on a dpkg managed system this PATTERN will help you generate .deb files from source AND remove all the dev libs you had to install. i hate cluttering up my machine with rouge packages and headers. it would be pretty darn easy on rpm systems as well. i just dont have a rpm managed system to test on right now. NOTE, you sharp ones will notice that it uninstalls the deb you just made! yeah, but the deb is still there to do with it what you want, like re install it. or you can just grep -v after the diff
Supports regex pattern and very flexible output parameters and search options. Show Sample Output
this is funny ;) alias sl="ls" ... is the useful solution, but that's boring ;P and You won't learn to think before You type !
For example: check the APT security keys to make sure the Google digital signature was imported correctly Show Sample Output
deborphan(1) must be installed.
Search the names and descriptions of all available packages and prints out the name and the short description.
There is no longer a need to add PGP keys for Ubuntu Launchpad PPA's. The add-apt-repository command creates a new file for the PPA in /etc/sources.list.d/ then adds the PPA's keys to the apt keyring automatically. No muss, no fuss.
also shows the ethernet adapter Show Sample Output
Especially useful for latex packages, which are listed in the description of their Ubuntu package E.g. say I want to find the Ubuntu package containing latex package aeguill:
aptitude search ~daeguill
p texlive-lang-french - TeX Live: French
Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
If there is update available for the package you can see upgrade is from which version to which version. Also you will get detail about which release the package belongs to (stable/testing/sid). Show Sample Output
Output: Version 3.2-0 (for example if you type # aptitude show bash | grep Vers Depends on the language of your distribution, because the name of the word "Version" in other languages may be different.
In July 2008, there was an uproar over Foxconn motherboards feeding Linux installs incorrect ACPI information (http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249). Foxconn has gladly corrected their mistake, but make sure it's not happening on your motherboard! After running the command, just view the 'dsdt.dsl' in any editor you like. Show Sample Output
For instance, to add mongodb 10gen package echo "deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list Show Sample Output
Use this command to determine what version of MythTV you are running on a Debian system. Tested on a Mythbuntu installation. Show Sample Output
A space-padded version:
perl -m'AptPkg::Cache' -e '$c=AptPkg::Cache->new; for (keys %$c){ push @a, $_ if $c->{$_}->{'CurrentState'} eq 'Installed';} print "$_ " for sort @a;'
I used this to mass install a lot of perl stuff. Threw it together because I was feeling *especially* lazy. The 'perl' and the 'module' can be replaced with whatever you like.
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