Command Line Tools

These tools are recommended for all systems.

Openssh provides both an ssh client and a server. Setting up a server allows logging into the system from another system allowing control, including building of additional packages, from a full graphical environment.

Wget allows retrieval of packages from the command line.

Make-ca provides for installing security certificates of well known certificate authorities so applications can properly authenticate entities such as an https:// URL across an untrusted network.

Sudo allows otherwise untrusted users to run commands that require administrative privileges. It is a convenient alternative to the su command.

Which is a convenient utility that shows the full path to a command.

Unzip is an extraction utility for zip files. It's function is similar to gzip. gzip2, and xz that were installed in LFS.

Links is a text mode WWW browser. Text mode browsers are very fast and can be used before a graphical environment is installed.

Mailx is a a command-line Mail User Agent (MUA). It is especially useful for sending mail messages in scripts.