler about where each source line originated).

You should install this package if you are a C programmer and you use macros.

CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain security-oriented characteristics, with the purpose of stopping users from choosing passwords that are easy to guess. CrackLib performs several tests on passwords: it tries to generate words from a username and gecos entry and checks those words against the password; it checks for simplistic patterns in passwords; and it checks for the password in a dictionary.

CrackLib is actually a library containing a particular C function which is used to check the password, as well as other C functions. CrackLib is not a replacement for a passwd program; it must be used in conjunction with an existing passwd program.

Install the cracklib package if you need a program to check users' passwords to see if they are at least minimally secure. If you install CrackLib, you will also want to install the cracklib-dicts package.

The cracklib-dicts package includes the CrackLib dictionaries. CrackLib will need to use the dictionary appropriate to your system, which is normally put in /usr/share/dict/words. Cracklib-dicts also contains the utilities necessary for the creation of new dictionaries.

If you are installing CrackLib, you should also install cracklib-dicts.

The crontabs package contains root crontab files. Crontab is the program used to install, uninstall or list the tables used to drive the cron daemon. The cron daemon checks the crontab files to see when particular commands are scheduled to be executed. If commands are scheduled, it executes them.

Crontabs handles a basic system function, so it should be installed on your system.

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. This is the development package for creating additional printer drivers, and other CUPS services.

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces. The cups-libs package provides libraries used by applications to use CUPS natively, without needing the lp/lpr commands.

cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Dict servers, using any of the supported protocols. cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.

cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Dict servers, using any of the supported protocols. The curl-devel package includes files needed for developing applications which can use cURL's capabilities internally.

CVS (Concurrent Version System) is a version control system that can record the history of your files (usually, but not always, source code). CVS only stores the differences between versions, instead of every version of every file you have ever created. CVS also keeps a log of who, when, and why changes occurred.

CVS is very helpful for managing releases and controlling the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. Instead of providing version control for a collection of files in a single directory, CVS provides version control for a hierarchical collection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories and files can then be combined together to form a software release.

The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.

The cyrus-sasl-devel package contains files needed for developing and compiling applications which use the Cyrus SASL library.

The cyrus-sasl-md5 package contains the Cyrus SASL plugins which support CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 authentication schemes.

The cyrus-sasl-plain package contains the Cyrus SASL plugins which support PLAIN and LOGIN authentication schemes.

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems.

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. This package contains the header files, libraries, and documentation for building programs which use the Berkeley DB.

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. DB supports C, C++, Java and Perl APIs.

This package contains command line tools for managing Berkeley DB (version 4) databases.

The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular GUI for command-line debuggers like GDB, DBX, JDB, WDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, and the Python debugger. DDD allows you to view source texts and provides an interactive graphical data display, in which data structures are displayed as graphs. You can use your mouse to dereference pointers or view structure contents, which are updated every time the program stops. DDD can debug programs written in Ada, C, C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl, and Python. DDD provides machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, watchpoint, backtrace, and history editors; array plots; undo and redo; preferences and settings editors; program execution in the terminal emulation window, debugging on a remote host, an on-line manual, extensive help on the Motif user interface, and a command-line interface with full editing, history and completion capabilities.

The desktop-backgrounds-basic package contains a good basic set of images to use for your desktop background.

The desktop-backgrounds-extra package contains a larger set of images to use for your desktop background. It builds on desktop-backgrounds-basic.

.desktop files are used to describe an application for inclusion in GNOME or KDE menus. This package contains desktop-file-validate which checks whether a .desktop file complies with the specification at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/, and desktop-file-install which installs a desktop file to the standard directory, optionally fixing it up in the process.

The Red Hat Linux operating system uses file system entries to represent devices (CD-ROMs, floppy drives, etc.) attached to the machine. All of these entries are in the /dev tree (although they don't have to be). This package contains the most commonly used /dev entries.

The dev package is a basic part of your Red Hat Linux system and it needs to be installed.

The dev86 package provides an assembler and linker for real mode 80x86 instructions. You'll need to have this package installed in order to build programs that run in real mode, including LILO and the kernel's bootstrapping code, from their sources.

You should install dev86 if you intend to build programs that run in real mode from their source code.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address, etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it easier to administer a large network.

To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent), and on clients run a DHCP client daemon. The dhclient package provides the ISC DHCP client daemon.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address, etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it easier to administer a large network. The dhcp package includes the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent), and on clients run a DHCP client daemon. The dhcp package provides the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

The Dia drawing program is designed to be like the Windows(TM) Visio program. Dia can be used to draw different types of diagrams, and includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), entity relationship modeling, and network diagrams. Dia can load and save diagrams to a custom file format, can load and save in .xml format, and can export to PostScript(TM).

Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces. Dialog is called from within a shell script. The following dialog boxes are implemented: yes/no, menu, input, message, text, info, checklist, radiolist, and gauge.

Install dialog if you would like to create TTY dialog boxes.

The diff command compares files line by line. Diffstat reads the output of the diff command and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions and modifications in each file. Diffstat is commonly used to provide a summary of the changes in large, complex patch files.

Install diffstat if you need a program which provides a summary of the diff command's output. You'll need to also install diffutils.

Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively.

Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.

DiskCheck is a small utility that monitors how much space is available on your hard drive. It checks your drive space every hour and takes action based on the specifications in a very simple config file. When disks are nearing full capacity, mail will be sent to the system administrator warning him to take action.

The DocBook Document Type Definition (DTD) describes the syntax of technical documentation texts (articles, books and manual pages). This syntax is XML-compliant and is developed by the OASIS consortium. This package contains SGML and XML versions of the DocBook DTD up to and including version 4.1.2.

These DSSSL stylesheets allow to convert any DocBook document to another printed (for example, RTF or PostScript) or online (for example, HTML) format. They are highly customizable.

These XSL stylesheets allow you to transform any DocBook XML document to other formats, such as HTML, FO, and XHMTL. They are highly customizable.

This package contains scripts are for easy conversion from DocBook files to other formats (for example, HTML, RTF, and PostScript), and for comparing SGML files.

This package contains a script for converting DocBook documents to PDF format.

Dos2unix converts DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format.

The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies.

Doxygen can generate an online class browser (in HTML) and/or a reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files.

The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape, or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups.

Install dump if you need a system for both backing up filesystems and restoring filesystems after backups.

Dvdrecord is an application for creating audio and data CDs and DVDs. Dvdrecord works with many different brands of CD/DVD recorders, fully supports multi-sessions and provides human-readable error messages.

The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended (ext2) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem, or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities.

You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2 filesystem.

Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example).

Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably won't use it.

Eazel Extensions Library is a collection of widgets and functions for use with GNOME.

This package provides the necessary development libraries and include files to allow you to develop with Eel.

The eject program allows the user to eject removable media (typically CD-ROMs, floppy disks or Iomega Jaz or Zip disks) using software control. Eject can also control some multi-disk CD changers and even some devices' auto-eject features.

Install eject if you'd like to eject removable media using software control.

Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readline (the see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files). Also included are numerous helper libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling.

The elfutils-libelf package provides a DSO which allows reading and writing ELF files on a high level. Third party programs depend on this package to read internals of ELF files. The programs of the elfutils package use it also to generate new ELF files.

Links is a text-based Web browser. Links does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables and most other HTML tags. Links' advantage over graphical browsers is its speed--Links starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays Web pages.

Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor.

This package includes the libraries you need to run the Emacs editor, You also need to install the actual Emacs program package (emacs-nox or emacs-X11). Install emacs-nox if you are not going to use the X Window System; install emacs-X11 if you will be using X.

The emacs-leim package contains Emacs Lisp code for input methods for various international character scripts. Basically, the Lisp code provided by this package describes the consecutive keystrokes that a user must press in order to input a particular character in a non-English character set. Input methods for many different character sets are included in this package.

GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and includes many options for customizing printouts.

Eye of GNOME (EOG) is an image viewer component used by Nautilus.

EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that mixes several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For example, if you're listening to music on a CD and you receive a sound-related event from ICQ, the two applications won't have to queue for the use of your sound card.

Install esound if you'd like to let sound applications share your audio device. You'll also need to install the audiofile package.

The esound-devel package includes the libraries, include files and other resources needed to develop EsounD applications.

Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package.

Contains ethereal for Gnome 1.2 and desktop integration file

This utility allows querying and changing of ethernet card settings, such as speed, port, autonegotiation, and PCI locations.

Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and communications tool. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.

Exmh provides an X interface for MH/nmh mail, a feature-rich email handling system. Exmh supports almost all (but not all) of MH's features: viewing the messages in a folder, reading/deleting/refiling messages, and sorting arriving mail into different folders before the messages are read. Exmh highlights which folders have new mail and indicates which messages have not been read.

If you like MH/nmh mail, you should install exmh, because it makes the MH/nmh mail system much more user-friendly. You may also want to use exmh if you prefer a graphical user interface for your mail client. Note that you will also have to install the nmh package.

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers.

The expat-devel package contains the libraries, include files and documentation to develop XML applications with expat.

Expect is a tcl application for automating and testing interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it.

This package contains expect and some scripts that use it.

FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides a daemon and an API which applications can use for notification of changes in specific files or directories.

Fbset is a utility for maintaining frame buffer resolutions. Fbset can change the video mode properties of a frame buffer device, and is usually used to change the current video mode.

Install fbset if you need to manage frame buffer resolutions.

Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections. Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6, and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through SMTP so you can read it through your favorite mail client.

Install fetchmail if you need to retrieve mail over SLIP or PPP connections.

The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats.

You should install the file package, since the file command is such a useful utility.

File Roller is an application for creating and viewing archives files, such as tar files.

The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed on a Red Hat Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for the directories.

The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate files on your system. The find utility searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a filename pattern). The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists of file names generated by the find command).

You should install findutils because it includes tools that are very useful for finding things on your system.

Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they've been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger package includes a standard finger client.

You should install finger if you'd like to retrieve finger information from other systems.

Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they've been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger-server package includes a standard finger server. The server daemon (fingerd) runs from /etc/inetd.conf, which must be modified to disable finger requests.

You should install finger-server if your system is used by multiple users and you'd like finger information to be available.

The firstboot utility runs after installation. It guides the user through a series of steps that allows for easier configuration of the machine.

