06/10/2008

Packages to add to a standard installation

These are the packages I would always install from the main repo (more a reminder for myself, but I guess it is useful for many people out there as well). This list is by far not complete and will be updated.

  • ntfsconfig (gui helper for setting read/write ability for ntfs drives)
  • quanta (web site development suite)
  • lynx (text browser for console - old, but can be very useful if you're left with a shell only)
  • texlive (LaTeX System)
  • kile (LaTeX Editor)
  • miktex-tools (if you use LaTeX and want to have a convenient package manager
Additionally, there are some packages which are not really usable or functional in the standard installation and should be replaced by packman versions (see post by avocadohead)

3 comments:

avocadohead said...

Confused ;-)
Are those packages that show better functionality in the packman version than the main OSS repo one? (Didn't know miktex-tools was even available there)

avocadohead said...

PS: Gute Besserung!

DaWuzzzz said...

Hope I clarified the post in the actual version :-) And thanks for the good whishes :-)