Questions in Debian

• How to interpret the status of dpkg (–list) or dpkg-query?

  This is actually a quite usefull thing, the documentation is available in the man pages of dpkg-query. In the list
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• How do I send an email with attachment from commandline?

  Well this is easy with mutt, so first we install mutt: aptitude install mutt After that we run the following command: echo "message
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• How to install djbdns / tinydns / dnscache in Debian Squeeze/Wheezy?

  Sadly there is no deb packages provided in Squeeze, so we have to build them ourselves. Luckily on the other
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• How to setup framebuffer in grub / console in Debian Wheezy?

  First install the frame buffer console aptitude install fbterm   edit the following file: vi /etc/default/grub and change the following lines to the resolution
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• How to fix "Failed to fetch Packages 404 Not Found"?

  Depending on which Debian mirror you are using, the error message looks like this: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not
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• How to install Openfire server on Debian Lenny / Squeeze?

  This isn´t that hard, so here we go:edit /etc/apt/sources.list to make the entries look like this one: deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
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• How to install ruby / rubygems / passenger on Debian Squeeze / Lenny?

  Here are a few steps to get you started: aptitude update aptitude install ruby ruby1.8-dev irb rdoc build-essential mysql-client libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient15-dev  The
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• How to install awstats 7.0 on Debian Lenny/Squeeze?

  Even Squeeze comes with an outdated version of awstats, with Lenny it is even worse. So here a few steps
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• How to disable screen blank(ing) in Debian?

  This is easy to achieve to just edit this file with your favorite editor: vi /etc/console-tools/config  change BLANK_TIME and POWERDOWN_TIME to 0: BLANK_TIME=0 POWERDOWN_TIME=0  reboot, done! 
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• How to compile a custom kernel in Debian Lenny / Etch?

  This is usually quite straight forward, since Debian brings utilities with it to do this: aptitude install build-essential kernel-package fakeroot libncurses5-dev
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