Debian Junior Project
Summary
The Debian Junior Pure Blend contains 256 packages which are grouped by metapackages. Each metapackage will cause the installation of packages for a specific topic. The following table lists the metapackages of Debian Junior

Tasks page

This is a list of the Tasks Debian Junior is made of:

Table of contents

Art - Debian Jr. Art

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

Cheese
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
Gamine
Interactive game for young children
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Gimp
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Gpaint
GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME
Inkscape
vector-based drawing program
Karbon
vector graphics application for the Calligra Suite
Krita
pixel-based image manipulation program
Mtpaint
painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos
Mypaint
paint program for use with graphics tablets
Pencil2d
Create hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics
Pinta
Simple drawing/painting program
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Rgbpaint
simple pixel-based painting program
Simple-scan
Simple Scanning Utility
Tupi
2D Animation design and authoring tool
Tuxpaint
Paint program for young children
Xpaint
simple paint program for X

Desktop - Debian Jr. Desktop Environment

This package is a Metapackage for Debian Jr. Desktop Environment.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

2048-qt
mathematics based puzzle game
Atomix
puzzle game for building molecules out of separate atoms
Biniax2
logic game with arcade and tactics modes
Blobby
Volleyball game with blobs
Bloboats
Boat racing game
Blockout2
Tetris like game (3D-tetris)
Brainparty
36 puzzle games for all the family
Bumprace
1 or 2 players race through a multi-level maze
Circuslinux
Clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points!
Dino-im
modern XMPP client
Eog
Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program
Epiphany-browser
Intuitive GNOME web browser
Evolution
groupware suite with mail client and organizer
Frozen-bubble
cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
Gamine
Interactive game for young children
Gbrainy
brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Gnome-calculator
GNOME desktop calculator
Gnome-clocks
Simple GNOME app with stopwatch, timer, and world clock support
Gnome-dictionary
GNOME dictionary application
Gnome-mahjongg
classic Eastern tile game for GNOME
Gnome-nibbles
snake game, up to four players
Gnome-sudoku
Sudoku puzzle game for GNOME
Goldendict
feature-rich dictionary lookup program
Gpxviewer
views GPS traces collected in the GPX format
Grun
??? missing short description for package grun :-(
Gtetrinet
multiplayer tetris-like game
Gtkpool
??? missing short description for package gtkpool :-(
Hannah
pacman-like game, child oriented
Hexxagon
??? missing short description for package hexxagon :-(
Icewm
wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
Jumpnbump
??? missing short description for package jumpnbump :-(
Junior-doc
Debian Jr. Documentation
Ktuberling
stamp drawing toy
Kturtle
educational programming environment
Laby
Learn how to program with ants and spider webs
Lbreakout2
ball-and-paddle game - transitional package
Libreoffice
office productivity suite (metapackage)
Lightdm
simple display manager
Littlewizard
development environment for children
Ltris
very polished Tetris clone with CPU opponents
Mousepad
simple Xfce oriented text editor
Numptyphysics
crayon based physics puzzle game
Opencity
3D city simulator game
Paprefs
PulseAudio Preferences
Pavucontrol
PulseAudio Volume Control
Pavumeter
PulseAudio Volume Meter
Pingus
Free Lemmings(TM) clone
Pulseaudio
PulseAudio sound server
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Ri-li
toy train simulation game
Scratch
easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up
Sgt-puzzles
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games
Stellarium
real-time photo-realistic sky generator
Supertux
Classic 2D jump 'n run sidescroller with Tux
Supertuxkart
3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
Thunar
File Manager for Xfce
Tuxmath
math game for kids with Tux
Tuxpaint
Paint program for young children
Tuxpuck
air hockey game for single players
Tuxtype
Educational Typing Tutor Game Starring Tux
Vlc
multimedia player and streamer
Xdg-utils
desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org
Xserver-xephyr
nested X server
Xserver-xorg
X.Org X server
Xterm
X terminal emulator
Zenity
Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts

Doudou-base - DoudouLinux base

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

Acpi-support-base
scripts for handling base ACPI events such as the power button
Alsa-base
dummy package to ease purging of obsolete conffiles
Alsa-utils
Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
Avahi-autoipd
Avahi IPv4LL network address configuration daemon
Avahi-discover
Service discover user interface for avahi
Bash-completion
programmable completion for the bash shell
Cups-bsd
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
Cups-pdf
PDF writer backend for CUPS (dummy transitional package)
Dash
POSIX-compliant shell
Dnsmasq-base
Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server - executable
Eject
ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Linux
Gnome-keyring
GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools)
Gstreamer0.10-alsa
??? missing short description for package gstreamer0.10-alsa :-(
Gtk2-engines
theme engines for GTK+ 2.x
Khelpcenter4
transitional dummy package
Less
pager program similar to more
Libgl1-mesa-dri
free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
Libgl1-mesa-glx
transitional dummy package
Libpam-gnome-keyring
PAM module to unlock the GNOME keyring upon login
Lxappearance
LXDE GTK+ theme switcher
Lxrandr
LXDE monitor configuration tool
Lxterminal
LXDE terminal emulator
Network-manager-gnome
network management framework (GNOME frontend)
Ntpdate
Network Time Protocol client (transitional package)
Oss-compat
Open Sound System (OSS) compatibility package
Oxygencursors
Oxygen mouse cursor theme
Policykit-1
transitional package for polkitd and pkexec
Policykit-1-gnome
authentication agent for PolicyKit
Smbclient
command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix
System-config-printer
graphical interface to configure the printing system
System-config-printer-udev
Utilities to detect and configure printers automatically
Tree
displays an indented directory tree, in color
X11-utils
X11 utilities
X11-xkb-utils
X11 XKB utilities
Xdg-user-dirs-gtk
tool to manage well known user directories (Gtk extension)
Xfonts-base
standard fonts for X
Xkb-data
X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data
Xserver-xorg-core
Xorg X server - core server
Yelp
Help browser for GNOME

Doudou-dev-artists - DoudouLinux Art development

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

Gimp
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Inkscape
vector-based drawing program
Ttf-bitstream-vera
Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts
Ttf-dejavu
transitional dummy package
Ttf-liberation
transitional dummy package

Doudou-games - DoudouLinux Games

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

Abe
side-scrolling game named "Abe's Amazing Adventure"
Biniax2
logic game with arcade and tactics modes
Burgerspace
Avoid evil foodstuffs and make burgers
Ceferino
action game similar to Super Pang
Circuslinux
Clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points!
Foobillard
transitional dummy package
Freealchemist
simpler figure block game
Frozen-bubble
cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
Gmchess
Chinese chess game (Xiangqi)
Gnome-games
games for the GNOME desktop
Gnome-mastermind
Mastermind™ clone for GNOME
Gnugo
play the game of Go
Gtans
Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+
Gweled
"Diamond Mine"-style puzzle game
Hannah
pacman-like game, child oriented
Hex-a-hop
puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles
Kigo
go game
Kolf
miniature golf game
Lbreakout2
ball-and-paddle game - transitional package
Magicor
puzzle game in the spirit of solomon's key
Monsterz
arcade puzzle game
Nikwi
platform game where your goal is to collect candies
Numptyphysics
crayon based physics puzzle game
Pingus
Free Lemmings(TM) clone
Supertux
Classic 2D jump 'n run sidescroller with Tux
Supertuxkart
3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
Tanglet
single player word finding game based on Boggle
Toppler
clone of the "Nebulus" game on old 8 and 16 bit machines
Tworld
Chip's Challenge Game Engine Emulation

Education - Debian Jr. education applications

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

Atomix
puzzle game for building molecules out of separate atoms
Bambam
keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
Childsplay
Suite of educational games for young children
Fracplanet
Fractal planet generator
Gbrainy
brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Ktuberling
stamp drawing toy
Numptyphysics
crayon based physics puzzle game
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Pysycache
Educational game to teach children to use the mouse
Stellarium
real-time photo-realistic sky generator
Xball
Simulate bouncing balls in a window
Xmakemol
program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems
Xmakemol-gl
program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems (OpenGL)

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Kstars
desktop planetarium, observation planning and telescope control
Mathwar
A flash card game designed to teach simple maths