The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions. When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code. Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process.

You should install flex if you are going to use your system for application development.

Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.

The fontconfig-devel package includes the header files, and developer docs for the fontconfig package.

Install fontconfig-devel if you want to develop programs which will use fontconfig.

Fontilus is a set of extensions for Nautilus to help manage fonts on your system.

Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. It contains utilities to generate driver description files and printer queues for CUPS, LPD, LPRng, and PDQ using the database. There is also the possibility to read the PJL options out of PJL-capable laser printers and take them into account at the driver description file generation.

There are spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues (foomatic-configure) and to print files/manipulate jobs (foomatic printjob).

The site http://www.linuxprinting.org/ is based on this database.

Fortune-mod contains the ever-popular fortune program, which will display quotes or witticisms. Fun-loving system administrators can add fortune to users' .login files, so that the users get their dose of wisdom each time they log in.

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine, developed to provide TrueType support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine, developed to provide TrueType support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine, developed to provide TrueType support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine, developed to provide TrueType support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. FTP is a widely used protocol for transferring files over the Internet and for archiving files.

If your system is on a network, you should install ftp in order to do file transfers.

This is a tool for specifying types, functions, and constants to import into a Scheme interpreter, and for generating code (in C) to interface these to the Guile and RScheme interpreters in particular.

GAIL implements the abstract interfaces found in ATK for GTK+ and GNOME libraries, enabling accessibility technologies such as at-spi to access those GUIs.

gail-devel contains the files required to compile applications against the GAIL libraries.

Gaim is a clone of America Online's Instant Messenger client. It features nearly all of the functionality of the official AIM client while also being smaller, faster, and commercial-free.

A collection of GNOME widgets and utility functions.

Development files for the GNOME Applications library

Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla 's rendering engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web.

The gawk packages contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs.

Install the gawk package if you need a text processing utility. Gawk is considered to be a standard Linux tool for processing text.

The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection version 3.2.2. You'll need this package in order to compile C code.

This package adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection. It includes support for most of the current C++ specification, including templates and exception handling.

This package adds support for compiling Java(tm) programs and bytecode into native code.

gcc-objc provides Objective-C support for the GCC. Mainly used on systems running NeXTSTEP, Objective-C is an object-oriented derivative of the C language.

GConf is the GNOME Configuration database system.

GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. It is an easy to use, powerful, and highly configurable desktop environment.

GConf development package. Contains files needed for doing development using GConf.

gconf-editor allows you to browse and modify GConf configuration sources.

GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to support workgroup administration.

GConf development package. Contains files needed for doing development using GConf.

The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and to write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. Note that gd is not a paint program.

The gd-devel package contains the development libraries and header files for gd, a graphics library for creating PNG and JPEG graphics.

GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data.

Gdbm is a GNU database indexing library, including routines which use extensible hashing. Gdbm works in a similar way to standard UNIX dbm routines. Gdbm is useful for developers who write C applications and need access to a simple and efficient database or who are building C applications which will use such a database.

If you're a C developer and your programs need access to simple database routines, you should install gdbm. You'll also need to install gdbm-devel.

Gdbm-devel contains the development libraries and header files for gdbm, the GNU database system. These libraries and header files are necessary if you plan to do development using the gdbm database.

Install gdbm-devel if you are developing C programs which will use the gdbm database library. You'll also need to install the gdbm package.

The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library used with the GNOME GUI desktop environment. The GdkPixBuf library provides image loading facilities, the rendering of a GdkPixBuf into various formats (drawables or GdkRGB buffers), and a cache interface.

This package contains the libraries, header files, and include files needed for developing applications that will work with the GdkPixBuf image loading library.

GNOME-dependent portions of the gdk-pixbuf image loading library.

Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.

gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions.

You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.

The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing programs.

gFTP is a multi-threaded FTP client for the X Window System. gFTP supports simultaneous downloads, resumption of interrupted file transfers, file transfer queues to allow downloading of multiple files, support for downloading entire directories/subdirectories, a bookmarks menu to allow quick connection to FTP sites, caching of remote directory listings, local and remote chmod, drag and drop, a connection manager and much more.

Install gftp if you need an FTP client.

GNOME Ghostview (ggv) is a frontend for Ghostscript, an interpreter of PostScript that is able to properly render PostScript documents in a display or a printer. GGv serves as a layer that isolates the user from the cumbersome options and interface of Ghostscript, and, at the same time, gives extra features such as panning and persistent user settings.

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts package.

The header files for developing applications that use ghostscript.

Ghostscript-fonts contains a set of fonts that Ghostscript, a PostScript interpreter, uses to render text. These fonts are in addition to the fonts shared by Ghostscript and the X Window System.

You'll need to install ghostscript-fonts if you're installing ghostscript.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for webpages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.

The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP FTP site has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are so inclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts.

Patterns, gradients, and other extra files for the GIMP.

This package provides debug information for package gimp. Debug information is useful when developing applications that use this package or when debugging this package.

The gimp-devel package contains the static libraries and header files for writing GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) plug-ins and extensions.

These drivers provide printing quality for UNIX/Linux in many cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks.

gimp-print-cups provides native CUPS support for a wide range of Canon, Epson, HP and compatible printers.

