HPC/RPM

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

License: The Open Group License

Development/Libraries

Found under: Development/Libraries

atk-devel

- 1.12.2-1.fc6

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.

audit-libs

- 1.7.17-3.el5

The audit-libs package contains the dynamic libraries needed for applications to use the audit framework.

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/

audit-libs-python

- 1.7.17-3.el5

The audit-libs-python package contains the bindings so that libaudit and libauparse can be used by python.

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/

avahi-compat-libdns_sd

- 0.6.16-9.el5_5

Libraries for Apple Bonjour mDNSResponder compatibility.

http://avahi.org

blas

- 3.0-37.el5

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.

License: Freely distributable

blas-devel

- 3.0-37.el5

BLAS development libraries for applications that link statically.

License: Freely distributable

cairo-devel

- 1.2.4-5.el5

Developmental libraries and header files required for developing or compiling software which links to the cairo library, which is an open source vector graphics library.

http://cairographics.org

dbus-libs

- 1.1.2-14.el5

Lowlevel libraries for accessing D-BUS

http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

e2fsprogs-devel

- 1.39-23.el5_5.1

E2fsprogs-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop second and third extended (ext2/ext3) filesystem-specific programs.

You should install e2fsprogs-devel if you want to develop ext2/ext3 filesystem-specific programs. If you install e2fsprogs-devel, you'll also want to install e2fsprogs.

e2fsprogs-libs

- 1.39-23.el5_5.1

E2fsprogs-lib contains the libraries of the e2fsprogs package.

http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

fftw2-devel

- 2.1.5-15.el5

FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of arbitrary input size. We believe that FFTW, which is free software, should become the FFT library of choice for most applications. Our benchmarks, performed on on a variety of platforms, show that FFTW's performance is typically superior to that of other publicly available FFT software.

This package contains header files and development libraries needed to develop programs using the FFTW fast Fourier transform library.

fftw3-devel

- 3.2.2-3.el5

FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of arbitrary input size.

This package contains header files and development libraries needed to develop programs using the FFTW fast Fourier transform library.

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/

fontconfig-devel

- 2.4.1-7.el5

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.

http://fontconfig.org

License: MIT

freetype-devel

- 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1

The freetype-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the FreeType font rendering engine.

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

http://www.freetype.org

gamin

- 0.1.7-8.el5

This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide daemon.

gamin-python

- 0.1.7-8.el5

The gamin-python package contains a module that allow monitoring of files and directories from the Python language based on the support of the gamin package.

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/

gd-devel

- 2.0.33-9.4.el5_4.2

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

http://www.boutell.com/gd/

License: BSD-style

glib2-devel

- 2.12.3-4.el5_3.1

The glib2-devel package includes the header files for version 2 of the GLib library.

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

glibc-devel

- 2.5-49.el5_5.7

The glibc-devel package contains the 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 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.

glibc-headers

- 2.5-49.el5_5.7

The glibc-headers package contains the header 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 files available in order to create the executables.

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

gmp-devel

- 4.1.4-10.el5

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.

http://www.swox.com/gmp/

grace-devel

- 5.1.22-2.el5

Install these files if you need to compile software that requires grace.

gsl-devel

- 1.13-3.el5

The gsl-devel package contains the header files necessary for developing programs using the GSL (GNU Scientific Library).

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

gtk2-devel

- 2.10.4-21.el5_5.6

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

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

guile-devel

- 1.8.0-8.20060831cvs

The guile-devel package includes the libraries, header files, etc., that you'll need to develop applications that are linked with the GUILE extensibility library.

You need to install the guile-devel package if you want to develop applications that will be linked to GUILE. You'll also need to install the guile package.

hdf5-devel

- 1.6.10-1.el5

HDF5 development headers and libraries.

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

License: BSD

itcl

- 3.3-0.7.RC1.el5

[incr Tcl] is Tcl extension that provides object-oriented features that are missing from the Tcl language.

http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/itcl/

License: BSD

itk

- 3.3-0.4.RC1.el5

[incr Tk] is Tk extension that provides object-oriented features that are missing from the Tk extension to Tcl. The OO features provided by itk are useful for building megawidgets.

http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/itcl/

License: BSD

iwidgets

- 4.0.1-4.el5

A set of useful widgets based on itcl and itk.

http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

krb5-devel

- 1.6.1-36.el5_5.6

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.

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/

License: MIT, freely distributable.

lapack

- 3.0-37.el5

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.

License: Freely distributable

lapack-devel

- 3.0-37.el5

LAPACK development libraries for applications that link statically.

License: Freely distributable

libgnomecups

- 0.2.2-9

GNOME library for CUPS integration

libICE-devel

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libICE development package

http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/

License: MIT/X11

libjpeg-devel

- 6b-37

The libjpeg-devel package includes the header files and static libraries necessary for developing programs which will manipulate JPEG files using the libjpeg library.

If you are going to develop programs which will manipulate JPEG images, you should install libjpeg-devel. You'll also need to have the libjpeg package installed.

http://www.ijg.org/

License: distributable

libnl

- 1.0-0.10.pre5.5

This package contains a convenience library to simplify using the Linux kernel's netlink sockets interface for network manipulation

libpcap

- 0.9.4-15.el5

Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application.

Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring on your network.

http://www.tcpdump.org

License: BSD

libpng-devel

- 1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3

The libpng-devel package contains the header files and static libraries necessary for developing programs using the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) library.

If you want to develop programs which will manipulate PNG image format files, you should install libpng-devel. You'll also need to install the libpng package.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

License: zlib

libselinux-devel

- 1.33.4-5.5.el5

The libselinux-devel package contains the static libraries and header files needed for developing SELinux applications.

License: Public domain (uncopyrighted)

libselinux-python

- 1.33.4-5.5.el5

The libselinux-python package contains the python bindings for developing SELinux applications.

License: Public domain (uncopyrighted)

libselinux-utils

- 1.33.4-5.5.el5

The libselinux-utils package contains the SELinux utilities

License: Public domain (uncopyrighted)

libsepol-devel

- 1.15.2-3.el5

The libsepol-devel package contains the static libraries and header files needed for developing applications that manipulate binary policies.

libSM-devel

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libSM development package

License: MIT/X11

libstdc++-devel

- 4.1.2-48.el5

This is the GNU implementation of the standard C++ libraries. This package includes the header files and libraries needed for C++ development. This includes rewritten implementation of STL.

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/

libsysfs-devel

- 2.0.0-6

libsysfs-devel provides the header files and static libraries required to build programs using the libsysfs API.

libtermcap-devel

- 2.0.8-46.1

This package includes the libraries and header files necessary for developing programs which will access the termcap database.

If you need to develop programs which will access the termcap database, you'll need to install this package. You'll also need to install the libtermcap package.

libX11-devel

- 1.0.3-11.el5

X.Org X11 libX11 development package

License: MIT/X11

libXau-devel

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXau development package

License: MIT/X11

libXcursor-devel

- 1.1.7-1.1

X.Org X11 libXcursor development package

License: MIT/X11

libXdmcp-devel

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXdmcp development package

License: MIT/X11

libXext-devel

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXext development package

License: MIT/X11

libXfixes-devel

- 4.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXfixes development package

License: MIT/X11

libXft-devel

- 2.1.10-1.1

X.Org X11 libXft development package

License: MIT/X11

libXi-devel

- 1.0.1-4.el5_4

X.Org X11 libXi development package

License: MIT/X11

libXinerama-devel

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXinerama development package

License: MIT/X11

libxml2

- 2.6.26-2.1.2.8.el5_5.1

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations. In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation to select subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an URI library.

http://xmlsoft.org/

License: MIT

libxml2-python

- 2.6.26-2.1.2.8.el5_5.1

The libxml2-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by the libxml2 library to manipulate XML files.

This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DTDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified.

http://xmlsoft.org/

License: MIT

libXpm-devel

- 3.5.5-3

X.Org X11 libXpm development package

License: MIT/X11

libXrandr-devel

- 1.1.1-3.3

X.Org X11 libXrandr development package

License: MIT/X11

libXrender-devel

- 0.9.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXrender development package

License: MIT/X11

libxslt

- 1.1.17-2.el5_2.2

This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files (or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.25 installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine

http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

License: MIT

libXt-devel

- 1.0.2-3.2.el5

X.Org X11 libXt development package

http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/

License: MIT/X11

mesa-libGL-devel

- 6.5.1-7.8.el5

Mesa libGL development package

http://www.mesa3d.org

License: MIT/X11

nautilus-extensions

- 2.16.2-7.el5

This package provides the libraries used by nautilus extensions.

ncurses-devel

- 5.5-24.20060715

The header files and libraries for developing applications that use the ncurses terminal handling library.

Install the ncurses-devel package if you want to develop applications which will use ncurses.

Use the following compiler flags to build against the ncurses library:

-lncurses (compile and link against the regular ncurses library)

-I /usr/include/ncursesw -lncursesw (compile and link against the wide-character, UTF-8, library)

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html

License: distributable

net-snmp-libs

- 5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1

The net-snmp-libs package contains the runtime libraries for shared binaries and applications.

http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

License: BSDish

netcdf-devel

- 3.6.2-7.el5

This package contains the netCDF-3 header files, shared devel libs, and man pages.

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/index.html

License: NetCDF

NetworkManager-glib

- 0.7.0-10.el5_5.2

This package contains the libraries that make it easier to use some NetworkManager functionality from applications that use glib.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

octave-devel

- 3.0.5-1.el5

The octave-devel package contains files needed for developing applications which use GNU Octave.

http://www.octave.org

OpenIPMI-libs

- 2.0.16-7.el5

The OpenIPMI-libs package contains the runtime libraries for shared binaries and applications.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/

openmpi

- 1.4-4.el5

Open MPI is an open source, freely available implementation of both the MPI-1 and MPI-2 standards, combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-2 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers, and computer science researchers. For more information, see http://www.open-mpi.org/ .

http://www.open-mpi.org/

License: BSD

openmpi-devel

- 1.4-4.el5

Contains development headers and libraries for openmpi

http://www.open-mpi.org/

License: BSD

openmpi-libs

- 1.4-4.el5

Contains shared libraries used by openmpi applications

http://www.open-mpi.org/

License: BSD

openssl-devel

- 0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7

OpenSSL is a toolkit for supporting cryptography. The openssl-devel package contains static libraries and include files needed to develop applications which support various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

http://www.openssl.org/

License: BSDish

pam-devel

- 0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication. This package contains header files and static libraries used for building both PAM-aware applications and modules for use with PAM.

http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html

pango-devel

- 1.14.9-8.el5.centos

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

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

http://www.pango.org

perl-Compress-Zlib

- 1.42-1.fc6

The Compress::Zlib module provides a Perl interface to the zlib compression library. Most of the functionality provided by zlib is available in Compress::Zlib.

The module can be split into two general areas of functionality, namely in-memory compression/decompression and read/write access to gzip files.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Compress-Zlib/

perl-Convert-ASN1

- 0.20-1.1

Convert-ASN1 Perl module.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-ASN1/

perl-Crypt-SSLeay

- 0.51-11.el5

This perl module provides support for the https protocol under LWP, so that a LWP::UserAgent can make https GET & HEAD & POST requests. Please see perldoc LWP for more information on POST requests.

The Crypt::SSLeay package contains Net::SSL, which is automatically loaded by LWP::Protocol::https on https requests, and provides the necessary SSL glue for that module to work.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-SSLeay/

perl-DBI

- 1.52-2.el5

DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for the Perl Language. The DBI API Specification defines a set of functions, variables and conventions that provide a consistent database interface independent of the actual database being used.

http://dbi.perl.org/

perl-HTML-Parser

- 3.55-1.fc6

The HTML-Parser module for perl to parse and extract information from HTML documents, including the HTML::Entities, HTML::HeadParser, HTML::LinkExtor, HTML::PullParser, and HTML::TokeParser modules.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Parser/

perl-HTML-Tagset

- 3.10-2.1.1

This module contains several data tables useful in various kinds of HTML parsing operations, such as tag and entity names.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tagset/

perl-IO-Interface

- 1.03-1.el5.2

IO::Interface adds methods to IO::Socket objects that allows them to be used to retrieve and change information about the network interfaces on your system. In addition to the object-oriented access methods, you can use a function-oriented style.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Interface/

perl-IO-Socket-SSL

- 1.01-1.fc6

This module is a true drop-in replacement for IO::Socket::INET that uses SSL to encrypt data before it is transferred to a remote server or client. IO::Socket::SSL supports all the extra features that one needs to write a full-featured SSL client or server application: multiple SSL contexts, cipher selection, certificate verification, and SSL version selection. As an extra bonus, it works perfectly with mod_perl.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Socket-SSL/

perl-IO-Tty

- 1.07-2.el5.1

IO::Tty and IO::Pty provide an interface to pseudo tty's.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Tty/

perl-LDAP

- 0.33-3.fc6

Net::LDAP is a collection of modules that implements a LDAP services API for Perl programs. The module may be used to search directories or perform maintenance functions such as adding, deleting or modifying entries.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-ldap/

perl-libwww-perl

- 5.805-1.1.1

The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. The library also contain modules that are of more general use and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/

perl-Net-SSLeay

- 1.30-4.fc6

This module offers some high level convinience functions for accessing web pages on SSL servers (for symmetry, same API is offered for accessing http servers, too), a sslcat() function for writing your own clients, and finally access to the SSL api of SSLeay/OpenSSL package so you can write servers or clients for more complicated applications.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net_SSLeay.pm/

License: BSDish

perl-String-CRC32

- 1.4-2.fc6

This packages provides a perl module to generate checksums from strings and from files.

