Debian

Sites

• Homepage
• Wiki
• Debian Reference
• debian-administration.org
• http://www.debianadmin.com/

Security

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
• debsecan
• debsum

Links

• debconf

Documentation

• Compiling kernels the Debian way
• aptitude is often nicer than apt-get, but be careful
• apt-file to find package providing a certain file

https

https on debian testing is a mess, ignore:

• make-ssl-cert
• apache2-ssl-certificate in apache2.2-common only?
• http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/349

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

Handling packages

• Compiling Debian Packages

Pinning

• Pinning
• Using APT with more than 2 sources
• http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning

FAQ

kernel

• kernel-image
• kernel-source

clamdscan: connect(): No such file or directory

clamd is ancient, may take 10 minutes to start up, or use clamav-daemon from volatile

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

show dependency tree

apt-cache dotty
apt-rdepends