This package contains the gimp-print GIMP plug-in.

This package contains the escputil program.

GKrellM charts SMP CPU, load, Disk, and all active net interfaces automatically. An on/off button and online timer for the PPP interface is provided. Monitors for memory and swap usage, file system, internet connections, APM laptop battery, mbox style mailboxes, and cpu temps. Also includes an uptime monitor, a hostname label, and a clock/calendar. Additional features are:

* Autoscaling grid lines with configurable grid line resolution. * LED indicators for the net interfaces. * A gui popup for configuration of chart sizes and resolutions.

GLADE is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and the GNOME GUI desktop. GLADE can produce C source code. Support for C++, Ada95, Python, and Perl is also available, via external tools which process the XML interface description files output by GLADE.

Glade is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and the GNOME GUI desktop. Glade can produce C source code. Support for C++, Ada95, Python, and Perl is also available, via external tools which process the XML interface description files output by GLADE.

The glade2 package contains a version of Glade for GTK+ 2.0.

GLib is a handy library of utility functions. This C library is designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require.

GLib is used by GDK, GTK+ and many applications. You should install th glib package because many of your applications will depend on this library.

The glib-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the support library for the GIMP's X libraries (GTK+ and GDK), which are available as public libraries.

Install glib-devel if you want to develop programs which will use GLib.

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and anobject system.

This package provides version 2 of GLib.

The glib-devel package includes the header files for version 2 of the GLib library.

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function.

The glibc-common package includes common binaries for the GNU libc libraries, as well as national language (locale) support and timezone databases.

The glibc-devel package contains the header and object files necessary for developing programs which use the standard C libraries (which are used by nearly all programs). If you are developing programs which will use the standard C libraries, your system needs to have these standard header and object files available in order to create the executables.

Install glibc-devel if you are going to develop programs which will use the standard C libraries.

Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the glibc package

Glide3 provides the necessary low-level interface glue between the Mesa 3D graphics library, and 3Dfx Voodoo series of hardware. This package is required by the XFree86 tdfx driver in order to provide 3D acceleration support for the 3Dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Voodoo Banshee hardware.

Glide3-devel contains the developmental files that must be installed in order to recompile XFree86 on platforms which 3Dfx harware 3D acceleration is supported on.

GL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) is a 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API.

The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, signed integers operations, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast because it uses fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops, and it generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations.

Install the gmp package if you need a fast arbitrary precision library.

The static libraries, header files and documentation for using the GNU MP arbitrary precision library in applications.

If you want to develop applications which will use the GNU MP library, you'll need to install the gmp-devel package. You'll also need to install the gmp package.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-applets package provides small utilities for the GNOME panel.

The gnome-audio package contains sounds for the GNOME GUI desktop environment. If you are installing GNOME, you may want to install this package of complementary sounds.

The gnome-desktop package contains an internal library (libgnomedesktop) used to implement some portions of the GNOME desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the GNOME user environment.

The gnome-games package includes some small games that come with the GNOME desktop environment but can be used under any desktop. The games are mostly puzzle or solitaire games.

Contains the base icons needed by the Gnome desktop environment.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-libs package includes libraries that are needed to run GNOME.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-libs-devel package includes the libraries and include files that you will need to develop GNOME applications.

You should install the gnome-libs-devel package if you would like to develop GNOME applications. You do not need to install gnome-libs-devel if you just want to use the GNOME desktop environment.

The gnome-lokkit package contains a utility which attempts to provide firewalling for the average Linux end user. Instead of having to configure firewall rules, gnome-lokkit asks a small number of simple questions and writes a firewall rule set for you.

Gnome-lokkit is not designed to configure arbitary firewalls. To make it simple to understand, it is solely designed to handle typical dialup user and cable modem setups. It will not provide a complex firewall configuration, and it is not the equal of an expert firewall designer.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-media package will install media features like the GNOME CD player.

Install gnome-media if you want to use GNOME's multimedia capabilities.

gnome-mime-data provides the file type recognition data files for gnome-vfs

The GNOME panel provides the window list, workspace switcher, menus, and other features for the GNOME desktop.

gnome-pilot is a collection of programs and daemon for integrating GNOME and the PalmPilot<tm> or other PalmOS<tm> devices.

gpilotd libraries and includes.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print package contains libraries and fonts needed by GNOME applications for printing.

You should install the gnome-print package if you intend to use any of the GNOME applications that can print. If you would like to develop GNOME applications that can print you will also need to install the gnome-print devel package.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print-devel package includes the libraries and include files needed for developing applications that use the GNOME printing capabilities.

You should install the gnome-print-devel package if you would like to develop GNOME applications that will use the GNOME print capabilities. You do not need to install the gnome-print-devel package if you just want to use the GNOME desktop environment.

The gnome-python package contains the source packages for the Python bindings for GNOME called PyGNOME.

PyGNOME is an extension module for Python that provides access to the base GNOME libraries, so you have access to more widgets, a simple configuration interface, and metadata support.

This module contains a wrapper that allows the creation of bonobo components and the embedding of bonobo components in Python.

This module contains a wrapper that allows use of the GNOME Canvas in Python.

