| accountsservice |
D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information |
| ack |
ack is a tool like grep, optimized for programmers |
| acl |
Access control list utilities, libraries, and headers |
| agedu |
A utility for tracking down wasted disk space |
| apmd |
Advanced Power Management Daemon |
| apparmor |
Userspace utils and init scripts for the AppArmor application security system |
| apparmor-utils |
Additional userspace utils to assist with AppArmor profile management |
| apply-default-acl |
Apply default POSIX ACLs to files and directories |
| arrayprobe |
Utility to report status of an HP (Compaq) array controller (both IDA & CCISS) |
| attr |
Extended attributes tools |
| audio-entropyd |
Audio-entropyd generates entropy-data for the /dev/random device |
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| baobab |
Disk usage browser for GNOME |
| bar |
Console Progress Bar |
| baselayout |
Filesystem baselayout and init scripts |
| baselayout-java |
Baselayout for Java |
| baselayout-prefix |
Filesystem baselayout and init scripts |
| bat |
cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration |
| biosdevname |
Sets BIOS-given device names instead of kernel eth* names |
| biosdisk |
FreeDOS based BIOS updating utility for Dell machines |
| bleachbit |
Clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy |
| bolt |
Userspace system daemon to enable security levels for Thunderbolt 3 |
| bubblewrap |
Unprivileged sandboxing tool, namespaces-powered chroot-like solution |
| busybox |
Utilities for rescue and embedded systems |
| byld |
Build a Linux distribution on a single floppy |
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| cciss_vol_status |
Shows status of logical drives attached to HP SmartArray controllers |
| ccs-tools |
TOMOYO Linux tools |
| checkpolicy |
SELinux policy compiler |
| chname |
Run a command with a new system hostname |
| cinit |
a fast, small and simple init with support for profiles |
| ckbcomp |
Compile an XKB keymap for loadkeys |
| clrngd |
Clock randomness gathering daemon |
| collectl |
Performance monitoring tool capable of interactive reporting and logging to disk |
| colorized-logs |
Tools for logs with ANSI color |
| consolation |
libinput based console mouse daemon |
| conspy |
Remote control for Linux virtual consoles |
| coreutils |
Standard GNU utilities (chmod, cp, dd, ls, sort, tr, head, wc, who,...) |
| cpint |
Linux/390 Interface to z/VM's Control Program |
| cpuid |
Linux tool to dump x86 CPUID information about the CPUs |
| cracklib-words |
Large set of crack/cracklib dictionaries |
| crazydiskinfo |
Interactive TUI S.M.A.R.T viewer |
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| daemonize |
Runs a command as a Unix daemon |
| daisydog |
A very simple /dev/watchdog daemon |
| darwin-miscutils |
Miscellaneous commands used on Darwin/Mac OS X systems, Mountain Lion 10.8 |
| dbus |
A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to each other |
| dbus-broker |
Linux D-Bus Message Broker |
| dcfldd |
enhanced dd with features for forensics and security |
| dchroot |
Utility for managing chroots for non-root users |
| debianutils |
A selection of tools from Debian |
| diffutils |
Tools to make diffs and compare files |
| dmidecode |
DMI (Desktop Management Interface) table related utilities |
| dnotify |
Execute a command when the contents of a directory change |
| dog |
Dog is better than cat |
| dstat |
Versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat and ifstat |
| dtc |
Open Firmware device tree compiler |
| duc |
A library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage |
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| earlyoom |
Early OOM Daemon for Linux |
| ed |
Your basic line editor |
| edac-utils |
Userspace helper for Linux kernel EDAC drivers |
| edid-decode |
Decode EDID data in a human-readable format |
| edid-fixdim |
Tool to fix screen dimensions in EDID data dumps |
| eless |
Use Emacs as a paginator |
| elfix |
A suite of tools to work with ELF objects on Hardened Gentoo |
| epoch |
Init system, /sbin/init replacement; designed for simplicity |
| etckeeper |
A collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a repository |
| ethq |
Ethernet NIC Queue stats viewer |
| ethtool |
Utility for examining and tuning ethernet-based network interfaces |
| exa |
A modern replacement for 'ls' written in Rust |
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| fakechroot |
Provide a faked chroot environment without requiring root privileges |
| fakeroot |
A fake root environment by means of LD_PRELOAD and SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery |
| fakeroot-ng |
A utility to run commands with fake root privileges |
| fbset |
A utility to set the framebuffer videomode |
| fd |
Alternative to find that provides sensible defaults for 80% of the use cases |
| file |
Identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns |
| findutils |
GNU utilities for finding files |
| firejail |
Security sandbox for any type of processes |
| firejail-lts |