Games-adventure - Debian Jr. Adventure Games

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

Beneath-a-steel-sky
classic 2D point and click science fiction adventure game
Drascula
classic 2D point and click adventure game -- English version
Flight-of-the-amazon-queen
classic 2D point and click fantasy adventure game
Lure-of-the-temptress
classic 2D point and click fantasy adventure game
Nethack-console
dungeon crawl game - text-based interface
Nethack-lisp
dungeon crawl game - Lisp interface
Nethack-x11
dungeon crawl game - X11 interface

Games-arcade - Debian Jr. arcade games

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

2048-qt
mathematics based puzzle game
Bambam
keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
Biniax2
logic game with arcade and tactics modes
Bouncy
eat the yummy veggies in the garden - game for small kids
Bugsquish
Bugs are trying to suck blood out of your arm!
Bumprace
1 or 2 players race through a multi-level maze
Childsplay
Suite of educational games for young children
Circuslinux
Clowns are trying to pop balloons to score points!
Cuyo
Tetris-like game with very impressive effects
Fretsonfire
game of musical skill and fast fingers
Funnyboat
side scrolling arcade shooter game on a steamboat
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Hannah
pacman-like game, child oriented
Heroes-sdl
transitional package for heroes
Holotz-castle
platform game with high doses of mystery
Jumpnbump
??? missing short description for package jumpnbump :-(
Koules
abstract space action game
Lbreakout2
ball-and-paddle game - transitional package
Madbomber
Kaboom! clone
Monsterz
arcade puzzle game
Supertux
Classic 2D jump 'n run sidescroller with Tux
Tuxmath
math game for kids with Tux
Tuxpuck
air hockey game for single players
Vodovod
puzzle game, you must lead the water to the storage tank
Xsoldier
shoot 'em up game with the "not shooting" bonus

Games-card - Debian Jr. Card Games

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

Ace-of-penguins
penguin-themed solitaire games
Childsplay
Suite of educational games for young children
Kpat
solitaire card games
Pairs
memory and pairs game
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Sgt-puzzles
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games
Xsol
Solitaire game for the X Window system

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

Spider
A two deck solitaire game for the X Window System

Games-gl - Debian Jr. 3D Games (hardware acceleration required)

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

Armagetronad
3D Tron-like high speed game
Bouncy
eat the yummy veggies in the garden - game for small kids
Bzflag
3D first person tank battle game
Extremetuxracer
3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin
Gltron
3D lightcycle game
Neverball
3D floor-tilting game
Supertuxkart
3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
Torcs
3D racing cars simulator game using OpenGL
Trackballs
OpenGL-based game of steering a marble through a labyrinth
Tuxfootball
great 2D soccer (sometimes called football) game

Games-net - Debian Jr. Network Games

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

Bubbros
multiplayer clone of the famous Bubble Bobble game
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Gtetrinet
multiplayer tetris-like game
Minetest
Multiplayer infinite-world block sandbox
Openttd
reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with enhancements
Tetrinet-client
textmode client for tetrinet, a multiplayer tetris-like game
Xblast-tnt
multiplayer blast-the-others game inspired by Dynablaster
Xblast-tnt-levels
level files for xblast-tnt
Xblast-tnt-musics
music files for xblast-tnt
Xblast-tnt-sounds
sound files for xblast-tnt
Xpilot-ng
Multi-player tactical game for X (NG version)

Games-puzzle - Debian Jr. Puzzle games

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

2048-qt
mathematics based puzzle game
Amoebax
Puyo Puyo-style puzzle game for up to two players
Berusky2
logic game Bugs Escape 3D
Biniax2
logic game with arcade and tactics modes
Brainparty
36 puzzle games for all the family
Frozen-bubble
cool game where you pop out the bubbles!
Gbrainy
brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Gtans
Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+
Hex-a-hop
puzzle game based on hexagonal tiles
Lmemory
Children's game based on the "memory" card game
Monsterz
arcade puzzle game
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Ri-li
toy train simulation game
Xjig
X11 jigsaw puzzle

