This is a list of just some of the other 100 updates to a fresh install of Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' Xfce 64-bit:
openldap - OpenLDAP Libraries These are the run-time libraries for the OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) servers and clients.openssh - Secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access to remote machines This is the portable version of OpenSSH, a free implementation of the Secure Shell protocol as specified by the IETF secsh working group.
Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It provides 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. It can be used to provide applications with a secure communication channel.
This package provides the ssh, scp and sftp clients, the ssh-agent and ssh-add programs to make public key authentication more convenient, and the ssh-keygen, ssh-keyscan, ssh-copy-id and ssh-argv0 utilities.
In some countries it may be illegal to use any encryption at all without a special permit.
ssh replaces the insecure rsh, rcp and rlogin programs, which are obsolete for most purposes.
orca - Scriptable screen reader A flexible, extensible, and powerful assistive technology that provides end-user access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop).
Orca defines a set of default behaviors (reactions to application events) and key bindings (reaction to user key presses). These default behaviors and key bindings can be overwritten on a per-application basis. Orca creates a script object for each running application, which merges both the default behaviors and key bindings, and the application specific ones. Orca provides the infrastructure to activate and deactivate scripts, as well as a host of services accessible from within the scripts.
pam - Pluggable Authentication Modules library Contains the shared library for Linux-PAM, a library that enables the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. In other words, without rewriting or recompiling a PAM-aware application, it is possible to switch between the authentication mechanism(s) it uses. One may entirely upgrade the local authentication system without touching the applications themselves.
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
These are some of PulseAudio's features:
* High quality software mixing of multiple audio streams with support for more than one sink/source. May be used to combine multiple sound cards into one (with sample rate adjustment). * Wide range of supported client libraries. ESD, ALSA, oss, libao and GStreamer client applications are supported as-is. Native PulseAudio plug-ins are also available for xmms and mplayer. * Good low latency behaviour and very accurate latency measurement for playback and recording. Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback streams. * Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is running on. * Extensible plug-in architecture with plug-ins for jackd,
multicast-rtp lirc and avahi, just to name a few. This package contains the daemon and basic module set.
python-apt - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg The apt_pkg Python 3 interface will provide full access to the internal libapt-pkg structures allowing Python 3 programs to easily perform a variety of functions, such as:
- Access to the APT configuration system - Access to the APT package information database - Parsing of Debian package control files, and other files with a similar structure The included 'aptsources' Python interface provides an abstraction of the sources.list configuration on the repository and the distro level.rsyslog - Reliable system and kernel logging daemon Rsyslog is a multi-threaded implementation of syslogd (a system utility providing support for message logging), with features that include: * reliable syslog over TCP, SSL/TLS and RELP * on-demand disk buffering * email alerting * writing to MySQL or PostgreSQL databases (via separate output plugins) * permitted sender lists * filtering on any part of the syslog message * on-the-wire message compression * fine-grained output format control * failover to backup destinations * enterprise-class encrypted syslog relaying It is the default syslogd on Debian systems.
sane - backends - API library for scanners - utilities SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is free and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).
This package includes the command line frontend scanimage, the saned server and the sane-find-scanner utility, along with their documentation.
secureboot-db - secure boot updates for DB and DBX Systems with Secure Boot enabled have portions of the system signed by entries in the Secure Boot DB. This package provides a mechanism for delivering updates to DB and the corresponding blacklist database, DBX.
{... Description: The Set-SecureBootUEFI cmdlet takes a formatted content object that is created by running the Format-SecureBootUEFI cmdlet and a signed file, combines the two and then attempts to set the package in one of the Secure Boot variables. The supported Secure Boot variables include Platform Key (PK), Key Exchange Key (KEK), Signature Database (DB), and Forbidden Signature Database (DBX).If successful, this cmdlet returns a UEFIEnvironmentVariable object.
Otherwise, it displays an error.This cmdlet runs on both UEFI and BIOS (non-UEFI) computers.If the computer does not support Secure Boot or is a non-UEFI computer, this cmdlet displays the following:Cmdlet not supported on this platform.
If you do not run Windows PowerShell® in administrator mode, this cmdlet displays the following: Unable to set proper privileges. Access was denied.If you supply a signed file to this cmdlet that is not valid, this cmdlet displays the following:Incorrect authentication data. ...}
shadow - Change and administer password and group data This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data.
Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian
simple-scan - Simple Scanning Utility Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested.strace - System call tracer strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source.
System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.
sudo - Provide limited super user privileges to specific users Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity.
