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Packages by Purpose
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- 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)
