Best Debian Package.

craigevil · 05-15-2005, 07:12 PM

Aside from KDE; KNetStats http://knetstats.sourceforge.net/ , Synaptic and GIMP.

Heck all of them, the simple fact that I can install over 20,000 different packages is awesome. What other distro has access to so many different packages?

I spend most of my time online, so the programs I run most are Firefox and Kplayer (VirginRadio Classic rock playing), along with Kmail and Gaim.

If you are running Sid definitely install list-bugs, it is a life saver.

rvijay · 05-20-2005, 04:05 AM

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.

Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text.

festival

festival-doc

rvijay · 05-26-2005, 05:36 AM

Sharing my personal experience here. Gutenbrowser is actually very bad, has a very small reading screen. Moreover, can't change colors of background etc.,

Vijay

rvijay · 05-26-2005, 05:39 AM

Text to speech software:

apt-get install kdeaccessibility

apt-get install sox

apt-get install xsltproc

Related Document:
http://docs.kde.org/en/3.4/kdeaccess...sing-kapp.html

Festival is also needed for this:

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.

Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text.

festival

festival-doc

rvijay · 12-04-2005, 02:49 AM

FreePOPS - Helps greatly with EMail it is said (Not tried this personally).

http://www.freepops.org/en/

BittaBrotha · 12-04-2005, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil

What other distro has access to so many different packages?

I believe it would be Gentoo and though it's not a distro, Freebsd. Both of these have plenty of packages for their OS.

nx5000 · 12-08-2005, 03:53 AM

debfoster
orphaner
localepurge
installwatch

To bring my experience on apt-build, on my system, it segfaults very easily..
by mistake (no command argument is given) I did this:

Code:

#apt-build --nowrapper airsnort
<shows usage>
Segfault
#

Or with a correct command:

Code:

#apt-build --nowrapper world
<...>
Unable to find source information for akregator
Segfault

EDIT: I'm using unstable (seems like apt-build is really unstable in this release)...

Sepero · 12-08-2005, 06:01 AM

Excellent additions there, nx5000.
debfoster orphaner an localepurge work Very well for cleaning up your system. I would like to add cruft to that list also.

Here's another lovely program:
apt-cache search <search_string> | less

example:

Code:

$ apt-cache search classic fun games
kobodeluxe - a game of space battle
moon-lander - An SDL game based on the classic moon lander
moon-lander-data - Data files (sound, images) for moon-lander
kraptor - Classic shoot 'em up scroller game
kraptor-data - Classic shoot 'em up scroller game - data files
spellcast - The classic hand-waving multi-player X game of spellcasting:

After you see a package you like, type:
apt-cache show <package_name>

There are LOTS of other useful "apt-*" "deb*" tools. Try typing: "apt<tab><tab>" on the commandline and see all the tools you have installed. Then just start browsing through there manpages. You might be very suprised!

nx5000 · 12-08-2005, 07:01 AM

I wanted also to post cruft but I dunno why it is very verbose on my distro, it finds problems on every file!

Also -n on apt-cache search restrict the search only on package names.

Code:

apt-cache search -n ethereal

I also like apt-cache showpkg. Imagine you want to search for available sniffers relying on the pcap library:

Code:

apt-cache showpkg lipbcap0.8

will give you **Reverse Dependencies** : which package rely on libcap.
But it lacks some information from apt-cache show , so I have a quick script that combines them:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
min=`apt-cache showpkg $1 | cat -n | grep "Reverse Depends" | awk '{print $1}'`
apt-cache show $1 | egrep -v "Architecture|Maintainer|Depends|MD5sum|Filename|Installed-Size"
apt-cache showpkg $1 | tail +$min

Monkey 9 · 12-08-2005, 07:34 AM

Hello all of you Debian-lovers! (thats offcourse including me..)

....yes, cruft is a little buggy, and listbugs is annoying, for me personaly....

The most usefull apps, imho, are Gkrellm, very nice!,with all the plugins, especialy the xmms-plugins, xmms (complete with all the plugins) qbbl, easytag, ripperx, these combined with icewm.
Wdm, wmanager, xfce-desktop (compleet! all what belongs to it)
GKsu, (evt. sux (cli)) (GKsu and sux lets you start all progs in rootmodus)
xfe, GkDebconf, di, (Dfontm, Xfontsel) Gimagevieuw.

I must admit they are not all original 'Deb', But the bastard i am, a bastard system i like, Krusader is the most complete fm, but KDE, and i donot use KDE on the laptop, because than there's no room left for me, but Krusader i do use, and than GKsu comes in real handy, because you can't get to root without it, unless you download a complete Kdebase, because it needs Kdesu, to get root.

Col._Panic · 12-09-2005, 06:04 AM

Not specifically Debian, but I am a big fan of Xine media player. I t will play any file you throw at it (with w32codecs installed, of course) and it is the only player which will work 'out of the box' with my KWorld VStream DVB-T card. I got tired of fiddling with Mplayer so I now just use Xine for all video playback (still trying to get video editing and analog video recording going in Linux, though).

My other faves are xfce4 desktop (it flies!), firestarter firewall (real easy to configure) and k3b (the only reliable linux CD/DVD burner programm).

rvijay · 12-27-2005, 10:43 PM

What is the best Debian games package you have tried ?

Here are a few suggestions:

ksudoku
scrabble

nx5000 · 01-12-2006, 06:25 AM

Two more debian-specific packages I really like
debtags (and debtags-edit)
apt-listchanges

debtags example:

debtags search 'hardware::camera && use::browsing'
Will search all packages to browse your photos on your camera.

rvijay · 01-12-2006, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

Two more debian-specific packages I really like
debtags (and debtags-edit)
apt-listchanges

Thanks for sharing, this is good to know.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/debtags.html

Vijay

pljvaldez · 01-12-2006, 03:14 PM

Weird, I just realized this post showed up in a different thread than the one I was answering, so I deleted all the text...