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|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
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ii  adduser        3.63           Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt            0.5.28.6       Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils      0.5.28.6       APT utility programs
ii  aptitude       0.2.15.9-2     terminal-based apt frontend
ii  base-config    2.53.10        Debian base system configurator
ii  base-files     3.1.2          Debian base system miscellaneous files
ii  base-passwd    3.5.9          Debian base system master password and group
ii  bash           2.05b-26       The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  bsdmainutils   6.0.17         collection of more utilities from FreeBSD
ii  bsdutils       2.12p-4        Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  bzip2          1.0.2-7        high-quality block-sorting file compressor -
ii  console-common 0.7.49         Basic infrastructure for text console config
ii  console-data   2002.12.04dbs- Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback table
ii  console-tools  0.2.3dbs-56    Linux console and font utilities
ii  coreutils      5.2.1-2        The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio           2.5-1.2        GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of 
ii  cron           3.0pl1-86      management of regular background processing
ii  debconf        1.4.30.13      Debian configuration management system
ii  debconf-i18n   1.4.30.13      full internationalization support for debcon
ii  debianutils    2.8.4          Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
rc  dhcp-client    2.0pl5-19.1    DHCP Client
ii  dhcp3-client   3.0.1-2        DHCP Client
ii  dhcp3-common   3.0.1-2        Common files used by all the dhcp3* packages
ii  diff           2.8.1-11       File comparison utilities
ii  dpkg           1.10.28        Package maintenance system for Debian
ii  dselect        1.10.28        a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii  e2fslibs       1.37-2sarge1   ext2 filesystem libraries
ii  e2fsprogs      1.37-2sarge1   ext2 file system utilities and libraries
ii  ed             0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  exim           3.36-16        An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  fileutils      5.2.1-2        The GNU file management utilities (transitio
ii  findutils      4.1.20-6       utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an
ii  gcc-3.3-base   3.3.5-13       The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii  gettext-base   0.14.4-2       GNU Internationalization utilities for the b
ii  grep           2.5.1.ds1-4    GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  groff-base     1.18.1.1-7     GNU troff text-formatting system (base syste
ii  gzip           1.3.5-10       The GNU compression utility
ii  hostname       2.13           A utility to set/show the host name or domai
ii  ifupdown       0.6.7          high level tools to configure network interf
ii  info           4.7-2.2        Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
ii  initscripts    2.86.ds1-1     Standard scripts needed for booting and shut
ii  iptables       1.2.11-10      Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables administration to
ii  klogd          1.4.1-17       Kernel Logging Daemon
ii  libacl1        2.2.23-1       Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1       2.4.16-1       Extended attribute shared library
ii  libblkid1      1.37-2sarge1   block device id library
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.2-7        high-quality block-sorting file compressor l
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-22   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libcap1        1.10-14        support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabil
ii  libcomerr2     1.37-2sarge1   common error description library
ii  libconsole     0.2.3dbs-56    Shared libraries for Linux console and font 
ii  libdb1-compat  2.1.3-7        The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2.
ii  libdb2         2.7.7.0-9      The Berkeley database routines (run-time fil
ii  libdb3         3.2.9-22       Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii  libdb4.2       4.2.52-18      Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii  libgcc1        3.4.3-13       GCC support library
ii  libgcrypt11    1.2.0-11.1     LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
ii  libgdbm3       1.8.3-2        GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
ii  libgdbmg1      1.7.3-28       GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
ii  libgnutls11    1.0.16-13.1    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0  1.0-1          library for common error values and messages
ii  libident       0.22-3         simple RFC1413 client library - runtime
ii  libidn11       0.5.13-1.0     GNU libidn library, implementation of IETF I
ii  libldap2       2.1.30-8       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  liblocale-gett 1.01-17        Using libc functions for internationalizatio
ii  liblockfile1   1.06           NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfi
ii  liblzo1        1.08-1.2       A real-time data compression library
ii  libncurses5    5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libnewt0.51    0.51.6-20      Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode win
ii  libopencdk8    0.5.5-10       Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenCDK) (runti
ii  libpam-modules 0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
ii  libpam-runtime 0.76-22        Runtime support for the PAM library
ii  libpam0g       0.76-22        Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii  libpcap0       0.6.2-2        System interface for user-level packet captu
ii  libpcre3       4.5-1.2        Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library
ii  libpopt0       1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libreadline4   4.3-11         GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
ii  libsasl2       2.1.19-1.5     Authentication abstraction library
ii  libsasl7       1.5.27-3       Authentication abstraction library.
ii  libsigc++-1.2- 1.2.5-4        type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
ii  libss2         1.37-2sarge1   command-line interface parsing library
ii  libssl0.9.6    0.9.6m-1       SSL shared libraries (old version)
ii  libssl0.9.7    0.9.7e-3       SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-22      The GNU stdc++ library
ii  libstdc++5     3.3.5-13       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtasn1-2     0.2.10-3       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libtext-charwi 0.04-1         get display widths of characters on the term
ii  libtext-iconv- 1.2-3          Convert between character sets in Perl
ii  libtext-wrapi1 0.06-1         internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap
ii  libuuid1       1.37-2sarge1   universally unique id library
ii  libwrap0       7.6.dbs-8      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  login          4.0.3-31sarge5 system login tools
ii  logrotate      3.7-5          Log rotation utility
ii  mailx          8.1.2-0.200405 A simple mail user agent
ii  makedev        2.3.1-77       creates device files in /dev
ii  man-db         2.4.2-21       The on-line manual pager
ii  manpages       1.70-1         Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
ii  mawk           1.3.3-11       a pattern scanning and text processing langu
ii  mbr            1.1.5-2        Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible com
ii  mount          2.12p-4        Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst
ii  nano           1.2.4-5        free Pico clone with some new features
ii  ncurses-base   5.4-4          Descriptions of common terminal types
ii  ncurses-bin    5.4-4          Terminal-related programs and man pages
ii  net-tools      1.60-10        The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  netbase        4.21           Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  netkit-inetd   0.10-10        The Internet Superserver
ii  netkit-ping    0.10-10        The ping utility from netkit
ii  nvi            1.79-22        4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
ii  passwd         4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and group dat
ii  perl-base      5.8.4-8        The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
ii  procps         3.2.1-2        The /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc         21.5-1         Utilities that use the proc filesystem
ii  sed            4.1.2-8        The GNU sed stream editor
ii  shellutils     5.2.1-2        The GNU shell programming utilities (transit
rc  slang1         1.4.9dbs-8     The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
ii  slang1a-utf8   1.4.9dbs-8     The S-Lang programming library with utf8 sup
ii  ssh            3.8.1p1-8.sarg Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)
ii  sysklogd       1.4.1-17       System Logging Daemon
ii  sysv-rc        2.86.ds1-1     Standard boot mechanism using symlinks in /e
ii  sysvinit       2.86.ds1-1     System-V like init
ii  tar            1.14-2         GNU tar
ii  tasksel        2.24           Tool for selecting tasks for installation on
ii  tcpd           7.6.dbs-8      Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities
ii  telnet         0.17-29        The telnet client
ii  textutils      5.2.1-2        The GNU text file processing utilities (tran
ii  util-linux     2.12p-4        Miscellaneous system utilities
ii  wget           1.9.1-12       retrieves files from the web
ii  whiptail       0.51.6-20      Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from she
ii  whois          4.7.5          the GNU whois client
ii  zlib1g         1.2.2-4        compression library - runtime

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