dpkg -I pkg.deb dpkg -c pkg.deb dpkg -S filename dpkg -i pkg.

deb debsums dpkg-divert [options] file dpkg --compareversions v1 gt v2 dpkg-query -W --showformat=format dpkg --get-selections > file dpkg --set-selections < file

Dpkg 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. 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 5.0.1 2008-08-01 http://www.debian.org/
Getting Help Read online help for every man page or man command and many bash conguration les. command Brief help for most [--help, -h] commands. Find all documentation /usr/share/ here, optional le doc/ README.Debian contains package-name/ specics. Reference, manuals, Web FAQs, HOWTOs, etc. at documentation http://www.debian.org/doc/ Mailing lists at The community is always http://lists.helpful, search for users. debian.org/ The Wiki at Contains all kind of useful http://wiki.dinformation. ebian.org/

The Network Network interface conguration. Start, stop network ifup, ifdown interfaces according to [device] les 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 user@host:path machine (and vice versa). /etc/network/ interfaces

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.

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

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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.

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

Important cd directory cp files dest echo string gzip, bzip2 [-d] files pager files ls [files] mkdir directory-names mv file1 file2 rm files rmdir dirs tar [c][x][t][z][j] -f file.tar [files] nd directories expressions grep search-string files kill [-9] number ln -s file link ps [options] su - [username] sudo command command > file

Shell Commands Change to directory. Copy les and directories. Echo string to screen. Compress, uncompress les. Show contents of les. List les. Create directories. Move, rename les. Remove les. Remove empty directories. Create, eXtract, list Table of archive le, z, j for .gz, .bz2. Find les like -name name or -size +1000, etc. Find search-string in les. Send signal to process (e.g. terminate it). Create a symbolic link to a le. Show current processes. Become another user, e.g. root. Execute a command as root as normal user, see /etc/sudoers Overwrite le with output of command. Append output of command to le. Use output of command 1 as input of command 2. Use le as input for command.

apt-cache search search-string apt-cache policy package-names apt-cache show package-names 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 Search packages and descriptions for search-string. Show versions and priorities of available packages. Show package information incl. description. 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.

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

command >> file cmd1 | cmd2 command < file

apt-get update

Important Shell Commands cat files Print les to screen.

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.

aptitude synaptic

dpkg -l [names]

Dpkg List packages.