The checksums are the same as those calculated by ZMODEM, PKZIP, PICCHECK and many others. There's another perl module called String::CRC which allows to calculate not only 32 bit CRC numbers, but the generated sums differ from those of the programs mentioned above.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-CRC32/

License: Public Domain

perl-URI

- 1.35-3

This module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent "Uniform Resource Identifier references" as specified in RFC 2396 (and updated by RFC 2732).

http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI/

perl-XML-NamespaceSupport

- 1.09-1.2.1

XML-NamespaceSupport Perl module.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-NamespaceSupport/

perl-XML-SAX

- 0.14-8

XML-SAX Perl module.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-SAX/

poppler

- 0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, it's a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

popt

- 1.10.2.3-20.el5_5.1

Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion. Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules.

http://cairographics.org/

pycairo-devel

- 1.2.0-1.1

Headers for pycairo

pyOpenSSL

- 0.7-6.el5

High-level wrapper around a subset of the OpenSSL library, includes * SSL.Connection objects, wrapping the methods of Python's portable sockets * Callbacks written in Python * Extensive error-handling mechanism, mirroring OpenSSL's error codes ... and much more ;)

http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/

python-devel

- 2.4.3-27.el5_5.3

The Python programming language's interpreter can be extended with dynamically loaded extensions and can be embedded in other programs. This package contains the header files and libraries needed to do these types of tasks.

Install python-devel if you want to develop Python extensions. The python package will also need to be installed. You'll probably also want to install the python-docs package, which contains Python documentation.

http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

License: PSF - see LICENSE

python-elementtree

- 1.2.6-5

The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in memory. The element type can be described as a cross between a Python list and a Python dictionary.

This package also includes the C implementation, cElementTree-1.0.5-20051216.

License: PSF

python-iniparse

- 0.2.4-1.el5

iniparse is an INI parser for Python which is API compatible with the standard library's ConfigParser, preserves structure of INI files (order of sections & options, indentation, comments, and blank lines are preserved when data is updated), and is more convenient to use.

http://code.google.com/p/iniparse/

License: MIT

python-matplotlib

- 0.99.1.2-1.el5

Matplotlib is a pure python plotting library with the goal of making publication quality plots using a syntax familiar to matlab users. The library uses Numeric for handling large data sets and supports a variety of output backends

http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib

License: Python

python-pmw

- 1.3.2-5.el5

Pmw is a toolkit for building high-level compound widgets in Python using the Tkinter module. It consists of a set of base classes and a library of flexible and extensible megawidgets built on this foundation. These megawidgets include notebooks, comboboxes, selection widgets, paned widgets, scrolled widgets and dialog windows.

http://pmw.sourceforge.net/

python-sqlite

- 1.1.7-1.2.1

This packages allows you to use sqlite with python. sqlite is a simple database engine.

http://pysqlite.org/

python-urlgrabber

- 3.1.0-5.el5

A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber for python supporting HTTP, FTP and file locations. Features include keepalive, byte ranges, throttling, authentication, proxies and more.

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/

readline-devel

- 5.1-3.el5

The Readline library provides a set of functions that allow users to edit typed command lines. If you want to develop programs that will use the readline library, you need to have the readline-devel package installed. You also need to have the readline package installed.

http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

rpm-libs

- 4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1

This package contains the RPM shared libraries.

rpm-python

- 4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1

The rpm-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by RPM Package Manager libraries.

This package should be installed if you want to develop Python programs that will manipulate RPM packages and databases.

http://sos.108.redhat.com/

sos

- 1.7-9.49.el5

Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help support technicians and developers.

torque-devel

- 2.5.3-1carbon

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.

This build was configured with: --with-default-server=localhost --with-server-home=/var/spool/torque --with-pam=/lib64/security --disable-gui --enable-drmaa --with-tcl

This package includes the header files and static libraries necessary for developing programs which will use torque.

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

License: OpenPBS

yum-metadata-parser

- 1.1.2-3.el5.centos

Fast metadata parser for yum implemented in C.

zlib-devel

- 1.2.3-3

The zlib-devel package contains the header files and libraries needed to develop programs that use the zlib compression and decompression library.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

License: BSD

User Interface/Desktops

Found under: User Interface/Desktops

hicolor-icon-theme

- 0.9-2.1

Contains the basic directories and files needed for icon theme support.

http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme

redhat-menus

- 6.7.8-3.el5

This package contains the XML files that describe the menu layout for GNOME and KDE, and the .desktop files that define the names and icons of "subdirectories" in the menus.

http://www.redhat.com

License: XFree86

vnc

- 4.1.2-14.el5_5.4

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC server.

http://www.realvnc.com

System Environment/Shells

Found under: System Environment/Shells

bash

- 3.2-24.el5

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 3.2, which improves POSIX compliance over previous versions.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash

tcsh

- 6.14-17.el5_5.2

Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language like syntax.

http://www.tcsh.org/

License: distributable

Applications/Text

Found under: Applications/Text

aspell

- 0.60.3-7.1

GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible suggestions than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

http://aspell.net/

aspell-en

- 6.0-2.1

Provides the word list/dictionaries for the following: English, Canadian English, British English

http://aspell.net/

License: distributable

diffutils

- 2.8.1-15.2.3.el5

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html

docbook-dtds

- 1.0-30.1

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.

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/

License: Distributable

dos2unix

- 3.1-27.2.el5

Dos2unix converts DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format.

License: Freely distributable

ed

- 0.2-39.el5_2

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/

gawk

- 3.1.5-14.el5

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.

grep

- 2.5.1-55.el5

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/

less

- 436-2.el5

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.

http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/

m4

- 1.4.5-3.el5.1

A GNU implementation of the traditional UNIX macro processor. M4 is useful for writing text files which can be logically parsed, and is used by many programs as part of their build process. M4 has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. The autoconf program needs m4 for generating configure scripts, but not for running configure scripts.

Install m4 if you need a macro processor.

http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

openjade

- 1.3.2-27

OpenJade is an implementation of the ISO/IEC 10179:1996 standard DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language). OpenJade is based on James Clark's Jade implementation of DSSSL. OpenJade is a command-line application and a set of components. The DSSSL engine inputs an SGML or XML document and can output a variety of formats: XML, RTF, TeX, MIF (FrameMaker), SGML, or XML.

License: Distributable

opensp

- 1.5.2-4

OpenSP is an implementation of the ISO/IEC 8879:1986 standard SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). OpenSP is based on James Clark's SP implementation of SGML. OpenSP is a command-line application and a set of components, including a generic API.

http://openjade.sourceforge.net/

License: Distributable

poppler-utils

- 0.5.4-4.4.el5_5.14

Poppler, a PDF rendering library, it's a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

This utils package installs a number of command line tools for converting PDF files to a number of other formats.

sed

- 4.1.5-5.fc6

The sed (Stream EDitor) editor is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor. Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on the text and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified in a script file or from the command line.

sgml-common

- 0.6.3-18

The sgml-common package contains a collection of entities and DTDs that are useful for processing SGML, but that don't need to be included in multiple packages. Sgml-common also includes an up-to-date Open Catalog file.

http://www.iso.ch/cate/3524030.html

unix2dos

- 2.2-26.2.3.el5

A utility that converts plain text files in UNIX format to DOS format.

License: distributable

xml-common

- 0.6.3-18

The xml-common package contains a collection of entities and DTDs that are useful for processing XML, but that don't need to be included in multiple packages.

http://www.iso.ch/cate/3524030.html

Applications/Communications

Found under: Applications/Communications

mgetty

- 1.1.33-9.fc6

The mgetty package contains a "smart" getty which allows logins over a serial line (i.e., through a modem). If you're using a Class 2 or 2.0 modem, mgetty can receive faxes. If you also need to send faxes, you'll need to install the sendfax program.

If you'll be dialing in to your system using a modem, you should install the mgetty package. If you'd like to send faxes using mgetty and your modem, you'll need to install the mgetty-sendfax program. If you need a viewer for faxes, you'll also need to install the mgetty-viewfax package.

http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/index.html

User Interface/X

Found under: User Interface/X

bitstream-vera-fonts

- 1.10-7

The Vera fonts are high-quality Latin fonts donated by Bitstream. These fonts have been released under a liberal license, see the licensing FAQ in /usr/share/doc/bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10/COPYRIGHT.TXT or the online up-to-date version at http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ for details.

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

License: Redistributable, with restrictions

imake

- 1.0.2-3

Imake is a deprecated source code configuration and build system which has traditionally been supplied by and used to build the X Window System in X11R6 and previous releases. As of the X Window System X11R7 release, the X Window system has switched to using GNU autotools as the primary build system, and the Imake system is now deprecated, and should not be used by new software projects. Software developers are encouraged to migrate software to the GNU autotools system.

ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/release/

License: MIT/X11

urw-fonts

- 2.3-6.1.1

Free, good quality versions of the 35 standard PostScript(TM) fonts, donated under the GPL by URW++ Design and Development GmbH. The fonts.dir file font names match the original Adobe names of the fonts (e.g., Times, Helvetica, etc.).

Install the urw-fonts package if you need free versions of standard PostScript fonts.

vnc-server

- 4.1.2-14.el5_5.4

The VNC system allows you to access the same desktop from a wide variety of platforms. This package is a VNC server, allowing others to access the desktop on your machine.

http://www.realvnc.com

xorg-x11-apps

- 7.1-4.0.1.el5

A collection of common X Window System applications.

License: MIT/X11

xorg-x11-font-utils

- 7.1-2

X.Org X11 font utilities required for font installation, conversion, and generation.

License: MIT/X11

xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi

- 7.1-2.1.el5

A set of 100 dpi fonts used by the X window system.

License: Various licenses

xorg-x11-fonts-base

- 7.1-2.1.el5

This package provides the base fonts, and font encoding files that are required by the X Window System.

License: Various licenses

xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi

- 7.1-2.1.el5

Contains a set of 100dpi fonts for ISO-8859-1.

License: Various licenses

xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi

- 7.1-2.1.el5

Contains a set of 75dpi fonts for ISO-8859-1.

License: Various licenses

xorg-x11-server-utils

- 7.1-4.fc6

A collection of utilities used to tweak and query the runtime configuration of the X server.

License: MIT/X11

xorg-x11-utils

- 7.1-2.fc6

A collection of client utilities which can be used to query the X server for various information, view and select fonts, etc.

License: MIT/X11

xorg-x11-xauth

- 1.0.1-2.1

xauth is used to edit and display the authorization information used in connecting to an X server.

http://dickey.his.com/xterm

License: MIT/X11

xterm

- 215-8.el5_4.1

The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

License: MIT

Development/Tools

Found under: Development/Tools

autoconf

- 2.59-12

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

automake

- 1.9.6-2.3.el5

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

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.

http://sources.redhat.com/automake

binutils

- 2.17.50.0.6-14.el5

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).

http://sources.redhat.com/binutils

cmake

- 2.6.4-5.el5.2

CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex environments requiring system configuration, pre-processor generation, code generation, and template instantiation.

http://www.cmake.org

License: BSD

cvs

- 1.11.22-7.el5

CVS (Concurrent Versions 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.

http://www.cvshome.org/

desktop-file-utils

- 0.10-7

.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.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils

doxygen

- 1.4.7-1.1

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.

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html

elfutils

- 0.137-3.el5

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), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files).

https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/

elfutils-libelf

- 0.137-3.el5

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.

https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/

elfutils-libs

- 0.137-3.el5

The elfutils-libs package contains libraries which implement DWARF, ELF, and machine-specific ELF handling. These libraries are used by the programs in the elfutils package. The elfutils-devel package enables building other programs using these libraries.

https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/

flex

- 2.5.4a-41.fc6

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/

License: BSD

gettext

- 0.14.6-4.el5

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

jre

- 1.6.0_23-fcs

The Java Platform Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE) contains everything necessary to run applets and applications designed for the Java platform. This includes the Java virtual machine, plus the Java platform classes and supporting files.

The JRE is freely redistributable, per the terms of the included license.

http://java.sun.com/

libtool

- 1.5.22-7.el5_4

GNU Libtool is a set of shell scripts which automatically configure UNIX and UNIX-like systems to generically build shared libraries. Libtool provides a consistent, portable interface which simplifies the process of using shared libraries.

If you are developing programs which will use shared libraries, but do not use the rest of the GNU Autotools (such as GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake), you should install the libtool package.

The libtool package also includes all files needed to integrate the GNU Portable Library Tool (libtool) and the GNU Libtool Dynamic Module Loader (ltdl) into a package built using the GNU Autotools (including GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake).

This package includes a modification from the original GNU Libtool to allow support for multi-architecture systems, such as the AMD64 Opteron and the Intel 64-bit Xeon.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

make

- 3.81-3.el5

A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make allows users to build and install packages without any significant knowledge about the details of the build process. The details about how the program should be built are provided for make in the program's makefile.

The GNU make tool should be installed on your system because it is commonly used to simplify the process of installing programs.

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/

patch

- 2.5.4-29.2.3.el5

The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file).

Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading applications.

http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html

pkgconfig

- 0.21-2.el5

The pkgconfig tool determines compilation options. For each required library, it reads the configuration file and outputs the necessary compiler and linker flags.

python-tools

- 2.4.3-27.el5_5.3

The Python package includes several development tools that are used to build python programs.

http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

License: PSF - see LICENSE

rcs

- 5.7-30.1

The Revision Control System (RCS) is a system for managing multiple versions of files. RCS automates the storage, retrieval, logging, identification and merging of file revisions. RCS is useful for text files that are revised frequently (for example, programs, documentation, graphics, papers and form letters).

The rcs package should be installed if you need a system for managing different versions of files.

rpm-build

- 4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1

The rpm-build package contains the scripts and executable programs that are used to build packages using the RPM Package Manager.

http://subversion.tigris.org/

subversion

- 1.4.2-4.el5_3.1

Subversion is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes. Subversion only stores the differences between versions, instead of every complete file. Subversion is intended to be a compelling replacement for CVS.