This module contains a wrapper that allows the use of gtkhtml2 via Python

gnome-session manages a GNOME desktop session. It starts up the other core GNOME components and handles logout and saving the session.

Gnome Spell is GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking. In current version it contains GNOME::Spell::Dictionary object, which provides spell checking dictionary (see Spell.idl for exact API definition). It's based on pspell package, which is required to build gnome-spell.

gnome-system-monitor is a simple process and system monitor.

GNOME terminal emulator application.

Themes collection for GNOME

This package contains end user documentation for the GNOME desktop environment.

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package includes a set of small "desk accessory" utility applications for GNOME such as a calculator.

GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and ships with several modules that implement support for file systems, http, ftp, and others. It provides a URI-based API, backend supporting asynchronous file operations, a MIME type manipulation library, and other features.

This package provides the necessary development libraries for writing GNOME VFS modules and applications that use the GNOME VFS APIs.

GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. This package contains some extra modules that for various reasons are not distributed with the core gnome-vfs package. Amongst other things it includes a samba based smb network browser.

GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and ships with several modules that implement support for file systems, http, ftp, and others. It provides a URI-based API, backend supporting asynchronous file operations, a MIME type manipulation library, and other features.

This package provides the necessary development libraries for writing GNOME VFS modules and applications that use the GNOME VFS APIs.

GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. This package contains some extra modules for version 2 of GNOME VFS that for various reasons are not distributed with the core gnome-vfs package. Amongst other things it includes a samba based smb network browser.

GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even currency trades. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use, but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure balanced books.

The gnuchess package contains the GNU chess program. By default, GNUchess uses a curses text-based interface. Alternatively, GNUchess can be used in conjunction with the xboard user interface and the X Window System for a graphical chessboard.

Install the gnuchess package if you would like to play chess on your computer. If you'd like to use a graphical interface with GNUchess, you'll also need to install the xboard package and the X Window System.

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program for the GNOME GUI desktop environment.

GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide).

Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats.

Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation.

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The gPhoto2 project is a universal, free application and library framework that lets you download images from several different digital camera models, including the newer models with USB connections. Note that a) for some older camera models you must use the old "gphoto" package. b) for USB mass storage models you must use the driver in the kernel

This package contains i) the library that digital camera applications can use ii) the command-line utility gphoto2

Other (GUI) frontends are available separately.

Gpm provides mouse support to text-based Linux applications like the Emacs editor and the Midnight Commander file management system. Gpm also provides console cut-and-paste operations using the mouse and includes a program to allow pop-up menus to appear at the click of a mouse button.

Gpm provides mouse support to text-based Linux applications like the Emacs editor and the Midnight Commander file management system. Gpm also provides console cut-and-paste operations using the mouse and includes a program to allow pop-up menus to appear at the click of a mouse button.

GQview is an image viewer for browsing through graphics files. GQview features include single click file viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using thumbnails, and zoom.

Install GQview if you need an image viewer.

The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.

You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text.

Grip is a GTK+ based front-end for CD rippers (such as cdparanoia and cdda2wav) and Ogg Vorbis encoders. Grip allows you to rip entire tracks or just a section of a track. Grip supports the CDDB protocol for accessing track information on disc database servers.

Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer. Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size, bold type, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and more.

Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use groff with the X Window System, you will also need to install the groff-gxditview package.

GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is an experimental boot loader capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating systems.

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis, written in C

GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plugins.

GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plugins.

GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plugins.

This package contains the basic command-line tools used for GStreamer, like gst-register and gst-launch. It is split off to allow parallel-installability in the future.

The gtk+ package contains the GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. GTK+ was originally written for the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) image processing program, but is now used by several other programs as well.

The gtk+-devel package contains static libraries, header files and documentation for developing GTK+ (GIMP ToolKit) applications.

gtk-doc is a tool for generating API reference documentation. It is used for generating the documentation for GTK+, GLib and GNOME.

The gtk-engines package contains shared objects and configuration files that implement a number of GTK+ theme engines. Theme engines provide different looks for GTK+, some of which resemble other toolkits or operating systems.

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.

The gtk+-devel package contains the header files and developer docs for the GTK+ widget toolkit.

The gtk2-engines package contains shared objects and configuration files that implement a number of GTK+ theme engines. Theme engines provide different looks for GTK+, some of which resemble other toolkits or operating systems. This package is for GTK+ 2.0, the gtk+-engines package is for GTK+ 1.2.

The gtKam package provides a GTK-based front-end to gPhoto2. Install this package if you want to use a digital camera with Linux.

A GIMP plug-in for direct digital camera access through gPhoto2.

GtkGLArea is an OpenGL widget for GTK+ (the Gimp ToolKit), a GUI library. GtkGLArea is built on top of gdkgl. Gdkgl is basically a wrapper around GLX functions. The GtkGLArea widget is derived from the GtkDrawingArea widget and only adds a few functions.

GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine. It was originally based on KHTMLW, but is now being developed independently of it.

Libraries and include files that can be used to develop GtkHTML applications.

GtkHTML2 (sometimes called libgtkhtml) is a widget for displaying html pages.

Libraries and include files that can be used to develop Gtkhtml2 applications.

