<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.65 - 12 Sep 2006 - PeterKnaggs)

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apt-get install --yes torsmo apt-get install --yes sysstat apt-get install --yes lm-sensors

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apt-get install --yes wireshark # formerly ethereal apt-get install --yes tshark # formerly tethereal

apt-get install --yes tcpdump apt-get install --yes vpnc

<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.64 - 02 Sep 2006 - PeterKnaggs)

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apt-get install --yes manpages-posix manpages-posix-dev apt-get install --yes libgdchart-gd2-xpm apt-get install --yes python-gdchart2 python-gdchart2-doc

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Running your very own webserver

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Understanding the Debian Init Scripts

See the explanation here on the DebianHELP Wiki.

Building a Cross-Compiler

If you are involved in cross-compiling packages for other architectures,

<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.63 - 31 Jul 2006 - PeterKnaggs)

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gcc-3.4-sparc-linux - The GNU C compiler

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Of course, what you download in this way won't be included in your Squid cache. To reiterate: you can't set an ftp entry in the /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file to an http proxy. In any case, it's not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency, so only use the ftp-proxy

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Or would you rather be a Clone?

After installing Sarge from Netinst, if you'd like to quickly install all of the packages listed above on this page (other than the ones that need to be built from source, like the cross-compilers), you can use the following method:

<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.62 - 22 Jul 2006 - PeterKnaggs)

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In Python 2.5 the ctypes package, written by Thomas Heller, has been added to the standard library. The ctypes package lets you call arbitrary functions in shared libraries from Python.

How about a SWIG of Java?

If you are planning to build a standalone executable from your Java program, remember that the GNU Compiler Collection now includes a Java compiler. And not just any mere Java bytecode compiler, this is the Java compiler your parents warned you about.

<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.61 - 09 Mar 2006 - PeterKnaggs)

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apt-get install --yes libx11-dev apt-get install --yes libgtk1.2-dev apt-get install --yes libgtk2.0-dev

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apt-get install --yes hwinfo apt-get install --yes lshw apt-get install --yes rpm

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apt-get install --yes planetpenguin-racer

apt-get install --yes tuxracer apt-get install --yes chromium apt-get install --yes gltron

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apt-get install --yes linneighborhood apt-get install --yes a2ps apt-get install --yes qemu

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apt-get install --yes valgrind

apt-get install --yes fbi apt-get install --yes fbiterm apt-get install --yes gaim

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Back to LinuxHints - Everything GNU ever wanted to know about Linux

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<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.60 - 11 Jan 2006 - PeterKnaggs)

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apt-get install --yes python-gdchart2 python-gdchart2-doc

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Running your very own webserver

apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc

Building a Cross-Compiler

If you are involved in cross-compiling packages for other architectures, you may decide to use dpkg-cross to automate many of the setup steps. Thanks to Oliver Kurth for this tip.

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<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.59 - 18 Oct 2005 - PeterKnaggs)

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The dpkg --set-selections does not actually install or remove anything. It just sets the selection state on the packages according to the list from my system.

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To actually download and install the packages, you then need to run the command:

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Note: this may also end up removing some packages from your system, to match the selection state. It will ask you to confirm before proceeding.

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To reiterate: you can't set an ftp entry in the /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file to an http proxy. In any case, it's not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency, so only use the ftp-proxy environment variable in this way if there's no alternative.

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Unofficial Repositories

Or would you rather be a Clone?

After installing Sarge from Netinst, if you'd like to quickly install all of the packages listed above on this page (other than the ones that need to be built from source, like the cross-compilers), you can use the following method:

<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.57 - 11 Oct 2005 - PeterKnaggs)

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apt-get install free-java-sdk apt-get install libsablevm1-dev

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Sun Java

To install Sun's proprietary Java runtime environment in such a way that it is managed by the Debian packaging system, there is an article on the Debian Administration website here. Thanks to Eric De Mund for this link. The main reason to do this is to allow your browser to work with Java applets. For now, the reason Java applets don't work with SableVM is that there doesn't yet seem to be an Open JVM Integration (OJI) for any JRE other than Sun's proprietary one. Rick is maintaining a Java section in the devtools section of his knowledgebase on the subject.

Impure thoughts

Why stick to writing "pure" code when your competitors are outperforming you by writing in C? Although sticking to pure code is probably wise in the long run, the temptation

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<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.56 - 03 Oct 2005 - PeterKnaggs)

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The dselect tool will bring up a menu, where you choose the "Install" option to start the process.

Best of Both Worlds? Using `apt` with `RPM`

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For RedHat, Fedora and RHEL ATrpms is the homepage describing the repository. If you have some other RPM-based distro, you might find a link to an apt repository for it in the Repositories section of apt4rpm.

