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Package Wish List

The following lists contain software people would like to see packaged up and maintained for EPEL.

Packages that lack a EPEL maintainer

Please add packages that are part of Fedora but lack a EPEL maintainer to this list.

Package Name Brief Description Status Added to wishlist by
915resolution Intel video BIOS hack to support certain resolutions Owners were mailed 071210
abiword The !AbiWord word processor Owners were mailed 071210
aircrack-ng 802.11 (wireless) sniffer and WEP/WPA-PSK key cracker Owners were mailed 071210
airsnort Wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys Owners were mailed 071210
alsa-tools Specialist tools for ALSA 071210: timj not planning to maintain this in EPEL in foreseeable future; will help anyone who wants to, or may fork if someone else wants to do the testing
anjuta A very capable IDE owner mailed 080215 rathann
asterisk The Open Source PBX being worked on
ardour Multichannel Digital Audio Workstation green will do this, but needs scons first
audacious A GTK2 based media player similar to xmms Owners were mailed 071210
awstats better web statistics than webalizer It's in EPEL 5, I would love to see it in EPEL 4 MaxSpevack
banshee easily import, manage, and play selections from your music collection Owners were mailed 071210
basket Notes taker for KDE Fedora maintainer abompard does not participate in EPEL
bazaar A distributed revision control system Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL
bittorrent !BitTorrent swarming network file transfer tool Fedora owner pghmcfc not willing to maintain this particular package in EPEL, but would welcome co-maintainers that wanted to support this
blam An RSS/RDF feed reader Fedora maintainer pgordon does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
bochs Portable x86 PC emulator Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
cinepaint !CinePaint is a tool for manipulating images Owners were mailed 071210
claws-mail The extended version of Sylpheed Owners were mailed 071210
clusterssh Secure concurrent multi-server terminal control Owners were mailed 071210
conduit A synchronization solution for GNOME Owners were mailed 071210
d4x Downloader for X that supports resuming and many other features Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
dbh Disk based hash library Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
dbus-sharp C# bindings for D-Bus Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
deskbar-applet A Gnome applet to allow easy access to various search engines Owners were mailed 071210
digikam A digital camera accessing & photo management application Owners were mailed 071210
dirac Dirac is an open source video codec Owners were mailed 071210
dvdauthor Command line DVD authoring tool 071210: scop not planning to maintain this in EPEL in foreseeable future
e2tools Manipulate files in unmounted ext2/ext3 filesystems Owners were mailed 071210
easytag Tag editor for mp3, ogg, flac and other music files Owners were mailed 071210
enchant A spell Checking Library Owners were mailed 071211
enemies-of-carlotta A simple mailing list manager Owners were mailed 071210
epiphany GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine Owners were mailed 071224
epylog New logs analyzer and parser Owners were mailed 071210
evolution-sharp Evolution Data Server Mono Bindings Owners were mailed 071210 only in EL5
exo Application library for the Xfce desktop environment 071210: planning on adding it with the rest of Xfce soon - nirik only in EL5
fdupes Finds duplicate files in a given set of directories Fedora maintainer rishi does not participate in EPEL
firestarter Firewall tool for GNOME Owners were mailed 071210
!FlightGear The !FlightGear Flight Simulator Owners were mailed 071210; needs !SimGear
fprobe-ulog !NetFlow probe Owners were mailed 080308 RayVanDolson
freeciv The !Freeciv multi-player strategy game Owners were mailed 071210
freecol The !FreeCol multi-player strategy game Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
freenx Free Software (GPL) Implementation of the NX Server Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL Only in EL5
frozen-bubble Frozen Bubble arcade game Owners were mailed 071210
fslint FSlint - a utility to find and clean "lint" on a filesystem Owners were mailed 071210
f-spot Photo management application Owners were mailed 071210
gallery2 Customizable photo gallery web site Owners were mailed 080623 rayvd
getmail POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS mail retriever with Maildir delivery duli
glom Easy-to-use database designer and user interface Owners were mailed 071210
gmyth MythTV remote access libraries Owners were mailed 071210
gnokii Linux/Unix tool suite for various mobile phones Fedora maintainer snirkel does not participate in EPEL
gnomebaker GNOME CD/DVD burner Owners were mailed 071210
gnome-commander A nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop Fedora maintainer mtasaka does not participate in EPEL
gnubiff A mail notification program Owners were mailed 071210
gnumeric Spreadsheet program for GNOME Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
gnuchess Free chess game
