Slint

Packages included in the Slint-14.2 ISOs not coming from a Slackware (TM) repository

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The Slint 14.2 ISOs includes packages coming from four sources:

Slackware 64-bit or Slackware 32-bit (most of the packages)
Salix 64-bit or Salix 32-bit
Extra-14.2 64-bit or Extra-14.2 32-bit: packages built by Salix from building stuff provided by https://slackbuilds.org
Slint 64-bit or Slint 32-bit

When upgrading packages with slapt-get, their priorities are set as:

Slint: Preferred
Salix: Official
Extra-14.2: Official
Slackware: Default

This means that when packages with the same base name are found in different sources, a package coming from Slint will replace a package coming from another source, and a package coming from Slackware will be replaced by a package coming from another source, regardless of their respective versions.

As Salix takes care that the Extra-14.2 and Salix repositories do not host the same packages, they should not be conflicts between these.

We list below only the packages that come from Salix, Extra-14.2 or Slint.

A * after the package name in the list below indicates that a package of the same name exists in the Slackware repository. Then the rationale for shipping one (different, but in a few cases) from the Salix or Slint repository instead is indicated as a comment.

This list of packages is not definitive

Repository	Name	Description	Comments
Slint	aaa_base*	Basic Linux filesystem package	Customized for Slint
Salix	asunder	a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder	Simple to use
Salix	atril	simply a document viewer	Light and simple to use
Extra	bdf2psf	convert fonts from bdf to psf format	Allows to build custom fonts with just the needed glyphs
Extra	bicon	a Bidirectional Console	Allows to display bi-directional text like a mix of Persian and English
Slint	blackbox*	Blackbox window manager	Configured for Slint
Slint	brltty*	Braille display daemon: allows blind users to read the screen	The Slint package includes a startup script
Extra	cld2	Compact Language Detection	Dependency of poedit, brings a better language detection and non-English source languages
Salix	claws-mail	A GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client	A lot of people prefer it over Mozilla Thunderbird and it is lighter
Salix	ConfigParser	Configuration file parser for Python 2	Dependency of transifex-client
Slint	convtags	Convert between DokuWiki and AsciiDoc	See this wiki page
Salix	depfinder	finds dependencies of Slackware packages	Allows to feed the metadata used for automatic dependencies resolution
Slint	dialog*	Display dialog boxes from shell scripts	Colors customized for Slint
Extra	doclifter	Translates documents written in troff macros, like man pages to DocBook.	Ease further conversion of man pages to other formats
Salix	dotnew	Utility to manage .new system configuration files	Helps to deal with existing versus new configuration files
Salix	dotnew-gtk	Utility to manage .new system configuration files with GUI	Helps to deal with existing versus new configuration files
Slint	elilo*	Linux Loader for EFI-based platforms	With localized configuration script
Salix	engrampa	Archive manager for MATE	Versatile, fits well with the PCManFM file manager
Salix	fakeroot	provides a faked root environment suitable for many tasks	Makes package building safer
Salix	fbautostart	Fluxbox Autostarter	Used to start applets and show their icon in the tray. including salix-update-notifier
Extra	fbterm	Fast FrameBuffer based TERMinal emulator for linux	Helps display CJK languages on the console
Salix	flash-plugin	Adobe(R) flashplayer plugin for GNU/Linux	Some web contents still rely on that, alas.
Slint	fluxbox*	Fluxbox window manager	Configured for Slint and built with imlib2 support to include more icons in the menus
Slint	fontconfig*	Font library and tools	With localized configuration script
Slint	fontforge	an outline font editor	Awesome font editor. What else?
Slint	fvwm*	a small and fast virtual window manager for X	Configured for Slint
Salix	geany-plugins	additional plugins for Geany	Add useful features to the geany code and text editor
Salix	geany	A text editor using the GTK2 toolkit	Allows serious coding although simple enough for text editing
Slint	glibc-zoneinfo*	timezone database	With localized configuration script
Slint	gparted*	Gnome partition Editor	The version in the Salix and Slackware repositories are older
Slint	gpm*	general purpose mouse server	With localized configuration script
Salix	grub*	the second GNU GRand Unified Bootloader	The version shipped in Salix brings a configuration script
Salix	gslapt	a GTK version of slapt-get	Graphical package manager, allows automatic dependencies resolution
Salix	gtksourceview	syntax highlighting library for GTK+	Dependency of pluma and pygtksourceview
