Posts Tagged ‘debian’

HowTo: Install guest additions for VirtualBox on Debian Lenny 5.0

I have the following setup. The Host machine is running Windows Vista 64 with VirtualBox.
I’ve installed Debian Lenny 5.0 from a NetCD and now i want to install the guest additions modules. The guest additions are very useful because they have a lot of usability features like: copy-ing/pasting from the guest system to the host [...]

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HowTo: Completely Remove Debian Applications With apt-get

I have a testing server on which i fool around and test things.
I had to completely remove postfix from my server to reinstall it using other settings. Here’s how i did it :
apt-get –purge remove postfix
This will completely whipe out postfix from your server along with it’s dependencies.
I’ve been looking over for this for a [...]

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HowTo: manually install .deb packages:

This process only installs the downloaded .
deb package. If the package has dependencies, you may need to install them as well.
First, download your .
deb package via wget or whichever method you prefer. Then on the terminal type dpkg -i packagename.
deb (replacing packagename with the name of the package).
That’s it

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HowTo : install the mail command under Debian

The mail command under Debian distros is a part of the mailutils package.
Simply use :
apt-get install mailutils
and you’re  done !

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