What programs are on the Knoppix CD

**hickorynut01** · 09-28-2003, 01:29 AM

Is there a posted list of what programs are on the Knoppix CD and
what they do? I have Knoppix installed on my HD and its working
great but I don't know what most of
the programs are. I'm bad about
screwing things up so before I start
running programs I thought I would
ask. Thanks, kenny

**Stephen** · 09-28-2003, 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by hickorynut01

Is there a posted list of what programs are on the Knoppix CD and
what they do? I have Knoppix installed on my HD and its working
great but I don't know what most of
the programs are. I'm bad about
screwing things up so before I start
running programs I thought I would
ask. Thanks, kenny

On the mirror where you get the ISO image there is a packages.txt which always contains a list of the packages included. If you want to check from the HD you could apt-cache show package_name for a brief description in a console window and as always Google Linux works well for all things about linux.

**garyng** · 09-28-2003, 11:31 AM

except that the long list of packages with those cryptic names don't give people too much clue about what is really included, especially when coming from a Windows background.

**baldyeti** · 09-28-2003, 05:33 PM

You could use kpackage, from the "system" menu. Activate the "Installed" tab,
then select packages on the left side and their description will appear on the right.