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(2017-12-11 - Monday, Ted factoring notes on Linux software packages into their own wiki document. First write to document here.)
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Linux Software Packages
Notes on package installation, set-up and use
started 2017-07-31



- 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 . . .

  • 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


^ Linux packages for Raspberry Pi system


^ Logitech wireless devices and unifying receiver

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.


^ 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

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   .
   .

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




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