[ lucid ] [ lucid-updates ] [ lucid-backports ] [ precise ] [ precise-updates ] [ precise-backports ] [ quantal ] [ quantal-updates ] [ quantal-backports ] [ raring ] [ raring-updates ] [ raring-backports ] [ saucy ]

List of sections in "precise-backports"

Administration Utilities: Utilities to administer system resources, manage user accounts, etc.
debian-installer udeb packages: Special packages for building customized debian-installer variants. Do not install them on a normal system!
Debug packages: Packages providing debugging information for executables and shared libraries.
Development: Development utilities, compilers, development environments, libraries, etc.
Documentation: FAQs, HOWTOs and other documents trying to explain everything related to Debian, and software needed to browse documentation (man, info, etc).
Electronics: Electronics utilities.
Fonts: Font packages.
Games: Programs to spend a nice time with after all this setting up.
GNOME: The GNOME desktop environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
Java: Everything about Java.
KDE: The K Desktop Environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.

Library development: Libraries necessary for developers to write programs that use them.

Libraries: Libraries to make other programs work. They provide special features to developers.
Mail: Programs to route, read, and compose E-mail messages.
Network: Daemons and clients to connect your system to the world.
OCaml: Everything about OCaml, an ML language implementation.
Python: Everything about Python, an interpreted, interactive object oriented language.
Science: Basic tools for scientific work
Sound: Utilities to deal with sound: mixers, players, recorders, CD players, etc.
Utilities: Utilities for file/disk manipulation, backup and archive tools, system monitoring, input systems, etc.
Video: Video viewers, editors, recording, streaming.
Virtual packages: Virtual packages.
Web Software: Web servers, browsers, proxies, download tools etc.
X Window System software: X servers, libraries, fonts, window managers, terminal emulators and many related applications.