Debian: Remove packages in status rc
The status rc says that the package was removed but the configuration files are still on disk. This happens either when the packages are deleted with apt-get remove or they are automatically removed...
View ArticleDebian: change the keyboard layout from the console
I’ve installed a new test system to play around a little bit (a Debian Squeeze install). Since I was too lazy to install it from scratch and I’m using VMWare anyway, I thought I’d just download a...
View ArticleDebian: Configure a static IP address
In order to configure a network device statically, you have to edit /etc/network/interfaces: # vi /etc/network/interfaces There you can configure a static IP address and the subnet mask: auto eth0...
View ArticleVMWare: The path “/usr/bin/gcc” is not valid path to the gcc binary
Since I’ve wasted way too much time with this problem, I thought I’d share how I solved it… But first the problem: I wanted to install the vmware tools in a Debian Squeeze virtual machine. So I chose...
View ArticleDebian: using apt-spy to find the fastest archive mirror
apt-spy is a tool which tests the bandwidth of Debian archive mirrors and generates a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d with the source list for the fastest mirror. The most useful options for apt-spy...
View ArticleDebian: using netselect-apt to find the fastest archive mirror
If you need to quickly find the fastest Archive mirror to download Debian packages, you can either use apt-spy as shown here or use a tool called netselect-apt. netselect-apt can be installed with...
View ArticleDebian: use SSHFS to mount a remote directory
In a previous post, I’ve shown how to use SSHFS to mount a remote directory as a volume in Mac OS X. Of course the same can be done to connect two Linux boxes. Here’s a short description how to do it...
View ArticleSVN: Subversion 1.8 on Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Debian 7 (Wheezy) is still only shipping with Subversion 1.6 (see Details of package subversion in wheezy). First you need to add the WANdisco GPG key to the apt sources keyring: $ wget -q...
View ArticleDebian/Ubuntu: The following packages have been kept back
Note that for all commands below, you might need to add a leading sudo depending on your system. When updating your packages using apt-get, you might get the following message: # apt-get upgrade...
View ArticleDebian / Ubuntu: viewing the apt change log
I am running rkhunter as a cron job and thus receiving notification any time I’ve installed something. Ideally I should be checking the output immediately and updating its database if it is just...
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