Difference between revisions of "Nn linux software package notes"

Latest revision as of 05:44, 9 February 2024

- 2017-07-31 सोमवार -

This section a starting point for notes on Linux packages, namely Debian and Ubuntu packages. Focus here is on userland software, and which packages are needed to set up various tools sets in a working Unix / Linux environment . . .

Document editing and assorted packages

• libreoffice . . .

- 2017-10-11 WED -

• libreoffice-base
  
• libreoffice-calc
  
• libreoffice-dbg
  
• libreoffice-draw
  
• libreoffice-help-en-gb
  
• libreoffice-help-es
  
• libreoffice-impress
  
• libservlet2.5-java

• postfix . . . see section below

• gpm
• ctags
• vim-doc
• vim-scripts
• xfonts-cyrillic
• fonts-sil-gentium-basic

• devhelp

• distcc . . . distributed compiling of C and C++ programs across multiple machines

- 2017-10-12 THU -

• xfractint
• radeontop

^ Postfix

• Postfix configuration
  • Postfix configuration notes of Ted's
  • LDAP tables for e-mail alias look-ups

^ Linux packages for Raspberry Pi system

• libgd3_2.2.4-2+deb9u1_armhf.deb

^ Logitech wireless devices and unifying receiver

• ltunify software for Logitech unifying receivers

Open source Ubuntu-available program `solaar` works. But why on 2017-12-09 did Mediawiki text seach for 'unify' fail to give any results on this wiki site?

^ sudo

Ted noting sudo manual page URL here, in order to revisit and read about sudo -e as well as sudo invoked with the -l and -v options. Also noting there is an environment variable sometimes set, variable named $SUDO_USER.

• https://www.sudo.ws/man/sudoers.man.html

^ parted partition editor

Some excerpts from parted use on LFS volume . . .

(parted) print /dev/sdb                                                   
Model: ATA ST3160812AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  107MB   107MB   primary   ext4         boot
 2      107MB   7789MB  7682MB  extended
 5      107MB   7789MB  7682MB  logical   ext4

   .
   .
   .

Well one thing Ted noting is that parted cannot resize file systems, which are the structured data which overlay and live in partitions. The partition is one thing, mapped in a partition table somewhere on the physical disk or volume. The file system on a given partition is another thing, contained and bounded within that partition. Resizing the partition doesn't resize the file system. So which tool can deal with resizing a partition on which an ext4 file system exists? And then permit a next, independent step to resize the file system there? - TMH

^ GRUB2 - Grand Unified Boot Loader

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252936/grub2-boot-to-a-second-another-hard-disk
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/CustomMenus
• https://opensource.com/article/17/3/introduction-grub2-configuration-linux

^ Packages by name only, no notes so far

• http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html
• u-boot-tools . . . provides `mkimage` which can create initial ramdisk images that U-boot boot-loader can boot

• https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-update-youtube-dl

• mythgallery . . . Qt based directory tree and image browsing plus slide show program
• galleryapp
• libapache-gallery-perl

vim:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9160570/append-or-prepend-selected-text-to-a-file-in-vim