Package and Edition Contents

Package and edition contents

MiniOS package contents are generated from conditional source lists. The final set depends on the distribution suite, architecture, init system, desktop environment, locale, kernel options, and repository availability. This page documents the user-facing packages requested by the maintained Flux and Xfce manifests. It omits build-only toolchains and dependencies pulled in by APT.

Yes means that the current manifest requests the package for that edition. Conditional means that the package name or inclusion depends on a build option or target platform. A dash means that the edition does not request it. The completed image remains authoritative.

Edition layout

The maintained Xfce editions build on one another: Standard is the compact everyday desktop, Toolbox targets professional system administration, diagnostics, and recovery, and Ultra turns that base into a full-featured desktop for general work, creativity, and development. Flux is a separate ultra-lightweight Fluxbox configuration for minimal resource use and older hardware; it is not simply a smaller Xfce package list.

Edition	Package variant and environment	Main purpose
Standard	standard with xfce	Minimal everyday Xfce desktop with basic functionality
Toolbox	toolbox with xfce	Professional system administration, diagnostics, and recovery
Ultra	ultra with xfce	Full-featured desktop for general work, creativity, and development
Flux	minimum with flux	Ultra-lightweight Fluxbox desktop for minimal resource use and older hardware

Other supported environments have their own module chains and must be checked separately. In particular, package availability in an LXQt or console build must not be inferred from the Xfce tables below.

Core MiniOS and system packages

These packages provide the live-system runtime, configuration, localization, privilege handling, and basic command-line environment.

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose or condition
minios-tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Module creation, conversion, inspection, activation, and change capture
minios-image-compose	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Command-line MiniOS ISO composition
minios-deploy, minios-kernel, minios-session	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Command-line deployment, kernel, and session backends, independently of graphical apps
minios-live-config	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Live-session configuration components
minios-live-config-systemd / minios-live-config-sysvinit	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Init-system integration; one implementation is selected
minios-live-config-doc	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Installed live-config reference
minios-welcome	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	MiniOS welcome page and launcher
user-setup	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Live-user account setup
linux-base	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Common Linux image and system scripts
kbd, keyboard-configuration, console-setup	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Console keyboard and display configuration
locales	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Locale data and generation
network-manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Network connection management
netplan.io	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Requested only on supported Ubuntu suites
dracut-core	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Requested when Dracut is the initramfs builder
gpg, gnupg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Package and file signature tools
file, cpio	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	File identification and archive handling
gettext-base / gettext	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Translation utilities selected by availability
polkitd / policykit-1, pkexec	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Privilege authorization and elevation
bash-completion	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Shell command completion
man-db	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Manual-page reader and database
mc	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Midnight Commander file manager
gpm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Console mouse support
ssh	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	OpenSSH client and server packages selected by APT
systemd-timesyncd / chrony	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Time synchronization selected by suite and init system
tlp	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Laptop power management

Some bootstrap parity packages are requested only for specific base suites. They are implementation dependencies rather than edition features and are not listed individually here.

Network tools

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose
wpasupplicant	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	WPA/WPA2 wireless authentication
rfkill	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Wireless-device state control
usb-modeswitch	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	USB modem and multi-mode device switching
dnsmasq-base	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	DNS and DHCP support used by network workflows
cifs-utils	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	SMB/CIFS network filesystem client
nfs-common	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	NFS client support
ipset	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kernel IP set administration
whois	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Domain and address registration lookup
netcat, netcat-openbsd	-	-	Yes	Yes	TCP and UDP stream testing tools
nmap, ncat, ndiff	-	-	Yes	Yes	Network discovery, transfer, and scan comparison
iw	-	-	Yes	Yes	Wireless device and link configuration
iperf3	-	-	Yes	Yes	Network throughput testing
aria2	-	-	Yes	Yes	Multi-protocol download utility
davfs2	-	-	Yes	Yes	WebDAV filesystem client
sshfs	-	-	Yes	Yes	Filesystem access over SSH
open-iscsi	-	-	-	Yes	iSCSI initiator
tgt	-	-	-	Yes	iSCSI target service

