Packages by Purpose

• Generate presentations using LaTeX -- latex-beamer
• Modify the rpath of a binary -- chrpath
• Generate ASCII art - cadubi
• Record desktop session to animated GIF - byzanz
• Render anti-aliased text from plaintext source - gozer
• Chop and merge MPEG2 streams - gopchop
• Linux source tree manager - ketchup
• PNG metainfo dumper - pngcheck, pngmeta
• JPEG metainfo dumper - jpeginfo
• Patch management tool - quilt
• Hex editor - hexedit, hexeditor (ncurses-hexedit)
• GNOME image thumbnailer - gthumb
• GNOME image viewer - gimv (gimageview)
• GNOME Unicode charset browser - gucharmap
• Create graphics from relationship sets - graphviz
• Manipulate graphic files - convert (imagemagick)
• Collect stdin then open and write to stdout - sponge (moreutils)
• Edit a directory in vi - vidir (moreutils)
• Insert vi into a pipeline - vipe (moreutils)
• Write stdin to multiple files - tee (coreutils)
• Write stdin to multiple pipes - pee (moreutils)
• Secure file deletion - wipe
• Run a binary repeatedly every n seconds - watch
• Run a process as a daemon - daemon
• More reasonable GNU Info page browser - pinfo
• Python source checker - pychecker
• HTML/XHTML checker - tidy
• LaTeX checker - lacheck
• XSLT processor - xsltproc, xalan
• Command-line XML/XSLT manipulations - xmlstarlet (xml on FreeBSD)
• Extract text from MS Word - antiword
• Extract text from HTML - html2text
• Detect MIME type / extract metainfo - extract
• Detect filetype based on magic number - file
• Read EDID via VBE/DDC - get-edid | parse-edid (read-edid)
• POSIX time(1) - time (time package, not shell builtin)
• Query DNS servers - dig (dnsutils)
• Time HTTP header retrieval - httping
• Display bandwidth usage by hostpairs - iftop
• General X image viewer - xli
• Display overal system statistics - saidar
• Carve up packet dump files - tcpxtract
• Create a UDF filesystem - mkudffs (udftools)
• Set up packet writing (block access of RW optical media) - pktsetup (udftools)
• Create a VideoCD image - mkvcdfs (vcdtools)
• Speech synthesis - festival
• x86, PPC, SPARC, ARM emulation - qemu
• Processor VT capability-aware qemu - kvm
• Record / playback a TTY - ttyrec / ttyplay (ttyrec)
• Break a Unicode file into character ranges - unidesc
• Print Unicode character data for all characters in a file - uniname (unidesc)
• Look up Unicode characters - utf8lookup (unidesc)