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