gobby Free collaborative editor Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
gossip GNOME Jabber Client Owners were mailed 071210
gtk-sharp2 GTK+ and GNOME bindings for Mono Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
gtkglarea2 OpenGL GTK widget rathann
gtweakui Extra configuration dialogs for GNOME Owners were mailed 071210
hardinfo System Profiler and Benchmark Owners were mailed 071210
heartbeat Heartbeat subsystem for High-Availability Linux 071210: planning on adding this once the fedora package is in better shape - nirik Available in Centos, but not EPEL
hexedit A hexadecimal file viewer and editor Owners were mailed 071210 only in EL5
horde The common Horde Framework for all Horde applications Owners were mailed 071210 (found in Centos Extras, not EPEL)
hping3 TCP/IP stack auditing and much more Owners were mailed 071210
htop Interactive process viewer EL5 Packaged, went stable 10/10/08 EL4 Packaged, went stable 10/10/08
id3lib Library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
imp The Internet Messaging Program: webmail access to IMAP/POP3 accounts Owners were mailed 071210
ingo The Horde web-based Email Filter Rules Manager Owners were mailed 071210
ipw2100-firmware Firmware for Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 network adaptors Owners were mailed 071210
ipw2200-firmware Firmware for Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 network adaptors Owners were mailed 071210
iwl3945-firmware Firmware for Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 A/B/G network adaptors Owners were mailed 071210
iwl4965-firmware Firmware for Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965 A/G/N network adaptors Owners were mailed 071210
jed Fast, compact editor based on the S-Lang screen library Accepting co-maintainers
js !JavaScript interpreter and libraries Owners were mailed 071210
jython A Java implementation of the Python language Owners were mailed 071210
kbackup Back up your data in a simple, user friendly way Owners were mailed 071210
kdemultimedia-extras Extra applications from kdemultimedia Owners were mailed 071210
kdiff3 Compare + merge 2 or 3 files or directories Owners were mailed 071210
kio_p7zip Kio-slave for 7Zip archives Owners were mailed 071210
kpowersave KPowersave is the KDE frontend for powermanagement Owners were mailed 071210
ksensors KDE frontend to lm_sensors Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
ladspa LADSPA SDK, example plug-ins and tools Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
leafnode Leaf site offline NNTP server Owners were mailed 071210
libbinio A software library for binary I/O classes in C++ Fedora maintainer snirkel does not participate in EPEL
libcaca Library for Colour !AsCii Art, text mode graphics Owners were mailed 071210
libcddb Library (C API) for accessing CDDB servers Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
libebml Extensible Binary Meta Language library Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
libevent Abstract asynchronous event notification library Bug #248055 opened 071207
libmatroska Open audio/video container format library Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
libmp4v2 Library for working with files using the mp4 container format Owners were mailed 071210
libsamplerate Sample rate conversion library for audio data Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed) Only in EL5
libshout icecast source streaming library Owners were mailed 071210
libsidplay Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator library Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL
libsigsegv Library to handle page faults in user mode Require for gnu-smalltalk
libsndfile Library for reading and writing sound files Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
libtar Tar file manipulation API Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
libtimidity MIDI to WAVE converter library Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
liferea An RSS/RDF feed reader Owners were mailed 071210
linphone Phone anywhere in the whole world by using the Internet Owners were mailed 071210
lirc The Linux Infrared Remote Control package 071210: scop, jwilson not planning to maintain this in EPEL in foreseeable future
livecd-tools Tools for building live CD's Owners were mailed 071210 Only in EL5
lrmi Library for calling real mode BIOS routines RemiCollet for monitor-edid
lsdvd Small application for listing the contents of DVDs Owners were mailed 071210
maven2 A software project management and comprehension tool Owner dbhole was mailed 080130 JoachimSelke
mboxgrep Displays e-mail messages matching a pattern Owners were mailed 071210
mcs A configuration file abstraction library Owners were mailed 071210
mdbtools Access data stored in Microsoft Access databases Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
mediawiki A wiki engine Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL
meld Visual diff and merge tool Owners were mailed 071210
mmv Move/copy/append/link multiple files Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL; TillMass volunteered
multiget An easy-to-use GUI file downloader Owners were mailed 071223 RoozbehPournader
