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System

installed - suggested

Package management

gnome-packagekit - Graphical distribution neutral package manager for GNOME

PackageKit allows performing simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g. refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers.


synaptic - Graphical package manager

Synaptic is a graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and APT. Synaptic enables you to install, upgrade and remove software packages in a user friendly way.


Task management/monitoring

xfce4-taskmanager - process manager for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment

A GUI application for monitoring and controlling running processes, written for Xfce. Its features include:


  • xfce4-taskmanager 1.2.2-1 - process manager for the Xfce4 Desktop Environment
  • htop 2.2.0-1+b1 - interactive processes viewer
  • iotop 0.6-24-g733f3f8-1 - simple top-like I/O monitor
  • lm-sensors 1:3.5.0-3 - utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
  • hddtemp 0.3-beta15-53 - hard drive temperature monitoring utility
  • inxi 3.0.32-1-1 - full featured system information script
  • lsof 4.91+dfsg-1 - utility to list open files
  • strace 4.26-0.2 - System call tracer
  • memtest86+ 5.01-3 - thorough real-mode memory tester
  • gnome-system-monitor 3.30.0-2 - Process viewer and system resource monitor for GNOME
  • screenfetch 3.8.0-8 - Bash Screenshot Information Tool
  • glances 3.1.0-1 - Curses-based monitoring tool
  • screentest 2.0-2.2+b1 - Utility to test the quality of screens
  • hardinfo 0.5.1+git20180227-2 - Displays system information
  • cputool 0.0.8-2+b1 - Utility which manages CPU usage and system load
  • usbview 2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-2 - USB device viewer
  • stress 1.0.4-4 - tool to impose load on and stress test a computer system
  • stressapptest 1.0.6-2+b2 - stress test application for simulating high load situations
  • lshw 02.18.85-0.1 - information about hardware configuration
  • lshw-gtk 02.18.85-0.1 - graphical information about hardware configuration
  • bonnie++ 1.98 - Hard drive benchmark suite
  • x86info 1.31~pre0.8052aabdd159bc9050e7dc264f33782c5acce05f-1+b1 - Display diagnostic information about i386 compatible CPUs
  • memtester 4.3.0-4+b1 - Utility for testing the memory subsystem
  • dstat 0.7.3-1.1 - versatile resource statistics tool
  • sysstat 12.0.3-2 - system performance tools for Linux
  • cacti 1.2.2+ds1-2+deb10u3 - web interface for graphing of monitoring systems
  • hwloc 1.11.12-3 - Hierarchical view of the machine - utilities
  • memlockd 1.2 - daemon to lock files into RAM
  • read-edid 3.0.2-1+b1 - hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors

Backup

backintime-qt4 - simple backup/snapshot system (graphical interface)

Back In Time is a framework for rsync and cron for the purpose of taking snapshots and backups of specified folders. It minimizes disk space use by taking a snapshot only if the directory has been changed, and hard links for unmodified files if it has. The user can schedule regular backups using cron.


  • backintime-qt4 1.1.24-0.1 - simple backup/snapshot system (graphical interface)
  • duplicity 0.7.18.2-1 - encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
  • tmfs 3-2+b6 - Apple Time Machine FUSE mount
  • deja-dup 38.3-1 - Backup utility
  • rdiff-backup 1.2.8-7 - remote incremental backup
  • grsync 1.2.6-2 - GTK+ frontend for rsync
  • unison 2.48.4-1+b1 - file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows
  • unison-gtk 2.48.4-1+b1 - file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows with GTK+ interface
  • rsync 3.1.3-6 - fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
  • rsbackup 5.1-1+b1 - rsync-based backup utility
  • fsarchiver 0.8.5-2 - file system archiver
  • backupninja 1.1.0-2.1 - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
  • duply 2.1-1 - easy to use frontend to the duplicity backup system

Disk management

gnome-disk-utility - manage and configure disk drives and media

GNOME Disks is a tool to manage disk drives and media:


gparted - GNOME partition editor

GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted.


baobab - GNOME disk usage analyzer

Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven application to analyse disk usage in a GNOME environment. It can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote).


  • gnome-disk-utility 3.30.2-3 - manage and configure disk drives and media
  • gparted 0.32.0-2 - GNOME partition editor
  • baobab 3.30.0-2 - GNOME disk usage analyzer
  • ncdu 1.13-1+b1 - ncurses disk usage viewer
  • dfc 3.1.1-1 - display file system usage using graph and colors
  • smartmontools 6.6-1 - control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.
  • mtools 4.0.23-1 - Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
  • gdisk 1.0.3-1.1 - GPT fdisk text-mode partitioning tool
  • parted 3.2-25 - disk partition manipulator
  • hdparm 9.58+ds-1 - tune hard disk parameters for high performance
  • sdparm 1.10-1 - Output and modify SCSI device parameters
  • dosfstools 4.1-2 - utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
  • hfsprogs 332.25-11+b2 - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
  • ntfs-3g 1:2017.3.23AR.3-3 - read/write NTFS driver for FUSE
  • kpartx 0.7.9-3+deb10u1 - create device mappings for partitions
  • xorriso 1.5.0-1 - command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
  • disk-manager 1.1.1-2 - simple graphical filesystem configurator
  • gsmartcontrol 1.1.3-2 - graphical user interface for smartctl
  • fsarchiver 0.8.5-2 - file system archiver
  • partclone 0.3.11-1+b3 - Utility to clone and restore a partition
  • pmount 0.9.23-3+b2 - mount removable devices as normal user
  • bilibop-udev 0.5.6 - minimal udev rule for Debian GNU/Linux running from external media
  • forensics-full 2.8 - Full forensics station (metapackage)
  • steghide 0.5.1-13 - steganography hiding tool
  • gdmap 0.8.1-5 - Tool to visualize diskspace

