💻 Debian

PPAs and Debian are not always on speaking terms

apti: sudo aptitude install

aptr: sudo aptitude remove

• sudov /etc/apt/sources.list

  ++ deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
  

-To Use: apt-get -t buster-backports [install/remove] "package"

• apti debian-keyring

• apti debian-archive-keyring

• vim /etc/apt/sources.list

  ++ deb [trusted=yes] http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free contrib main
  

• sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com [key]

• sudo apt-get update

• Kernel/Headers

  • sudo apt-get -t buster-backports install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64

• Mark as automatically installed for future sanity

  • apt-mark auto [manually-installed-backports-packages]

• apti software-properties-common

• sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <previously unsigned key>

• sudo chown root:root /tmp (or /chroot/tmp)

• sudo ugo+rwXt /tmp (...)

• apti gnome-shell-extensions

• gtk3-engines-xfce

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:system76/pop

• sudo apt update

• sudo apt install pop-theme pop-wallpapers

apti --install-suggests build-essential

aptr plasma-discover

Should do it..

• sudov /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

  change "1"; to "0";

  ++ APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
  

sudo apt-cache policy <package>

apt-get update && apt-get -s upgrade

apt-get -s install <package>

build-essential

vi /etc/hostname

vi /etc/hosts

sudo service hostname start

• mkdir /opt/firefox

• wget -O FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=linux64&lang=en-US"

• tar xjf FirefoxSetup.tar.bz2 -C /opt/firefox/

• mv /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_orig

• ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr

• To update repeat wget and tar

• mkdir /home/$USER/tmp

• mkdir /home/$USER/tmp/archives

• mkdir /home/$USER/tmp/archives/partial

• note: if package is installed uninstall/download/reinstall

• apt-get install -d -o=dir::cache=/home/$USER/tmp/dir package

• sudo rm -f /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-{yes,no,force}-bitmaps.conf

if test -f /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf; then
    sudo ln -s {../conf.avail,/etc/fonts/conf.d}/70-force-bitmaps.conf
else sudo ln -s {../conf.avail,/etc/fonts/conf.d}/70-yes-bitmaps.conf
fi

• sudo rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig/*

• rm -rf "$HOME/.fontconfig"

• sudo fc-cache

• synclient TapButton3=2

• synclient TapButton2=3

• synclient TapButton1=1

• or… create startup script containing these commands

  #!/bin/bash
  
  sudo xinput list
  sudo xinput list-props <number for touchpad/synaptic>
  sudo xinput set-prop <# for touchpad/synaptic> <# for Tapping Enabled> 1
  

Brother HL-2140 Driver Install Tool

Enter hl2170w for device model (it just works)

• Dependencies

  • kmod-zfs

  • zfs

  • libzfs

  • libzpool

  • libuutil

  • libnvpair

  • zfs-dracut

  • zfs-initramfs

  • zfs-test

• sudov /etc/nsswitch.conf

  -- hosts:		files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
  ++ hosts:		files dns
  

• sudov /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf

  Section "Device"
          Identifier "Radeon"
          Driver "radeon"
          Option "TearFree" "on"
  EndSection
  

• sudov /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

  -- allowed_users=console
  ++ allowed_users=anybody
  ++ needs_root_rights=yes
  

• sudov /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc – . /etc/X11/Xsession ++ #. /etc/X11/Xsession ++ exec startkde

sudo apt-get/aptitude remove libreoffice-base libreoffice-common libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-core libreoffice-help-en-us firefox-esr

• sudo apt-get install apt-mirror

• sudov /etc/apt/mirror.list

  • Select mirror

• sudo apt-mirror

• sudo --add-architecture armhf

• sudo apt-get update

• cd ~/.sources/armhf

• sudo apt-cache search <package>

• sudo apt-get download <package>:armhf

Or the Youtube-dl fork yt-dlp with more features

• apti python3-pip

• sudo pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl

• apti binutils

• cd /dir/withdeb

• ar x [example.deb]