Apt Tricks 
blogspot.com —
Here are five simple tricks for APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool used on Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu.
View all the packages installed on a system
The easiest way to do it is:
dpkg --get-selections
Posted by 
Chris7mas about 1 month ago
Posted by Chris7mas about 1 month ago 
blogspot.com —
A few days ago I wrote a tutorial showing how to compile Wine 1.1.4 from source in Ubuntu 8.04 and how to install it. In the meantime, version 1.1.5 was released on September 19, and since the compile from source and install procedure has not changed, I will explain here how to install the last Wine release using the official WineHQ APT repository. What follows are a few easy to do steps for ge...
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago
Posted by Chris7mas 3 months ago 
linux.com —
June is Bandwidth Conservation Month (well, not officially, but let's say that it is), so if you have multiple machines running an APT-powered Linux distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu, you should take a look at apt-proxy, a utility that caches package downloads in a shared pool for all interested parties on your LAN.
Posted by 
aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
debianadmin.com —
There are three ways of holding back packages, with dpkg, aptitude or with dselect.
Posted by 
lied 6 months ago
Posted by lied 6 months ago 
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