data recovery

testdisk - Partition scanner and disk recovery tool, and PhotoRec file recovery tool

TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in forensics, recovering lost partitions. It works with :

  • DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
  • NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP )
  • Linux Ext2 and Ext3
  • BeFS ( BeOS )
  • BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
  • CramFS (Compressed File System)
  • HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
  • JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
  • Linux Raid
  • Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
  • LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
  • Netware NSS
  • ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6
  • Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
  • UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
  • XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

  • testdisk 7.0-3+b4 - Partition scanner and disk recovery tool, and PhotoRec file recovery tool
  • foremost 1.5.7-8 - forensic program to recover lost files
  • scalpel 1.60-6 - fast filesystem-independent file recovery
  • gddrescue 1.23-2 - GNU data recovery tool
  • ddrescueview 0.4~alpha3-3 - graphical viewer for GNU ddrescue map files
  • extundelete 0.2.4-2 - utility to recover deleted files from ext3/ext4 partition
  • fatcat 1.0.5-1 - FAT filesystem explore, extract, repair, and forensic tool
  • safecopy 1.7-4 - data recovery tool for problematic or damaged media

File cleaners/linters

bleachbit - delete unnecessary files from the system

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts.


  • bleachbit 2.0-3 - delete unnecessary files from the system
  • localepurge 0.7.3.5 - reclaim disk space by removing unneeded localizations
  • fslint 2.46-1 - Utility collection to find and fix common errors in file storage

Log viewers

lnav - ncurses-based log file viewer

The log file navigator, lnav, is an enhanced log file viewer that takes advantage of any semantic information that can be gleaned from the files being viewed, such as timestamps and log levels. Using this extra semantic information, lnav can do things like interleaving messages from different files, generate histograms of messages over time, and providing hotkeys for navigating through the file. It is hoped that these features will allow the user to quickly and efficiently zero in on problems.


  • lnav 0.8.4-5 - ncurses-based log file viewer
  • colortail 0.3.3-1+b2 - log colorizer that makes log checking easier
  • gnome-logs 3.30.0-2 - viewer for the systemd journal
  • glogg 1.1.4-1.1+b1 - Smart interactive log explorer using Qt
  • logtop 0.4.3-1+b3 - real time log line rate analyzer
  • since 1.1-6 - tail(1) work-alike that saves and uses state information
  • multitail 6.4.2-3+b1 - view multiple logfiles windowed on console

Virtualization

virt-manager - desktop application for managing virtual machines

It presents a summary view of running domains and their live performance & resource utilization statistics. A detailed view presents graphs showing performance & utilization over time. Ultimately it will allow creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain's resource allocation & virtual hardware. Finally an embedded VNC client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.


  • virt-manager 1:2.0.0-3 - desktop application for managing virtual machines
  • virtinst 1:2.0.0-3 - Programs to create and clone virtual machines
  • virt-viewer 7.0-2 - Displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine
  • ebtables 2.0.10.4+snapshot20181205-3 - Ethernet bridge frame table administration
  • dnsmasq-base 2.80-1 - Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server
  • libvirt-daemon-system 5.0.0-4+deb10u1 - Libvirt daemon configuration files
  • gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 0.35-2 - GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (GObject-Introspection)
  • qemu-kvm 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 - QEMU Full virtualization on x86 hardware
  • qemu-utils 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 - QEMU utilities
  • virt-top 1.0.8-2 - show stats of virtualized domains
  • netcat-openbsd 1.195-2 - TCP/IP swiss army knife
  • virt-sandbox 0.5.1+git20160404-1 - Application sandbox toolkit
  • virt-what 1.19-1 - detect if we are running in a virtual machine
  • libguestfs-tools 1:1.40.2-2 - guest disk image management system - tools
  • lxc 1:3.1.0+really3.0.3-8 - Linux Containers userspace tools
  • gnome-boxes 3.30.3-2 - Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems
  • lxc-templates 3.0.4-0+deb10u1 - Linux Containers userspace tools (templates)
  • docker.io 18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1+deb10u2 - Linux container runtime
  • docker-registry 2.6.2~ds1-2+b21 - Docker toolset to pack, ship, store, and deliver content
  • docker-doc 18.09.1+dfsg1-7.1+deb10u2 - Linux container runtime -- documentation
  • anbox 0.0~git20190124-1 - Android in a box
  • vagrant 2.2.3+dfsg-1 - Tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments
  • schroot 1.6.10-6+b1 - Execute commands in a chroot environment

Windows compatibility

wine - Windows API implementation - standard suite

Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.


