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Package Management for Debian and Ubuntu

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  • dpkg: low-level (without deps manageent)
  • apt-get (and apt-*): low-level (with deps management)
  • apt: user friendly
  • aptitude: even more user friendly
  • ~~wajig~~: use apt or aptitude instead

Overall, apt and aptitude are …

Package Management in Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

There are many different ways to install packages in Linux.

  1. Build from source.

  2. Pre-built binaries.

  3. Use distribution specific tools. For example,

    Notice that Atomic Linux distributions …

Tips on Debian

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Debian is much harder to use than Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. It is suggested that you use Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution instead of Debian.

Installation

Please refer to …

Wirelss for Debian

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  1. Depending on the wireless card on your machine, you might have to install a wireless card dirver manually. You can use the following command to check the type of the wireless …

Install Firefox in Debian

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

you have to update your script based on the DE being used. but first check whether a desktop file created in GNOME can be used in Xfce or not.

# download latest …

Chinese Locale in Linux

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First you have to make sure locales is installed. If not, you can install it using the following command (on Ubuntu/Debian).

sudo apt-get install locales

Ubuntu

# GB2312 encoding support
sudo …