Debian 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 4 days ago
Chris7mas 4 days ago
blogspot.com —
Compiling Google Gadgets 0.10.12 in Debian and Ubuntu
Here are a few steps you need to follow in order to compile Google Gadgets from source on Debian and Ubuntu. To install the needed dependencies type as root:
Posted by
Chris7mas 29 days ago
Chris7mas 29 days ago
blogspot.com —
AcetoneISO is a graphical application written in Qt4 which lets you mount CD/DVD images easily. The formats supported are ISO, NRG, MDF, BIN and IMG. It does not come in Debian's repositories, but I will show you how to easily install, run and start to use it.
Posted by
Chris7mas about 1 month ago
Chris7mas about 1 month ago
50webs.org —
FrostWire is a P2P (Peer-to-Peer) client written in Java, the last version at the time of writing being 4.17.0. Here are several easy steps you need to follow in order to install and run FrostWire on your Debian Lenny box.
Posted by
Chris7mas about 1 month ago
Chris7mas about 1 month ago
debianadmin.com —
After buying my new Acer Aspire 7520G and to be honest I have been using its default OS for 4 month! That is a Windows using record for me and I am not happy with it since Acer been joking around with the CD-ROM player since it was requested on order. Alright to get to work with Debian I had to replace the OEM CD/DVD Player.
Posted by
david23 2 months ago
debianadmin.com —
apache2-mpm-itk (just mpm-itk for short) is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate uid and gid — in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts.
Posted by
david23 2 months ago
HowFlow —
Quite a while ago, VMware Inc. released an OpenSource version of their VMware-Tools, called open-vm-tools.
While they're quite easy to install on Gentoo (emerge open-vm-tools), it's not that easy having them installed on a Debian Etch (4.0) if you want to go the proper way.
But if you follow just this steps, it won't be that hard...
Posted by
eliasp 2 months ago
eliasp 2 months ago
50webs.org —
SMPlayer gained a lot of popularity lately due to its rich features and the ability to remember settings and time it was stopped for each movie/video file individualy. So you can close it while watching a movie, and next time you open that movie with SMPlayer it will continue from the time you closed it. SMPlayer is built using the Qt4 libraries.
Posted by
Chris7mas 2 months ago
Chris7mas 2 months ago
howtoforge.com —
This article explains how you can fix a BIND9 nameserver on a Debian Etch system so that it is not vulnerable anymore to DNS cache poisoning.
Posted by
aroedl 3 months ago
aroedl 3 months ago
debianadmin.com —
redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another
Posted by
lied 4 months ago
lied 4 months ago 