mxml Minimal XML library Knurd mailed owners on 20080118 StuartCampbell
nessus-core Network vulnerability scanner Owners were mailed 071210
numlockx NumLockX turns on !NumLock after starting X Owners were mailed 071210
pan A GNOME/GTK+ news reader for X Owners were mailed 071210
perl-IO-Prompt Interactively prompt for user input Owners were mailed 080113 MichaelStahnke
perl-MD5 Perl interface to the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm Owners were mailed 071210
perl-Net-IP (EPEL4 only) Perl module for manipulation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses Owner were mailed 080519 RemiCollet
perl-bioperl Toolkit of Perl modules useful in building bioinformatics solutions in Perl
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA Mailed 2008-06-09
perl-DBI
perl-Digest-SHA
perl-HTML-Tagset
perl-Net-DNS
perl-Socket6
php-pecl-apc APC caches and optimizes PHP intermediate code Owners were mailed 071210
php-pecl-Fileinfo A PHP extension that wraps the libmagic library Owners were mailed 071216;
php-Smarty Template/Presentation Framework for PHP Owners were mailed 071210; waiting for Bug #238455
pidgin-libnotify Libnotify Pidgin plugin Fedora maintainer pgordan does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
plib Set of portable libraries especially useful for games Comaintainer this was mailed on 080107
ppracer 3D racing game featuring Tux Owners were mailed 071210
psi Jabber client based on Qt Fedora maintainer abompard does not participate in EPEL
pure-ftpd Lightweight, fast and secure FTP server Fedora maintainer abompard does not participate in EPEL Only in EL5
python-enchant Python bindings for Enchant spellchecking library Owners were mailed 071210
python-nevow Web application construction kit written in Python Owners were mailed 071210
python-twisted-core An asynchronous networking framework written in Python Available in EPEL5
python-twisted-web Twisted web server, programmable in Python Available in EPEL5
python-twisted-words Twisted Words contains implementations of many Instant Messaging protocols
PyXML XML libraries for python. Owners were mailed 080104 Stanley A. Klein
qa-assistant Graphical quality assurance report generator Owners were mailed 071210
qemu QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator Owners were mailed 071210
quake3 Quake 3 Arena tournament 3D shooter game Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
rekall A KDE database front-end application Owners were mailed 071210; needs scons
resapplet Resolution Switching Applet Owners were mailed 071210
rsyslog Enhanced system logging and kernel message trapping daemons Owners were mailed 071210
rt3 Request tracker 3 Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL Only in EL5
SDL_gfx Graphic primitives, rotozoomer, framerate control and image filters Owners were mailed 071210
Simgear Simulation library components waiting for freealut-devel, openal-devel, plib-devel
soundtouch Audio Processing library for changing Tempo, Pitch and Playback Rates Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
squidGuard Filter, redirector and access controller plugin for squid Owners were mailed 071210; seems frank or paul might be interested https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg00611.html
supertux Jump'n run like game similar to Mario Bros Owners were mailed 071210
supertuxkart Kids 3D go-kart racing game featuring Tux Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
sylpheed GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL
texlive Binaries for the TeX formatting system Owners were mailed 071216;
Thunar Thunar File Manager 071210: Planning on adding all of Xfce soon - nirik
tomboy Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix Fedora maintainer rstrode does not participate in EPEL
wesnoth Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme Owners were mailed 071210
wifi-radar A utility for managing !WiFi profiles Owners were mailed 071210
wildmidi !WildMidi softsynth midi player Fedora maintainer does not participate in EPEL (but likes to be CCed)
wxsvg C++ library to create, manipulate and render SVG files Owners were mailed 071210
wxPython GUI toolkit for the Python programming language Owners were mailed 080104 Only in EL5
xchat-gnome GNOME front-end to xchat Owners were mailed 071216;
xemacs Different version of Emacs Fedora maintainer scop does not participate in EPEL
xfsprogs xfs filesystem utilities Also needs xfs kernel module for RHEL5 MichaelThomas
xosd On-screen display library for X 071210: going to orphan this in fedora soon, its obsolete, someone is welcome to maintain for epel - nirik
xscreensaver X screen saver and locker Fedora maintainer mtasaka does not participate in EPEL
yasm Complete rewrite of the NASM assembler Owners were mailed Jun 4, 2008. Package was subsequently built for EL-4 and EL-5

Other Packages

All EPEL packages should normally be maintained in Fedora, thus if you want to see a package in EPEL that is not yet part of Fedora please add it to Fedora's package wish list instead. If you are unsure if a package is part of Fedora simply add it below if you have a FAS account or contact the EPEL team.

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