Extra	gtkspell3	GTK3 spell checker interface library	Used for spell checking in various applications
Salix	guefi	a GTK+3 frontend for efibootmgr	Ease editing UEFI firmware boot menus (only in x86_64 ISOs
Extra	hardinfo	GTK+2 system information and benchmark tool	Tells you all you want to know about your system
Slint	hplip*	HP print/scan/fax support	The Salix version lacks a Qt GUI, thus we host the Slackware version in the Slint repository
Extra	hyphen	hyphenation library	Dependency of scribus
Salix	imlib2	Powerful image loading and rendering library	Dependency of firefox in Slint
Salix	inkscape	Open Source vector graphics editor	Awesome vector graphics editor
Salix	json-glib	serialization/deserialization support for the JSON format	Dependency of engrampa
Salix	ktsuss	a graphical version of su	Used with graphical UIs to run applications with root's privileges
Salix	libburn	a library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs	Dependency of libisoburn that ships xorriso
Salix	libetpan	libEtPan is a mail purpose library	Dependency of claws-mail
Slint	libfm-extra	pcmanfm library	provides additional features to pcmanfm
Slint	libfm	pcmanfm library	Dependency of lxpanel, menu-cache and pcmanfm
Salix	libisoburn	a front end for libraries libburn and libisofs	Ships xorriso used to build Slint iSOs
Salix	libisofs	a library to create an ISO-9660 filesystem	Dependency of libisoburn
Salix	libreoffice-5	free office suite	Very versatile office suite
Salix	libwebp	WebP library and conversion tools	Dependency of atril, geany-plugins, webkitgtk and wxGTK
Slint	lilo*	Linux Loader	With localized configuration script
Extra	LucenePlusPlus	C++ port of the Java Lucene library, text search engine.	Dependency of poedit.
Slint	lxdm	GUI login manager for LXDE	Used in Slint as default display manager
Extra	lxmenu-data	desktop menus for LXDE	Dependency of lxpanel
Slint	lxpanel	NETWM/EWMH compliant lightweight x11 desktop panel	Panel used with all window managers in Slint
Slint	man*	format and display the on-line manual pages	Actually man-db, allows better display of CJK man pages.
Extra	menu-cache	lightweight replacement of libgnome-menu	Dependency of libfm, lxpanel and pcmanfm
Slint	mkfontdir*	X11 font utility	Includes localized script setup.04.mkfontdir
Extra	mlterm	Mlterm is a multilingual terminal emulator on X11	Properly handle bidirectional text with left or right line alignment (implementation of the bidi algorithm)
Salix	mozilla-firefox-4*	safe and easy web browser from Mozilla	This package includes many locales
Slint	mozilla-thunderbird*	Mozilla Thunderbird mail application	This package includes many locales
Slint	nano*	Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone	This package's version brings valuable enhancements, like displaying line numbers
Salix	network-manager-applet*	NetworkManager Applet	This packages provides more features than the Slackware package
Slint	network-scripts*	Scripts to configure a network	With localized configuration script
Slint	nvme-cli	NVM-Express user space tooling for Linux	NVM-Express is a fast, scalable host controller interface designed to address the needs for PCI Express based solid state drives. nvme-cli allows to query and set the nvme controllers.
Salix	orc	The Oil Runtime Compiler	Dependency of atril, geany, parole, poedit, webkitgtk, wxGTK
Salix	pandoc	markup conversion tool	Able to convert from/to a lot of documentation formats. Rebuilt of a binary packages as building it needs haskell distribution
Salix	parole	a modern media player for Xfce	Simple and good enough
Slint	pcmanfm	PCMan File Manager	Default file manager for Slint.
Extra	perl-Encode-EUCJPASCII	An eucJP-open mapping	Optional dependency of po4a
Extra	perl-Encode-HanExtra	Extra sets of Chinese encodings	Optional dependency of po4a
Extra	perl-Encode-ISO2022	JISO/IEC 2022 character encoding scheme	Dependency of perl-Encode-JISX0213 and optionally of po4a
Extra	perl-Encode-JISX0213	JIS X 02I3 encoding	Optional dependency of po4a
Extra	perl-MIME-Charset	Charset Information	Dependency of po4a
Salix	perl-Module-Build	Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker	Dependency of po4a
Extra	perl-Text-CharWidth	Column Computer	Dependency of po4a and perl-Text-WrapI18N
Extra	perl-Text-WrapI18N	line wrapping module	Dependency of po4a
Extra	perl-Unicode-LineBreak	UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm	Optional dependency of po4a
Salix	perl-inc-latest	use bundled modules	Dependency of perl-Module-Build
Slint	pkgtools*	The Slackware package maintenance system	With localized configuration scripts
Slint	pluma	A powerful text editor for MATE	Default text editor in Slint. Simple but allows some coding and includes a spell checker.
Slint	po4a	PO documentation format converter	Allows to use the gettext suite for various document formats. Used in Slint to ease man pages translation
Extra	poedit	cross-platform gettext catalogs editor	Used by several Slint translators