Security sandbox for any type of processes; LTS version |
| fix-gnustack |
Utility to report and remove the executable flag from an ELF object's GNU_STACK |
| flashrom |
Utility for reading, writing, erasing and verifying flash ROM chips |
| flatpak |
Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework |
| fwts |
Firmware Test Suite |
| fwupd |
Aims to make updating firmware on Linux automatic, safe and reliable |
| fwupd-efi |
EFI executable for fwupd |
| fxload |
USB firmware uploader |
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| gawk |
GNU awk pattern-matching language |
| gcp |
File copying utility with progress and I/O indicator |
| gentoo-functions |
base functions required by all Gentoo systems |
| gentoo-systemd-integration |
systemd integration files for Gentoo |
| gnome-disk-utility |
Disk Utility for GNOME using udisks |
| gpet |
GTK+ based TOMOYO policy editor |
| gptfdisk |
GPT partition table manipulator for Linux |
| gradm |
Administrative interface for the grsecurity Role Based Access Control system |
| grep |
GNU regular expression matcher |
| grepcidr |
Filter IPv4 and IPv6 addresses matching CIDR patterns |
| groff |
Text formatter used for man pages |
| gscanbus |
Bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for Linux IEEE1394 subsystem |
| gsmartcontrol |
Hard disk drive health inspection tool |
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| haveged |
A simple entropy daemon using the HAVEGE algorithm |
| hd-idle |
Utility for spinning down hard disks after a period of idle time |
| hdparm |
Utility to change hard drive performance parameters |
| heirloom-tools |
Heirloom toolchest - original Unix tools |
| help2man |
GNU utility to convert program --help output to a man page |
| highway |
High performance source code search tool |
| hotplug2stdout |
A tool for reading kernel uevent(s) to stdout |
| hponcfg |
HP Lights-Out Online Configuration Utility (HPONCFG) |
| hprofile |
Utility to manage hardware, network, power or other profiles (fork) |
| hwdata |
Hardware identification and configuration data |
| hwinfo |
Hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux |
| hwloc |
Displays the hardware topology in convenient formats |
| hw-probe |
A tool to probe for hardware, check it's operability and find drivers |
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| i2c-tools |
I2C tools for bus probing, chip dumping, EEPROM decoding, and more |
| ibm-powerpc-utils |
Utilities for the maintainance of the IBM and Apple PowerPC platforms |
| idle3-tools |
Set, get or disable the value of the idle3 timer found on WD HDDs |
| ifd-gempc |
GemCore based PC/SC reader drivers for pcsc-lite |
| ifplugd |
Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection |
| init-system-helpers |
Helper scripts useful for both OpenRC and systemd |
| input-utils |
Small collection of linux input layer utils |
| install-xattr |
Wrapper to coreutil's install to preserve Filesystem Extended Attributes |
| intel-performance-counter-monitor |
Intel Performance Counter Monitor - A better way to measure CPU utilization |
| intel-sa-00075-tools |
Tools from Intel to detect and mitigate the AMT/MEI vulnerability |
| inxi |
The CLI inxi collects and prints hardware and system information |
| iotools |
Simple commands to access hardware device registers |
| ipmicfg |
An in-band utility for configuring Supermicro IPMI devices |
| ipmitool |
Utility for controlling IPMI enabled devices |
| ipmiutil |
IPMI Management Utilities |
| iproute2 |
kernel routing and traffic control utilities |
| irqbalance |
Distribute hardware interrupts across processors on a multiprocessor system |
| isapnptools |
Tools for configuring ISA PnP devices |
| iucode_tool |
tool to manipulate Intel X86 and X86-64 processor microcode update collections |
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| kbd |
Keyboard and console utilities |
| kcheck |
Record and check required kernel symbols are set |
| kexec-tools |
Load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel |
| keyutils |
Linux Key Management Utilities |
| kmod |
library and tools for managing linux kernel modules |
| kmscon |
KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator |
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| lcdsplash |
splash Gentoo boot information on LCD's |
| lcdutils |
(Sun) Cobalt Qube/RaQ button reading and LCD writing utilities |
| less |
Excellent text file viewer |
| likwid |
A performance-oriented tool suite for x86 multicore environments |
| linux-misc-apps |
Misc tools bundled with kernel sources |
| lm-sensors |
Hardware Monitoring user-space utilities |
| lnxhc |
Linux Health Checker |
| logwatch |
Analyzes and Reports on system logs |
| lsadb |
Prints out information on all devices attached to the ADB bus |
| lsb-release |
LSB version query program |
| lsd |
A modern ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons |
| lshw |
Hardware Lister |
| lssbus |
Small utility for Linux/SPARC that list devices on SBUS |
| lsvpd |
Utility to List Device Vital Product Data (VPD) |
