Category: Debian
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“dpkg –install” and left-overs: .dpkg-dist and .dpkg-old
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305435/debian-dpkg-dist-files-after-apt-upgrade#323957
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Debian manual pages
https://www.debian.org/doc/ https://manpages.debian.org https://manpages.debian.org/contents-unstable.html
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dpk-query: why are certain packages being shown as “un … (no description available)”?
Solution: Some other package depends on this package, but only optionally resp. as an alternative; of the alternatives … one is indeed installed, but not this one, but still this is gets listed. This is how the package first showed up: $ dpkg-query –list foo… Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/… |/ Err?=(none)/… ||/ Name Version Architecture Description…
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Debian: network install from a minimal CD
https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1.11 – “I am currently tracking stable. Can I change to testing or unstable? If so, how?“
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“Oracle Instant Client” vs Debian (resp. Ubuntu)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/instant-client/ http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/instant-client/overview/ http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/instant-client/downloads/ Of course “Oracle Instant Client” is closed source, does not comply with Debian rules, and cannot / may not be distributed through Debian channels. Oracle supplies RPM files for “Linux x86-64” but no “.deb” files. And presumably both Oracle and also the “Debian Project” disallow redistribution of “Oracle Instant Client” components as Debian…
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how to create a Debian package from an RPM package? “rpm2deb”
I moved the content to a wiki article, so this article is a little obsolete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software) https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien : alien -k … https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdbd-oracle-perl/blob/master/debian/README Open questions: how to deal with dependencies specified within the RPM package? …
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Linux package managers: permissions, user/group ownerships of files in a package
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg#Database: /var/lib/dpkg/… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)#Local_RPM_installation_database: /var/lib/rpm/… https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/634/what-are-the-pros-cons-of-deb-vs-rpm RPM based environments support verifying and resetting permissions and user/group ownerships of files in a package: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-permission.html – https://ashok-linux-tips.blogspot.de/2011/12/how-to-reset-permissions-of-installed.html https://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16238.html But what about Debian based ones? On Debian there is a file for every (installed) package: /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.list That file only includes filenames and directory names (and no details at all). Directories…
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installing Perl’s resp. CPAN’s CryptX as Debian package
“Perl module that provides a self-contained crypto toolkit” https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX — CryptX on CPAN https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcryptx-perl the “sid” AKA “unstable” AKA “bleeding edge” version is probably the one you are after download all 3 files mentioned there (source package) – actually (“in an ideal world“): dget the .dsc file, that will download all of them and check MD5…
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xacobeo – graphical interface for running XPath queries
https://metacpan.org/release/Xacobeo https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Xacobeo/bin/xacobeo https://packages.debian.org/sid/perl/xacobeo