Tasks page
This is a list of the Tasks Debian Junior is made of:
Table of contents
Tools for children to produce artwork. The simplest of these is
tuxpaint, which is designed for small children. It features sounds
and easy to use controls. For older children, there are gimp and
xpaint. While gimp is more complex, and is aimed at the graphic
artist, it is not necessarily much harder to use than the older,
less full-featured xpaint. Children starting out with just a small
subset of the functions of these tools eventually pick up quite a
number of new things as they explore, either with adults or other
children with whom they share their computers, or on their own.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Cheese
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tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
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Gamine
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Interactive game for young children
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Gimp
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Gpaint
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GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME
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Inkscape
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vector-based drawing program
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Karbon
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vector graphics application for the Calligra Suite
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Krita
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pixel-based image manipulation program
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Mtpaint
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painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos
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Mypaint
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paint program for use with graphics tablets
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Pencil2d
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Create hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics
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Pinta
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??? missing short description for package pinta :-(
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Rgbpaint
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simple pixel-based painting program
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Simple-scan
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Simple Scanning Utility
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Tupi
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2D Animation design and authoring tool
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Tuxpaint
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Paint program for young children
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Xpaint
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simple paint program for X
This package is a Metapackage for Debian Jr. Desktop Environment.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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2048-qt
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mathematics based puzzle game
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Atomix
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puzzle game for building molecules out of separate atoms
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Biniax2
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logic game with arcade and tactics modes
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Blobby
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Volleyball game with blobs
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Bloboats
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Boat racing game
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Blockout2
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Tetris like game (3D-tetris)
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Brainparty
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36 puzzle games for all the family
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Bumprace
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1 or 2 players race through a multi-level maze
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Circuslinux
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Clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points!
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Dino-im
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modern XMPP client
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Eog
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Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program
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Epiphany-browser
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Intuitive GNOME web browser
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Evolution
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groupware suite with mail client and organizer
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Frozen-bubble
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cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
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Gamine
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Interactive game for young children
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Gbrainy
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??? missing short description for package gbrainy :-(
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Gnome-calculator
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GNOME desktop calculator
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Gnome-clocks
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Simple GNOME app with stopwatch, timer, and world clock support
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Gnome-dictionary
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GNOME dictionary application
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Gnome-mahjongg
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classic Eastern tile game for GNOME
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Gnome-nibbles
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snake game, up to four players
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Gnome-sudoku
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Sudoku puzzle game for GNOME
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Goldendict
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feature-rich dictionary lookup program
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Gpxviewer
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views GPS traces collected in the GPX format
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Grun
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??? missing short description for package grun :-(
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Gtetrinet
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multiplayer tetris-like game
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Gtkpool
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??? missing short description for package gtkpool :-(
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Hannah
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pacman-like game, child oriented
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Hexxagon
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??? missing short description for package hexxagon :-(
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Icewm
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wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
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Jumpnbump
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cute multiplayer platform game with bunnies
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Junior-doc
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Debian Jr. Documentation
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Ktuberling
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stamp drawing toy
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Kturtle
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educational programming environment
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Laby
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Learn how to program with ants and spider webs
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Lbreakout2
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ball-and-paddle game - transitional package
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Libreoffice
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office productivity suite (metapackage)
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Lightdm
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simple display manager
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Littlewizard
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development environment for children
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Ltris
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very polished Tetris clone with CPU opponents
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Mousepad
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simple Xfce oriented text editor
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Numptyphysics
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crayon based physics puzzle game
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Opencity
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3D city simulator game
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Paprefs
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PulseAudio Preferences
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Pavucontrol
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PulseAudio Volume Control
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Pavumeter
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PulseAudio Volume Meter
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Pingus
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Free Lemmings(TM) clone
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Pulseaudio
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PulseAudio sound server
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Ri-li
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toy train simulation game
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Scratch
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easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up
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Sgt-puzzles
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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games
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Stellarium
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real-time photo-realistic sky generator
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Supertux
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Classic 2D jump 'n run sidescroller with Tux
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Supertuxkart
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3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
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Thunar
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File Manager for Xfce
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Tuxmath
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math game for kids with Tux
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Tuxpaint
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Paint program for young children
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Tuxpuck
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air hockey game for single players
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Tuxtype
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Educational Typing Tutor Game Starring Tux
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Vlc
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multimedia player and streamer
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Xdg-utils
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desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org
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Xserver-xephyr
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nested X server
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Xserver-xorg
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X.Org X server
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Xterm
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X terminal emulator
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Zenity
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Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts
DoudouLinux is a Debian system cusomized to be easy to use for
children. It provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to
12 years old (or maybe 102?). For more information please have a look
at its home page http://www.doudoulinux.org/.