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| makedev |
program used for creating device files in /dev |
| man2html |
Standard commands to read man pages |
| man-db |
A man replacement that utilizes dbm instead of flat files |
| man-pages |
A somewhat comprehensive collection of Linux man pages |
| man-pages-posix |
POSIX man-pages (0p, 1p, 3p) |
| mawk |
An (often faster than gawk) awk-interpreter |
| mcstrans |
SELinux context translation to human readable names |
| memtest86 |
A stand alone memory test for x86 computers |
| memtest86+ |
Memory tester based on PCMemTest |
| memtest86-bin |
Stand alone memory testing software for x86 computers |
| memtester |
userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults |
| miller |
A tool like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data (CSV, JSON, ..) |
| minijail |
helper binary and library for sandboxing & restricting privs of service |
| minised |
a smaller, cheaper and faster sed implementation |
| miscfiles |
Miscellaneous files |
| mlocate |
Merging locate is an utility to index and quickly search for files |
| mlxup-bin |
Mellanox Update and Query Utility |
| moreutils |
A collection of tools that nobody thought to write when Unix was young |
| most |
Paging program that displays, one windowful at a time, the contents of a file |
| mount-gtk |
GTK+ based UDisks2 frontend |
| mouseemu |
Emulates scrollwheel, right- & left-click for one-button mice/touchpads |
| msr-tools |
Utilities allowing the read and write of CPU model-specific registers (MSR) |
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| nawk |
Brian Kernighan's pattern scanning and processing language |
| netkit-base |
Old-style inetd |
| netplug |
Brings up/down ethernet ports automatically with cable detection |
| net-tools |
Standard Linux networking tools |
| noexec |
a package for preventing processes from using exec system calls |
| nosig |
Block signals before running programs (a generic "nohup") |
| nvme-cli |
NVM-Express user space tooling for Linux |
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| onerng |
Software for the Open Hardware Random Number Generator called OneRNG |
| opal-utils |
OPAL firmware utilities |
| openrc |
OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host |
| opentmpfiles |
A standalone utility to process systemd-style tmpfiles.d files |
| osinfo-db |
osinfo database files |
| osinfo-db-tools |
Tools for managing the osinfo database |
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| paxctl |
Manages various PaX related program header flags for Elf32, Elf64, binaries |
| paxctld |
PaX flags maintenance daemon |
| pciutils |
Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus |
| pcmciautils |
PCMCIA userspace utilities for Linux |
| pcsc-lite |
PC/SC Architecture smartcard middleware library |
| pcsc-slb-rf72-drv |
Schlumberger Reflex 72 Serial Smartcard Reader |
| pcsc-tools |
PC/SC Architecture smartcard tools |
| pick |
A fuzzy search tool for the command-line |
| pkgcore |
a framework for package management |
| plocate |
Posting locate is a much faster locate |
| pmount |
Policy based mounter that gives the ability to mount removable devices as a user |
| pmount-gui |
A simple graphical frontend for pmount |
| pnputils |
Plug and Play BIOS utilities |
| policycoreutils |
SELinux core utilities |
| portage |
The package management and distribution system for Gentoo |
| powerpc-utils |
PowerPC utilities and additional OldWorld apps |
| ppc64-diag |
Diagnostic tools for PowerLinux |
| prctl |
Tool to query and modify process behavior |
| preload |
Adaptive readahead daemon |
| progress |
Coreutils Viewer: show progress for cp, rm, dd, and so forth |
| proot |
User-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc |
| pv |
Pipe Viewer: a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipe |
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| qcontrol |
Send commands to some microcontrollers, e.g., to change LEDs or sound a buzzer |
| qdirstat |
Qt-based directory statistics |
| qingy |
A DirectFB getty replacement |
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| radeontool |
Utility to get/set registers and controlling backlight on radeon based GPUs |
| razercfg |
Utility for advanced configuration of Razer mice |
| readahead-list |
Preloads files into the page cache to accelerate program loading |
| rename |
Easily rename files |
| renameutils |
Use your favorite text editor to rename files |
| restartd |
A daemon for checking your running and not running processes |
| restorecond |
Daemon to watch for creation and set default SELinux fcontexts |
| ripgrep |
a search tool that combines the usability of ag with the raw speed of grep |
| ripgrep-all |
Like ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, archives, etc. |
| rkflashtool |
Tool for flashing Rockchip devices |
| rng-tools |
Daemon to use hardware random number generators |
| roccat-tools |
Utility for advanced configuration of Roccat devices |
| rootlesskit |
Linux-native "fake root" for implementing rootless containers |
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| s390-tools |
