Dpkg dpkg --compare-versions v1 gt v2 dpkg-query -W --showformat=format dpkg --get-selections > file dpkg --set-selections < file Compare version

numbers, check with echo $?. Query installed packages, format e.g. '${Package} ${Version} ${Installed-Size}\n'. Write package selections to le. Set package selections from le.

DebianGNU/Linux Reference Card

Version 5.0.5 2010-04-30 http://www.debian.org/
Getting Help Read online help for every man page or man command and many bash conguration les. command [--help, Brief help for most -h] commands. Find all documentation /usr/share/doc/ here, optional le package-name/ README.Debian contains specics. Reference, manuals, FAQs, Web HOWTOs, etc. at http://wdocumentation ww.debian.org/doc/ Mailing lists at The community is always http://lists.dehelpful, search for users. bian.org/ The Wiki at Contains all kind of useful http://wiki.debinformation. ian.org/

The Network Network interface conguration. Start, stop network ifup, ifdown interfaces according to les [device] above. Show and manipulate /sbin/ip network interfaces and routing, needs iproute. ssh -X user@host Login at other machine. scp files Copy les to other machine user@host:path (and vice versa). /etc/network/ interfaces

Web Server (Apache2) /etc/apache2/ Conguration les. Contains virtual hosts. To /etc/apache2/ enable a virtual host, use sites-available/ a2ensite. Contains available modules /etc/apache2/ les. To enable a module, mods-available/ use a2enmod.

Installer CD images boot: expert

Installation All information about it at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Download from http://www.debian.org/distrib/ E.g. to set up the network w/o DHCP or using LILO instead of GRUB.

Bugs Bug Tracking at http://bugs.debian.org/ Package specic reportbug Reporting All about existing and xed bugs. See http://bugs.debian.org/package-name/, use wnpp to ask for new packages. Report a bug by e-mail. Instructions at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

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Conguration All system conguration /etc/ les are under directory /etc/. Default text editor. May be editor files nano, emacs, vi, joe. CUPS at http://Browser interface to hostname:631 printing system. Recongure a package, e.g. dpkg-recongure console-common package-name (keyboard), locales (localisation). updateManage command alternatives alternatives. options After changing update-grub /etc/default/grub. make-kpkg Build a kernel packages --initrd -from sources, if a revision=2:my.1.0 customised kernel is really --rootcmd needed, needs fakeroot --uc --us kernel-package. kernel_image Create and install m-a a-i module third-party modules (gspca, kernel_image ...), needs module-assistant.

Daemons and System /etc/init.d/file Restart a service, system restart daemon. /etc/init.d/file Stop a service, system stop daemon. /etc/init.d/file Start a service, system start daemon. halt, reboot, Halts, reboots, shuts down powero system. All log les are under this /var/log/ directory. Default values for many /etc/default/ daemons and services.

Important Shell Commands pager files Show contents of les. ls [files] List les. mkdir Create directories. directory-names mv file1 file2 Move, rename les. rm files Remove les. rmdir dirs Remove empty directories. Create, eXtract, list Table of tar [c][x][t][z][j] -f archive le, z, j for .gz, file.tar [files] .bz2. nd directories Find les like -name name or expressions -size +1000, etc. grep search-string Find search-string in les. files Send signal to process (e.g. kill [-9] number terminate it). Create a symbolic link to a ln -s file link le. ps [options] Show current processes. Become another user, e.g. su - [username] root. Execute a command as root sudo command as normal user, see /etc/sudoers Overwrite le with output of command > file command. Append output of command command >> file to le. Use output of command 1 as cmd1 | cmd2 input of command 2. Use le as input for command < file command.

apt-cache showpkg package-names apt-get install package-names apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get remove package-names apt-get autoremove apt-cache depends package-names apt-cache rdepends package-names apt-le update apt-le search file-name apt-le list package-name auto-apt

APT Show package dependencies (needed packages). Install packages from repositories with all dependencies. Install newest versions of all packages currently installed. Like apt-get upgrade, but with advanced conict resolution. Remove packages with all needed packages. Remove packages that no other packages depend on. List all packages needed by the one given. List all packages that need the one given. Update content listings from package repositories, see apt-get update Search packages for le. List contents of a package. Installs packages automatically if needed, can replace apt-le, needs auto-apt. Console interface to APT, needs aptitude. GUI interface to APT, needs synaptic.

aptitude synaptic

apt-get update

Important Shell Commands cat files Print les to screen. cd directory Change to directory. cp files dest Copy les and directories. echo string Echo string to screen. gzip, bzip2 [-d] Compress, uncompress les. files

apt-cache search search-string apt-cache policy package-names apt-cache show package-names

APT Update packages listings from package repositories as listed in /etc/apt/sources.list. Required whenever that le or the contents of the repositories change. Search packages and descriptions for search-string. Show versions and priorities of available packages. Show package information incl. description.

dpkg -l [names] dpkg -I pkg.deb dpkg -c pkg.deb dpkg -S filename dpkg -i pkg.deb debsums dpkg-divert [options] file

Dpkg List packages. Show package information. List contents of package le. Show which package a le belongs to. Install package les. Audit check sums of installed packages, needs debsums. Override a package's version of a le.