Debian

Linux Distribution

http://www.debian.org/

• they use to give names to the distro's, so I copy the list here because I always forget
• Debian 7.0 (wheezy) — current stable release
• Debian 6.0 (squeeze) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (slink) — obsolete stable release
• Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm) — obsolete stable release

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

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