Storage and filesystems

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose or condition
hdparm, sdparm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	ATA and SCSI device inspection and tuning
mdadm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Linux software RAID management
smartmontools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and tests
dosfstools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	FAT filesystem creation and checking
ntfs-3g	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	NTFS userspace driver and tools
btrfs-progs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Btrfs administration
xfsprogs	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	XFS administration
exfatprogs / exfat-utils with exfat-fuse	-	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	exFAT implementation selected by package availability
fuse3 / fuse, libfuse2	-	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	FUSE runtime and compatibility library
dynfilefs	-	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Segmented persistence storage on supported suites
dynblk	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	CLI for kernel-backed thin DynBlk and split VMDK storage; usable sessions also require the driver and compatible initrd
parted	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partition table creation and editing
gpart	-	-	Yes	Yes	Partition table recovery
mtools	-	-	Yes	Yes	FAT and DOS media tools
gddrescue	-	-	Yes	Yes	Fault-tolerant block-device copying
lvm2	-	-	Yes	Yes	Logical Volume Manager
cryptsetup	-	-	Yes	Yes	LUKS volume management
zulucrypt-cli, zulumount-cli	-	-	Yes	Yes	Encrypted-volume management and mounting
f2fs-tools	-	-	Yes	Yes	F2FS administration
hfsutils, hfsprogs	-	-	Yes	Yes	HFS and HFS+ tools, where available
jfsutils	-	-	Yes	Yes	JFS administration
reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs	-	-	Yes	Yes	ReiserFS and Reiser4 tools, where available
udftools	-	-	Yes	Yes	UDF optical-media filesystem tools
nilfs-tools	-	-	Yes	Yes	NILFS2 administration
zfsutils-linux	-	-	Conditional	Conditional	ZFS userspace tools when the kernel build supports ZFS

Archives and image formats

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose or condition
xz-utils, zstd	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Compression used by packages, modules, and images
zip, unzip	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	ZIP archive creation and extraction
xorriso	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	ISO creation and inspection
squashfs-tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	SquashFS module creation and extraction
lz4 / liblz4-tools	-	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	LZ4 implementation selected by availability
bzip2	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	bzip2 compression
7zip	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	7z and related archive formats
genisoimage	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	ISO-9660 image creation
pv	-	-	Yes	Yes	Pipeline progress display
pigz, pixz, plzip, pbzip2	-	-	Yes	Yes	Parallel compression tools
lrzip, lzop	-	-	Yes	Yes	Additional compression formats
cabextract	-	-	Yes	Yes	Microsoft Cabinet archive extraction
xmount	-	-	Yes	Yes	Conversion and mounting of disk-image formats

Recovery, diagnostics, and performance

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose
pciutils, usbutils	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	PCI and USB device inspection
psmisc	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Process tools such as fuser and killall
htop	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Interactive process monitor
ncdu	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Terminal disk usage analyzer
lsof	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Open-file and process inspection
clonezilla	-	-	Yes	Yes	Disk and partition cloning workflows
partclone, partimage	-	-	Yes	Yes	Filesystem-aware imaging tools
testdisk	-	-	Yes	Yes	Partition and file recovery
chntpw, reglookup	-	-	Yes	Yes	Offline Windows account and registry tools
hexedit	-	-	Yes	Yes	Terminal hexadecimal editor
lshw, inxi	-	-	Yes	Yes	Detailed hardware and system reports
screen	-	-	Yes	Yes	Terminal multiplexer
nmon	-	-	Yes	Yes	Interactive performance monitor
fio, bonnie++, iozone3	-	-	Yes	Yes	Storage and filesystem benchmarks
stress, sysbench	-	-	Yes	Yes	CPU, memory, and system benchmarks
memtest86+	-	-	Yes	Yes	Boot-time memory testing
rsync	-	-	Yes	Yes	File synchronization and copy utility
git	-	-	Yes	Yes	Version-control client

