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What is the best method for Meta-managing Debian Package Profiles?
Over the last 5 years or so, I've been seeing more and more techniques to sync things from browsers, to ide's.
Now I'm keen on setting up something similar for 'meta-managing apt package profiles' ...
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MySQL install on Ubuntu
I have install mysql cluster on one of our linux machines, we did a pilot and decided to use replication instead. Now I want to remove it and install mysql-server.
I have removed all the old files as ...
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How do I find the package that contains a given program on Ubuntu?
Frequently I know the name of the command line program that I need but I don't know the name of the package that provides the program. How do I find the name of the package that contains the program ...
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How can I run Debian stable but install some packages from testing?
Say you're running a server and you don't want to upgrade to Testing (Squeeze) from Stable (Lenny) to just install a required package or two.
What's the best way of installing only certain packages ...
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What is the fastest way to install Python 2.6 on an Ubuntu 8.04 server?
I just got an Ubuntu server set up, and it seems to have come with Python 2.5. I've been developing my app in Python 2.6, but apt-cache search ^python seems to not contain 2.6. What is the fastest way ...
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Find last time update was performed with apt-get
I need to find the last time that the
apt-get update
command was run on my server. How can I determine this information?
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Broken upgrade of debian, causing perl issues
So I stuffed an upgrade of debian, both upgrade and dist-upgrade. I am more used to yum but thats no excuse.
Now things are being silly. The majority of things work, however, my bugzilla install ...
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What is the format of specifying 'http' repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list?
After specifying the url of the repository, what do the tags like 'stable','non-free' mean in the entries of /etc/apt/sources.list ? If we know the url of a repository, how do we decide about these ...
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Aptitude / apt-get. Any way to only show non-X dependant apps in a search?
It just occured to me that it would be good to do an 'aptitude search blah' and only have non-graphical applications shown.
I know it's not a biggy but the docs don't seem to mention it and I would ...
