| arch-backup | trivial backup scripts (ssh/smb support) | |
| cracklib | Password Checking Library | |
| db | The Berkeley DB embedded database system | |
| gdbm | GNU database library | |
| glibc | GNU C Library | |
| gpm | A mouse server for the console and xterm | |
| gwenhywfar | OS abstraction functions for various projects | |
| hwdetect | Hardware detection script with loading modules and mkinitcpio.conf / rc.conf support | |
| libacpi | general purpose lib to gather ACPI data | |
| libavc1394 | A library to control A/V devices using the 1394ta AV/C commands. | |
| libcap | POSIX 1003.1e capabilities | |
| libcap-ng | A library intended to make programming with POSIX capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap | |
| libfaketime | Report fake dates and times to programs without having to change the system-wide time. | |
| libgtop | A library that read information about processes and the running system | |
| libieee1284 | A library to query devices connected in parallel port. | |
| libraw1394 | Provides an API to the Linux IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver | |
| librsvg | A SVG viewing library | |
| libsmbios | A library for providing access to as much BIOS information as possible | |
| libstatgrab | A library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run | |
| lwp | Light weight process library | |
| mtdev | A stand-alone library which transforms all variants of kernel MT events to the slotted type B protocol | |
| ncurses | System V Release 4.0 curses emulation library | |
| readline | GNU readline library | |
| slang | S-Lang is a powerful interpreted language | |
| talloc | A hierarchical pool based memory allocator with destructors | |
| zlib | Compression library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and PKZIP |