ItHowTo.ro » debian http://www.ithowto.ro Blog about IT realated stuff by WSS Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 HowTo: Install guest additions for VirtualBox on Debian Lenny 5.0 http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/03/howto-install-guest-additions-for-virtualbox-on-debian-lenny-50/ http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/03/howto-install-guest-additions-for-virtualbox-on-debian-lenny-50/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:25:34 +0000 gkoo http://www.ithowto.ro/?p=75 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 sistem, you can fly the mouse pointer in and out of the guest system and so on.

On the VirtualBox menu go to Devices and click Install Guest Additions. This will mount a virtual cd in your linux guest system. Go to your cd-rom ( which also has the guest additions for windows ) :

cd /cdrom and run ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run.

You might get an error about installing linux kernel headers and build packages. That can easily be solved by using apt-get :

apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

the ‘uname -r’ will autocomplete the kernel needed kernel version.

After this rerun the ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run and it should all go well. Reboot the debian system and enjoy the magical guest additions.

]]> http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/03/howto-install-guest-additions-for-virtualbox-on-debian-lenny-50/feed/ 0 HowTo: Completely Remove Debian Applications With apt-get http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/03/howto-completely-remove-debian-applications-with-apt-get/ http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/03/howto-completely-remove-debian-applications-with-apt-get/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:04:52 +0000 gkoo http://www.ithowto.ro/?p=63 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 long time. Hope it helps you too.

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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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Simply use :

apt-get install mailutils

and you’re  done !

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