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by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified May 31, 2012 07:44

Various command line software for Debian GNU/Linux

  • Install and setup Backup Manager on Debian

    Backup Manager is a tool easing data backup. It offer many options and backup methods. It is perfectly adapted to the backup of a single dedicated server.

  • Install rTorrent latest version on Debian

    rTorrent is a great command line based BitTorrent client. It can be managed by a wide variety of frontends, including web, thanks to its SCGI interface.

  • Install the BitTorrent client BTG on Debian

    BTG is a command line BitTorrent client which can work as a daemon. It can be controlled by various user interfaces, one of which is a PHP Web application. This howto help you to install the torrent client on Debian.

  • Setup the contrib and non-free Debian repositories

    The default Debian installation only provide software from the "main" repository. In order to have access to all Debian softwares, contrib and non-free repositories must be configured. This howto describe an automated process to enable the contrib and non-free repositories in Apt.

  • Setup the Debian-Updates repositories (ex volatile)

    The Debian-Updates repositories contains fresher versions of softwares present in mainstream Debian (ClamAV for example). This howto describe an automated process to enable these repositories in Apt.

  • Setup the Debian Backports apt repository

    The Debian Backports repositories provide recent versions of fast release software. Maintained by the Debian community, they allow to install recent software without newer dependencies.

  • Setup the Debian Multimedia apt repository

    The Debian Multimedia repositories provide some non-free softwares (the Lame MP3 encoder, for example).

  • Setup the Dotdeb apt repository on Debian

    The Dotdeb repository hosts software unavailable by default in the official Debian repositories. It provides PHP 5.4, the nginx HTTP server, the Percona toolkit, etc... This howto setup this repository with a minimal impact on the system: only the wanted software are installed, the other packages available in Dotdeb repositories are ignored.

  • Install node.js on Debian

    node.js is a server side Javascript framework based on the Google V8 Javascript engine.

  • Backup Google Agenda on Debian

    Google Agenda is very useful tool to synchronize an agenda between various users and hardwares. Synchronization errors can create lost, duplicated or edited events. This howto help to setup a frequent backup of Google Agenda. It ease the restoration of events in case of synchronization error.

  • Install the Python client library to Google Data API

    The python-gdata library provided by the Debian repositories is obsolescent. This howto install the library latest version.

  • Install the Bazaar client on Debian

    This howto describe the setup of the latest version of the Bazaar client (bzr) on Debian

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