Gnome Toaster is a versatile CD creation suite. It is designed to be as user-friendly as possible, allowing you to create CD-ROMs with just a few simple mouse clicks. Audio and data CDs are both possible. Gnome Toaster is also well integrated with the GNOME and KDE filemanagers.

GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs.

Install the guile package if you'd like to add extensibility to programs that you are developing.

Guppi is a GNOME-based data analysis and visualization system.

Install this package if you want to use Guppi.

The Guppi-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the Guppi package.

Install Guppi-devel if you want to develop programs which will use the Guppi libraries.

The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program.

Hdparm is a useful system utility for setting (E)IDE hard drive parameters. For example, hdparm can be used to tweak hard drive performance and to spin down hard drives for power conservation.

Hesiod is a system which uses existing DNS functionality to provide access to databases of information that changes infrequently. It is often used to distribute information kept in the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/printcap files, among others.

Hesiod is a system which uses existing DNS functionality to provide access to databases of information that changes infrequently. It is often used to distribute information which might otherwise kept in the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/printcap files over a network, eliminating the need to ensure synchronize the files among multiple hosts. This package contains the header files and libraries required for building programs which use Hesiod.

The term "hotplugging" refers to the dynamic reconfiguration performed after a device has been attached to a running system. This package contains the application which is called by the kernel when a USB device is added; hotplug then loads the required modules for that device.

hpijs is a collection of optimized drivers for HP printers. hpijs supports the DeskJet 350C, 600C, 600C Photo, 630C, Apollo 2000, Apollo 2100, Apollo 2560, DeskJet 800C, DeskJet 825, DeskJet 900, PhotoSmart, DeskJet 990C and PhotoSmart 100 series.

The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol. ht://Dig is also used by KDE to search KDE's HTML documentation.

ht://Dig was developed at San Diego State University as a way to search the various web servers on the campus network.

The htmlview utility uses an installed and preferred HTML viewer to display a local HTML page. It is used by several configuration tools to display their help pages.

Apache is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server. Apache is also the most popular Web server on the Internet.

The httpd-devel package contains the APXS binary and other files that you need to build Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs) for Apache.

If you are installing the Apache HTTP server and you want to be able to compile or develop additional modules for Apache, you need to install this package.

The httpd-manual package contains the complete manual and reference guide for the Apache HTTP server. The information can also be found at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/.

A browser for your current hardware configuration.

This package contains the shared libraries used to interface with hardware cryptographic accelerators under Linux.

hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids database, the XFree86 Cards and MonitorsDb databases.

This package provides a software library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. It provides a convenient interface for software developers to include standards-compliant ID3v1/2 tagging capabilities in their applications. Features include identification of valid tags, automatic size conversions, (re)synchronisation of tag frames, seamless tag (de)compression, and optional padding facilities.

ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed work in the original format or a different one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating thumbnail images, and more.

ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate and dis play images. If you want to develop your own applications which use ImageMagick code or APIs, you need to install ImageMagick-devel as well.

This package contains the Magick++ library, a C++ binding to the ImageMagick graphics manipulation library.

Install ImageMagick-c++ if you want to use any applications that use Magick++.

ImageMagick-devel contains the static libraries and header files you'll need to develop ImageMagick applications using the Magick++ C++ bindings. ImageMagick is an image manipulation program.

If you want to create applications that will use Magick++ code or APIs, you'll need to install ImageMagick-c++-devel, ImageMagick-devel and ImageMagick. You don't need to install it if you just want to use ImageMagick, or if you want to develop/compile applications using the ImageMagick C interface, however.

Image-Magick-devel contains the static libraries and header files you'll need to develop ImageMagick applications. ImageMagick is an image manipulation program.

If you want to create applications that will use ImageMagick code or APIs, you need to install ImageMagick-devel as well as ImageMagick. You do noy need to install it if you just want to use ImageMagick, however.

Perl bindings to ImageMagick.

Install ImageMagick-perl if you want to use any perl scripts that use ImageMagick.

The imap package provides server daemons for both the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and POP (Post Office Protocol) mail access protocols. The POP protocol uses a "post office" machine to collect mail for users and allows users to download their mail to their local machine for reading. The IMAP protocol allows a user to read mail on a remote machine without downloading it to their local machine.

Install the imap package if you need a server to support the IMAP or the POP mail access protocols.

Imlib is a display depth independent image loading and rendering library. Imlib is designed to simplify and speed up the process of loading images and obtaining X Window System drawables. Imlib provides many simple manipulation routines which can be used for common operations.

Install imlib if you need an image loading and rendering library for X11R6, or if you are installing GNOME. You may also want to install the imlib-cfgeditor package, which will help you configure Imlib.

The header files, static libraries and documentation needed for developing Imlib applications. Imlib is an image loading and rendering library for X11R6.

Install the imlib-devel package if you want to develop Imlib applications. You will also need to install the imlib and imlib_cfgeditor packages.

Indent is a GNU program for beautifying C code, so that it is easier to read. Indent can also convert from one C writing style to a different one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle incorrect C syntax.

Install the indent package if you are developing applications in C and you want a program to format your code.

The indexhtml package contains the HTML page and graphics for a welcome page shown by your Web browser, which you'll see after you've successfully installed Red Hat Linux.

The Web page provided by indexhtml tells you how to register your Red Hat software and how to get any support that you might need.

