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May 9, 2008

Howto Select Fastest Mirror in Debian

by @ 3:29 pm. Filed under Package Mgmt

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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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April 5, 2007

How to Install Backports Debian Packages

by @ 8:59 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

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 It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions.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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March 22, 2007

How to install Thunderbird in Ubuntu

by @ 5:05 am. Filed under General, Package Mgmt

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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December 30, 2006

Shows source-package information apt-show-source

by @ 8:12 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

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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December 29, 2006

Recursively lists package dependencies Using apt-rdepends

by @ 8:02 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

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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December 26, 2006

Put an unpacked .deb file back together Using dpkg-repack

by @ 7:00 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a Debian package that has already been installed on your system. If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, files in /etc modified),the new package will inherit the changes.

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December 14, 2006

Replace binaries and Files with dpkg-divert

by @ 9:00 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

File `diversions’ are a way of forcing dpkg not to install a file into its location, but to a `diverted’ location. Diversions can be used through the Debian package scripts to move a file away when it causes a conflict. System administrators can also use it to override some package’s configuration file, or whenever some files (which aren’t marked as ‘conffiles’) need to be preserved by dpkg, when installing a newer version of a package which contains those files.

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December 3, 2006

show what has been changed in a new version of a Debian package Using apt-listchanges

by @ 9:22 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

apt-listchanges is a tool to show what has been changed in a new version of a Debian package, as compared to the version currently installed on the system.

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December 2, 2006

Query APT Configuration Using apt-config

by @ 9:42 am. Filed under Package Mgmt

apt-config is an internal program used by various portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses the main configura-tion file /etc/apt/apt.conf in a manner that is easy to use by scripted applications.

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November 27, 2006

Create backup of all packages using APTonCD in Ubuntu

by @ 2:03 pm. Filed under Package Mgmt, Other Linux

APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you’ve downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers.One thing you need to remember this will create backup all the packages installed using apt-get,synaptic because these package arcives are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives

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