The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
This version is built with minimal shared library dependencies, use the
sudo-ldap package instead if you need LDAP LightWeight Directory Access Protocol support for sudoers.Systemd - System and service manager
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.
systemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you boot with init=/lib/systemd/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
thermald - Thermal monitoring and controlling daemon Thermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system.
ubuntu-drivers-comon - Detect and install additional ubuntu driver packages - a Python API for detecting driver packages for a particular piece of hardware or the whole system. - an "ubuntu-drivers" command line tool to list or install driver packages (mostly for integration in installers). - some NVidia specific support code to find the most appropriate driver version, as well as setting up the alternatives symlinks that the proprietary NVidia and FGLRX packages use.
ubuntu-meta - Minimal core of Ubuntu These adjustments modify some unwanted behaviors of the Ubuntu package base and are specific to this base.
ubuntu-system-adjustments - Adjustments to the Ubuntu package base These adjustments modify some unwanted behaviors of the Ubuntu package base and are specific to this base.
util-linux - Miscellaneous system files This package contains a number of important utilities, most of which are oriented towards maintenance of your system. Some of the more important utilities included in this package allow you to view kernel messages, create new filesystems, view block device information, interface with real time clock,
etc.vte2.91 - Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 -common files The VTE library provides a terminal emulator widget VteTerminal for applications using the GTK+ toolkit. It also provides the VtePTY object containing functions for starting a new process on a new pseudo-terminal and for manipulating pseudo-terminals.
This package contains internationalization files for the VTE library and common files for the GTK+ 3.x version.
warpinator - Allows simple local network file sharing
wpa - Client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)WPA and WPA2 are methods for securing wireless networks, the former using IEEE 802.1X, and the latter using IEEE 802.11i. This software provides key negotiation with the WPA Authenticator, and controls association with IEEE 802.11i networks.
xapp - XApp Library - This library is used by several Xapp apps.This library is used by several Xapp apps.xfce4-xapp-status-plugin- XApp libraryxz-utils XZ-format compression utilities XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma package.
The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some improvements for general use:
* 'file' magic for detecting XZ files; * crc64 data integrity check; * limited random-access reading support; * improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils); * support for flushing the encoder.
This is a list of just some of the other 100 updates to a fresh install of Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' Xfce 64-bit:
ReplyDeleteopenldap - OpenLDAP Libraries
These are the run-time libraries for the OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) servers and clients.openssh - Secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access to remote machines
This is the portable version of OpenSSH, a free implementation of the Secure Shell protocol as specified by the IETF secsh working group.
Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It provides 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. It can be used to provide applications with a secure communication channel.
This package provides the ssh, scp and sftp clients, the ssh-agent and ssh-add programs to make public key authentication more convenient, and the ssh-keygen, ssh-keyscan, ssh-copy-id and ssh-argv0 utilities.
In some countries it may be illegal to use any encryption at all without a special permit.
ssh replaces the insecure rsh, rcp and rlogin programs, which are obsolete for most purposes.
orca - Scriptable screen reader
DeleteA flexible, extensible, and powerful assistive technology that provides end-user access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop).
Orca defines a set of default behaviors (reactions to application events) and key bindings (reaction to user key presses). These default behaviors and key bindings can be overwritten on a per-application basis. Orca creates a script object for each running application, which merges both the default behaviors and key bindings, and the application specific ones. Orca provides the infrastructure to activate and deactivate scripts, as well as a host of services accessible from within the scripts.
pam - Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ReplyDeleteContains the shared library for Linux-PAM, a library that enables the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users. In other words, without rewriting or recompiling a PAM-aware application, it is possible to switch between the authentication mechanism(s) it uses. One may entirely upgrade the local authentication system without touching the applications themselves.
pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
These are some of PulseAudio's features:
* High quality software mixing of multiple audio streams with support for
more than one sink/source. May be used to combine multiple sound cards
into one (with sample rate adjustment).
* Wide range of supported client libraries. ESD, ALSA, oss, libao and
GStreamer client applications are supported as-is. Native PulseAudio
plug-ins are also available for xmms and mplayer.
* Good low latency behaviour and very accurate latency measurement for
playback and recording. Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback
streams.
* Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record
audio on a different machine than the one it is running on.
* Extensible plug-in architecture with plug-ins for jackd,
ReplyDeletemulticast-rtp
lirc and avahi, just to name a few.
