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 Show Sample Output

Install twistd first with sudo apt-get install python-twistd-web

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.

I have some problems with gnome panel which does not load completely leaving me without the actual GUI. This commands helps to kill the gnome-panel process then it should be relaunch automatically.

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

This was tested on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) LTS Server. It returns the name of the symlink within /dev/disk/by-id for the physical drive you specify. Change /dev/sda to the one you want, and replace ata- with scsi- or the appropriate type for your drive. I used this to pre-configure grub-pc during a non-interactive install because I had to tell it which disk to install grub on, and physical disks don't have a UUID such as that blkid provides.

cd into the directory that contains the file. this is just the usual move command but shortcut'd. say you wanted to move a photo img1.png from ~/photos/holidayphotos into the parent directory which is ~/photos command would be: ~/photos/holidayphotos$ mv img1.png .. I use Ubuntu so this'll work in debian but not sure what else.

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I put this line in my ~/.bashrc file (which I source via ~/.bash_profile). Now, when I need to install a package, I typed *install* instead of the longer version.

Quick and dirty way to disable the Ubuntu notifications that can be quite annoying. It prevent the notify-osd to start so you need to logout Gnome or kill it by hand to take effect.