This functionality seems to be missing from commands like dpkg. Ideally, I want to duplicate the behavior of rpm --verify, but it seems difficult to do this in one relatively short command pipeline. Show Sample Output
If you run dpkg --clear-selections or have otherwise selected installed packages for deinstall, but want to undo it, run this. It will set all installed packages back to installed status so that they won't be removed by commands like "dpkg -Pa"
# AllInOne: Update what packages are available, upgrade to new versions, remove unneeded packages # (some are no longer needed, replaced by the ones from ap upgrade), check for dependencies # and clean local cached packages (saved on disk but not installed?,some are needed? [this only cleans unneeded unlike ap clean]). # aliases (copy into ~/.bashrc file): alias a='alias' a ap='apt-get' a r='ap autoremove -y' a up='ap update' a u='up && ap upgrade -y --show-progress && r && ap check && ap autoclean' # && means "and run if the previous succeeded", you can change it to ; to "run even if previous failed". I'm not sure if ap check should be before or after ap upgrade -y, you can also change the alias names. # To expand aliases in bash use ctrl alt e or see this ow.ly/zBKHs # For more useful aliases go to ow.ly/zBMOx
Works for Debian an sons distros. With a bad internet connection sometime I download the updateable packages in another place, but I can't be there all time takes upgrade every packages... so I execute this for update only packages that are in Debian's apt cache. Using the 'sudo bash -c' for no asking every time apt-get need sudo permition.
Someone quoted Pooh in an init script. Let's see it! (Probably only works on Debian & friends) Show Sample Output
Use dpkg-query to query packages.
Find and Convert all libre office files to PDF without libreoffice GUI Show Sample Output
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
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).
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
The rsstail is the python version (python-rsstail). The final command pipe it on every new line to gammu and a connected phone
rsstail -o -n 1 --f 'RedditQuote: {title}' http://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/new/.rss | while read line; do /usr/bin/gammu --sendsms TEXT +*yournumber* -text "$line"; done
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Install twistd first with
sudo apt-get install python-twistd-web
Use this command to determine what version of MythTV you are running on a Debian system. Tested on a Mythbuntu installation. Show Sample Output
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
...
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This will, for an application that has already been removed but had its configuration left behind, purge that configuration from the system. To test it out first, you can remove the last -y, and it will show you what it will purge without actually doing it. I mean it never hurts to check first, "just in case." ;)
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