License: BSD

sysfsutils

- 2.0.0-6

This package's purpose is to provide a set of utilities for interfacing with sysfs.

Development/Kernel

Found under: Development/Kernel

lustre-client-modules

- 1.8.3-2.6.18_164.11.1.el5_lustre.1.8.3

Lustre file system, server and network drivers for Linux 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.

http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/index.xml

Applications/Publishing

Found under: Applications/Publishing

a2ps

- 4.13b-57.2.el5

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.

http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/

evince

- 0.6.0-13.el5

evince is a GNOME-based document viewer.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

ghostscript

- 8.15.2-9.12.el5_5

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.

http://www.cups.org/espgs/

ghostscript-fonts

- 5.50-13.1.1

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.

http://gnu-gs.sourceforge.net/

groff

- 1.18.1.1-11.1

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.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/

gv

- 3.7.1-1.el5

GNU gv is a user interface for the Ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter. Gv can display PostScript and PDF documents on an X Window System.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/

latex2html

- 2002.2.1-6

LATEX2HTML is a convertor written in Perl that converts LATEX documents to HTML. This way e.g. scientific papers - primarily typeset for printing - can be put on the Web for online viewing.

LATEX2HTML does also a good job in rapid web site deployment. These pages are generated from a single LATEX source.

http://www.latex2html.org/

License: Free To Use But Restricted (See LICENSE)

neon

- 0.25.5-10.el5_4.1

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface; providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

http://www.webdav.org/neon/

paps

- 0.6.6-19.el5

paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango.

http://paps.sourceforge.net/

psutils

- 1.17-26.1

This archive contains some utilities for manipulating PostScript documents. Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing.

License: distributable

t1lib

- 5.1.1-7.el5

T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11.

AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible.

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/graphics

tetex

- 3.0-33.8.el5_5.6

TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems. TeX takes a text file and a set of formatting commands as input and creates a typesetter-independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file as output. Usually, TeX is used in conjunction with a higher level formatting package like LaTeX or PlainTeX, since TeX by itself is not very user-friendly. The output format needn't to be DVI, but also PDF, when using pdflatex or similar tools.

Install tetex if you want to use the TeX text formatting system. Consider to install tetex-latex (a higher level formatting package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX). Unless you are an expert at using TeX, you should also install the tetex-doc package, which includes the documentation for TeX.

License: distributable

tetex-dvips

- 3.0-33.8.el5_5.6

Dvips converts .dvi files produced by the TeX text formatting system (or by another processor like GFtoDVI) to PostScript(TM) format. Normally the PostScript file is sent directly to your printer.

If you are installing tetex, so that you can use the TeX text formatting system without direct PDF compilation, consider to install tetex-dvips. In addition, you will need to install tetex-afm (for converting PostScript font description files), tetex-latex (a higher level formatting package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX), and tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi files in X). If you are installing TeX and you are not an expert at it, you should also install the tetex-doc package, which contains documentation for the TeX system.

License: distributable

tetex-fonts

- 3.0-33.8.el5_5.6

The tetex-fonts package contains fonts used by both the Xdvi previewer and the TeX text formatting system.

You will need to install tetex-fonts if you wish to use either tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi files in X) or the tetex package (the core of the TeX text formatting system).

License: distributable

tetex-latex

- 3.0-33.8.el5_5.6

LaTeX is a front end for the TeX text formatting system. Easier to use than TeX. LaTeX is essentially a set of TeX macros which provide convenient, predefined document formats for users. It also allows to compile LaTeX files directly to PDF format.

If you are installing tetex, so that you can use the TeX text formatting system, consider to install tetex-latex. If you are not an expert at TeX, you should also install the tetex-doc package, which contains documentation for TeX.

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

License: distributable

texinfo

- 4.8-14.el5

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation.

Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.

texinfo-tex

- 4.8-14.el5

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation.

The texinfo-tex package provides tools to format Texinfo documents for printing using TeX.

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

xpdf

- 3.02-17.el5

Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf is a small and efficient program which uses standard X fonts.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Applications/Productivity

Found under: Applications/Productivity

lcms

- 1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2

LittleCMS intends to be a small-footprint, speed optimized color management engine in open source form.

http://www.littlecms.com/

Applications/Shells

Found under: Applications/Shells

ksh

- 20100202-1.el5_5.1

KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of AT&T Bell Laboratories. KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).

http://www.kornshell.com/

License: Common Public License Version 1.0

Utilities/System

Found under: Utilities/System

lustre-client

- 1.8.3-2.6.18_164.11.1.el5_lustre.1.8.3

Userspace tools and files for the Lustre file system.

http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/index.xml

Applications/Internet

Found under: Applications/Internet

curl

- 7.15.5-9.el5

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.

http://curl.haxx.se/

License: MIT

finger

- 0.17-32.2.1.1

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.

License: BSD

firefox

- 3.6.13-2.el5.centos

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

ftp

- 0.17-35.el5

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.

License: BSD

ganglia

- 3.0.7-2

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format.

http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

ganglia-gmond

- 3.0.7-2

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format.

This gmond daemon provides the ganglia service within a single cluster or Multicast domain.

http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

htmlview

- 4.0.0-2.el5

htmlview and launchmail are tools for launching Preferred Applications. This package exists for compatibility reasons and is likely to be removed later when equivalent functionality is implemented elsewhere.

License: Public Domain

jwhois

- 3.2.3-8.el5

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

http://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/

lftp

- 3.7.11-4.el5_5.3

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 designed with reliability in mind.

http://lftp.yar.ru/

mailx

- 8.1.1-44.2.2

The mailx package installs the /bin/mail program, which is used to send quick email messages (i.e., without opening up a full-featured mail user agent). Mail is often used in shell scripts.

You should install mailx because of its quick email sending ability, which is especially useful if you're planning on writing any shell scripts.

License: BSD

mtr

- 0.71-3.1

Mtr is a network diagnostic tool that combines ping and traceroute into one program. Mtr provides two interfaces: an ncurses interface, useful for using Mtr from a telnet session; and a GTK+ interface for X (provided in the mtr-gtk package).

http://www.BitWizard.nl/mtr

nc

- 1.84-10.fc6

The nc package contains Netcat (the program is actually nc), a simple utility for reading and writing data across network connections, using the TCP or UDP protocols. Netcat is intended to be a reliable back-end tool which can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. Netcat is also a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create many different connections and has many built-in capabilities.

You may want to install the netcat package if you are administering a network and you'd like to use its debugging and network exploration capabilities.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/

openldap-clients

- 2.3.43-12.el5_5.3

OpenLDAP is an open-source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services (usually phone book style information, but other information is possible) over the Internet, similar to the way DNS (Domain Name System) information is propagated over the Internet. The openldap-clients package contains the client programs needed for accessing and modifying OpenLDAP directories.

http://www.openldap.org/

License: OpenLDAP

openssh

- 4.3p2-41.el5_5.1

SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

OpenSSH is OpenBSD's version of the last free version of SSH, bringing it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing all patented algorithms to separate libraries.

This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server. To make this package useful, you should also install openssh-clients, openssh-server, or both.

http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

License: BSD

openssh-clients

- 4.3p2-41.el5_5.1

OpenSSH is a free version of SSH (Secure SHell), a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. This package includes the clients necessary to make encrypted connections to SSH servers. You'll also need to install the openssh package on OpenSSH clients.

http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

License: BSD

rsh

- 0.17-40.el5

The rsh package contains a set of programs which allow users to run commands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). All three of these commands use rhosts style authentication. This package contains the clients needed for all of these services. The rsh package should be installed to enable remote access to other machines.

License: BSD

rsync

- 2.6.8-3.1

Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into sync very quickly. Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences in the files over the network instead of sending the complete files. Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command. A technical report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this package.

stunnel

- 4.15-2.el5.1

Stunnel is a socket wrapper which can provide SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to ordinary applications. For example, it can be used in conjunction with imapd to create an SSL secure IMAP server.

http://stunnel.mirt.net/

talk

- 0.17-29.2.2

The talk package provides client programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different systems. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user.

Install talk if you'd like to use talk for chatting with users on different systems.

License: BSD

tcpdump

- 3.9.4-15.el5

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.

Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.

http://www.tcpdump.org

License: BSD

telnet

- 0.17-39.el5

Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The telnet package provides a command line telnet client.

License: BSD

traceroute

- 2.0.1-5.el5

The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute displays the IP number and host name (if possible) of the machines along the route taken by the packets. Traceroute is used as a network debugging tool. If you're having network connectivity problems, traceroute will show you where the trouble is coming from along the route.

Install traceroute if you need a tool for diagnosing network connectivity problems.

http://dmitry.butskoy.name/traceroute

wget

- 1.11.4-2.el5_4.1

GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility which can use either the HTTP or FTP protocols. Wget features include the ability to work in the background while you are logged out, recursive retrieval of directories, file name wildcard matching, remote file timestamp storage and comparison, use of Rest with FTP servers and Range with HTTP servers to retrieve files over slow or unstable connections, support for Proxy servers, and configurability.

http://wget.sunsite.dk/

xulrunner

- 1.9.2.13-3.el5

XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.

http://developer.mozilla.org/En/XULRunner

Applications/Databases

Found under: Applications/Databases

postgresql-libs

- 8.1.22-1.el5_5.1

The postgresql-libs package provides the essential shared libraries for any PostgreSQL client program or interface. You will need to install this package to use any other PostgreSQL package or any clients that need to connect to a PostgreSQL server.

http://www.postgresql.org/

License: BSD

sqlite

- 3.3.6-5

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use. Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and flexibility of an SQL database without the administrative hassles of supporting a separate database server. Version 2 and version 3 binaries are named to permit each to be installed on a single host

http://www.sqlite.org/

License: Public Domain

Public Keys

Found under: Public Keys

gpg-pubkey

- e8562897-459f07a4

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License: pubkey

- 217521f6-45e8a532

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License: pubkey

- 37017186-45761324

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Documentation

Found under: Documentation

Deployment_Guide-en-US

- 5.2-11.el5.centos

This Deployment Guide documents relevant information regarding the deployment, configuration and administration of Enterprise Linux 5.2.

http://www.centos.org/docs

License: OPL + Restrictions

man-pages

- 2.39-15.el5_4

A large collection of man pages (documentation) from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP).

License: distributable

specspo

- 13-1.el5.centos

The specspo package contains the portable object catalogues used to internationalize CentOS packages.

torque-docs

- 2.5.3-1carbon

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.

This build was configured with: --with-default-server=localhost --with-server-home=/var/spool/torque --with-pam=/lib64/security --disable-gui --enable-drmaa --with-tcl

This package holds the documentation files.

http://search.cpan.org/~lds/IO-Socket-Multicast-1.05/Multicast.pm

License: OpenPBS

Development/Libraries/Perl

Found under: Development/Libraries/Perl

perl-IO-Socket-Multicast

- 1.05-47.6

The IO::Socket::Multicast module subclasses IO::Socket::INET to enable you to manipulate multicast groups. With this module (and an operating system that supports multicasting), you will be able to receive incoming multicast transmissions and generate your own outgoing multicast packets.

Authors:

-------- Lincoln Stein <[email protected]>

Applications/Archiving

Found under: Applications/Archiving

cpio

- 2.6-23.el5_4.1

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/

dump

- 0.4b41-4.el5

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.

http://dump.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

pax

- 3.4-2.el5_4

'pax' is the POSIX standard archive tool. It supports the two most common forms of standard Unix archive (backup) files - CPIO and TAR.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/pax/

License: BSD

rmt

- 0.4b41-4.el5

The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for restoring files from a backup), and tar (an archiving program).

http://dump.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

tar

- 1.15.1-30.el5

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full backups.

If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install the rmt package.

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

unzip

- 5.52-3.el5

The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)'s PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the programs' options and default behaviors do differ in some respects.

Install the unzip package if you need to list, test or extract files from a zip archive.

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html

License: BSD

zip

- 2.31-2.el5

The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems).

Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program.

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html

License: distributable

Applications/Editors

Found under: Applications/Editors

emacs

- 21.4-20.el5

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 provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

emacs-common

- 21.4-20.el5

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 contains all the common files needed by emacs or emacs-nox.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

nano

- 1.3.12-1.1

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

http://www.nano-editor.org

nedit

- 5.5-16.el5, 5.5-21.el5

NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System. NEdit is very easy to use, especially if you are familiar with the Macintosh(TM) or Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) style of interface.

http://nedit.org

vim-common

- 7.0.109-6.el5

VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-common package contains files which every VIM binary will need in order to run.

If you are installing vim-enhanced or vim-X11, you'll also need to install the vim-common package.

License: freeware

vim-enhanced

- 7.0.109-6.el5

VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-enhanced package contains a version of VIM with extra, recently introduced features like Python and Perl interpreters.

Install the vim-enhanced package if you'd like to use a version of the VIM editor which includes recently added enhancements like interpreters for the Python and Perl scripting languages. You'll also need to install the vim-common package.

License: freeware

vim-minimal

- 7.0.109-6.el5

VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. The vim-minimal package includes a minimal version of VIM, which is installed into /bin/vi for use when only the root partition is present. NOTE: The online help is only available when the vim-common package is installed.

License: freeware

System Environment/Libraries

Found under: System Environment/Libraries

agg

- 2.4-2.1

A High Quality Rendering Engine for C++

http://www.antigrain.com

License: MIT

alsa-lib

- 1.0.17-1.el5

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system.

This package includes the ALSA runtime libraries to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality as well as support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

http://www.alsa-project.org/

apr

- 1.2.7-11.el5_5.3

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.

http://apr.apache.org/

License: Apache Software License

apr-util

- 1.2.7-11.el5_5.2

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines. This library contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more.

http://apr.apache.org/

License: Apache Software License 2.0

atk

- 1.12.2-1.fc6

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.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

atlas

- 3.8.3-1.el5

The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.