This package provides the base package of DoudouLinux.
Debian Jr. might (or might not) provide metapackages fit for the usage
inside DoudouLinux. This is just a test for metapackage layout and does
not yet create a real metapackage.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Acpi-support-base
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scripts for handling base ACPI events such as the power button
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Alsa-base
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??? missing short description for package alsa-base :-(
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Alsa-utils
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Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
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Avahi-autoipd
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Avahi IPv4LL network address configuration daemon
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Avahi-discover
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Service discover user interface for avahi
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Bash-completion
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programmable completion for the bash shell
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Cups-bsd
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Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
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Cups-pdf
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??? missing short description for package cups-pdf :-(
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Dash
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POSIX-compliant shell
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Dnsmasq-base
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Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server - executable
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Eject
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ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Linux
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Gnome-keyring
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GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
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Gstreamer0.10-alsa
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??? missing short description for package gstreamer0.10-alsa :-(
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Gtk2-engines
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theme engines for GTK+ 2.x
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Khelpcenter4
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??? missing short description for package khelpcenter4 :-(
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Less
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pager program similar to more
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Libgl1-mesa-dri
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free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
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Libgl1-mesa-glx
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??? missing short description for package libgl1-mesa-glx :-(
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Libpam-gnome-keyring
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PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login
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Lxappearance
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LXDE GTK+ theme switcher
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Lxrandr
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LXDE monitor configuration tool
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Lxterminal
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LXDE terminal emulator
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Network-manager-gnome
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??? missing short description for package network-manager-gnome :-(
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Ntpdate
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Network Time Protocol client (transitional package)
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Oss-compat
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Open Sound System (OSS) compatibility package
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Oxygencursors
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Oxygen mouse cursor theme
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Policykit-1
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??? missing short description for package policykit-1 :-(
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Policykit-1-gnome
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authentication agent for PolicyKit
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Smbclient
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command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix
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System-config-printer
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graphical interface to configure the printing system
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System-config-printer-udev
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Utilities to detect and configure printers automatically
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Tree
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displays an indented directory tree, in color
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X11-utils
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X11 utilities
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X11-xkb-utils
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X11 XKB utilities
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Xdg-user-dirs-gtk
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tool to manage well known user directories (Gtk extension)
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Xfonts-base
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standard fonts for X
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Xkb-data
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X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data
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Xserver-xorg-core
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Xorg X server - core server
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Yelp
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Help browser for GNOME
DoudouLinux is a Debian system cusomized to be easy to use for
children. It provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to
12 years old (or maybe 102?). For more information please have a look
at its home page http://www.doudoulinux.org/.
This package provides packages to develop artwork.
Debian Jr. might (or might not) provide metapackages fit for the usage
inside DoudouLinux. This is just a test for metapackage layout and does
not yet create a real metapackage.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Gimp
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GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Inkscape
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vector-based drawing program
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Ttf-bitstream-vera
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Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts
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Ttf-dejavu
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transitional dummy package
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Ttf-liberation
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??? missing short description for package ttf-liberation :-(
DoudouLinux is a Debian system cusomized to be easy to use for
children. It provides tens of applications that suit children from 2 to
12 years old (or maybe 102?). For more information please have a look
at its home page http://www.doudoulinux.org/.
