Suppose you want to compile an application that need some library file such as libcurl.so but you don’t know the exact packages name. Sure, you can guess by using apt-cache search but the result might...

When you’re adding additional repositories beside the default in your /etc/apt/sources.list, Debian will provide more than one version of package where available. You can use “apt-cache policy...

There are new comer Linux users that still think that installing ffmpeg, mencoder and flvtool2 is hard to do in Linux. I can understand this because not many tutorial site tell them how to do it easily. If...

Another personal notes for me. These are all small applications/tools that I should install after fresh OS install, most of them are tools to monitor server performance. nmap : check sever’s open TCP/IP...

This is personal note for myself. All of my servers I bought is self-managed and most of them is Debian 6 (squezee). I need to add additional repositories beside the default ones. Additional Debian 6...