What are your must-have packages?
What are your must-have packages?
I’ll start:
- Tmux
- vim
- ghidra
- okteta (hex editor)
- speedcrunch (calculator with bit manipulation)
- python3 with IPython for nice reply and embed(), pwntools
- ZSH (Shell)
- Ripgrep (alternative for grep)
- Bat (alternative for cat)
- Exa (alternative for ls)
- Fd (alternative for find)
- Fzf (fuzzy finder)
- Micro (editor)
- VS Code (editor)
- Jq (sed for JSON data)
- Mercurial (version control system)
- TortoiseHG (graphical interface for Mercurial)
- Terminator (terminal emulator)
- KeepassXC (password manager)
- CopyQ (clipboard manager)
- Vivaldi (browser)
- SchildiChat (matrix client)
- RSS Guard (feed reader)
- FileZilla (FTP / FTPS / SFTP client)
- Double Commander (file manager)
- Hugo (generator for static websites)
- DBeaver (database tool)
- And maybe a few others that I can't think of right now.
Depends on what the machine is for.
For everything:
- vi/vim
- ssh & sshd
For everything except firewalls:
- C, C++, Perl, Common Lisp, Scheme programming tools
- lynx
- wget/curl
- git
- ksh (on *BSD)
- telnet (yeah, there's equipment that still uses telnet out there)
For a desktop:
- Emacs
- xterm
- GNU plotutils
- TeXlive
- X11 utilities (xcalc, editres, etc.)
- Atmel and Arduino toolchains
- xpdf
- KDE
- KiCad
- GIMP
- Inkscape
- Firefox
- Chromium
- Kerbal Space Program
- jq
- vim
- ag (silver searcher)
- kubectl
- k9s
- oh-my-zsh
- go
- xclip
- openssl
- tcpdump
One that I didn't see on here that I've added to my list
- tldr
- simplified man pages with common example commands.-
If on desktop
- distro-box
- yakuake
- tldr
- neovim
- alacritty
- zsh
- oh my zsh
- starship (promp)
- zellij
- btop | htop
- ripgrep
- fd-find
- exa
- fnm (nvm alternative, since nvm starts too slow for me)
- yt-dlp
- bat (batcat)
- the usual base-devel / build-essential
linux-headers
To add to all great comments here I have one that I’ve used for ages and not seen mentioned here: lftp
It supports many protocols for ftp like over ssh and allows for shaky connections with resume and back in the days when this was more common I used to just run it in the background to download huge files that took days to download and it would gracefully just reconnect/resume/retry until done.
Desktop:
- distrobox
- brave
- flatpak
- neovim
- nix
- fish
- tmux
base-devel
- neovim
- fzf
- ripgrep
- Firefox
- git
- lazygit
- wezterm
- zsh
- ardour
- kdenlive
- vscode
- kdenlive
- gnome
- xmrig
- fish
- element
- telegram
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I always made sure my laptops had tlp installed. Now it seems openSUSE has cpu power profiles daemon or something by default, which it says conflicts with tlp when I tried to install it. So, I'm giving that a shot.
In order of use:
- Firefox
- Nvim (with a slightly modified kickstart.nvim)
- SSH
- Minicom
- Python3
- Git
- CopyQ
- Curl
- Wget
- Tmux
I don't see enough of these here:
- fzf
- z (or zoxide)
Check them out
Stuff that I insist on regardless of platform (that is, I install these even onto Windows systems if I'm forced to use them):
- Pale Moon (web browser)
- Claws Mail
- GIMP
- vbindiff (command-line hex editor + diff utility for binary files)
- mercurial
- perl
Stuff that I require only on Linux systems for desktop use:
- Pan (yes, really, I still use a Usenet newsreader on a daily basis)
- qemu
- conky
- Aqualung (music player—I like odd software)
- Inkscape
- Scribus
- PySol ;)
- rdesktop (less a favourite than a regrettable necessity)
- various TDE built-ins: konqueror (as file manager only), kedit, kate, konsole, ark
- tmux
- screen
- autossh
- mosh
- rsync
- vim
- git
- rust (via rustup)
- codium
- pycharm ce
- nu (shell)
- starship (shell prompt)
- firefox
- sway
- alacritty
- python
- iproute (or whatever package has ip in distro)
- keepassxc
- gcc/g++
- make
- podman (or docker)
The first 3 things I always add after a fresh install: aptitude emacs (-nox for servers) tree
Then it depends what the machine is for.
Lets make a list!
- zsh
- tmux
- htop
- ranger
- helix (if i can get it)
- fzf
- fd-find
- python-pip
- vim
- bashtop
- cmus
- ghidra
- jq (pretty print Json)
- screen
- hexedit
- python3 with pwntools
- GCC, g++, make & libc6-dev
- gdb with pwndbg
- alacritty
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- asciiquarium
- cowsay
- tty-clock
- mc
- nano
- btop
- htop
- vscode
- vivaldi
- mariadb
- apache
- php
- python3
yay
- alacritty
- neovim
- tmux
- vifm - terminal file manager with vi keybindings.
- zathura - pdf reader with vi keybindings.
- inxi - prints information about your hardware.
- tldr - cheat sheet for common commands
- qalculate - the most powerful calculator I've seen. There are qt, gtk and cli versions of it.
- moreutils - collection of tools. My favourite is vidir, it opens directory structure in your terminal text editor, so that you can rename multiple files easily.
McFly, can't live without it anymore.
- tmux
- emacs
- okular
- pipx
- calibre
- lutris
- hakuneko
- yt-dlp
- git
- OpenDoas
- Emacs
- Git
tmux kak / vim ssh gcc python3 curl nc
'taint much, but I get by
- socat
- ngrep
- vim
- pv
- htop
- jq
Generally, everything else I need is there by default depending on the distro.
Home workstation-wise.. maybe:
- meld
- kdenlive
- openscad
- Qtvlm, zygrib and OpenCPN
- gimp extras
- golang
- Inkscape
- Wireshark
- audacity
- fzf
- git + lazygit
- neovim
- ranger
- cargo
- btm
- starship
- tmux
- fish
Kpat.
Not to duplicate some of the entries, I will keep it short
LF file manager (seen ranger mentioned but no lf)
Ytfzf for finding yt videos and playing them in MPV without the need of web browser
yt-dlp alacritty zsh vim
neovim, zsh, firefox, vlc, mpv, zsh plugins for autocomplete, ripgrep, zerotier vpn,fzf, pip3, htop, i am not sure what else
- ranger
- openssl
- aria2
- fzf
- nitrogen
- w3m
Suicide linux
In addition to what was already mentioned: reptyr