The performance improvements in ATLAS are obtained largely via compile-time optimizations and tend to be specific to a given hardware configuration. In order to package ATLAS for Fedora some compromises are necessary so that good performance can be obtained on a variety of hardware. This set of ATLAS binary packages is therefore not necessarily optimal for any specific hardware configuration. However, the source package can be used to compile customized ATLAS packages; see the documentation for information.

http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

audiofile

- 0.2.6-5

The Audio File library is an implementation of the Audio File Library from SGI, 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.

beecrypt

- 4.1.2-10.1.1

Beecrypt is a general-purpose cryptography library.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/beecrypt

bluez-libs

- 3.7-1.1

Libraries for use in Bluetooth applications.

The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A.

http://www.bluez.org/

bzip2-libs

- 1.0.3-6.el5_5

Libraries for applications using the bzip2 compression format.

http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

License: BSD

cairo

- 1.2.4-5.el5

Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, OpenGL (via glitz), in-memory image buffers, and image files (PDF, PostScript, and SVG). Cairo is designed to produce identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension or OpenGL).

http://cairographics.org

ccid

- 1.3.8-1.el5

Generic USB CCID (Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices) driver.

http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html

CodeMeter64

- 4.0-500

This package provides support for the USB CodeMeter-Stick (from www.wibu.com). The package contain all shared object and the CodeMeter-Server the CodeMeter- GuiClient and the hotplugging script. . The CodeMeter-Server (CodeMeterLin) himself provide the access to the CmStick. The CodeMeter Control Center is only a client for the CodeMeter-Server who provide a password entry dialog.

http://www.codemeter.com

License: commecial, distributable

compat-dapl

- 2.0.25-2.el5_5.1

These are the dapl-1.2 libraries provided for backward compatibility with existing programs.

compat-dapl-devel

- 2.0.25-2.el5_5.1

Header files for the dapl-1.2 compat libdat and libdapl library.

http://www.sleepycat.com/

compat-db

- 4.2.52-5.1

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. This package contains various versions of Berkeley DB which were included in previous releases of Red Hat Linux.

License: BSDish

compat-libf2c-34

- 3.4.6-4

This package contains Fortran 77 shared library which is needed to run Fortran 77 dynamically linked programs.

compat-libstdc++-33

- 3.2.3-61

The compat-libstdc++ package contains compatibility standard C++ library from GCC 3.3.4.

http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/CoolKey

coolkey

- 1.1.0-14.el5

Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and CAC products.

cracklib

- 2.8.9-3.3

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.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/

License: Artistic

cracklib-dicts

- 2.8.9-3.3

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.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/

License: Artistic

cups-libs

- 1.3.7-18.el5_5.8

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIXÂ® 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.

http://www.cups.org/

cyrus-sasl

- 2.1.22-5.el5_4.3

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.

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html

License: Freely Distributable

cyrus-sasl-lib

- 2.1.22-5.el5_4.3

The cyrus-sasl-lib package contains shared libraries which are needed by applications which use the Cyrus SASL library.

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html

License: Freely Distributable

cyrus-sasl-plain

- 2.1.22-5.el5_4.3

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

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html

License: Freely Distributable

dapl

- 2.0.25-2.el5_5.1

libdat and libdapl provide a userspace implementation of the DAT 1.2 and 2.0 API that is built to natively support InfiniBand/iWARP network technology.

dapl-devel

- 2.0.25-2.el5_5.1

Header files for libdat and libdapl library.

http://www.sleepycat.com/

db4

- 4.3.29-10.el5_5.2

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.

dbus

- 1.1.2-14.el5

D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the systemwide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.

dbus-glib

- 0.73-10.el5_5

D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop.

dbus-python

- 0.70-9.el5_4

D-Bus python bindings for use with python programs.

expat

- 1.95.8-8.3.el5_5.3

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.

http://www.libexpat.org/

License: BSD

fftw2

- 2.1.5-15.el5

FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of arbitrary input size. We believe that FFTW, which is free software, should become the FFT library of choice for most applications. Our benchmarks, performed on on a variety of platforms, show that FFTW's performance is typically superior to that of other publicly available FFT software.

fftw3

- 3.2.2-3.el5

FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of arbitrary input size.

http://people.redhat.com/tmraz/fipscheck

fipscheck

- 1.2.0-1.el5

FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules. The package also provides helper binaries for creation and verification of the HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.

License: BSD

fipscheck-lib

- 1.2.0-1.el5

This package contains the FIPSCheck library.

http://people.redhat.com/tmraz/fipscheck

License: BSD

fontconfig

- 2.4.1-7.el5

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

http://fontconfig.org

License: MIT

freeglut

- 2.4.0-7.1.el5

freeglut is a completely open source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library with an OSI approved free software license. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, universally available and highly portable.

freeglut allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.

http://freeglut.sourceforge.net

License: MIT

freetype

- 2.2.1-28.el5_5.1

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font 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.

http://www.freetype.org

gd

- 2.0.33-9.4.el5_4.2

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.

http://www.boutell.com/gd/

License: BSD-style

gdbm

- 1.8.0-26.2.1

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/

giflib

- 4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1

The giflib package contains a shared library of functions for loading and saving GIF format image files. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif, the library which supported uncompressed GIFs while the Unisys LZW patent was in effect.

Install the giflib package if you need to write programs that use GIF files. You should also install the giflib-utils package if you need some simple utilities to manipulate GIFs.

http://www.sf.net/projects/libungif/

License: MIT

glib2

- 2.12.3-4.el5_3.1

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 an object system.

This package provides version 2 of GLib.

http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

glibc

- 2.5-49.el5_5.7

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.

glpk

- 4.20-2.el5

The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a callable library.

GLPK supports the GNU MathProg language, which is a subset of the AMPL language.

The GLPK package includes the following main components:

* Revised simplex method. * Primal-dual interior point method. * Branch-and-bound method. * Translator for GNU MathProg. * Application program interface (API). * Stand-alone LP/MIP solver.

gmp

- 4.1.4-10.el5

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.

http://www.swox.com/gmp/

gnome-keyring

- 0.6.0-1.fc6

gnome-keyring manages passwords and other types of secrets for the user, storing them encrypted with a main password. Applications can use the gnome-keyring library to integrate with the keyring.

gnome-mime-data

- 2.4.2-3.1

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

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

gnome-vfs2

- 2.16.2-6.el5_5.1

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.

http://www.gnome.org/

gnutls

- 1.4.1-3.el5_4.8

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implements the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group.

http://www.gnutls.org/

gsl

- 1.13-3.el5

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

gtk2

- 2.10.4-21.el5_5.6

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.

http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal

hal

- 0.5.8.1-59.el5

HAL is daemon for collection and maintaining information from several sources about the hardware on the system. It provides a live device list through D-BUS.

hdf5

- 1.6.10-1.el5

HDF5 is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. HDF5 can store two primary objects: datasets and groups. A dataset is essentially a multidimensional array of data elements, and a group is a structure for organizing objects in an HDF5 file. Using these two basic objects, one can create and store almost any kind of scientific data structure, such as images, arrays of vectors, and structured and unstructured grids. You can also mix and match them in HDF5 files according to your needs.

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

License: BSD

hesiod

- 3.1.0-8

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.

License: MIT

infiniband-diags

- 1.5.3-1.el5

This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to diagnose an IB subnet.

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/

krb5-libs

- 1.6.1-36.el5_5.6

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.

License: MIT, freely distributable.

libacl

- 2.2.39-6.el5

This package contains the libacl.so dynamic library which contains the POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17 functions for manipulating access control lists.

libaio

- 0.3.106-5

The Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility ("async I/O", or "aio") has a richer API and capability set than the simple POSIX async I/O facility. This library, libaio, provides the Linux-native API for async I/O. The POSIX async I/O facility requires this library in order to provide kernel-accelerated async I/O capabilities, as do applications which require the Linux-native async I/O API.

libart_lgpl

- 2.3.17-4

Graphics routines used by the GnomeCanvas widget and some other applications. libart renders vector paths and the like.

http://www.gnome.org/

libattr

- 2.4.32-1.1

This package contains the libattr.so dynamic library which contains the extended attribute system calls and library functions.

http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/libdaemon

libbonobo

- 2.16.0-1.1.el5_5.1

Bonobo is a component system based on CORBA, used by the GNOME desktop.

http://ftp.gnome.org

libbonoboui

- 2.16.0-1.fc6

Bonobo is a component system based on CORBA, used by the GNOME desktop. libbonoboui contains the user interface related components that come with Bonobo.

http://ftp.gnome.org

libcap

- 1.10-26

libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.

libcroco

- 0.6.1-2.1

CSS2 parsing and manipulation library for GNOME

libdaemon

- 0.10-5.el5

libdaemon is a lightweight C library which eases the writing of UNIX daemons. It consists of the following parts:

A wrapper around fork() which does the correct daemonization procedure of a process
A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to Syslog or STDERR
An API for writing PID files
An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with select() or poll()
An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected to syslog.

libdmx

- 1.0.2-3.1

X.Org X11 libdmx runtime library

http://dri.sourceforge.net

License: MIT/X11

libdrm

- 2.0.2-1.1

libdrm Direct Rendering Manager runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libevent

- 1.4.13-1

The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch() and can then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the event loop.

http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

License: BSD

libfontenc

- 1.0.2-2.2.el5

X.Org X11 libfontenc runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libFS

- 1.0.0-3.1

X.Org X11 libFS runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libgcc

- 4.1.2-48.el5

This package contains GCC shared support library which is needed e.g. for exception handling support.

libgcrypt

- 1.4.4-5.el5

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.

libgfortran

- 4.1.2-48.el5

This package contains Fortran 95 shared library which is needed to run Fortran 95 dynamically linked programs.

libglade2

- 2.6.0-2

Libglade is a small library that allows a program to load its user interface from am XML description at runtime. Libglade uses the XML file format used by the GLADE user interface builder GLADE, so libglade acts as an alternative to GLADE's code generation approach. Libglade also provides a simple interface for connecting handlers to the various signals in the interface (on platforms where the gmodule library works correctly, it is possible to connect all the handlers with a single function call). Once the interface has been instantiated, libglade gives no overhead, so other than the short initial interface loading time, there is no performance tradeoff.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnomeprintui/

libgnome

- 2.16.0-6.el5

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 libgnome package includes non-GUI-related libraries that are needed to run GNOME. The libgnomeui package contains X11-dependent GNOME library features.

ftp://ftp.gnome.org

libgnomecanvas

- 2.14.0-4.1

The canvas widget allows you to create custom displays using stock items such as circles, lines, text, and so on. It was originally a port of the Tk canvas widget but has evolved quite a bit over time.

http://www.gnome.org/

libgnomeprintui22

- 2.12.1-6

The libgnomeprintui package contains GTK+ widgets related to printing.

libgnomeui

- 2.16.0-5.el5

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 libgnomeui package includes GUI-related libraries that are needed to run GNOME. (The libgnome package includes the library features that don\'t use the X Window System.)

ftp://ftp.gnome.org

libgomp

- 4.4.0-6.el5

This package contains GCC shared support library which is needed for OpenMP v3.0 support.

ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/

libgpg-error

- 1.4-2

This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and possibly more in the future.

libgsf

- 1.14.1-6.1

A library for reading and writing structured files (eg MS OLE and Zip)

libgssapi

- 0.10-2

This library exports a gssapi interface, but doesn't implement any gssapi mechanisms itself; instead it calls gssapi routines in other libraries, depending on the mechanism.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/

libhugetlbfs

- 1.3-7.el5

The libhugetlbfs library interacts with the Linux hugetlbfs to make large pages available to applications in a transparent manner.

http://libhugetlbfs.sourceforge.net

libibcm

- 1.0.5-1.el5

libibcm provides a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment library.

libibmad

- 1.3.3-1.el5

libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic IB functions.

http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/

libibumad

- 1.3.3-1.el5

libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic and management tools, including OpenSM.

http://openfabrics.org

libibverbs

- 1.1.3-2.el5

libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use InfiniBand/iWARP "verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification. This includes direct hardware access for fast path operations.

For this library to be useful, a device-specific plug-in module should also be installed.

libibverbs-devel

- 1.1.3-2.el5

Development for the libibverbs verbs library.

http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/

libICE

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libICE runtime library

http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn

License: MIT/X11

libIDL

- 0.8.7-1.fc6

libIDL is a library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language). It can be used for both COM-style and CORBA-style IDL.

libidn

- 0.6.5-1.1

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.

libjpeg

- 6b-37

The libjpeg package contains a library of functions for manipulating JPEG images, as well as simple client programs for accessing the libjpeg functions. Libjpeg client programs include cjpeg, djpeg, jpegtran, rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom. Cjpeg compresses an image file into JPEG format. Djpeg decompresses a JPEG file into a regular image file. Jpegtran can perform various useful transformations on JPEG files. Rdjpgcom displays any text comments included in a JPEG file. Wrjpgcom inserts text comments into a JPEG file.

http://www.ijg.org/

License: distributable

libmthca

- 1.0.5-6.el5

Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access library. This driver supports Mellanox based Single Data Rate and Dual Data Rate cards, including those from Cisco, Topspin, and Voltaire. It does not support the Connect-X architecture based Quad Data Rate cards (libmlx4 handles that hardware).

http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/

libnotify

- 0.4.2-6.el5

libnotify is an implementation of the freedesktop.org desktop notification specification.

libpaper

- 1.1.21-1.el5.1

The paper library and accompanying files are intended to provide a simple way for applications to take actions based on a system- or user-specified paper size. This release is quite minimal, its purpose being to provide really basic functions (obtaining the system paper name and getting the height and width of a given kind of paper) that applications can immediately integrate.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpaper.html

libpng

- 1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm.

Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

License: zlib

librdmacm

- 1.0.10-1.el5

librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Managment API.

librsvg2

- 2.16.1-1.el5

An SVG library based on cairo.

libselinux

- 1.33.4-5.5.el5

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the LinuxÂ® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type EnforcementÂ®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.

License: Public domain (uncopyrighted)

libsemanage

- 1.9.1-4.4.el5

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the LinuxÂ® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type EnforcementÂ®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

libsemanage provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by checkpolicy (the policy compiler) and similar tools, as well as by programs like load_policy that need to perform specific transformations on binary policies such as customizing policy boolean settings.

libsepol

- 1.15.2-3.el5

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the LinuxÂ® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type EnforcementÂ®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

libsepol provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by checkpolicy (the policy compiler) and similar tools, as well as by programs like load_policy that need to perform specific transformations on binary policies such as customizing policy boolean settings.

libSM

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libSM runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libstdc++

- 4.1.2-48.el5

The libstdc++ package contains a rewritten standard compliant GCC Standard C++ Library.

ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/

libsysfs

- 2.0.0-6

Library used in handling linux kernel sysfs mounts and their various files.

libtermcap

- 2.0.8-46.1

The libtermcap package contains a basic system library needed to access the termcap database. The termcap library supports easy access to the termcap database, so that programs can output character-based displays in a terminal-independent manner.

libtiff

- 3.8.2-7.el5_5.5

The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large.

The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files.

http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/

License: libtiff

libtool-ltdl

- 1.5.22-7.el5_4

The libtool-ltdl package contains the GNU Libtool Dynamic Module Loader, a library that provides a consistent, portable interface which simplifies the process of using dynamic modules.

These runtime libraries are needed by programs that link directly to the system-installed ltdl libraries; they are not needed by software built using the rest of the GNU Autotools (including GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake).

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

libusb

- 0.1.12-5.1

This package provides a way for applications to access USB devices.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/

libutempter

- 1.1.4-4.el5

This library provides interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.

ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/utempter

libvolume_id

- 095-14.21.el5_5.1

This package contains the libvolume_id.so dynamic library, which contains functions to get volume ids.

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/

libwmf

- 0.2.8.4-10.2

A library for reading and converting Windows MetaFile vector graphics (WMF)

libwnck

- 2.16.0-4.fc6

libwnck (pronounced "libwink") is used to implement pagers, tasklists, and other such things. It allows applications to monitor information about open windows, workspaces, their names/icons, and so forth.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libwnck/

libX11

- 1.0.3-11.el5

X.Org X11 libX11 runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXau

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXau runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXaw

- 1.0.2-8.1

X.Org X11 libXaw runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXcursor

- 1.1.7-1.1

X.Org X11 libXcursor runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXdmcp

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXdmcp runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXext

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXext runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXfixes

- 4.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXfixes runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXfont

- 1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXfontcache

- 1.0.2-3.1

X.Org X11 libXfontcache runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXft

- 2.1.10-1.1

X.Org X11 libXft runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXi

- 1.0.1-4.el5_4

X.Org X11 libXi runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXinerama

- 1.0.1-2.1

X.Org X11 libXinerama runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libxkbfile

- 1.0.3-3.1

X.Org X11 libxkbfile runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXmu

- 1.0.2-5

X.Org X11 libXmu/libXmuu runtime libraries

License: MIT/X11

libXp

- 1.0.0-8.1.el5

X.Org X11 libXp runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXpm

- 3.5.5-3

X.Org X11 libXpm runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXrandr

- 1.1.1-3.3

X.Org X11 libXrandr runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXrender

- 0.9.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXrender runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXres

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXres runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXScrnSaver

- 1.1.0-3.1

X.Org X11 libXss runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXt

- 1.0.2-3.2.el5

X.Org X11 libXt runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXTrap

- 1.0.0-3.1

X.Org X11 libXTrap runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXtst

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXtst runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXv

- 1.0.1-4.1

X.Org X11 libXv runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXxf86dga

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXxf86dga runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXxf86misc

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXxf86misc runtime library

License: MIT/X11

libXxf86vm

- 1.0.1-3.1

X.Org X11 libXxf86vm runtime library

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooCrypto

License: MIT/X11

m2crypto

- 0.16-6.el5.6

This package allows you to call OpenSSL functions from python scripts.

License: BSDish

mesa-libGL

- 6.5.1-7.8.el5

Mesa libGL runtime libraries and DRI drivers.

http://www.mesa3d.org

License: MIT/X11

mesa-libGLU

- 6.5.1-7.8.el5

Mesa libGLU runtime library

http://www.mesa3d.org

License: MIT/X11

ncurses

- 5.5-24.20060715

The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html

License: distributable

netpbm

- 10.35.58-8.el5

The netpbm package contains a library of functions which support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps), .ppm (portable pixmaps) and others.

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/

newt

- 0.52.2-15.el5

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a /usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library.

nfs-utils-lib

- 1.0.8-7.6.el5

Support libraries that are needed by the commands and daemons the nfs-utils rpm.

http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/

notification-daemon

- 0.3.5-9.el5

notification-daemon is the server implementation of the freedesktop.org desktop notification specification.

http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/

nspr

- 4.8.6-1.el5_5

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/

nss

- 3.12.8-1.el5.centos

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

nss_db

- 2.2-35.4.el5_5

Nss_db is a set of C library extensions which allow Berkeley Databases to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS). Install nss_db if your flat name service files are too large and lookups are slow.

http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/

numactl-devel

- 0.9.8-11.el5

Provides development headers for numa library calls

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/

openmotif

- 2.3.1-5.el5_5.1

This is the Open Motif 2.3.1 runtime environment. It includes the Motif shared libraries, needed to run applications which are dynamically linked against Motif, and the Motif Window Manager "mwm".

http://www.motifzone.net/

License: Open Group Public License

opensm-libs

- 3.3.3-1.el5

Shared libraries for Infiniband user space access

http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/

openssl

- 0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

http://www.openssl.org/

License: BSDish

pango

- 1.14.9-8.el5.centos

Pango is a system for layout and rendering of internationalized text.

http://www.pango.org

pcre

- 6.6-2.el5_1.7

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.

http://www.pcre.org/

License: BSD

pcsc-lite-libs

- 1.4.4-4.el5_5

PC/SC Lite libraries.

License: BSD

pkinit-nss

- 0.7.6-1.el5

The pkinit-nss package implements the PKINIT standard for MIT Kerberos. It does so using the Mozilla NSS library.

http://people.redhat.com/~nalin/pkinit-nss/

qhull

- 2003.1-8.el5

Qhull is a general dimension convex hull program that reads a set of points from stdin, and outputs the smallest convex set that contains the points to stdout. It also generates Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi diagrams, furthest-site Voronoi diagrams, and halfspace intersections about a point.

http://www.qhull.org

License: Distributable

readline

- 5.1-3.el5

The Readline library provides a set of functions that allow users to edit command lines. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions for maintaining a list of previously-entered command lines for recalling or editing those lines, and for performing csh-like history expansion on previous commands.

http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

rhpl

- 0.194.1-1

The rhpl package contains Python code used by programs in Red Hat Linux.

SDL

- 1.2.10-8.el5

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.

http://www.libsdl.org/

shared-mime-info

- 0.19-5.el5

This is the freedesktop.org shared MIME info database.

Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types of files. Frequently, it is necessary to work out the correct MIME type for a file. This is generally done by examining the file's name or contents, and looking up the correct MIME type in a database.

http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info

slang

- 2.0.6-4.el5

S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang's syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to.

http://www.s-lang.org/

startup-notification

- 0.8-4.1

This package contains libstartup-notification which implements a startup notification protocol. Using this protocol a desktop environment can track the launch of an application and provide feedback such as a busy cursor, among other features.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/

suitesparse

- 3.1.0-1.el5

suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving sparse matrices. The package includes the following libraries: AMD approximate minimum degree ordering BTF permutation to block triangular form (beta) CAMD constrained approximate minimum degree ordering COLAMD column approximate minimum degree ordering CCOLAMD constrained column approximate minimum degree ordering CHOLMOD sparse Cholesky factorization CSparse a concise sparse matrix package CXSparse CSparse extended: complex matrix, int and long int support KLU sparse LU factorization, primarily for circuit simulation LDL a simple LDL' factorization UMFPACK sparse LU factorization UFconfig configuration file for all the above packages.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse

words

- 3.0-9.1

The words file is a dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory. Some programs use this database of words to check spelling. Password checkers use it to look for bad passwords.

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

License: public domain

Xaw3d

- 1.5E-10.1

Xaw3d is an enhanced version of the MIT Athena Widget set for the X Window System. Xaw3d adds a three-dimensional look to applications with minimal or no source code changes.

You should install Xaw3d if you are using applications which incorporate the MIT Athena widget set and you'd like to incorporate a 3D look into those applications.

License: MIT

xbae

- 4.60.4-8.el5

XbaeMatrix is a free Motif(R) table widget (also compatible with the free LessTif) which presents an editable array of string data to the user in a scrollable table similar to a spreadsheet. The rows and columns of the Matrix may optionally be labelled. A number of "fixed" and "trailing fixed" rows or columns may be specified.

The XbaeCaption widget is a simple Motif manager widget that associates a label with a child.

In addition the XbaeInput widget is being distributed, a text input field that provides generic customised data entry and formatting for strings.

http://xbae.sourceforge.net/

zlib

- 1.2.3-3

Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression library which is used by many different programs.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

License: BSD

System Environment/Kernel

Found under: System Environment/Kernel

kernel

- 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5, 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5

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

http://www.kernel.org/

kernel-devel

- 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5, 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5, 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5

This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules against the kernel package.

http://www.kernel.org/

module-init-tools

- 3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5_5.1

The modutils package includes various programs needed for automatic loading and unloading of modules under 2.6 and later kernels, as well as other module management programs. Device drivers and filesystems are two examples of loaded and unloaded modules.

setarch

- 2.0-1.1

This utility tells the kernel to report a different architecture than the current one, then runs a program in that environment. It can also set various personality flags.

Utilities

Found under: Utilities

clusterit

- 2.5-1

This is a collection of clustering tools to turn your ordinary everyday pile of UNIX workstations into a speedy parallel beast.

It includes: dsh - run a command on a cluster of machines dshbak - format the output of dsh barrier/barrierd - syncronize a process on a number of machines. jsh/jsd - run scheduled commands on remote machine run - run a command on a machine at random seq - run a command on a cluster in sequence pcp - copy a file to a cluster of machines pdf - display free disk space across a group of machines prm - delete a file or files on a cluster of machines rvt - a specialized VT100 emulator for the X window system dvt - launch an interactive window on a cluster of machines clustersed - quickly dissect cluster files dtop - display and update information about processes on a cluster of machines

http://clusterit.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD with advertising clause (Tim Rightnour), BSD-style (John Bovey)

Development/Debuggers

Found under: Development/Debuggers

crash

- 4.1.2-4.el5_5.1

The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch.

http://people.redhat.com/anderson

gdb

- 7.0.1-23.el5_5.2

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

http://gnu.org/software/gdb/

lsof

- 4.78-3

Lsof stands for LiSt Open Files, and it does just that: it lists information about files that are open by the processes running on a UNIX system.

License: Free

strace

- 4.5.18-5.el5_5.5

The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional purposes.

Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and received by a process.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/

License: BSD

Development/Languages

Found under: Development/Languages

cpp

- 4.1.2-48.el5

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.

expect

- 5.43.0-5.1

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.

http://expect.nist.gov/

License: Public Domain

gcc

- 4.1.2-48.el5

The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.1. You'll need this package in order to compile C code.

gcc-c++

- 4.1.2-48.el5

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.

gcc-gfortran

- 4.1.2-48.el5

The gcc-gfortran package provides support for compiling Fortran 95 programs with the GNU Compiler Collection.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

guile

- 1.8.0-8.20060831cvs

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.

numpy

- 1.2.1-2.el5

NumPy is a general-purpose array-processing package designed to efficiently manipulate large multi-dimensional arrays of arbitrary records without sacrificing too much speed for small multi-dimensional arrays. NumPy is built on the Numeric code base and adds features introduced by numarray as well as an extended C-API and the ability to create arrays of arbitrary type.

There are also basic facilities for discrete fourier transform, basic linear algebra and random number generation. Also included in this package is a version of f2py that works properly with NumPy.

http://numeric.scipy.org/

License: BSD

perl

- 5.8.8-32.el5_5.2

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.

Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts.

http://www.perl.org/

perl-suidperl

- 5.8.8-32.el5_5.2

suidperl is a setuid binary copy of perl that allows for (hopefully) more secure running of setuid perl scripts.

http://www.perl.org/

pexpect

- 2.3-3.el5

Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works like Don Libes' Expect. Pexpect allows your script to spawn a child application and control it as if a human were typing commands.

Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. And it can be used for automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled. It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module.

http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/

License: MIT

pycairo

- 1.2.0-1.1

Python bindings for the cairo library

http://cairographics.org/

pygobject2

- 2.12.1-5.el5

pygobject2 provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library for use in Python programs.

pygobject2-devel

- 2.12.1-5.el5

This package contains files required to build wrappers for pygobject2-based libraries such as pygtk2.

pygobject2-doc

- 2.12.1-5.el5

This package contains documentation files for pygobject2.

pygtk2

- 2.10.1-12.el5

PyGTK is an extension module for python that gives you access to the GTK+ widget set. Just about anything you can write in C with GTK+ you can write in python with PyGTK (within reason), but with all the benefits of python.

pygtk2-codegen

- 2.10.1-12.el5

This package contains the C code generation program for PyGTK.

pygtk2-devel

- 2.10.1-12.el5

This package contains files required to build wrappers for GTK+ addon libraries so that they interoperate with pygtk.

python

- 2.4.3-27.el5_5.3

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC).

Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget set for Tk and RPM.

Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package.

http://labix.org/python-dateutil

License: PSF - see LICENSE

python-dateutil

- 1.2-1.el5

The dateutil module provides powerful extensions to the standard datetime module available in Python 2.3+.

License: Python Software Foundation License

python-docutils

- 0.5-3.el5

The Docutils project specifies a plaintext markup language, reStructuredText, which is easy to read and quick to write. The project includes a python library to parse rST files and transform them into other useful formats such as HTML, XML, and TeX as well as commandline tools that give the enduser access to this functionality.

Currently, the library supports parsing rST that is in standalone files and PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals). Work is underway to parse rST from Python inline documentation modules and packages.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net

python-imaging

- 1.1.5-5.el5

Python Imaging Library

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities to your Python interpreter.

This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities.

Details about licensing can be found from README file.

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

License: Distributable

python-nose

- 0.11.3-2.el5

nose: a discovery-based unittest extension.

nose provides an alternate test discovery and running process for unittest, one that is intended to mimic the behavior of py.test as much as is reasonably possible without resorting to too much magic.

http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/

python-numeric

- 23.7-2.2.2

Numeric is a python module that provides support for numerical operations.

http://numpy.sourceforge.net

License: Python

python-setuptools

- 0.6c7-1.el5

setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other packages.

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

License: Python or ZPLv2.0

pytz

- 2010h-1.el5

pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.3 or higher. It also solves the issue of ambiguous times at the end of daylight savings, which you can read more about in the Python Library Reference (datetime.tzinfo).

Amost all (over 540) of the Olson timezones are supported.

http://pytz.sourceforge.net/

License: MIT

tcl

- 8.4.13-4.el5

The Tcl (Tool Command Language) provides a powerful platform for creating integration applications that tie together diverse applications, protocols, devices, and frameworks. When paired with the Tk toolkit, Tcl provides a fastest and powerful way to create cross-platform GUI applications. Tcl can also be used for a variety of web-related tasks and for creating powerful command languages for applications.

License: BSD

tcl-devel

- 8.4.13-4.el5

The Tcl (Tool Command Language) provides a powerful platform for creating integration applications that tie together diverse applications, protocols, devices, and frameworks. When paired with the Tk toolkit, Tcl provides a fastest and powerful way to create cross-platform GUI applications. Tcl can also be used for a variety of web-related tasks and for creating powerful command languages for applications.

The package contains the development files and man pages for tcl.

http://tclx.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

tclx

- 8.4.0-5.fc6

Extended Tcl (TclX) is a set of extensions to the Tcl programming language. Extended Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks and large application development. TclX provides additional interfaces to the operating system, and adds many new programming constructs, text manipulation and debugging tools.

License: BSD

tclx-devel

- 8.4.0-5.fc6

Extended Tcl (TclX) is a set of extensions to the Tcl programming language. Extended Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks and large application development. TclX provides additional interfaces to the operating system, and adds many new programming constructs, text manipulation and debugging tools.

This package contains the tclx development files needed for building tix applications.

http://tclx.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

tix

- 8.4.0-11.fc6

Tix, the Tk Interface eXtension, is a powerful set of user interface components that expands the capabilities of your Tcl/Tk and Python applications. Using Tix together with Tk will greatly enhance the appearance and functionality of your application.

http://tix.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

tk

- 8.4.13-5.el5_1.1

When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful way to create cross-platform GUI applications.

License: BSD

tk-devel

- 8.4.13-5.el5_1.1

When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful way to create cross-platform GUI applications.

The package contains the development files and man pages for tk.

License: BSD

tkinter

- 2.4.3-27.el5_5.3

The Tkinter (Tk interface) program is an graphical user interface for the Python scripting language.

You should install the tkinter package if you'd like to use a graphical user interface for Python programming.

http://acpid.sourceforge.net/

License: PSF - see LICENSE

System Environment/Daemons

Found under: System Environment/Daemons

acpid

- 1.0.4-9.el5_4.2

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.

at

- 3.1.8-84.el5

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.

audit

- 1.7.17-3.el5

The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generate by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/

autofs

- 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_5.6

autofs is a daemon which automatically mounts filesystems when you use them, and unmounts them later when you are not using them. This can include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies, and so forth.

cups

- 1.3.7-18.el5_5.8

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIXÂ® 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.

http://www.cups.org/

dhcdbd

- 2.2-2.el5

dhcdbd provides a D-BUS interface to the ISC dhclient software. The daemon provides access to DHCP configuration operations and stores those options persistently. Other D-BUS applications can receive notifications of changes in the client's DHCP configuration.

http://people.redhat.com/dcantrel/dhcdbd/dhcdbd-2.2.tar.bz2

dnsmasq

- 2.45-1.1.el5_3

Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of diskless machines.

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/

esound

- 0.2.36-3

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.

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/esound

gpm

- 1.20.1-74.1

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.

iputils

- 20020927-46.el5

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.

License: BSD

mcstrans

- 0.2.11-3.el5

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the LinuxÂ® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type EnforcementÂ®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

mcstrans provides an translation daemon to translate SELinux categories from internal representations to user defined representation.

nfs-utils

- 1.0.9-47.el5_5

The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users.

This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host.

This package also contains the mount.nfs and umount.nfs program.

nscd

- 2.5-49.el5_5.7

Nscd caches name service lookups and can dramatically improve performance with NIS+, and may help with DNS as well.

ntp

- 4.2.2p1-9.el5_4.1

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's time with another reference time source. The ntp package contains utilities and daemons that will synchronize your computer's time to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via the NTP protocol and NTP servers. The ntp package includes ntpdate (a program for retrieving the date and time from remote machines via a network) and ntpd (a daemon which continuously adjusts system time).

Install the ntp package if you need tools for keeping your system's time synchronized via the NTP protocol.

http://www.ntp.org

License: distributable

openldap

- 2.3.43-12.el5_5.3

OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services (usually phone book style information, but other information is possible) over the Internet, similar to the way DNS (Domain Name System) information is propagated over the Internet. The openldap package contains configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP.

http://www.openldap.org/

License: OpenLDAP

openssh-server

- 4.3p2-41.el5_5.1

OpenSSH is a free version of SSH (Secure SHell), a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. This package contains the secure shell daemon (sshd). The sshd daemon allows SSH clients to securely connect to your SSH server. You also need to have the openssh package installed.

http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

License: BSD

ORBit2

- 2.14.3-5.el5

ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they're written in or the operating system they run on.

You will need to install this package and ORBit-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/

pcsc-lite

- 1.4.4-4.el5_5

The purpose of PC/SC Lite is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface in a very small form factor for communicating to smartcards and readers. PC/SC Lite uses the same winscard API as used under Windows(R). This package includes the PC/SC Lite daemon, a resource manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers and smart cards that are connected to the system, as well as other command line tools.

http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/

License: BSD

portmap

- 4.0-65.2.2.1

The portmapper program is a security tool which prevents theft of NIS (YP), NFS and other sensitive information via the portmapper. A portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols like NFS and NIS.

The portmap package should be installed on any machine which acts as a server for protocols using RPC.

License: BSD

postfix

- 2.3.3-2.1.el5_2

Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), TLS

http://www.postfix.org

License: IBM Public License

ppp

- 2.4.4-2.el5

The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon and documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is usually used to dial in to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) or other organization over a modem and phone line.

License: distributable

procmail

- 3.22-17.1.el5.centos

The procmail program is used by CentOS for all local mail delivery. In addition to just delivering mail, procmail can be used for automatic filtering, presorting, and other mail handling jobs. Procmail is also the basis for the SmartList mailing list processor.

http://www.procmail.org

rp-pppoe

- 3.5-32.1

PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) is a protocol used by many ADSL Internet Service Providers. This package contains the Roaring Penguin PPPoE client, a user-mode program that does not require any kernel modifications. It is fully compliant with RFC 2516, the official PPPoE specification.

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/

rsh-server

- 0.17-40.el5

The rsh-server package contains a set of programs which allow users to run commands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). All three of these commands use rhosts style authentication. This package contains the servers needed for all of these services. It also contains a server for rexec, an alternate method of executing remote commands. All of these servers are run by inetd and configured using /etc/inetd.conf and PAM.

The rsh-server package should be installed to enable remote access from other machines.

License: BSD

sendmail

- 8.13.8-8.el5

The Sendmail program is a very widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA). MTAs send mail from one machine to another. Sendmail is not a client program, which you use to read your email. Sendmail is a behind-the-scenes program which actually moves your email over networks or the Internet to where you want it to go.

If you ever need to reconfigure Sendmail, you will also need to have the sendmail.cf package installed. If you need documentation on Sendmail, you can install the sendmail-doc package.

License: Sendmail

sysklogd

- 1.4.1-46.el5

The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd) which provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as daemons (background processes) and log system messages to different places, like sendmail logs, security logs, error logs, etc.

tcp_wrappers

- 7.6-40.7.el5

The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which can monitor and filter incoming requests for systat, finger, FTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, exec, tftp, talk and other network services.

Install the tcp_wrappers program if you need a security tool for filtering incoming network services requests.

This version also supports IPv6.

ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html

License: Distributable

torque

- 2.5.3-1carbon

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.

This build was configured with: --with-default-server=localhost --with-server-home=/var/spool/torque --with-pam=/lib64/security --disable-gui --enable-drmaa --with-tcl

This package holds just a few shared files and directories.

License: OpenPBS

torque-mom

- 2.5.3-1carbon

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.

This build was configured with: --with-default-server=localhost --with-server-home=/var/spool/torque --with-pam=/lib64/security --disable-gui --enable-drmaa --with-tcl

This package holds the execute daemon required on every node.

License: OpenPBS

xinetd

- 2.3.14-10.el5

Xinetd is a secure replacement for inetd, the Internet services daemon. Xinetd provides access control for all services based on the address of the remote host and/or on time of access and can prevent denial-of-access attacks. Xinetd provides extensive logging, has no limit on the number of server arguments, and lets you bind specific services to specific IP addresses on your host machine. Each service has its own specific configuration file for Xinetd; the files are located in the /etc/xinetd.d directory.

http://www.xinetd.org

License: Distributable (BSD-like)

xorg-x11-xfs

- 1.0.2-4

X.Org X11 xfs font server

http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypbind-mt/index.html

License: MIT/X11

ypbind

- 1.19-12.el5

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).

This package provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS clients to an NIS domain. Ypbind must be running on any machines running NIS client programs.

Install the ypbind package on any machines running NIS client programs (included in the yp-tools package). If you need an NIS server, you also need to install the ypserv package to a machine on your network.

System Environment/Base

Found under: System Environment/Base

acl

- 2.2.39-6.el5

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

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amtueal/

amtu

- 1.0.6-1.el5

Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) is an administrative utility to check whether the underlying protection mechanism of the hardware are still being enforced. This is a requirement of the Controlled Access Protection Profile FPT_AMT.1, see http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/protection_profiles/CAPP-1.d.pdf

License: Common Public License

anacron

- 2.3-45.el5.centos

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 CentOS 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 CentOS packages are executed each day.

attr

- 2.4.32-1.1

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.

http://rhlinux.redhat.com/

authconfig

- 5.3.21-6.el5

Authconfig is a command line utility 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.

avahi

- 0.6.16-9.el5_5

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network -- this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf') and is very convenient.

http://avahi.org

avahi-glib

- 0.6.16-9.el5_5

Libraries for easy use of avahi from glib applications.

http://avahi.org

basesystem

- 8.0-5.1.1.el5.centos

Basesystem defines the components of a basic CentOS 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.

License: public domain

centos-release

- 5-5.el5.centos

CentOS release files

centos-release-notes

- 5.5-0

CentOS release notes files.

chkconfig

- 1.3.30.2-2.el5

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.

chkfontpath

- 1.10.1-1.1

This is a simple command line utility 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.

coreutils

- 5.97-23.el5_4.2

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

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

cpuspeed

- 1.2.1-9.el5

cpuspeed is a daemon that dynamically changes the speed of your processor(s) depending upon its current workload if it is capable (needs Intel Speedstep, AMD PowerNow!, or similar support).

This package also supports enabling cpu frequency scaling via in-kernel governors on Intel Centrino and AMD Athlon64/Opteron platforms.

http://carlthompson.net/Software/CPUSpeed

crontabs

- 1.10-8

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.

License: Public Domain

device-mapper

- 1.02.39-1.el5_5.2

This package contains the supporting userspace files (libdevmapper and dmsetup) for the device-mapper.

http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2

device-mapper-event

- 1.02.39-1.el5_5.2

This package contains device-mapper event daemon needed to monitor device-mapper devices.

http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2

device-mapper-multipath

- 0.4.7-34.el5_5.6

device-mapper-multipath provides tools to manage multipath devices by instructing the device-mapper multipath kernel module what to do. The tools are :

multipath : Scan the system for multipath devices and assemble them.
multipathd : Detects when paths fail and execs multipath to update things.

http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/

dhclient

- 3.0.5-23.el5_5.2

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.

http://isc.org/products/DHCP/

License: distributable

dhcpv6-client

- 1.0.10-18.el5

Provides the client for the DHCPv6 protocol (RFC 3315) to support dynamic configuration of IPv6 addresses and parameters.

http://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6/

dmidecode

- 2.10-3.el5

dmidecode reports information about x86 hardware as described in the system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer.

This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).

http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/

dmraid

- 1.0.0.rc13-63.el5

DMRAID supports RAID device discovery, RAID set activation and display of properties for ATARAID on Linux >= 2.4 using device-mapper.

http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid

dmraid-events

- 1.0.0.rc13-63.el5

Provides a dmeventd DSO and the dmevent_tool to register devices with it for device monitoring. All active RAID sets should be manually registered with dmevent_tool.

http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dmraid

e2fsprogs

- 1.39-23.el5_5.1

The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended (ext2/ext3) 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 and/or ext3 filesystem.

http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

eject

- 2.1.5-4.2.el5

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.

http://www.pobox.com/~tranter

environment-modules

- 3.2.6-4.el5

The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles.