Salix	pygtksourceview	a Python wrapper for the gtksourceview	Dependency of pluma
Salix	pysimpleconfig	Simple configuration file management in python	Dependency of sourcery and salix-codecs-installer-gtk (GUI for salix-codecs-installer)
Salix	python-six	Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities	Dependency of transifex-client
Salix	python-urllib3	(HTTP library for python	Dependency of transifex-client
Salix	pyxdg	a python library to access freedesktop.org standards	Dependency of qcontrolcenter and xgdmenumaker
Slint	qcontrolcenter	Easily customizable Control Center	Back end of the Slint Control Center
Salix	salix-codecs-installer	install restricted multimedia codecs	Gives access to a lot of media otherwise unusable
Salix	salix-update-notifier	tray notification for package updates	Used in Slint, started by fbautostart
Slint	salixtools-gtk	graphical system utilities	Utilities useful in Slint, available from the applications menus and the Slint Control Center
Slint	salixtools	various system utilities	Utilities useful for Slint
Extra	scribus	open-source professional page layout program	Awesome and simple to use
Slint	sed*	stream editor	This package's version brings valuable enhancements, that should make it faster in some cases
Slint	shadow*	shadow password suite	Localized script “adduser” and logins.def edited to include the user name in the password prompt
Slint	slackpkg*	slackpkg	Includes localized man pages, also provided to Slackware
Slint	slackware-docs	misc documents gathered from Slackware (R)	Easy access to documents also relevant for Slint
Slint	slapt-get	an apt like system for Slackware package management	Main package manager for Slint
Slint	slapt-src	slapt slackbuild utility	Allows to download the needed stuff, build and install packages from SlackBuilds and SLKBUILD
Slint	slint-control-center	Slint Control Center	Gives an easy access to programs useful in all desktops and windows managers
Slint	slint-docs	misc documents about Slint	Gathers miscellaneous documents useful for Slint users and contributors
Slint	slint-translations	translations of configuration scripts' messages	This package can be be upgraded at any time to bring enhancements, more translations and translations in new languages.
Slint	slint-user-settings	default user settings for Slint	Provides consistent look root menus and panel layouts for Blackbox, Fwwm, Fluxbox, WindowMaker and Xfce
Salix	slkbuild	arch-like wrapper script for easy packaging	Eases building packages in Slackware format
Salix	sourcery	a GTK+2 frontend to slapt-src	Graphical UI for slapt-src
Salix	spi	Salix Package Installer, command line tool that acts as a wrapper around slapt‑get and slapt‑src.	Finds available packages and SlackBuilds, built if necessary and install including dependencies
Salix	spkg	package manager	Build needs glib2 built with ‑‑enable‑static and judy without ‑‑disable‑static
Slint	sysvinit-scripts*	the basic scripts used to boot your machine	Scripts adapted to Slint
Slint	tmux*	terminal multiplexer	With UTF-8 support
Salix	transifex-client	a command line client for Transifex	Ease transfer or translation files to/from the Transifex platform, used by Slint.
Slint	twm*	Tab Window Manager for the X Window System	Configured for Slint
Salix	txt2tags	a document generator	Converts text files with a simple syntax to man pages
Salix	urlgrabber	A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber for python	Needed by salix-codecs-installer-gtk (GUI for salix-codecs-installer)
Slint	v4l-utils*	libraries and utilities for video4linux	The Salix package has no Qt GUI, thus we host the Slackware version in the Slint repository
Salix	viewnior	image viewer	Simple, doesn't get in the way
Salix	webkitgtk-2	GTK+ port of the WebKit	Dependency of atril, geany-plugins, wxGTK
Slint	windowmaker*	a fast and elegant window manager	Configured for Slint
Salix	wm-logout	presents a logout dialog	Used in Slint to allow halting or rebooting as regular user from blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, windowmaker
Slint	wpa_supplicant*	WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant	The Salix package has no Qt GUI, thus we host the Slackware version in the Slint repository
Salix	wxGTK-3	wxWidgets toolkit for GTK	Dependency of poedit
Slint	x11-skel*	Miscellaneous things required for X	With localized configuration scripts
Salix	xdgmenumaker	generates xdg menus	Used to include similar application menus in root menus of blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, twm, windowmaker
Slint	xterm*	terminal emulator for X	Built with a toolbar, aka menu bar
Salix	zenity	Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts	Dependency of salix-update-notifier
Slint	zzz-settings	provides system wide fixes for several packages	Last “package” installed. Actually does not install anything, but makes some configuration and tweaking.