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A comprehensive command guide to Debian’s APT-GET and DPKG

Mar.30, 2009 in APT, Software, dpkg 4 Comments

Purpose: Debian has a very powerful package management system called APT. Learning some useful commands can really unleash the true power and usefulness of this package management system. From time to time I will add commands and other tips and tricks that will be helpful to solve some issues and get work done faster. The [...]

Tags: APT, APT-GET, dpkg, package

Tip: FIO – A disk performance checking utility

Apr.11, 2008 in Linux 4 Comments

Recently I was going through my Newsforge feeds and I noticed an excellent article about a utility called “fio”. It is a disk performance checking utility – a better alternative to the good old “hdparm” utility.
My only issue was that there was no native package for the Debian repository. And I wanted to install one [...]

Tags: binary, Debian, fio, package

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