Posted by Admin on 29th December 2008
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Debian Lenny’s release is getting closer and closer and many people will want to upgrade their Etch servers to Lenny.This is currently in testing so it is not recommended to use these instruction in production.
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Posted by Admin on 12th June 2008
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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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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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 It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions.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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Posted by daigoro 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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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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