This package provides games.
Debian Jr. might (or might not) provide metapackages fit for the usage
inside DoudouLinux. This is just a test for metapackage layout and does
not yet create a real metapackage.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Abe
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side-scrolling game named "Abe's Amazing Adventure"
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Biniax2
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logic game with arcade and tactics modes
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Burgerspace
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Avoid evil foodstuffs and make burgers
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Ceferino
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action game similar to Super Pang
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Circuslinux
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Clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points!
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Foobillard
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??? missing short description for package foobillard :-(
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Freealchemist
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simpler figure block game
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Frozen-bubble
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cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
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Gmchess
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??? missing short description for package gmchess :-(
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Gnome-games
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games for the GNOME desktop
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Gnome-mastermind
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Mastermind™ clone for GNOME
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Gnugo
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play the game of Go
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Gtans
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Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+
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Gweled
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"Diamond Mine"-style puzzle game
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Hannah
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pacman-like game, child oriented
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Hex-a-hop
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puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles
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Kigo
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go game
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Kolf
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miniature golf game
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Lbreakout2
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ball-and-paddle game - transitional package
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Magicor
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puzzle game in the spirit of solomon's key
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Monsterz
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arcade puzzle game
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Nikwi
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platform game where your goal is to collect candies
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Numptyphysics
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crayon based physics puzzle game
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Pingus
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Free Lemmings(TM) clone
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Supertux
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Classic 2D jump 'n run sidescroller with Tux
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Supertuxkart
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3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
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Tanglet
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single player word finding game based on Boggle
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Toppler
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clone of the "Nebulus" game on old 8 and 16 bit machines
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Tworld
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Chip's Challenge Game Engine Emulation
This package includes a collection of educational programs
for children. These applications suit children from 2 to 12.
They will learn the computer mouse and keyboard as
well as various skills (numbers, letters, logic, etc.).
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Atomix
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puzzle game for building molecules out of separate atoms
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Bambam
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keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
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Childsplay
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Suite of educational games for young children
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Fracplanet
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Fractal planet generator
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Gbrainy
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??? missing short description for package gbrainy :-(
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Ktuberling
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stamp drawing toy
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Numptyphysics
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crayon based physics puzzle game
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Pysycache
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Educational game to teach children to use the mouse
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Stellarium
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real-time photo-realistic sky generator
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Xball
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Simulate bouncing balls in a window
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Xmakemol
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program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems
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Xmakemol-gl
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program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems (OpenGL)
Official Debian packages with lower relevance
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Kstars
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desktop planetarium, observation planning and telescope control
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Mathwar
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??? missing short description for package mathwar :-(
Adventure games are interactive stories driven by exploration and puzzle
solving, and can be quite challenging. Recommended for older children, maybe
even requiring help from someone older.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Beneath-a-steel-sky
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classic 2D point and click science fiction adventure game
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Drascula
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classic 2D point and click adventure game -- English version
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Flight-of-the-amazon-queen
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classic 2D point and click fantasy adventure game
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Lure-of-the-temptress
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classic 2D point and click fantasy adventure game
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Nethack-console
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dungeon crawl game - text-based interface
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Nethack-lisp
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dungeon crawl game - Lisp interface
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Nethack-x11
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dungeon crawl game - X11 interface
This metapackage will install arcade games suitable, in the
opinion of the contributors to the Debian Jr. project, for children
of all ages. Mastering most of these games requires dexterity
and cognitive skills usually developed only in the older children
(around ages 5 to 8). But the youngest children may enjoy watching
older players, or just poking randomly at the controls, depending
on the game.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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2048-qt
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mathematics based puzzle game
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Bambam
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keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
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Biniax2
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logic game with arcade and tactics modes
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Bouncy
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eat the yummy veggies in the garden - game for small kids
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Bugsquish
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Bugs are trying to suck blood out of your arm!