Each modulefile contains the information needed to configure the shell for an application. Once the Modules package is initialized, the environment can be modified on a per-module basis using the module command which interprets modulefiles. Typically modulefiles instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables such as PATH, MANPATH, etc. modulefiles may be shared by many users on a system and users may have their own collection to supplement or replace the shared modulefiles.

Modules can be loaded and unloaded dynamically and atomically, in an clean fashion. All popular shells are supported, including bash, ksh, zsh, sh, csh, tcsh, as well as some scripting languages such as perl.

Modules are useful in managing different versions of applications. Modules can also be bundled into metamodules that will load an entire suite of different applications.

http://modules.sourceforge.net/

filesystem

- 2.4.0-3.el5

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.

https://fedorahosted.org/filesystem

License: Public Domain

firstboot-tui

- 1.4.27.8-1.el5.centos

firstboot-tui is a text interface for initial system configuration.

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/

GConf2

- 2.14.0-9.el5

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

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

glibc-common

- 2.5-49.el5_5.7

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

grub

- 0.97-13.5

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.

hmaccalc

- 0.9.6-3.el5

The hmaccalc package contains tools which can calculate HMAC (hash-based message authentication code) values for files. The names and interfaces are meant to mimic the sha*sum tools provided by the coreutils package.

https://fedorahosted.org/hmaccalc/

License: MIT

hwdata

- 0.213.18-1.el5.1

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

ifd-egate

- 0.05-15

The Axalto Egate device driver enables PCSC-lite to communicate with Axalto Egate cards, which CoolKey is based off of.

http://secure.netroedge.com/~phil/egate/

info

- 4.8-14.el5

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

initscripts

- 8.45.30-3.el5.centos

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

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/initscripts.git

ipsec-tools

- 0.6.5-14.el5_5.5

This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order to really use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. This package builds:

- setkey, a program to directly manipulate policies and SAs - racoon, an IKEv1 keying daemon

http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD

iptables

- 1.3.5-5.3.el5_4.1

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.

http://www.netfilter.org/

iptables-ipv6

- 1.3.5-5.3.el5_4.1

The iptables package contains IPv6 (the next version of the IP protocol) support for iptables. Iptables controls the Linux kernel network packet filtering code, allowing you to set up firewalls and IP masquerading.

Install iptables-ipv6 if you need to set up firewalling for your network and you are using ipv6.

http://www.netfilter.org/

iptstate

- 1.4-2.el5

IP Tables State (iptstate) was originally written to implement the "state top" feature of IP Filter (see "The Idea" below) in IP Tables. "State top" displays the states held by your stateful firewall in a top-like manner.

Since IP Tables doesn't have a built in way to easily display this information even once, an option was added to just have it display the state table once.

Features include: - Top-like realtime state table information - Sorting by any field - Reversible sorting - Single display of state table - Customizable refresh rate - Open Source (specifically I'm using the zlib license)

http://www.phildev.net/iptstate/

License: zlib License

irqbalance

- 0.55-15.el5

irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.

kbd

- 1.12-21.el5

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.

keyutils-libs

- 1.2-1.el5

This package provides a wrapper library for the key management facility system calls.

http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keyutils/

keyutils-libs-devel

- 1.2-1.el5

This package provides headers and libraries for building key utilities.

http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keyutils/

kpartx

- 0.4.7-34.el5_5.6

kpartx manages partition creation and removal for device-mapper devices.

http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/

krb5-workstation

- 1.6.1-36.el5_5.6

Kerberos is a network authentication system. The krb5-workstation package contains the basic Kerberos programs (kinit, klist, kdestroy, kpasswd). If your network uses Kerberos, this package should be installed on every workstation.

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/

License: MIT, freely distributable.

libgnomeprint22

- 2.12.1-10.el5

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.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomeprint/

libuser

- 0.54.7-2.1.el5_4.1

The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources.

Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password suite are included.

logrotate

- 3.7.4-9.el5_5.2

The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.

Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the log files on your system.

lvm2

- 2.02.56-8.el5_5.6

LVM2 includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc., multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (kind of logical partitions) in volume groups.

http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2

mailcap

- 2.1.23-1.fc6

The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type of file with a particular program that a mail agent or other program can call in order to handle the file.

Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to handle non-text files.

License: public domain

MAKEDEV

- 3.23-1.2

This package contains the MAKEDEV program, which makes it easier to create and maintain the files in the /dev directory. /dev directory files correspond to a particular device supported by Linux (serial or printer ports, scanners, sound cards, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, hard drives, etc.) and interface with the drivers in the kernel.

You should install the MAKEDEV package because the MAKEDEV utility makes it easy to manage the /dev directory device files.

http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/

man

- 1.6d-1.1

The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The man system formats and displays on-line manual pages about commands or functions on your system. Apropos searches the whatis database (containing short descriptions of system commands) for a string. Whatis searches its own database for a complete word.

The man package should be installed on your system because it is the primary way to find documentation on a Linux system.

mcelog

- 0.9pre-1.29.el5

mcelog is a daemon that collects and decodes Machine Check Exception data on x86-64 machines.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog.git

mdadm

- 2.6.9-3.el5

mdadm is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (software RAID) devices. As such, it provides similar functionality to the raidtools package. However, mdadm is a single program, and it can perform almost all functions without a configuration file, though a configuration file can be used to help with some common tasks.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/

microcode_ctl

- 1.17-1.50.el5

microcode_ctl - updates the microcode on Intel x86/x86-64 CPU's

http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/

mingetty

- 1.07-5.2.2

The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).

mkbootdisk

- 1.5.3-2.1

The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes an initial ramdisk image which will load any necessary SCSI modules for the system.

mkinitrd

- 5.1.19.6-61.el5_5.2

Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem.

In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

mktemp

- 1.5-23.2.2

The mktemp utility takes a given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a unique file name. This allows shell scripts and other programs to safely create and use /tmp files.

Install the mktemp package if you need to use shell scripts or other programs which will create and use unique /tmp files.

http://www.mktemp.org

License: BSD

mpi-selector

- 1.0.2-1.el5

A simple tool that allows system administrators to set a site-wide default for which MPI implementation is to be used, but also allow users to set their own default MPI implementation, thereby overriding the site-wide default.

The default can be changed easily via the mpi-selector command -- editing of shell startup files is not required.

License: BSD

nash

- 5.1.19.6-61.el5_5.2

nash shell used by initrd

net-tools

- 1.60-81.el5

The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.

NetworkManager

- 0.7.0-10.el5_5.2

NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for usage on servers. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using DHCP, NetworkManager is intended to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

nss-tools

- 3.12.8-1.el5.centos

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards.

Install the nss-tools package if you need command-line tools to manipulate the NSS certificate and key database.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

nss_ldap

- 253-25.el5

This package includes two LDAP access clients: nss_ldap and pam_ldap. Nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions that allow X.500 and LDAP directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS).

Pam_ldap is a module for Linux-PAM that supports password changes, V2 clients, Netscape's SSL, ypldapd, Netscape Directory Server password policies, access authorization, and crypted hashes.

http://www.padl.com/

ntsysv

- 1.3.30.2-2.el5

Ntsysv provides a simple interface for setting which system services are started or stopped in various runlevels (instead of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d). Unless you specify a runlevel or runlevels on the command line (see the man page), ntsysv configures the current runlevel (5 if you're using X).

numactl

- 0.9.8-11.el5

Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run other programs with a specific NUMA policy and a libnuma to do allocations with NUMA policy in applications.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa/

openib

- 1.4.1-5.el5

User space initialization scripts for the kernel InfiniBand drivers

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/

OpenIPMI

- 2.0.16-7.el5

The Open IPMI project aims to develop an open code base to allow access to platform information using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). This package contains the tools of the OpenIPMI project.

pam

- 0.99.6.2-6.el5_5.2

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication.

http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html

pam_ccreds

- 3-5

The pam_ccreds module provides a mechanism for caching credentials when authenticating against a network authentication service, so that authentication can still proceed when the service is down. Note at present no mechanism is provided for caching _authorization_ information, i.e. whether you are allowed to login once authenticated.

pam_krb5

- 2.2.14-15

This is pam_krb5, a pluggable authentication module that can be used with Linux-PAM and Kerberos 5. This module supports password checking, ticket creation, and optional TGT verification and conversion to Kerberos IV tickets. The included pam_krb5afs module also gets AFS tokens if so configured.

pam_passwdqc

- 1.0.2-1.2.2

pam_passwdqc is a simple password strength checking module for PAM-aware password changing programs, such as passwd(1). In addition to checking regular passwords, it offers support for passphrases and can provide randomly generated passwords. All features are optional and can be (re-)configured without rebuilding.

http://www.openwall.com/passwdqc/

License: BSD-compatible

pam_pkcs11

- 0.5.3-23

This Linux-PAM login module allows a X.509 certificate based user authentication. The certificate and its dedicated private key are thereby accessed by means of an appropriate PKCS #11 module. For the verification of the users' certificates, locally stored CA certificates as well as either online or locally accessible CRLs and OCSP are used. This version uses NSS to validate the Certificates and manage the PKCS #11 smartCards. Additional included pam_pkcs11 related tools

- pkcs11_eventmgr: Generate actions on card insert/removal/timeout events

- pklogin_finder: Get the loginname that maps to a certificate

- pkcs11_inspect: Inspect the contents of a certificate

http://www.opensc.org/pam_pkcs11

pam_smb

- 1.1.7-7.2.1

The pam_smb module can be used to authenticate users using an external SMB server.

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_smb/

passwd

- 0.73-1

The passwd package contains a system utility (passwd) which sets and/or changes passwords, using PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules).

To use passwd, you should have PAM installed on your system.

License: BSD

pcmciautils

- 014-5

The pcmciautils package contains utilities for initializing and debugging PCMCIA and Cardbus sockets.

pinfo

- 0.6.9-1.fc6

Pinfo is an info file (or man page) viewer with a user interface similar to the Lynx Web browser's interface. Pinfo supports searching using regular expressions, and is based on the ncurses library.

http://pinfo.alioth.debian.org

pm-utils

- 0.99.3-10.el5.centos

The pm-utils package contains utilities and scripts for Fedora Core useful for power management.

policycoreutils

- 1.33.12-14.8.el5

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the LinuxÂ® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type EnforcementÂ®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper context.

prelink

- 0.4.0-2.el5

The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime and thus programs come up faster.

quota

- 3.13-1.2.5.el5

The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and limiting user and or group disk usage per filesystem.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/

License: BSD

readahead

- 1.3-8.el5

readahead reads the contents of a list of files into memory, which causes them to be read from cache when they are actually needed. Its goal is to speed up the boot process.

redhat-logos

- 4.9.99-11.el5.centos

The redhat-logos package (the "Package") contains files created by the CentOS Project to replace the Red Hat "Shadow Man" logo and RPM logo. The Red Hat "Shadow Man" logo, RPM, and the RPM logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.

The Package and CentOS logos (the "Marks") can only used as outlined in the included COPYING file. Please see that file for information on copying and redistribution of the CentOS Marks.

redhat-lsb

- 3.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos

The Linux Standards Base (LSB) is an attempt to develop a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions. The redhat-lsb package provides utilities needed for LSB Compliant Applications. It also contains requirements that will ensure that all components required by the LSB that are provided by CentOS are installed on the system.

http://www.linuxbase.org/

rhel-instnum

- 1.0.9-1.el5

rhel-instnum provides methods for decoding RHEL installation numbers

http://www.redhat.com

rng-utils

- 2.0-1.14.1.fc6

Hardware random number generation tools.

rootfiles

- 8.1-1.1.1

The rootfiles package contains basic required files that are placed in the root user's account. These files are basically the same as those in /etc/skel, which are placed in regular users' home directories.

License: Public Domain

rpm

- 4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc.

http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/

scrollkeeper

- 0.3.14-9.el5

ScrollKeeper is a cataloging system for documentation. It manages documentation metadata (as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF)) and provides a simple API to allow help browsers to find, sort, and search the document catalog. It can also communicate with catalog servers on the Net to search for documents which are not on the local system.

selinux-policy

- 2.4.6-279.el5_5.2

SELinux Reference Policy - modular.

http://serefpolicy.sourceforge.net

selinux-policy-targeted

- 2.4.6-279.el5_5.2

SELinux Reference policy targeted base module.

http://serefpolicy.sourceforge.net

setools

- 3.0-3.el5

Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

The tools and libraries in this release include:

1. libapol: The main policy.conf analysis library, which is the core library for all our tools.

See the help files for apol for help on using the tools.

http://www.tresys.com/

setup

- 2.5.58-7.el5

The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.

License: public domain

sgpio

- 1.2.0_10-2.el5

Intel SGPIO enclosure management utility This package contains (part of) a Technology Preview for Application for AHCI driver with SGPIO support. Please visit http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the Red Hat support policies.

http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/DMRAID_Eventing

shadow-utils

- 4.0.17-15.el5

The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command unconverts shadow passwords and generates an npasswd file (a standard UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times for all users. The useradd, userdel, and usermod commands are used for managing user accounts. The groupadd, groupdel, and groupmod commands are used for managing group accounts.

http://shadow.pld.org.pl/

License: BSD

smartmontools

- 5.38-2.el5

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self- Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

system-config-securitylevel-tui

- 1.6.29.1-5.el5

system-config-securitylevel-tui is a text and commandline user interface for setting basic firewall rules.

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/

SysVinit

- 2.86-15.el5

The SysVinit package contains a group of processes that control the very basic functions of your system. SysVinit includes the init program, the first program started by the Linux kernel when the system boots. Init then controls the startup, running, and shutdown of all other programs.

termcap

- 5.5-1.20060701.1

The termcap package provides the /etc/termcap file. /etc/termcap is a database which defines the capabilities of various terminals and terminal emulators. Certain programs use the /etc/termcap file to access various features of terminals (the bell, colors, and graphics, etc.).

