Debian

WareLogging. Useful things on a Debian GNU/Linux system. Also some stuff under Ubuntu.

www.debian-administration.org/

= general package management =

apt-cache search whatever

= mixed system =

How to keep a mixed system. Useful if you don't want to risk hosing your entire system by running unstable, but need some packages it contains. Basically, put something like:

APT::Default-Release "version";

Where version is one of stable, testing, or unstable in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Then add a source for that version to /etc/apt/sources.list. You can now get stuff from the appropriate version by doing:

apt-get -t ''distribution'' install packagename

This can also sometimes get you out of those weird dependency traps that a big upgrade will often generate.

= useful packages =

Command-line PHP - Short version: apt-get install php5-cli
aumix: quick and dirty console mixer; change those volume settings up - apt-get install aumix
makedepend: apt-get install xutils-dev

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last edited Febuary 13, 2008