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Bumprace
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1 or 2 players race through a multi-level maze
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Childsplay
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Suite of educational games for young children
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Circuslinux
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Clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points!
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Cuyo
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Tetris-like game with very impressive effects
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Fretsonfire
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game of musical skill and fast fingers
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Funnyboat
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side scrolling arcade shooter game on a steamboat
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Hannah
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pacman-like game, child oriented
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Heroes-sdl
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??? missing short description for package heroes-sdl :-(
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Holotz-castle
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platform game with high doses of mystery
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Jumpnbump
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cute multiplayer platform game with bunnies
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Koules
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abstract space action game
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Lbreakout2
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ball-and-paddle game - transitional package
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Madbomber
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Kaboom! clone
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Monsterz
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arcade puzzle game
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Supertux
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Classic 2D jump 'n run sidescroller with Tux
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Tuxmath
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math game for kids with Tux
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Tuxpuck
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air hockey game for single players
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Vodovod
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puzzle game, you must lead the water to the storage tank
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Xsoldier
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shoot 'em up game with the "not shooting" bonus
A collection of card games, for the time being just solitaire, which
are probably more suited to older children than young, although
the "memory" type games in pysol may appeal to children just entering
grade school.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Ace-of-penguins
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penguin-themed solitaire games
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Childsplay
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Suite of educational games for young children
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Kpat
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solitaire card games
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Pairs
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??? missing short description for package pairs :-(
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Sgt-puzzles
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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games
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Xsol
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Solitaire game for the X Window system
Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS
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Spider
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A two deck solitaire game for the X Window System
These games all use OpenGL libraries. They will not work without
decent 3D graphics cards providing hardware-accelerated OpenGL.
While armagetron and gltron are different interpretations of the
game depicted in the classic 3D-animated movie "Tron", Tux Racer
is an all-original made-for-Linux 3D racing game. Unlike the
standard blood-and-guts fare in the 3D games universe, all of
these games are suitable for children.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Armagetronad
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3D Tron-like high speed game
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Bouncy
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eat the yummy veggies in the garden - game for small kids
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Bzflag
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3D first person tank battle game
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Extremetuxracer
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3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin
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Gltron
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3D lightcycle game
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Neverball
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3D floor-tilting game
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Supertuxkart
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3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
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Torcs
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3D racing cars simulator game using OpenGL
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Trackballs
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OpenGL-based game of steering a marble through a labyrinth
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Tuxfootball
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great 2D soccer (sometimes called football) game
Network games bring people together from all over the world. Many times the
game and chat is a place where people learn languages, how to communicate, and
socializing skills.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Bubbros
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multiplayer clone of the famous Bubble Bobble game
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Gtetrinet
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multiplayer tetris-like game
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Minetest
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Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox
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Openttd
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reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with enhancements
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Tetrinet-client
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textmode client for tetrinet, a multiplayer tetris-like game
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Xblast-tnt
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multiplayer blast-the-others game inspired by Dynablaster
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Xblast-tnt-levels
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level files for xblast-tnt
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Xblast-tnt-musics
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music files for xblast-tnt
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Xblast-tnt-sounds
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sound files for xblast-tnt
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Xpilot-ng
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Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version)
Some puzzle-type games, from the more arcade-like and frozen-bubble to xjig (a
jigsaw puzzle program), to lmemory (based on the classic "memory" card game).