The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. The info package provides a standalone TTY-based browser program for viewing texinfo files.

The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces.

This tool automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo ui, nautilus theme, .desktop, and other data files and puts them in the po files.

The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip and rtmon, for example) which are designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux 2.2.x kernel.

The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel. If you need to set up firewalls and/or IP masquerading, you should install this package.

The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.

IrDA(TM) (Infrared Data Association) is an industry standard for wireless, infrared communication between devices. IrDA speeds range from 9600 bps to 4 Mbps, and IrDA can be used by many modern devices including laptops, LAN adapters, PDAs, printers, and mobile phones.

The Linux-IrDA project is a GPL'd implementation, written from scratch, of the IrDA protocols. Supported IrDA protocols include IrLAP, IrLMP, IrIAP, IrTTP, IrLPT, IrLAN, IrCOMM and IrOBEX.

The irda-utils package contains a collection of programs that enable the use of IrDA protocols. Most IrDA features are implemented in the kernel, so IrDA support must be enabled in the kernel before any IrDA tools or programs can be used. Some configuration outside the kernel is required, however, and some IrDA features, like IrOBEX, are actually implemented outside the kernel.

The isdn4k-utils package contains a collection of utilities needed for configuring an ISDN subsystem.

[incr Tcl] is an object-oriented extension of the Tcl language. It was created to support more structured programming in Tcl. Tcl scripts that grow beyond a few thousand lines become extremely difficult to maintain. This is because the building blocks of vanilla Tcl are procedures and global variables, and all of these building blocks must reside in a single global namespace. There is no support for protection or encapsulation.

JadeTeX contains the additional LaTeX macros necessary for taking Jade TeX output files and processing them as TeX files (to obtain DVI, PostScript, or PDF files, for example).

The jfsutils package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in JFS filesystems. The following utilities are available: fsck.jfs - initiate replay of the JFS transaction log, and check and repair a JFS formatted device; logdump - dump a JFS formatted device's journal log; logredo - "replay" a JFS formatted device's journal log; mkfs.jfs - create a JFS formatted partition; xchkdmp - dump the contents of a JFS fsck log file created with xchklog; xchklog - extract a log from the JFS fsck workspace into a file; xpeek - shell-type JFS file system editor.

The Linux Joystick Driver provides support for a variety of joysticks and similar devices. This package includes several utilities for setting up, calibrating, and testing your joystick.

A whois client that accepts both traditional and finger-style queries.

K3b is a GUI frontend to the cd recording programs cdrdao and cdrecord. It's aim is to provide a very user friendly interface to all the tasks that come with cd recording.

The kbd package contains tools for managing a Linux system's console's behavior, including the keyboard, the screen fonts, the virtual terminals and font files.

KDbg is a K Desktop Environment (KDE) GUI for gdb, the GNU debugger. KDbg provides the programmer with an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code. KDbg requires X and KDE to be installed in order to run.

Plugins for some KDE applications: kdeaddons extends the functionality of Konqueror (web browser and file manager), noatun (media player) and Kate (text editor), Kicker, knewsticker.

The kdeadmin package includes administrative tools for the K Desktop Environment (KDE), including kdat, and kwuftpd.

Additional artwork (themes, sound themes, icons, screensavers ...) for KDE

Core applications for the K Desktop Environment. Included are: kdm (replacement for xdm), kwin (window manager), konqueror (filemanager, web browser, ftp client, ...), konsole (xterm replacement), kpanel (application starter and desktop pager), kaudio (audio server), kdehelp (viewer for kde help files, info and man pages), kthememgr (system for managing alternate theme packages) plus other KDE components (kcheckpass, kikbd, kscreensaver, kcontrol, kfind, kfontmanager, kmenuedit).

Header files for developing applications using kdebase. Install kdebase-devel if you want to develop or compile Konqueror, Kate plugins or KWin styles.

Games and gaming libraries for the K Desktop Environment. Included with this package are: kenolaba, kasteroids, kblackbox, kmahjongg, kmines, konquest, kpat, kpoker, kreversi, ksame, kshisen, ksokoban, ksmiletris, ksnake, ksirtet, katomic, kjumpingcube, ktuberling.

Graphics applications for the K Desktop Environment.

Includes: kdvi (displays TeX .dvi files) kfax (displays faxfiles) kghostview (displays postscript files) kcoloredit (palette editor and color chooser) kamera (digital camera support) kiconedit (icon editor) kpaint (a simple drawing program) ksnapshot (screen capture utility) kview (image viewer for GIF, JPEG, TIFF, etc.) kuickshow (quick picture viewer) kooka (scanner application) kruler (screen ruler and color measurement tool)

Graphic applications for the K Desktop Environment. This package contains header files for developing applications using kdegraphics.

Libraries for the K Desktop Environment: KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation).

This package includes the header files you will need to compile applications for KDE. Also included is the KDE API documentation in HTML format for easy browsing.

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a GUI desktop for the X Window System. The kdemultimedia package contains multimedia applications for KDE, including:

kmid, a midi player kmidi, a midi-to-wav player/converter kmix, a mixer; and kscd, an audio CD player arts, additional functionality for the aRts sound system kaboodle, a media player noatun, a media player krec, a recording tool kscd, a Audio-CD player kaudiocreator, a graphical frontend for audio file creation

Networking applications for the K Desktop Environment.