Virtualization and containers

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose or condition
open-vm-tools, qemu-guest-agent	-	-	Yes	Yes	VMware and QEMU guest integration
virtualbox-guest-utils	-	-	Conditional	Conditional	VirtualBox guest integration on selected suites
hyperv-daemons	-	-	Yes	Yes	Microsoft Hyper-V guest services
qemu-system-x86, qemu-utils	-	-	Yes	Yes	Virtual machine runtime and image tools
libvirt-daemon-system	-	-	Yes	Yes	System libvirt service
virt-what	-	-	Yes	Yes	Hypervisor detection
uidmap	-	-	-	Yes	User namespace ID mapping
Docker CE stack / docker.io with docker-compose	-	-	-	Conditional	Container runtime selected from the available repository
lazydocker	-	-	-	Yes	Terminal interface for Docker
selinux-policy-default	-	-	-	Yes	Default SELinux policy package

Firmware and kernel drivers

Firmware selection follows the distribution profile: Debian and Devuan builds use split firmware packages, while Ubuntu builds use linux-firmware. DKMS drivers are also filtered by architecture, kernel provider, kernel series, and features already supplied by the selected kernel.

Package	Editions	Purpose or condition
firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree	Conditional, all	Debian and Devuan firmware collections
firmware-intel-graphics	Conditional, all	Intel graphics firmware on Trixie and Excalibur
firmware-atheros, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-zd1211	Conditional, all	Wireless firmware for Atheros, Intel, and ZyDAS devices
firmware-realtek, firmware-mediatek	Conditional, all	Realtek and MediaTek firmware; MediaTek depends on suite
firmware-bnx2, firmware-brcm80211, firmware-cavium	Conditional, all	Broadcom and Cavium network firmware
firmware-ipw2x00, firmware-libertas, firmware-ti-connectivity	Conditional, all	Additional wireless firmware families
firmware-b43-installer	Conditional, all	Legacy Broadcom B43 firmware installer
firmware-sof-signed	Conditional, all	Sound Open Firmware images
linux-firmware-minimal / linux-firmware and vendor firmware packages	Conditional, all	Ubuntu base firmware alternative plus suite-specific AMD, Intel, Broadcom, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Marvell, and Realtek packages
ntfs3-dkms	Conditional, all	NTFS3 driver when it is absent from the selected kernel
aufs-dkms / aufs-ng-dkms	Conditional, all	AUFS driver selected by suite and kernel
dynblk-dkms	Conditional, all	DynBlk driver selected for Linux 6.12 when DKMS building is enabled; unsigned and unavailable under Secure Boot
broadcom-sta-dkms	Conditional, all	Broadcom STA wireless driver on supported targets
realtek-rtl8723cs-dkms, realtek-rtl8821au-dkms, realtek-rtl8821cu-dkms, realtek-rtl8814au-dkms	Conditional, all	Vendor wireless drivers filtered by in-tree kernel capabilities and target platform
realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms, realtek-rtl8188eus-dkms, realtek-rtl88x2bu-dkms	Conditional, all	Vendor drivers retained on supported targets for additional devices or features
zfs-dkms	Conditional, Toolbox and Ultra	ZFS kernel module on supported amd64 builds

MateBook E display/camera packages are available for separate installation, with the limitations in Hardware compatibility. Development package lists can select these drivers, but that is not a promise that final release images bundle them.

Graphical base

The graphical environments share the Xorg and rendering base below. Flux then uses its own desktop list; Standard, Toolbox, and Ultra use the maintained Xfce list.

Package	Flux	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose or condition
xserver-xorg, xinit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X.Org server and startup tools
xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-video-intel	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X.Org video drivers
xserver-xorg-input-all, xserver-xorg-legacy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Input drivers and legacy launch support
xterm	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic X terminal
blackbox / openbox	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Lightweight fallback window manager selected by environment
x11-utils, wmctrl, xdotool	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	X11 inspection and window automation
libdrm-intel1, libgl1-mesa-dri, libglu1-mesa	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	DRM and Mesa rendering libraries
breeze-cursor-theme, adwaita-icon-theme-antix	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cursor and icon themes
elementary-minios-icon-theme	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	MiniOS icon theme outside LXQt
librsvg2-common	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	SVG rendering support
fonts-inter-minimal, fonts-jetbrains-mono-minimal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Interface and monospace fonts
policykit-1-gnome / mate-polkit / xfce-polkit	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Graphical PolicyKit agent selected by availability
xrdp, xorgxrdp	-	-	Yes	Yes	Remote graphical login over RDP