User space utilities for the zSeries (s390) Linux kernel and device drivers |
| s6 |
skarnet.org's small and secure supervision software suite |
| s6-linux-init |
Generates an init binary for s6-based init systems |
| s6-linux-utils |
Set of tiny linux utilities |
| s6-portable-utils |
Set of tiny portable unix utilities |
| s6-rc |
Service manager for the s6 supervision suite |
| salinfo |
decode Itanium SAL records (e.g. various hardware errors) |
| sandbox |
sandbox'd LD_PRELOAD hack |
| sdparm |
Utility to output and modify parameters on a SCSI device, like hdparm |
| secilc |
SELinux Common Intermediate Language (CIL) Compiler |
| sed |
Super-useful stream editor |
| selinux-python |
SELinux core utilities |
| semodule-utils |
SELinux policy module utilities |
| sensei-raw-ctl |
SteelSeries Sensei Raw configuration tool |
| servicelog |
Provides utilities for logging service-related events |
| setserial |
Configure your serial ports with it |
| sg3_utils |
Apps for querying the sg SCSI interface |
| shadow |
Utilities to deal with user accounts |
| smartmontools |
Tools to monitor storage systems to provide advanced warning of disk degradation |
| smcipmitool |
An out-of-band utility for interfacing with SuperBlade and IPMI devices via CLI |
| smc-sum |
Updates the BIOS and IPMI firmware and system settings on Supermicro mainboards |
| sparc-utils |
Various sparc utilities from Debian GNU/Linux |
| spu-tools |
CELL spu ps and top alike utilities |
| stroke |
A powerful tool to change file timestamps (including ctimes) |
| superdiag |
Provides the capability to determine the health of Supermicro servers components |
| superiotool |
util to detect Super I/O chips and functionality |
| syscriptor |
Display misc information about your hardware |
| syslog-notify |
Notifications for syslog entries via libnotify |
| systemd |
System and service manager for Linux |
| systemd-readahead |
Split of readahead systemd implementation |
| systemd-tmpfiles |
Virtual package to depend on sys-apps/systemd-utils |
| systemd-utils |
Utilities split out from systemd for OpenRC users |
| sysvinit |
/sbin/init - parent of all processes |
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| tas |
Supermicro Thin-Agent Service for monitoring through the BMC/IPMI |
| tcp-wrappers |
TCP Wrappers |
| texinfo |
The GNU info program and utilities |
| the_silver_searcher |
A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster |
| thunderbolt-software-user-space |
Thunderbolt(TM) user-space components |
| tomoyo-tools |
TOMOYO Linux tools |
| toybox |
Common linux commands in a multicall binary |
| tuned |
Daemon for monitoring and adaptive tuning of system devices |
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| uam |
Simple udev-based automounter for removable USB media |
| ucspi-proxy |
Proxy program for two connections set up by a UCSPI server and a UCSPI client |
| ucspi-ssl |
Command-line tools for building SSL client-server applications |
| ucspi-tcp |
Collection of tools for managing UNIX services |
| ucspi-unix |
A UCSPI implementation for Unix domain sockets |
| udevil |
mount and unmount removable devices without a password |
| unscd |
simple & stable nscd replacement |
| usbguard |
Daemon protecting your computer against BadUSB |
| usb_modeswitch |
Tool for controlling 'flip flop' (multiple devices) USB gear like UMTS sticks |
| usbmon |
Userland for USB monitoring framework |
| usbredir |
TCP daemon and set of libraries for usbredir protocol (redirecting USB traffic) |
| usbutils |
USB enumeration utilities |
| usermode-utilities |
Tools for use with Usermode Linux virtual machines |
| utempter |
App that allows non-privileged apps to write utmp (login) info |
| util-linux |
Various useful Linux utilities |
| uutils |
GNU coreutils rewritten in Rust |
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| vbetool |
Run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hw state (i.e. reinitialize video card) |
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| watchdog |
A software watchdog and /dev/watchdog daemon |
| which |
Prints out location of specified executables that are in your path |
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| x86info |
Dave Jones' handy, informative x86 CPU diagnostic utility |
| xdg-dbus-proxy |
Filtering proxy for D-Bus connections |
| xdg-desktop-portal |
Desktop integration portal |
| xdg-desktop-portal-gnome |
Backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using GNOME |
| xdg-desktop-portal-gtk |
portal backend implementation that is using GTK+ and various pieces of GNOME |
| xinetd |
powerful replacement for inetd |
| xmbmon |
Mother Board Monitor Program for X Window System |
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| yarn |
Fast, reliable, and secure node dependency management |
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| zorroutils |
Zorro bus utility for Amigas running 2.1 and later kernels |
| zram-generator |
Systemd unit generator for zram swap devices |
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