  • wine 4.0-2 - Windows API implementation - standard suite
  • wine64 4.0-2 - Windows API implementation - 64-bit binary loader
  • wine32:i386 4.0-2 - Windows API implementation - 32-bit binary loader
  • libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 18.3.6-2+deb10u1 - free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
  • playonlinux 4.3.4-1 - front-end for Wine
  • gnome-exe-thumbnailer 0.10.0-3 - transitional dummy package for exe-thumbnailer
  • fonts-wine 4.0-2 - Windows API implementation - fonts
  • winetricks 0.0+20181203-3 - simple tool to work around common problems in Wine
  • dxvk 0.96+ds1-1 - Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 10/11
  • reglookup 1.0.1+svn287-7 - utility to analysis for Windows NT-based registry

Configuration management

  • ansible 2.7.7+dfsg-1 - Configuration management, deployment, and task execution system

Java

  • default-jre 2:1.11-71 - Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime

Display manager/screen locker

lightdm - simple display manager

An X display manager that:

  • Has a lightweight codebase
  • Is standards compliant (PAM, ConsoleKit, etc)
  • Has a well defined interface between the server and user interface
  • Fully themeable
  • Cross-desktop (greeters can be written in any toolkit)

light-locker - simple screen locker for lightDM display manager

light-locker is a simple screen locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies.


  • lightdm 1.26.0-4 - simple display manager
  • lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.6-1 - simple display manager (GTK+ greeter)
  • light-locker 1.8.0-3 - simple screen locker for lightDM display manager
  • accountsservice 0.6.45-2 - query and manipulate user account information
  • slim 1.3.6-5.1 - desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
  • gdm3 3.30.2-3 - GNOME Display Manager
  • arctica-greeter 0.99.1.3-1 - LightDM Arctica Greeter
  • xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 - Screensaver daemon and frontend for X11
  • xscreensaver-data-extra 5.42+dfsg1-1 - Extra screen saver modules for screensaver frontends
  • xscreensaver-gl 5.42+dfsg1-1 - GL(Mesa) screen saver modules for screensaver frontends
  • xscreensaver-gl-extra 5.42+dfsg1-1 - Extra GL(Mesa) screen saver modules for screensaver frontends

Boot screen

  • plymouth 0.9.4-1.1 - boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer
  • plymouth-x11 0.9.4-1.1 - boot animation, logger and I/O multiplexer - X11 renderer

Scheduling

  • at 3.1.23-1 - Delayed job execution and batch processing

Desktop performance

  • ulatencyd 0.5.0-9+b1 - scriptable latency regulator using cgroups (server)
  • irqbalance 1.5.0-3 - Daemon to balance interrupts for SMP systems
  • haveged 1.9.1-7 - Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm

Security & sandboxing

Time

  • chrony 3.4-4+deb10u1 - Versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol
  • ntp 1:4.2.8p12+dfsg-4 - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs

Display

xorg - X.Org X Window System

This metapackage provides the components for a standalone workstation running the X Window System. It provides the X libraries, an X server, a set of fonts, and a group of basic X clients and utilities.


Kernel/boot/init

  • linux-headers-amd64 4.19+105+deb10u7 - Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package)
  • linux-headers-686:i386 4.19+105+deb10u7 - Header files for Linux 686 configuration (meta-package)
  • module-assistant 0.11.10 - tool to make module package creation easier
  • dkms 2.6.1-4 - Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
  • build-essential 12.6 - Informational list of build-essential packages
  • systemd 241-7~deb10u4 - system and service manager
  • os-prober 1.77 - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
  • initramfs-tools 0.133+deb10u1 - generic modular initramfs generator (automation)
  • console-setup 1.193~deb10u1 - console font and keymap setup program
  • user-setup 1.81 - Set up initial user and password
  • libpam-systemd 241-7~deb10u4 - system and service manager - PAM module
  • kexec-tools 1:2.0.18-1 - tools to support fast kexec reboots

Firmwares

Hardware-specific packages

  • driverctl 0.101-1 - Device driver control utility for Linux
  • pommed 1.39~dfsg-5 - Apple laptops hotkeys event handler
  • lomoco 1.0.0-3 - Logitech Mouse Control for USB mice
  • wmgui 0.6.00+svn201-4 - GUI interface to the wiimote
  • mbpfan 2.0.2-1 - fan control daemon for Apple Macbooks
  • usbmuxd 1.1.1~git20181007.f838cf6-1 - USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod Touch devices
  • fprintd 0.8.1-1 - D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access

Live system components

  • live-boot 1:20190614 - Live System Boot Components
  • live-config 5.20190519 - Live System Configuration Components
  • live-config-systemd 5.20190519 - Live System Configuration Components (systemd backend)
  • user-setup 1.81 - Set up initial user and password
  • live-tools 1:20171207 - Live System Extra Components
  • eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.2 - ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Linux