This sampling of packages was done in the hope that it will appeal to child
and adult alike.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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2048-qt
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mathematics based puzzle game
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Amoebax
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Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game for up to two players
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Berusky2
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logic game Bugs Escape 3D
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Biniax2
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logic game with arcade and tactics modes
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Brainparty
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36 puzzle games for all the family
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Frozen-bubble
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cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
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Gbrainy
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??? missing short description for package gbrainy :-(
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Gtans
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Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+
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Hex-a-hop
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puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles
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Lmemory
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Children's game based on the "memory" card game
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Monsterz
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arcade puzzle game
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Ri-li
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toy train simulation game
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Xjig
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X11 jigsaw puzzle
Simulation games tend to be rather complex, so they are recommended
for older children, and even then some help from someone older may be
needed.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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0ad
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Real-time strategy game of ancient warfare
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Freeciv
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Civilization turn based strategy game
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Freecol
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open source remake of the old Colonization
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Lincity
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build & maintain a city/country
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Lincity-ng
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City simulator game with polished graphics
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Megaglest
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3D multi-player real time strategy game
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Micropolis
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real-time city management simulator
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Opencity
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3D city simulator game
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Openttd
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reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with enhancements
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Pingus
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Free Lemmings(TM) clone
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Ri-li
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toy train simulation game
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Simutrans
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transportation simulator
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Wesnoth
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fantasy turn-based strategy game (metapackage)
The principal virtue of these games is their simplicity. They will run
on any hardware, and some of them are simple enough to control so that
very young children can enjoy them (e.g. snake)
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Animals
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Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB
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Bsdgames
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collection of classic textual unix games
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Cowsay
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configurable talking cow
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Moon-buggy
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Drive a car across the moon
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Moon-buggy-esd
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??? missing short description for package moon-buggy-esd :-(
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Nettoe
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networked version of Tic Tac Toe (3x3 Grid) for the console
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Sl
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Correct you if you type `sl' by mistake
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Zivot
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the game of life, simple console version
For children, a wide variety of Internet tools are not necessary to get
started. Most users will find the Iceweasel web browser covers their needs.
As children's familiarity and sophistication of use of the Internet develops,
you will probably want to add more Internet clients to the child's system.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Epiphany-browser
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Intuitive GNOME web browser
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Pidgin
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graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client
This metapackage will install educational math programs suitable for
children. Some of the packages use mathematics that is well beyond
the abilities of young children (e.g. fractals and cryptography), but
hopefully using these let them gain an appreciation of the beauty of
math from an early age. Other packages allow children to explore and
learn math concepts in an engaging, interactive way. Some packages
are more general, providing math activities as only one part of the
package, e.g. bsdgames includes "arithmetic" in addition to other
non-math games, and x11-apps provides xcalc.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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2048-qt
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mathematics based puzzle game
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Bc
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GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
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Bsdgames
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collection of classic textual unix games
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Childsplay
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Suite of educational games for young children
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Gbrainy
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??? missing short description for package gbrainy :-(
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Kig
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interactive geometry tool
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Numptyphysics
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crayon based physics puzzle game
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Tuxmath
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math game for kids with Tux
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X11-apps
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X applications
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Xaos
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real-time interactive fractal zoomer
The emphasis for this sampling of programming packages for children
is first on simple interpreted languages. Also important for using
languages with children are good documentation, and some ability to
produce visual programs without too much effort. It is by no means
a complete list, and you are encouraged to explore other languages
with children as well; even those that are not specifically aimed for
children.
The Logo language is specifically designed for children, with a strong
emphasis on the visual and concrete. Littlewizard is an icon-based
graphical programming language also designed for children.
Scratch is an easy, interactive, collaborative, visual programming language
with children from ages 8 and up as their target group.
