You are at the top of the packages tree. The packages collection is divided into categories of packages.
Here are the one-line descriptions for each of the categories, a complete list of all packages and one with all IPv6 enabled packages is also available:
archivers: | Archivers |
audio: | Audio tools |
benchmarks: | Benchmarking tools |
biology: | Software for the biological sciences |
cad: | CAD tools |
chat: | communication programs |
comms: | Communication utilities |
converters: | document format and character code converters |
cross: | Cross-platform development utilities |
databases: | Databases |
devel: | Development utilities |
editors: | Editors |
emulators: | Emulators for other operating systems |
finance: | Monetary, financial and related applications |
fonts: | Fonts |
games: | Games |
graphics: | Graphics tools and libraries |
ham: | Amateur packet radio tools |
inputmethod: | Input method tools and libraries |
lang: | Programming languages |
mail: | Electronic mail utilities |
math: | Mathematics |
mbone: | Multi-cast backBone applications |
meta-pkgs: | Collections of other packages |
misc: | Miscellaneous utilities |
net: | Networking tools |
news: | Network news |
parallel: | Applications dealing with parallelism in computing |
pkgtools: | Tools for use in the packages collection |
print: | Desktop publishing |
security: | Security tools |
shells: | Shells |
sysutils: | System utilities |
textproc: | Text processing utilities (does not include desktop publishing) |
time: | clocks, calendars, daily planners and other time related applications |
wm: | window managers (for X) |
www: | Packages related to the World Wide Web |
x11: | Packages to support the X window system |