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Software Package
Description
Coreutils
A package that combines three individual packages called Fileutils,
Shellutils, and Textutils and implements utilities such as
chgrp
,
chmod
,
chown
,
cp
,
dd
,
df
,
dir
,
dircolors
,
du
,
install
,
ln
,
ls
,
mkdir
,
mkfifo
,
mknod
,
mv
,
rm
,
rmdir
,
sync
,
touch
,
vdir
,
basename
,
chroot
,
date
,
dirname
,
echo
,
env
,
expr
,
factor
,
false
,
groups
,
hostname
,
id
,
logname
,
nice
,
nohup
,
pathchk
,
printenv
,
printf
,
pwd
,
seq
,
sleep
,
stty
,
su
,
tee
,
test
,
true
,
tty
,
uname
,
uptime
,
users
,
who
,
whoami
,
yes
,
cut
,
join
,
nl
,
split
,
tail
,
wc
, and so on
GNUchess
A chess game
GNU C Library
For use with all Linux programs
cpio
Copies file archives to and from disk or to another part of the file
system
diff
Compares files, showing line-by-line changes in several different
formats
ed
A line-oriented text editor
emacs
An extensible, customizable, full-screen text editor and computing
environment
Findutils
A package that includes the
find
,
locate
, and
xargs
utilities
finger
A utility program designed to enable users on the Internet to get
information about one another
gawk
The GNU Project's implementation of the
awk
programming
language
gcc
Compilers for C, C++, Objective C, and other languages
gdb
Source-level debugger for C, C++, and Fortran
gdbm
A replacement for the traditional
dbm
and
ndbm
database libraries
gettext
A set of utilities that enables software maintainers to internationalize
(that means make the software work with different languages such
as English, French, Spanish, and so on) a software package's user
messages
ghostscript
An interpreter for the PostScript and Portable Document Format
(PDF) languages
ghostview
An X Window System application that makes
ghostscript
accessible from the GUI, enabling users to view PostScript or PDF
files in a window
The GIMP
(The GNU Image Manipulation Program): An Adobe Photoshop-like
image processing program
GNOME
Provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for a wide variety of tasks
that a Linux user may perform
gnumeric
A graphical spreadsheet (similar to Microsoft Excel) that works in
GNOME