Flux desktop and applications

Package	Purpose or condition
fluxbox-flux	MiniOS Fluxbox window manager configuration
xfce4-panel, xfce4-xkb-plugin	Panel and keyboard layout indicator
xwallpaper, gpicview / feh	Wallpaper and image display
compton	X compositor
alsa-utils, volumeicon-alsa	ALSA audio controls
systrayicon, cbatticon	Tray and battery indicators
xlunch, gtkask, flux-tools	Launcher and MiniOS Flux desktop helpers
scrot	Screenshot utility
mousepad, pcmanfm	Text editor and file manager
galculator, lxtask, xarchiver	Calculator, task manager, and archive manager
network-manager-gnome	NetworkManager desktop applet
firefox / firefox-esr	Browser selected by suite, with selected localization packages

Xfce desktop and MiniOS applications

Package	Standard	Toolbox	Ultra	Purpose or condition
thunar, thunar-volman	Yes	Yes	Yes	File manager and removable-media integration
xfce4-panel, xfce4-session, xfce4-settings	Yes	Yes	Yes	Settings use the MiniOS-adapted package with automatic interface scaling on Trixie/Excalibur
xfdesktop4, xfconf	Yes	Yes	Yes	Desktop and configuration service; Trixie/Excalibur use the MiniOS desktop-menu integration
xfwm4-gl / xfwm4	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Trixie/Excalibur select xfwm4-gl with OpenGL/XRender, effects and Peek; other suites select xfwm4
xfce4-tasklist-minios-plugin, xfce4-showdesktop-minios-plugin	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	MiniOS pinned taskbar, grouped previews and Show Desktop strip on Trixie/Excalibur
greybird-minios-gtk-theme / greybird-gtk-theme	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	MiniOS light/dark theme, with the distribution theme as the availability fallback
xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-xkb-plugin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Application finder and keyboard indicator
mousepad, ristretto	Yes	Yes	Yes	Text editor and image viewer
at-spi2-core, dbus-x11	Yes	Yes	Yes	Accessibility and desktop message-bus support
gvfs-backends	Yes	Yes	Yes	Remote and removable filesystem integration for the file manager
lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter	Yes	Yes	Yes	Graphical login manager
network-manager-gnome, blueman	Yes	Yes	Yes	Network and Bluetooth desktop controls
avahi-daemon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Local-network service discovery
PipeWire stack / PulseAudio stack	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Desktop audio selected by suite
pavucontrol	Yes	Yes	Yes	Graphical audio mixer
engrampa, thunar-archive-plugin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Archive manager and file-manager integration
xfce4-screensaver, xfce4-screenshooter	Yes	Yes	Yes	Screen locking and screenshots
xfce4-power-manager-plugins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Xfce power management integration
xfce4-taskmanager, xfce4-terminal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Task manager and terminal emulator
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin, xfce4-notifyd	Yes	Yes	Yes	Application menu and notifications
minios-configurator	Yes	Yes	Yes	MiniOS boot and session configuration editor
minios-installer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Graphical installer and minios-deploy CLI
minios-session-manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Persistent session manager and minios-session CLI
minios-kernel-manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Modular kernel manager and minios-kernel CLI
minios-store, minios-store-gui	Yes	Yes	Yes	MiniOS application catalog and installer
minios-image-builder	Yes	Yes	Yes	Graphical ISO remastering workspace
minios-module-manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Graphical .sb module manager
minios-help	Yes	Yes	Yes	Installed MiniOS documentation viewer
driveutility	Yes	Yes	Yes	Disk image writing, reading, formatting, and wiping
firefox / firefox-esr	Conditional	Conditional	Conditional	Browser and localization selected by suite and locale
menulibre	-	Yes	Yes	Graphical menu editor
open-vm-tools-desktop	-	Yes	Yes	VMware desktop integration
virtualbox-guest-x11	-	Conditional	Conditional	VirtualBox desktop integration on selected suites
Qt GTK platform themes	-	Yes	Yes	GTK appearance integration for Qt applications

Toolbox graphical applications

The Xfce 05-apps module is included for Toolbox and Ultra and is skipped for Standard.

