Category: Linux
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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
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plan9port AKA “Plan 9 from User Space”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space https://github.com/9fans/plan9port https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/intro.html : do not put the Plan 9 utilities’ directory a the beginning of your PATH! “9base is a port of various original Plan 9 tools for Unix, based on plan9port“: https://github.com/UNGLinux/9base https://git.suckless.org/9base https://tools.suckless.org/9base Optware-ng one my Synology NAS has a 9base package: root@DiskStation $ ipkg files 9base /opt/lib/9base/bin/… /opt/lib/9base/lib/… /opt/share/man/man1/…
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how to list files of a Debian package (without installing it)?
https://superuser.com/questions/82923/how-to-list-files-of-a-debian-package-without-install $ dpkg -c package_file.deb # -c = –contents
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Git, Windows, and how to deal with file mode problems
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12193020/file-mode-with-msysgit https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config $ git config core.filemode false
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the Debian Linux distribution and packaging management-related software: dpkg, APT, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_package_management-related_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dpkg – “the software at the base of the package management system in the free operating system Debian and its numerous derivatives” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(Debian) – “APT was originally designed as a front-end for dpkg …, but …”
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Tim Maher’s book: Minimal Perl for UNIX and Linux People
https://www.manning.com/books/minimal-perl https://www.amazon.de/dp/1932394508
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“Oracle Linux Server” as VirtualBox guest OS: a few administrational experiences
There is a VM appliance, that I run …, and that appliance uses Oracle Linux Server as its OS. I want the appliance’s hostname to be oracle000 – it’s going to be my Oracle Databaser server anyway. Q: The appliance’s network connection to outside – how to activate it? Initially the appliance’s network connection seems…