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Howto to rebuild Debian packages
Being able to rebuild an existing Debian package is a very useful skill. It’s a prerequisite for many tasks that an admin might want to perform at some point: enable a feature that is disabled in the...
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WordPress has many alternate built-in feeds: per category, per tag, per author, per search-keyword. But in some cases, you want feeds built with some more advanced logic. Let’s look at the available...
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3 ways to not clutter your Debian source package with autogenerated files
It’s quite common that the upstream build system generates/updates some files but does not clean them up properly when you call make clean. In that case, when you rebuild the package a second time in...
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Debian Cleanup Tip #1: Get rid of useless configuration files
If you like to keep your place clean, you probably want to do the same with your computer. I’m going to show you a few tips over the next 4 weeks so that you can keep your Debian/Ubuntu system free of...
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Debian Cleanup Tip #2: Get rid of obsolete packages
Last week, we learned to remove useless configuration files. This week, we’re going to take care of obsolete packages. An obsolete package is a package who is no longer provided by any of the APT...
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Debian Cleanup Tip #3: get rid of third-party packages
Last week, we learned how to get rid of obsolete packages. This time, we’re going to learn how to bring back your computer to a state close to a “pure” Ubuntu/Debian installation. Thanks to the power...
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Debian Cleanup Tip #4: find broken packages and reinstall them
Last week, we learned to get rid of third-party packages, now we’re going one step further: we’ll verify if the files of the installed packages are still exactly like they were when they got installed....
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Debian Cleanup Tip #5: identify cruft that can be removed from your Debian...
Last week we learned how to identify and restore packages whose files have been corrupted. This time we’ll concentrate ourselves on the non-packaged files… Non-packaged files They are files which are...
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How to use quilt to manage patches in Debian packages
Most Debian source packages are using the “3.0 (quilt)” format. This means that Debian changes to upstream files are managed in a quilt patch series. Knowledge of quilt is thus a must if you want to...
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Auto Mounting Windows Shares in GNOME with Gigolo and gvfs-fuse
The traditional way to mount Windows (or Samba) shares involves hardcoding the credentials in a plain-text file and some /etc/fstab entry to mount it automatically at boot time. If you don’t want to...
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