This package contains the daemon and basic module set.
python-apt - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg
The apt_pkg Python 3 interface will provide full access to the internal libapt-pkg structures allowing Python 3 programs to easily perform a variety of functions, such as:
- Access to the APT configuration system
- Access to the APT package information database
- Parsing of Debian package control files, and other files with a
similar structure
The included 'aptsources' Python interface provides an abstraction of the sources.list configuration on the repository and the distro level.rsyslog - Reliable system and kernel logging daemon
Rsyslog is a multi-threaded implementation of syslogd (a system utility providing support for message logging), with features that include:
* reliable syslog over TCP, SSL/TLS and RELP
* on-demand disk buffering
* email alerting
* writing to MySQL or PostgreSQL databases (via separate output plugins)
* permitted sender lists
* filtering on any part of the syslog message
* on-the-wire message compression
* fine-grained output format control
* failover to backup destinations
* enterprise-class encrypted syslog relaying
It is the default syslogd on Debian systems.
ReplyDeletesane - backends - API library for scanners - utilities
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).
The SANE standard is free and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).
This package includes the command line frontend scanimage, the saned server and the sane-find-scanner utility, along with their documentation.
secureboot-db - secure boot updates for DB and DBX
Systems with Secure Boot enabled have portions of the system signed by entries in the Secure Boot DB. This package provides a mechanism for delivering updates to DB and the corresponding blacklist database, DBX.
{... Description:
The Set-SecureBootUEFI cmdlet takes a formatted content object that is created by running
the Format-SecureBootUEFI cmdlet and a signed file, combines the two and then attempts to set the package in one of the Secure Boot variables.
The supported Secure Boot variables include Platform Key (PK), Key Exchange Key (KEK), Signature Database (DB), and Forbidden Signature Database (DBX).If successful, this cmdlet returns a UEFIEnvironmentVariable object.
Otherwise, it displays an error.This cmdlet runs on both UEFI and BIOS (non-UEFI) computers.If the computer does not support Secure Boot or is a non-UEFI computer, this cmdlet displays the following:Cmdlet not supported on this platform.
If you do not run Windows PowerShell® in administrator mode, this cmdlet displays the following:
Unable to set proper privileges. Access was denied.If you supply a signed file to this cmdlet that is not valid, this cmdlet displays the following:Incorrect authentication data. ...}
shadow - Change and administer password and group data
ReplyDeleteThis package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data.
Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian
simple-scan - Simple Scanning Utility
Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested.strace - System call tracer
strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. The program to be traced need not be recompiled for this, so you can use it on binaries for which you don't have source.
System calls and signals are events that happen at the user/kernel interface. A close examination of this boundary is very useful for bug isolation, sanity checking and attempting to capture race conditions.
sudo - Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
ReplyDeleteSudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity.
The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
This version is built with minimal shared library dependencies, use the
sudo-ldap package instead if you need LDAP LightWeight Directory Access Protocol support for sudoers.Systemd - System and service manager
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.
ReplyDeletesystemd is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Installing the systemd package will not switch your init system unless you boot with init=/lib/systemd/systemd or install systemd-sysv in addition.
thermald - Thermal monitoring and controlling daemon
ReplyDeleteThermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system.
ubuntu-drivers-comon - Detect and install additional ubuntu driver packages
- a Python API for detecting driver packages for a particular piece of
hardware or the whole system.
- an "ubuntu-drivers" command line tool to list or install driver packages
(mostly for integration in installers).
- some NVidia specific support code to find the most appropriate driver
version, as well as setting up the alternatives symlinks that the
proprietary NVidia and FGLRX packages use.
ubuntu-meta - Minimal core of Ubuntu
ReplyDeleteThese adjustments modify some unwanted behaviors of the Ubuntu package base and are specific to this base.
ubuntu-system-adjustments - Adjustments to the Ubuntu package base
These adjustments modify some unwanted behaviors of the Ubuntu package base and are specific to this base.
util-linux - Miscellaneous system files
This package contains a number of important utilities, most of which are oriented towards maintenance of your system. Some of the more important utilities included in this package allow you to view kernel messages, create new filesystems, view block device information, interface with real time clock,
etc.vte2.91 - Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 -common files
The VTE library provides a terminal emulator widget VteTerminal for applications using the GTK+ toolkit. It also provides the VtePTY object containing functions for starting a new process on a new pseudo-terminal and for manipulating pseudo-terminals.
This package contains internationalization files for the VTE library and common files for the GTK+ 3.x version.
warpinator - Allows simple local network file sharing
wpa - Client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)WPA and WPA2 are methods for securing wireless networks, the former using IEEE 802.1X, and the latter using IEEE 802.11i. This software provides key negotiation with the WPA Authenticator, and controls association with IEEE 802.11i networks.
xapp - XApp Library - This library is used by several Xapp apps.This library is used by several Xapp apps.xfce4-xapp-status-plugin- XApp libraryxz-utils XZ-format compression utilities
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma package.
The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some improvements for general use:
* 'file' magic for detecting XZ files;
* crc64 data integrity check;
* limited random-access reading support;
* improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils);
* support for flushing the encoder.