Development files for kdenetwork. Install kdenetwork-devel if you wish to develop or compile KDE networking applications.

A PIM (Personal Information Manager) for KDE.

Development files for kdepim. Install kdepim-devel if you want to write or compile kdepim plugins.

A collection of applications and tools used by KDE developers. Among other things, kdesdk provides tools for working on the KDE CVS repository.

Utilities for the K Desktop Environment. Includes: ark (tar/gzip archive manager); kab (address book); karm (personal time tracker); kcalc (scientific calculator); kedit (simple text editor); kfloppy (floppy formatting tool); khexedit (hex editor); kjots (note taker); klipper (clipboard tool); kljettool(HP printer configuration tool); klpq (print queue manager) knotes (post-it notes for the desktop); kpm (process manager similar to 'top', but more advanced);kwrite (improved text editor).

The KDevelop Integrated Development Environment provides many features that developers need as well as providing a unified interface to programs like gdb, the C/C++ compiler, and make. KDevelop manages or provides:

All development tools needed for C++ programming like Compiler, Linker, automake and autoconf; KAppWizard, which generates complete, ready-to-go sample applications; Classgenerator, for creating new classes and integrating them into the current project; File management for sources, headers, documentation etc. to be included in the project; The creation of User-Handbooks written with SGML and the automatic generation of HTML-output with the KDE look and feel; Automatic HTML-based API-documentation for your project's classes with cross-references to the used libraries; Internationalization support for your application, allowing translators to easily add their target language to a project;

KDevelop also includes WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)-creation of user interfaces with a built-in dialog editor; Debugging your application by integrating KDbg; Editing of project-specific pixmaps with KIconEdit; The inclusion of any other program you need for development by adding it to the "Tools"-menu according to your individual needs.

Documentation tools for the K Desktop Environment.

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.

This package contains documentation files form the kernel source. Various bits of information about the Linux kernel and the device drivers shipped with it are documented in these files.

You'll want to install this package if you need a reference to the options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time.

Many laptop machines (and some non-laptops) support PCMCIA cards for expansion. Also known as "credit card adapters," PCMCIA cards are small cards for everything from SCSI support to modems. PCMCIA cards are hot swappable (i.e., they can be exchanged without rebooting the system) and quite convenient to use. The kernel-pcmcia-cs package contains a set of loadable kernel modules that implement an applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events by loading and unloading drivers on demand. The daemon also supports hot swapping, so that the cards can be safely inserted and ejected at any time.

The kernel-source package contains the source code files for the Linux kernel. These source files are needed to build custom/third party device drivers. The source files can also be used to build a custom kernel that is better tuned to your particular hardware, if you are so inclined (and you know what you're doing).

KPPPLoad is a PPP connection load monitor which works with KDE's session management. KPPPLoad resembles xload.

Kerberos is a network authentication system. The krb5-devel package contains the header files and libraries needed for compiling Kerberos 5 programs. If you want to develop Kerberos-aware programs, you need to install this package.

Kerberos is a network authentication system. The krb5-libs package contains the shared libraries needed by Kerberos 5. If you are using Kerberos, you need to install this package.

This package contains the krbafs shared library, which allows programs to obtain AFS network filesystem tokens using Kerberos IV credentials, without having to link with official AFS libraries which may not be available for a given platform.

This package contains header files and static libraries for use when building applications which use the krbafs library.

The Linux kernel produces error messages that contain machine specific numbers which are meaningless for debugging. ksymoops reads machine specific files and the error log and converts the addresses to meaningful symbols and offsets.

Kudzu is a hardware probing tool run at system boot time to determine what hardware has been added or removed from the system.

The kudzu-devel package contains the libkudzu library, which is used for hardware probing and configuration.

LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage) is a standard library for numerical linear algebra. LAPACK provides routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems. Associated matrix factorizations (LU, Cholesky, QR, SVD, Schur, and generalized Schur) and related computations (i.e., reordering of Schur factorizations and estimating condition numbers) are also included. LAPACK can handle dense and banded matrices, but not general sparse matrices. Similar functionality is provided for real and complex matrices in both single and double precision. LAPACK is coded in Fortran77 and built with gcc.

The less utility is a text file browser that resembles more, but has more capabilities. Less allows you to move backwards in the file as well as forwards. Since less doesn't have to read the entire input file before it starts, less starts up more quickly than text editors (for example, vi).

You should install less because it is a basic utility for viewing text files, and you'll use it frequently.

LessTif is a free replacement for OSF/Motif(R), which provides a full set of widgets for application development (menus, text entry areas, scrolling windows, etc.). LessTif is source compatible with OSF/Motif(R) 1.2.

This package provides the lesstif 1.2 runtime libraries.

Lesstif-devel contains the lesstif static library and header files required to develop Motif-1.2-based applications using LessTif. If you want to develop LessTif applications, you'll need to install lesstif-devel along with lesstif.

LFTP is a sophisticated ftp/http file transfer program. Like bash, it has job control and uses the readline library for input. It has bookmarks, built-in mirroring, and can transfer several files in parallel. It is