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Archive for the 'Package Mgmt' Category

Debian Packagemanagement

How to prevent a package from being updated in Debian

Posted by Admin on 12th June 2008

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If you want to update all the packages other than one in your debian server follow this procedure

There are three ways of holding back packages, with dpkg, aptitude or with dselect.

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Howto Select Fastest Mirror in Debian

Posted by Admin on 9th May 2008

If you want to select Fastest Mirror in Debian follow this tutorial and this is very helpful if you want to download and install your debian packages,Updates .netselect-apt automatically creates a sources.list file for using with apt for the specified distribution by downloading the list of Debian mirrors using wget and choosing the fastest servers (both US and non-US) using netselect. The output file is written to OUTFILE.

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How to Install Backports Debian Packages

Posted by Admin on 5th April 2007

If You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the stable Debian tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. That is where backports come in.

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How to install Thunderbird in Ubuntu

Posted by nathanderwise on 22nd March 2007

Hi everybody,Iam a beginner with Linux and I installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago.

From here and therein the net, I was able to install every single program I wanted (and yes, from the command line) but I seem to have a few problems now with Thunderbird.

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Shows source-package information apt-show-source

Posted by Admin on 30th December 2006

This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg status file and then lists every package with a higher version number than the one installed.

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Recursively lists package dependencies Using apt-rdepends

Posted by Admin on 29th December 2006

apt-rdepends searches through the APT cache to find package dependencies. apt-rdepends knows how to emulate the result of calling apt-cache with both depends and dotty options.

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