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Limit bandwidth usage by apt-get

Limits the usage of bandwidth by apt-get, in the example the command will use 30Kb/s ;) It should work for most apt-get actions (install, update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, etc.)
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18

sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=30 upgrade

alemani · 2010-03-22 01:29:44 13
put an unpacked .deb package back together

If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked (ie, conffiles files in /etc modi‐fied), the new package will inherit the changes. This way you can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere. Note: dpkg-repack will place the created package in the current directory. Show Sample Output
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```
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root       15193596 2012-01-13 12:29 firefox_8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.3_i386.deb
```
9

dpkg-repack firefox

knoppix5 · 2012-01-13 11:47:40 9
List only executables installed by a debian package

Safe for whitespaces in names.
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5

dpkg -L iptables | perl -lne 'print if -f && -x'

depesz · 2010-10-30 15:47:51 8
Show all the available information about your current distribution, package management and base

Just run this command and it will printout all the info available about your current distribution and package management system. Show Sample Output
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```
jessie/sid
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.3
DISTRIB_CODENAME=rosa
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.3 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
```
4

echo /etc/*_ver* /etc/*-rel*; cat /etc/*_ver* /etc/*-rel*

sxiii · 2016-02-19 12:12:38 15
List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros
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3

rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n

octopus · 2010-04-19 07:44:49 11
List only executables installed by a debian package

Maybe not clean with big package and too long argument. But return every file who can be executed.
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3

find $(dpkg -L iptables) -maxdepth 0 -executable -type f

Juluan · 2010-10-30 15:36:32 11
extract content of a Debian package
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3

ar -x package.deb

gerard · 2010-12-17 14:13:25 6

rpm -qp --scripts package.rpm

gerard · 2011-01-04 14:38:14 37

get the full description of a randomly selected package from the list of installed packages on a debian system

I put this command on my ~/.bashrc in order to learn something new about installed packages on my Debian/Ubuntu system each time I open a new terminal Show Sample Output

dpkg-query --status $(dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print NR,$1}' | grep -oP "^$( echo $[ ( ${RANDOM} % $(dpkg --get-selections| wc -l) + 1 ) ] ) \K.*")

acavagni · 2019-06-01 13:24:07 60

List only executables installed by a debian package

I wanted to view only executables installed by a package. This seemed to work. There's got to be easier way, please share. Note: (1) Replace iptables with the package name of your interest (2) The command will trash any existing environment variable named 'lst' (3) Instead if you are interested in viewing just .ko or .so files installed by this package, then that would be easy: $ dpkg -L iptables | grep "\.[sk]o$" Show Sample Output
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```
/sbin/iptables
/sbin/iptables-save
/sbin/iptables-restore
/sbin/iptables-xml
/sbin/ip6tables
/sbin/ip6tables-save
/sbin/ip6tables-restore
```
1

lst=`dpkg -L iptables` ; for f in $lst; do if [ -x $f ] && [ ! -d $f ] ; then echo $f; fi; done;

b_t · 2010-10-30 14:47:45 6
List upgrade-able packages on Ubuntu

Taken from apticron and modified. Show Sample Output
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```
linux-image-3.2.0-35-virtual
gpgv
gnupg
man-db
linux-image-virtual
```
1

apt-get --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated -s dist-upgrade | grep ^Inst | cut -d ' ' -f2

phunehehe · 2013-01-07 11:21:58 5
yum -q list updates | tail -n+2
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1

List upgrade-able packages on Redhat

phunehehe · 2013-01-14 11:51:54 6
print the name of each package APT knows [matching a prefix]

In this case, linux- is the prefix; simply running apt-cache pkgnames would list every package APT knows about. The default APT config assumes -g, --generate; to use the cache as/is, you could similarly run: apt-cache --no-generate pkgnames [prefix] Adding --all-names, like so: apt-cache --no-generate --all-names pkgnames [prefix] would print all the packages APT knows about, using the cache as/is, including virtual packages and missing dependencies. This command was shamelessly stolen from the apt-cache(8) man-page. Show Sample Output
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```
linux-firmware-nexus7
linux-signed-image-3.16.0-24-generic
linux-headers-lowlatency
linux-cloud-tools-3.16.0-28-lowlatency
linux-wlan-ng-doc
linux-headers-3.16.0-28-lowlatency
linux-tools-3.16.0-26-lowlatency
linux-headers-generic
linux-tools-virtual
linux-image-3.16.0-25-generic
linux-tools-3.16.0-25-generic
linux-cloud-tools-3.16.0-25-lowlatency
linux-headers-3.16.0-25-lowlatency
linux-tools-3.16.0-23-lowlatency
linux-cloud-tools-3.16.0-25-generic
linux-base
linux-firmware-grouper
linux-image-3.16.0-23-generic
```
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apt-cache pkgnames linux-

benjabean1 · 2014-12-14 06:48:57 8
Show package dependencies with apt

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```
$ apt-cache depends tar
tar
  PreDepends: libc6
  Suggests: bzip2
  Suggests: ncompress
  Suggests: xz-utils
  Conflicts: cpio
  Breaks: dpkg-dev
  Replaces: cpio
```
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apt-cache depends <packagename>

piccobello · 2011-07-18 15:15:28 4
Show package reverse dependencies with apt

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```
$ apt-cache rdepends tar
tar
Reverse Depends:
  file-roller
  vfu
  newlib-source
 |dvbackup
  dump
  amanda-common
  file-roller
  backuppc
```
0

apt-cache rdepends <packagename>

piccobello · 2011-07-18 15:17:02 4
Create a package list for offline download
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0

sudo apt-get <apt-get command and options> --print-uris -qq | sed -n "s/'$[^ ]\+$' $[^ ]\+$ $[^ ]\+$ MD5Sum:$[^ ]\+$/wget -c \1/p" > dowload_deb_list.txt

totti · 2013-02-09 09:36:53 5
self-extractable archives

Used by virtualbox and others to create '.run' file.
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makeself <archive_dir> <file_name> <label>

totti · 2012-01-10 18:08:50 174
(Debian/Ubuntu) Discover what package a file belongs to

Uses dpkg -S or apt-file to find the file you want and shows results in various ways. Available at https://github.com/Pipeliner/configs/blob/master/bin/pacof pacof -xp 'bin/[^/]*mixer' alsamixergui alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils ... Show Sample Output
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```
openssh-client: /usr/bin/ssh
```
-2

pacof -e rlogin

pipeliner · 2011-11-04 13:17:04 5

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Convert IP octets to HEX with no dots.

Converts IP octets to hex using printf command. Useful for generating pxeboot aliases in the pxelinux.cfg folder.

download newest adminer and rename to it's version accordingly

If the version already downloaded. it will not download again

Quick directory bookmarks

Set a bookmark as normal shell variable $ p=/cumbersome/path/to/project To go there $ to p This saves one "$" and is faster to type ;-) The variable is still useful as such: $ vim $p/ will expand the variable (at least in bash) and show a list of files to edit. If setting the bookmarks is too much typing you could add another function $ bm() { eval $1=$(pwd); } then bookmark the current directory with $ bm p

Create a bunch of dummy files for testing

Sometimes I need to create a directory of files to operate on to test out some commandlinefu I am cooking up. The main thing is the range ({1..N}) expansion.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

checks size of directory & delete it if its to small

only simple example how to combine rclone & jq

List alive hosts in specific subnet

Works on any machine with nmap installed. Previous version does not work on machines without "seq". Also works on subnets of any size.

Convert CSV to JSON

Replace 'csv_file.csv' with your filename.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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