Games-sim - Debian Jr. Simulation Games

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

0ad
Real-time strategy game of ancient warfare
Freeciv
Civilization turn based strategy game
Freecol
open source remake of the old Colonization
Lincity
build & maintain a city/country
Lincity-ng
City simulator game with polished graphics
Megaglest
3D multi-player real time strategy game
Micropolis
real-time city management simulator
Opencity
3D city simulator game
Openttd
reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with enhancements
Pingus
Free Lemmings(TM) clone
Ri-li
toy train simulation game
Simutrans
transportation simulator
Wesnoth
fantasy turn-based strategy game - complete suite (metapackage)

Games-text - Debian Jr. Text Games

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

Animals
Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB
Bsdgames
collection of classic textual unix games
Cowsay
configurable talking cow
Moon-buggy
Drive a car across the moon
Moon-buggy-esd
Drive a car across the moon (version with sound)
Nettoe
networked version of Tic Tac Toe (3x3 Grid) for the console
Sl
Correct you if you type `sl' by mistake
Zivot
the game of life, simple console version

Internet - Debian Jr. Internet tools

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

Epiphany-browser
Intuitive GNOME web browser
Pidgin
graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client

Math - Debian Jr. educational math

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

2048-qt
mathematics based puzzle game
Bc
GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
Bsdgames
collection of classic textual unix games
Childsplay
Suite of educational games for young children
Gbrainy
brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Kig
interactive geometry tool
Numptyphysics
crayon based physics puzzle game
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Tuxmath
math game for kids with Tux
X11-apps
X applications
Xaos
real-time interactive fractal zoomer

Programming - Debian Jr. programming

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

Arduino
AVR development board IDE from Arduino CC
Gvrng
Interactive, introductory programming language
Kturtle
educational programming environment
Laby
Learn how to program with ants and spider webs
Littlewizard
development environment for children
Puredata
realtime computer music and graphics system
Scratch
easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up
Sonic-pi
Live Coding for Everyone
Squeak-plugins-scratch
Squeak plugins for the Scratch programming environment
Squeak-vm
virtual machine for Smalltalk

Sound - Debian Jr. sound

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

Audacious
small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats
Bplay
Buffered audio file player/recorder
Cdtool
text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Gespeaker
GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
Gtkguitune
??? missing short description for package gtkguitune :-(
Hydrogen
advanced drum machine/step sequencer
Milkytracker
music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2
Pianobooster
Learn the piano just by playing a game
Puredata
realtime computer music and graphics system
Sonic-pi
Live Coding for Everyone
Tuxguitar
Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player
Vorbis-tools
several Ogg Vorbis tools

System - Debian Jr. System 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

Baobab
GNOME disk usage analyzer
Bubblefishymon
system load dockapp with a duck
Hello
example package based on GNU hello
Mc
Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager

Toys - Debian Jr. desktop toys

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

Bambam
keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
Bubblefishymon
system load dockapp with a duck
Cheese
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
Dasher
graphical predictive text input system
Gamine
Interactive game for young children
Gespeaker
GTK+ front-end for eSpeak and mbrola
Gtkguitune
??? missing short description for package gtkguitune :-(
Gworldclock
Displays time and date in specified time zones
Oneko
cat chases the cursor (now a mouse) around the screen
Xfireworks
Fireworks in your root window
Xfishtank
turns your X root into an aquarium
Xpenguins
little penguins walk on your windows
Xplanet
planetary body renderer
Xplanet-images
imagery for xplanet
Xteddy
cuddly teddy bear (or other image) for your X desktop

Typing - Debian Jr. typing

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

Bambam
keyboard mashing and doodling game for babies
Childsplay
Suite of educational games for young children
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Gtypist
simple ncurses touch typing tutor
Klavaro
Flexible touch typing tutor
Ktouch
touch typing tutor for KDE
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Tuxtype
Educational Typing Tutor Game Starring Tux

Video - Debian Jr. Video

Tools to watch video files, DVD, CD, network streams etc.

Official Debian packages with high relevance

Cheese
tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
Kaffeine
versatile media player for KDE
Maim
takes screenshots of your desktop
Vlc
multimedia player and streamer

Writing - Debian Jr. writing

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

Abiword
efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
Aspell
GNU Aspell spell-checker
Dasher
graphical predictive text input system
Dict
dictionary client
Gcompris-qt
educational games for small children
Nano
small, friendly text editor inspired by Pico
Pysiogame
educational activity pack for kids
Writetype
application designed to help students write more easily