Configuration changes for some packages

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dpkg_get_selections: The output of dpkg --get-selections for Sarge

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<<O>> Difference Topic DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages (r1.55 - 27 Sep 2005 - PeterKnaggs)

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under the directory /var/lib/apt/lists. For example, to see the description for unison, search for the string Package: unison.

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For automake, you'll often need to choose which version to use for building the ./configure file for a given product. To do this, use Debian's update-alternatives

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More packages...

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Thanks to Jason Creighton for this tip: To configure Firefox so that Google Mail (a.k.a. "gmail") can be viewed using a fixed-width (monospace) font, install the URLid and the User File Editor extensions, then (either using chromeEdit under the Tools menu Edit User Files or manually) add the following in your $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome/userContent.css:

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If you have trouble finding the right directory to install userContent.css, if you have findutils installed then you can use locate userContent-example.css and this should give the some more directories to try. Last but not least, there's also the incredibly convenient Gmail Notifier extension developed by Doron Rosenberg.

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Building a Cross-Compiler

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Packages installed from other sources

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To reiterate: you can't set an ftp entry in the /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file to an http proxy. In any case, it's not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency, so only use the ftp-proxy environment variable in this way if there's no alternative.

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Or would you rather be a Clone?

After installing Sarge from Netinst, if you'd like to quickly install all of the packages listed above on this page (other than the ones that need to be built from source, like the cross-compilers), you can use the following method:

  wget http://www.penlug.org/twiki/pub/Main/DebianSargeNetinstManuallyInstalledPackages/dpkg_get_selections
  cat ./dpkg_get_selections | dpkg --set-selections

The dpkg --set-selections does not actually install or remove anything. It just sets the selection state on the packages according to the list from my system. You then need to run dselect to actually download and install the packages. Note: this may end up removing some packages from your system. It will ask you to confirm before proceeding. You also need to add Marillat's repository before proceeding, as described in the previous section.

  dselect

The dselect tool will bring up a menu, where you choose the "Install" option to start the process.

Best of Both Worlds? Using `apt` with `RPM`

By now you're probably feeling quite comfortable with using apt and were perhaps getting a hankering to use it to update machines running distributions other than Debian. The apt4rpm guide will get you started. Adam Doxtater's Multimedia on SuSE article describes how to install apt for SuSE. For RedHat, Fedora and RHEL ATrpms is the homepage describing the repository. If you have some other RPM-based distro, you might find a link to an apt repository for it in the Repositories section of apt4rpm.

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gcc-3.4-sparc-linux - The GNU C compiler

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apt-get install mozilla-firefox Thanks to Jason Creighton for this tip: To configure Firefox so that Google Mail (a.k.a. "gmail") can be viewed using a

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If you are using Perl, the Debian Perl Policy explains how multiple versions of Perl are packaged in such a way that they can co-exist on your system.

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If you are planning to build a standalone executable from your Java program, remember that the GNU Compiler Collection now includes a Java compiler. And not just any mere Java bytecode compiler, this is the Java compiler your parents warned you about. It merrily compiles Java code (and even JARs of class files, as you'll see later) into native object code for your architecture, just like the GNU C compiler does for C code. So let's install gcj and the development headers for building JNI using:

  apt-get install gcj libgcj4-dev

Now you're probably wondering if you could build a standalone executable which uses a SWIG-generated JNI. Indeed you can, and although the preferred way of calling into C from gcj-compiled Java code is to use CNI rather than JNI, let's use JNI in this example as it's probably what you are more familiar with. Let's say the SWIG API definition for your library is "myapi.swg" and your library is called "mylib.a", then the steps to build the Java files generated by SWIG into a natively-compiled library "libmyapi_native.so" are as follows:

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Installing VMware on Debian

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If you are interested in using Python, the Debian Python Policy is well worth reading, as it explains how multiple versions of Python are packaged in such a way that they can co-exist on your system and still be found by the scripts that use them.

Debian Perl Policy

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  apt-get install free-java-sdk
  apt-get install libsablevm1-dev

Impure thoughts

Why stick to writing "pure" code when your competitors are outperforming you by writing in C? Maybe you already have a C library in your product which implements the performance-critical sections, and you'd like to call into it from a modern scripting language like Python, but were put off by complexity of writing the all of the required C Python extension code. You'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that the SWIG folks have already solved most of the problem. To build an interface to a C library, so that you can use it from Python, Perl, Java and a host of other languages, one of the easiest and most consistent ways to do it is to use SWIG:

  apt-get install swig

Installing VMware on Debian

Let's use a new page for the topic of VMware On Debian, as the description of all the steps is somewhat involved.
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To reiterate: you can't set an ftp entry in the /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file to an http proxy. In any case, it's not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency, so only use the ftp-proxy environment variable in this way if there's no alternative.

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