Arduino is a popular micro controller that is widely used by both people
learning electronics and programming as well as seasoned veterans doing
complex projects. It is necessary to connect a physical Arduino circuit board
in order to experiment with arduino.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Arduino
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AVR development board IDE from Arduino CC
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Gvrng
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??? missing short description for package gvrng :-(
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Kturtle
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educational programming environment
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Laby
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Learn how to program with ants and spider webs
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Littlewizard
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development environment for children
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Puredata
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realtime computer music and graphics system
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Scratch
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easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up
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Sonic-pi
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Live Coding for Everyone
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Squeak-plugins-scratch
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??? missing short description for package squeak-plugins-scratch :-(
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Squeak-vm
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virtual machine for Smalltalk
This metapackage will install a sampling of sound packages for
a system that is used by children. While not all of these will
be things that children will use directly, a child's system
administrator can make use of them to ensure that the child
gets the most out of their system.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Audacious
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small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats
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Bplay
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Buffered audio file player/recorder
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Cdtool
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text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Gespeaker
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GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
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Gtkguitune
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??? missing short description for package gtkguitune :-(
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Hydrogen
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advanced drum machine/step sequencer
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Milkytracker
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music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2
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Pianobooster
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Learn the piano just by playing a game
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Puredata
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realtime computer music and graphics system
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Sonic-pi
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Live Coding for Everyone
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Tuxguitar
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Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player
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Vorbis-tools
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several Ogg Vorbis tools
This package includes a few tools for helping children learn about and
use their system.
Midnight Commander is more than just a file manager. It is shell with
which children can explore and manage their own accounts. It can be a
great help for the very young, as it saves them some typing (as
compared with using a command-line shell directly). It is also packed
with power and flexibility which can be tapped by older children and
adults alike.
The 'hello' sample program can be used as an instructional aid, as
an example of how to invoke programs from the shell, specify switches,
use the man page, and so on.
Baobab, the GNOME disk usage analyzer, enables the user to take a
visual trip into the hard drive contents. It can be a mesmerizing first
step, dvelving into the inner parts of the computer system. It serves
both as an educational tool about file systems and file contents/size
as well as a tool for analyzing what files are big if disk space is
scarce.
Bubblefishymon is a computer load monitor dockapp which shows network
traffic as fishes, CPU usage as bubbles, and a duck representing a
duck.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Baobab
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GNOME disk usage analyzer
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Bubblefishymon
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system load dockapp with a duck
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Hello
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example package based on GNU hello
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Mc
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Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager
This metapackage will install desktop toys suitable for children. The
collection contains some packages which might enjoy children and make
them love their computer.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Bambam
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keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
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Bubblefishymon
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system load dockapp with a duck
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Cheese
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tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
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Dasher
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graphical predictive text input system
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Gamine
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Interactive game for young children
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Gespeaker
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GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
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Gtkguitune
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??? missing short description for package gtkguitune :-(
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Gworldclock
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Displays time and date in specified time zones
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Oneko
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cat chases the cursor (now a mouse) around the screen
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Xfireworks
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Fireworks in your root window
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Xfishtank
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turns your X root into an aquarium
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Xpenguins
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little penguins walk on your windows
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Xplanet
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planetary body renderer
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Xplanet-images
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imagery for xplanet
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Xteddy
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cuddly teddy bear (or other image) for your X desktop
This metapackage will install typing tutors and typing games for
various skill levels. This collection of packages was assembled
in the hope that children become comfortable with the keyboard
quickly while having fun learning it.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Bambam
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keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
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Childsplay
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Suite of educational games for young children
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Gtypist
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simple ncurses touch typing tutor
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Klavaro
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Flexible touch typing tutor
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Ktouch
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touch typing tutor for KDE
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Tuxtype
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Educational Typing Tutor Game Starring Tux
Tools to watch video files, DVD, CD, network streams etc.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Cheese
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tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
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Kaffeine
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versatile media player for KDE
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Maim
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takes screenshots of your desktop
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Vlc
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multimedia player and streamer
This metapackage will install tools for your budding young
writer. It includes a text editor, spell-checker, dictionary client,
word processor, and educational writing software.
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Abiword
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efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
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Aspell
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GNU Aspell spell-checker
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Dasher
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graphical predictive text input system
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Dict
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dictionary client
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Gcompris-qt
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educational games for small children
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Nano
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small, friendly text editor inspired by Pico
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Pysiogame
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educational activity pack for kids
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Writetype
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application designed to help students write more easily