Debian
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Linux Distribution
- Releases
- Debian 9 (Stretch)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 7 (wheezy)
- Debian 6 (squeeze)
- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (slink)
- Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm)
APT
- skip suggested packages:
--no-install-recommends
testing software
- add the backport repo: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main contrib non-free
- update.....
apt-get update
- install the newest package
aptitude -t lenny-backports install <latest_software>
how big is your disk
- this will tell you how much disk space the next upgrade will take
# apt-get -o APT::Get::Trivial-Only=true dist-upgrade
General
locale settings
- edit the file:
/etc/environment ;;; LANG=en_IN LC_MESSAGES=en_IN
- or
LANG=it_IT LC_MESSAGES=it_IT
- and
/etc/locale.gen ;;; en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 it_IT ISO-8859-1 it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8 it_IT@euro ISO-8859-15 en_IN UTF-8
/etc/environment && locale-gen