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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 Bazaar client on Debian

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

• 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.

• Setup Debian Testing sources apt repository on Debian Stable

  This guide adds the Debian Testing sources repositories to Debian Stable without changing the standard system behaviour.

• Install Hoard on Debian

  Hoard is a memory manager enhancing malloc function for multi-threaded softwares. It is designed to replace transparently the default system malloc.

• Install resty on Debian

  resty is a command line REST client designed to be used in a shell pipeline. This howto ease its installation on Debian.

• Install Aeroo Reports library (aeroolib) on Debian

  Aeroo is a python library for report generation. It is used by some OpenERP addons.

• Freeze the version of an installed package on Debian

  It is sometimes needed to freeze the installed outdated version of a package. This howto ease the setup of suck a block.

• Backport a Debian package from testing to stable

  This how-to ease the upgrade of a software by creating a Debian package from the sources available in testing repositories.

• Install Glances on Debian

  Glances is a local monitoring software that displays various statistics of the system state. This post ease its installation on Debian.

• Install the certbot client (Let's Encrypt) acme.sh on Debian

  acme.sh is a easy to use client for installing and managing SSL certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.