Package	Purpose or condition
gparted	Graphical partition editor
gsmartcontrol, qdiskinfo	Disk health and device information
guymager, qphotorec	Forensic imaging and file recovery; qphotorec is excluded on Buster and Beowulf
kdiskmark	Disk benchmark
isomaster	ISO image editor
hardinfo, mesa-utils, vulkan-tools	Hardware and graphics diagnostics
baobab	Graphical disk usage analyzer
doublecmd-gtk	Two-panel file manager
grsync	Graphical rsync frontend
bleachbit	Cache and temporary-file cleanup
czkawka / czkawka-gui	Duplicate and unwanted file finder
gtkhash	Checksum calculator
wxhexeditor	Large-file hexadecimal editor
keepassxc	Password manager
veracrypt	Encrypted container and disk management; excluded on Buster and Beowulf
zulucrypt-gui, zulumount-gui	Graphical encrypted-volume tools
virt-manager, gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0	Virtual machine management and SPICE display support
remmina, remmina-plugin-rdp, remmina-plugin-vnc	Remote desktop client
rescuezilla	Graphical disk backup, restore, and cloning
transume	Clonezilla-based backup, restore, cloning, and image browsing; depends on compatible repository packages
wireshark, zenmap, gnome-nettool	Graphical network analysis and diagnostics
x11vnc	VNC access to the current X session
uget	Graphical download manager
android-file-transfer	Android MTP file transfer
vlc and selected plugins	Media playback, localization, Samba, and BitTorrent support
pdfarranger	PDF page arrangement
codium	Code editor on amd64, installed from its signed third-party repository
onboard	On-screen keyboard
galculator	Calculator

Ultra applications

Ultra contains all Toolbox applications and adds:

Package	Purpose
libreoffice, libreoffice-gtk3, libreoffice-style-elementary	Office suite and desktop integration
gimp	Raster graphics editor
inkscape	Vector graphics editor
blender	3D creation suite
audacity	Audio editor
obs-studio, obs-plugins	Screen recording and streaming
rawtherapee	RAW photo processor
synaptic	Graphical package manager
eddy, eddy-handler	Local Debian package installer, where available
fonts-open-sans	Open Sans font family

Inspect installed packages

The running system is authoritative for packages that were actually installed. List package names and versions with:

dpkg-query -W -f='${binary:Package}\t${Version}\n' | sort

Source build manifests

The package tables above are derived from the minios-live build system. The paths below are relative to the root of that source repository and are relevant when building or customizing an image from source:

• linux-live/environments/<environment>/ defines the ordered module chain.
• linux-live/scripts/00-core/packages.list defines the shared base and package-variant additions.
• linux-live/scripts/01-kernel/packages.list defines conditional kernel build and DKMS packages.
• linux-live/scripts/02-firmware/packages.list defines distribution-specific firmware.
• linux-live/scripts/03-gui-base/packages.list defines the shared graphical base.
• linux-live/scripts/04-flux-desktop/packages.list and 05-flux-apps/packages.list define Flux.
• linux-live/scripts/04-xfce-desktop/packages.list defines Xfce and MiniOS desktop tools.
• linux-live/scripts/05-apps/packages.list defines Toolbox and Ultra graphical applications.
• linux-live/scripts/10-firefox/packages.list defines the suite- and locale-specific browser packages.
• Each module's install and skip_conditions.conf files determine whether and how its package list is used.
• linux-live/build.conf selects the suite, architecture, environment, package variant, init system, kernel, and locale.
• linux-live/condinapt.map defines package-list condition prefixes.

Source lists describe requested packages and alternatives. Only the completed image and dpkg-query show the resolved dependency set and exact versions for a particular release.

See System architecture for module ordering and CondinAPT in MiniOS for conditional package selection.