License: Public Domain

tmpwatch

- 2.9.7-1.1.el5.2

The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time. Tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp). Tmpwatch ignores symlinks, won't switch filesystems and only removes empty directories and regular files.

torque-pam

- 2.5.3-1carbon

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.

This build was configured with: --with-default-server=localhost --with-server-home=/var/spool/torque --with-pam=/lib64/security --disable-gui --enable-drmaa --with-tcl

A simple PAM module to authorize users on PBS MOM nodes with a running job.

ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/

License: OpenPBS

tzdata

- 2010l-1.el5

This package contains data files with rules for various time zones around the world.

udev

- 095-14.21.el5_5.1

The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink.

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/

util-linux

- 2.13-0.52.el5_4.1

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program.

License: distributable

vconfig

- 1.9-3

The vconfig program configures and adjusts 802.1q VLAN parameters.

http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan.html

vixie-cron

- 4.1-77.el5_4.1

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron.

License: distributable

wireless-tools

- 28-2.el5

This package contain the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats for wireless networking equipment.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html

wpa_supplicant

- 0.5.10-9.el5

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.

http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/

License: BSD

xdg-utils

- 1.0.2-4.el5

The xdg-utils package is a set of simple scripts that provide basic desktop integration functions for any Free Desktop, such as Linux. They are intended to provide a set of defacto standards. This means that:

Third party software developers can rely on these xdg-utils for all of their simple integration needs.
Developers of desktop environments can make sure that their environments are well supported
Distribution vendors can provide custom versions of these utilities

The following scripts are provided at this time:

xdg-desktop-menu Install desktop menu items
xdg-desktop-icon Install icons to the desktop
xdg-icon-resource Install icon resources
xdg-mime Query information about file type handling and install descriptions for new file types
xdg-open Open a file or URL in the user's preferred application
xdg-email Send mail using the user's preferred e-mail composer
xdg-screensaver Control the screensaver

http://portland.freedesktop.org/

License: MIT

xorg-x11-filesystem

- 7.1-2.fc6

This package provides some directories which are required by other packages which comprise the modularized X.Org X11R7 X Window System release. This package must be installed during OS installation or upgrade, in order to force the creation of these directories, and replace any legacy symbolic links that might be present in old locations, which could result in upgrade failures.

http://www.redhat.com

License: MIT/X11

yp-tools

- 2.9-1.el5

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).

This package's NIS implementation is based on FreeBSD's YP and is a special port for glibc 2.x and libc versions 5.4.21 and later. This package only provides the NIS client programs. In order to use the clients, you'll need to already have an NIS server running on your network. An NIS server is provided in the ypserv package.

Install the yp-tools package if you need NIS client programs for machines on your network. You will also need to install the ypbind package on every machine running NIS client programs. If you need an NIS server, you'll need to install the ypserv package on one machine on the network.

http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/yp-tools/index.html

yum

- 3.2.22-26.el5.centos

Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically prompting the user as necessary.

http://linux.duke.edu/yum/

yum-fastestmirror

- 1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1

This plugin sorts each repository's mirrorlist by connection speed prior to downloading packages.

http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/

yum-priorities

- 1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1

This plugin allows repositories to have different priorities. Packages in a repository with a lower priority can't be overridden by packages from a repository with a higher priority even if repo has a later version.

http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/

yum-updatesd

- 0.9-2.el5

yum-updatesd provides a daemon which checks for available updates and can notify you when they are available via email, syslog or dbus.

http://linux.duke.edu/yum/

Applications/File

Found under: Applications/File

bzip2

- 1.0.3-6.el5_5

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.

http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

License: BSD

file

- 4.17-15.el5_3.1

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.

http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

License: distributable

findutils

- 4.2.27-6.el5

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

gzip

- 1.3.5-11.el5_4.1

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.

http://www.gzip.org/

tree

- 1.5.0-4

The tree utility recursively displays the contents of directories in a tree-like format. Tree is basically a UNIX port of the DOS tree utility.

http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/

Applications/Engineering

Found under: Applications/Engineering

bc

- 1.06-21

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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/

gnuplot

- 4.0.0-14.el5

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.

http://www.gnuplot.info/

License: Redistributable, with restrictions

grace

- 5.1.22-2.el5

Grace is a Motif application for two-dimensional data visualization. Grace can transform the data using free equations, FFT, cross- and auto-correlation, differences, integrals, histograms, and much more. The generated figures are of high quality. Grace is a very convenient tool for data inspection, data transformation, and for making figures for publications.

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

netcdf

- 3.6.2-7.el5

NetCDF-3 (network Common Data Form ver3) is an interface for array-oriented data access and a freely-distributed collection of software libraries for C, Fortran, C++, and perl that provides an implementation of the interface. The NetCDF library also defines a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interface, library, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. The NetCDF software was developed at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, Colorado.

NetCDF data is:

o Self-Describing: A NetCDF file includes information about the data it contains.

o Network-transparent: A NetCDF file is represented in a form that can be accessed by computers with different ways of storing integers, characters, and floating-point numbers.

o Direct-access: A small subset of a large dataset may be accessed efficiently, without first reading through all the preceding data.

o Appendable: Data can be appended to a NetCDF dataset along one dimension without copying the dataset or redefining its structure. The structure of a NetCDF dataset can be changed, though this sometimes causes the dataset to be copied.

o Sharable: One writer and multiple readers may simultaneously access the same NetCDF file.

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/index.html

License: NetCDF

octave

- 3.0.5-1.el5

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.

http://www.octave.org

pymol

- 1.1-14.20081015svn3468.el5

PyMOL is a molecular graphics system with an embedded Python interpreter designed for real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations. It is fully extensible and available free to everyone via the "Python" license. Although a newcomer to the field, PyMOL can already be used to generate stunning images and animations with ease. It can also perform many other valuable tasks (such as editing PDB files) to assist you in your research.

http://www.pymol.org

License: MIT and BSD and ZPLv2.0 and Bitstream Vera and OFL

Applications/Multimedia

Found under: Applications/Multimedia

ImageMagick

- 6.2.8.0-4.el5_5.3

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.

http://www.imagemagick.org/

License: freeware

netpbm-progs

- 10.35.58-8.el5

The netpbm-progs package contains a group of scripts for manipulating the graphics files in formats which are supported by the netpbm libraries. For example, netpbm-progs includes the rasttopnm script, which will convert a Sun rasterfile into a portable anymap. Netpbm-progs contains many other scripts for converting from one graphics file format to another.

If you need to use these conversion scripts, you should install netpbm-progs. You'll also need to install the netpbm package.

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/

transfig

- 3.2.4-16

The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG (created by xfig) or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language (for example, PostScript(TM)). Transfig is used to create TeX documents which are portable (i.e., they can be printed in a wide variety of environments).

Install transfig if you need a utility for translating FIG or PIC figures into certain graphics languages.

License: distributable

xfig

- 3.2.4-21.3.el5

Xfig is an X Window System tool for creating basic vector graphics, including bezier curves, lines, rulers and more. The resulting graphics can be saved, printed on PostScript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g., X11 bitmaps, Encapsulated PostScript, LaTeX).

You should install xfig if you need a simple program to create vector graphics.

http://www.xfig.org/

License: Freeware

Applications/System

Found under: Applications/System

bind-libs

- 9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3

Contains libraries used by both the bind server package as well as the utils packages.

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

License: BSD-like

bind-utils

- 9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3

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.

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

License: BSD-like

bluez-gnome

- 0.5-5.fc6

The bluez-gnome package contains Bluetooth helper applets and tools for the GNOME desktop environment.

http://www.bluez.org/

bluez-utils

- 3.7-2.2.el5.centos

Bluetooth utilities (bluez-utils): - hcitool - hciattach - hciconfig - hcid - l2ping - start scripts (CentOS) - pcmcia configuration files

The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A.

http://www.bluez.org/

bonnie++

- 1.03a-6.el5

bonnie++ filesystem and disk benchmark suite aggressively reads & writes in various ways on your filesystem then outputs useful benchmark performance data. bonnie++ is also useful as a hardware, disk, and filesystem stability test, exposing some types of hardware or kernel failures that would otherwise be difficult to detect.

Do not leave bonnie++ installed on a production system. Use only while you test servers.

http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/

collectl

- 3.4.3-1.el5

A utility to collect Linux performance data

http://collectl.sourceforge.net

conman

- 0.1.9.2-8.el5

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It currently supports local serial devices and remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol). Its features include:

- mapping symbolic names to console devices - logging all output from a console device to file - supporting monitor (R/O), interactive (R/W), and broadcast (W/O) modes of console access - allowing clients to join or steal console "write" privileges - executing Expect scripts across multiple consoles in parallel

http://home.gna.org/conman/

cryptsetup-luks

- 1.0.3-5.el5

This package contains cryptsetup, a utility for setting up encrypted filesystems using Device Mapper and the dm-crypt target.

http://clemens.endorphin.org/LUKS

dialog

- 1.0.20051107-1.2.2

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.

http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html

dosfstools

- 2.11-9.el5

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

ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools

ethtool

- 6-4.el5

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

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/

fbset

- 2.1-22

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.

http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/

gnome-mount

- 0.5-3.el5

A replacement for the mount, umount and eject commands that uses HAL to do all the heavy lifting.

gnupg

- 1.4.5-14.el5_5.1

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).

http://www.gnupg.org/

hdparm

- 6.6-2

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.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/

License: BSD

iproute

- 2.6.18-11.el5

The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip and rtmon, for example) which are designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel.

http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iproute2

irda-utils

- 0.9.17-2.fc6

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.

http://irda.sourceforge.net/

kudzu

- 1.2.57.1.24-1.el5.centos

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

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/additional-projects/kudzu/

lm_sensors

- 2.10.7-9.el5

The lm_sensors package includes a collection of modules for general SMBus access and hardware monitoring. NOTE: this requires special support which is not in standard 2.2-vintage kernels.

http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/

logwatch

- 7.3-8.el5

Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out of the package on many systems.

http://www.logwatch.org/

License: MIT

mlocate

- 0.15-1.el5.2

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. It keeps a database of all existing files and allows you to lookup files by name.

The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much as traditional locate implementations.

mtools

- 3.9.10-2.fc6

Mtools is a collection of utilities for accessing MS-DOS files. Mtools allow you to read, write and move around MS-DOS filesystem files (normally on MS-DOS floppy disks). Mtools supports Windows95 style long file names, OS/2 XDF disks, and 2m disks.

Mtools should be installed if you need to use MS-DOS disks.

http://mtools.linux.lu/

OpenIPMI-tools

- 2.0.16-7.el5

The OpenIPMI-tools package contains the addon utilities and script from the ipmitool project.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/

parted

- 1.8.1-27.el5

The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

pciutils

- 2.2.3-8.el5_4

The pciutils package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus. The utilities provided require kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (which support the /proc/bus/pci interface).

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.shtml

procps

- 3.2.7-16.el5

The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch and pdwx. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five, and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block I/O, traps, and CPU activity. The pwdx command reports the current working directory of a process or processes.

psacct

- 6.3.2-44.el5

The psacct package contains several utilities for monitoring process activities, including ac, lastcomm, accton and sa. The ac command displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The lastcomm command displays information about previous executed commands. The accton command turns process accounting on or off. The sa command summarizes information about previously executed commands.

psmisc

- 22.2-7

The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of processes that are using specified files or filesystems.

http://psmisc.sourceforge.net

rdate

- 1.4-8.el5

The rdate utility retrieves the date and time from another machine on your network, using the protocol described in RFC 868. If you run rdate as root, it will set your machine's local time to the time of the machine that you queried.

rdist

- 6.1.5-44

The RDist program maintains identical copies of files on multiple hosts. If possible, RDist will preserve the owner, group, mode and mtime of files and it can update programs that are executing.

Install rdist if you need to maintain identical copies of files on multiple hosts.

http://www.MagniComp.com/rdist

License: BSD

screen

- 4.0.3-1.el5_4.1

The screen utility allows you to have multiple logins on just one terminal. Screen is useful for users who telnet into a machine or are connected via a dumb terminal, but want to use more than just one login.

Install the screen package if you need a screen manager that can support multiple logins on one terminal.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen

setserial

- 2.17-19.2.2

Setserial is a basic system utility for displaying or setting serial port information. Setserial can reveal and allow you to alter the I/O port and IRQ that a particular serial device is using, and more.

http://setserial.sourceforge.net/

setuptool

- 1.19.2-1.el5.centos

Setuptool is a user-friendly text mode menu utility which allows you to access all of the text mode configuration programs included in the CentOS operating system.

You should install the setuptool package because you will find yourself using its features for essential system administration.

sudo

- 1.7.2p1-9.el5_5

Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers) on many different machines.

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/

License: BSD

symlinks

- 1.2-24.2.2

The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links. Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.

Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining symlinks on your system.

License: distributable

syslinux

- 3.11-4

SYSLINUX is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT filesystems, Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots (PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX). It also includes a tool, MEMDISK, which loads legacy operating systems from these media.

system-config-network-tui

- 1.3.99.18-1.el5

This is the network configuration tool, supporting Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP.

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/redhat-config-network.html

system-switch-mail

- 0.5.25-12

The system-switch-mail is the Mail Transport Agent Switcher. It enables users to easily switch between various Mail Transport Agent that they have installed.

time

- 1.7-27.2.2

The GNU time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running, and displays the results.

torque-client

- 2.5.3-1carbon

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations.

This build was configured with: --with-default-server=localhost --with-server-home=/var/spool/torque --with-pam=/lib64/security --disable-gui --enable-drmaa --with-tcl

This package holds the command-line client programs.