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*aptitude is often nicer than apt-get, but be careful
*aptitude is often nicer than apt-get, but be careful
*apt-file to find package providing a certain file
*apt-file to find package providing a certain file
==Networking on Debian==
===Bonding===
* https://wiki.debian.org/Bonding
*[https://enterprise-support.nvidia.com/s/article/howto-create-linux-bond--lag--interface-over-infiniband-network Bonding on Infiniband]


==https==
==https==

Revision as of 16:12, 24 February 2023

Sites

Security

Links

Netboot/PXE


Documentation


Networking on Debian

Bonding


https

https on debian testing is a mess, ignore:

http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php looks promising

Handling packages

Pinning


FAQ

the following packages have been kept back:

Time to apt-get dist-upgrade. But it could be different things. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/601/the-following-packages-have-been-kept-back-why-and-how-do-i-solve-it Perhaps:

apt-get upgrade package-that-is-kept-back

change default editor

update-alternatives --config editor

change timezone

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

kernel packages

  • kernel-image
  • kernel-source
volatile

 

clean cache

apt-get clean
      

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

First try

dpkg --get-selections | grep hold

reportbug: The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive:

Ignore than and just continue ( see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900254 )


apt-get update throwing KEYEXPIRED

Ignore that, it updated just fine. You migh run into the usual warnings when installing packaged. To Be Documented. For example:

deb [trusted=yes]

Show more package information

apt-cache show packagename*


W: GPG error:

http://ftp2.de.debian.org etch/volatile Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys EC61E0B0BBE55AB3
#and that other thing

Or just:

apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install debian-archive-keyring
      

Or

apt-key adv  --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 8B48AD6246925553

show dependency tree

apt-cache dotty
apt-rdepends

show dependencies

apt-cache rdepends
aptitude why

What package does a file belong to?

dpkg -S /path/to/file