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Debian is a popular and influential GNU/Linux distribution. Questions here should generally be about Debian Server.

Debian GNU/Linux its one of the oldest and more popular Linux distributions. The Debian project was started in 1993 by Ian Murdock (the name Debian is a junction of Debra + Ian, his girlfriend at the time). Debian strongest points are the portability, stability and commitment to the free software ideal.

The current Debian version (6.0, code named Squeeze) has more than 29.000 software packages available on nine platforms (including SPARC, ARM, PowerPC), and 2 platforms supporting the FreeBSD kernel (Debian GNU/kfreebsd on i386 and amd64). The Debian APT package management provides dependency management and strong update and upgrade capabilities.

Debian maintains normally 3 versions of its repositories: stable (the current release), testing (the next release), unstable (new packages and versions). After debian makes a new release, the previous stable release is maintained for one year, and is re-labed oldstable. Squeeze also included the backports repository where some software from the testing will be made available to the stable release, and updates (previously named volatile) to deal with software that evolves too fast. Debian also makes point releases with aggregated updates and updated tools, those keep the release name but update the version like Debian 6.1 for example.

Debian has a Social Contract with its users and will only distribute on its main distribution software that is compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.Those two devices were created on the early days of the distribution and also are the basis for Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition.

The Debian project organization counts with the Debian Project Leader, the Debian Project Secretary and the Debian Developers. The developers are responsible for the releases, packaging software, managing the FTPs, security and so on. Each Project Leader is elected for a period of one year and any Developer can be a candidate.

Ubuntu Linux uses Debian as its base, as well as other well known distributions like Maemo, Mint, Knoppix and several others. The Wikipedia article has also more details about the distribution, as well as Debian's official site.

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ipv6 with KVM on debian

I have trouble setting up IPV6 on my Proxmox (KVM) server: My ISP sent me this information(xxx=placeholder): IPs: 2a01:XXX:XXX:301:: /64 Gateway: 2a01:XXX:XXX:300::1 /59 This is the interface setup on the host server: auto vmbr1 iface vmbr1 inet…
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Can't install MySQL

I have a Debian machine that I have previously installed MySQL on. In an attempt to delete it, I stupidly deleted the directories/files /etc/mysql/, /etc/init.d/mysql, /usr/lib/mysql/, /var/lib/mysql/. I then later did sudo apt-get purge…
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dpkg broken while upgrading Debian Etch to Lenny

Good day! While trying to recover a box to lenny it seems I've broken things. It upgrades libc and glib after that dpkg seems to be broken. I can run apt-get, but it gets segmentation fault from dpkg: # apt-get -f install Reading package lists...…
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how to automatically mount ~/Private using ecryptfs when logging in via ssh pubkey

Raionale: I want to be able to automatically make backups to a remote machine, which will be encrypted with ecryptfs. The title says it all: I set up ecryptfs-utils on my Debian Squeeze box, and set up one user to use it via ecryptfs-setup-private.…
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SVN: Error validating server certificate for svn hook linux

I managed to setup a SVN (over SSL) server and TortoiseSVN client on Win. I made a Post-Commit Hook for test project. The Post-Commit will update the web dir so the App in PHP can be executed with the newest version. It all works when done over…
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Debian = aptitude how to deselect/disable automatic packages when installing software?

i want to install subversion. But I have already (manually) installed mysql. And it seems that aptitude will again try to intall mysql mysql-common{a}. How can I deselect the mysql installation when installing subversion? What commands/paramters do…
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Debian: automatic notification of updates?

What's the simplest way of getting notified of security updates for packages I have installed on my Debian system?
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Debian apt-get repository

We have our own internal package repository hosted on a webserver running apache. Internal users who want to install one of these packages point these sources.list to the webserver & do a apt-get update & apt-get install packgname. One of these…
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Running Debian as guest operating system on a Hyper-V VM

Layer-9 considerations are prompting a migration from Citrix XenServer to Hyper-V as our shop's virtualization platform of choice. This will require me to migrate our existing virtual machines from XenServer to Hyper-V. A hand full of these VMs are…
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SSH keys fail for one user

I just set up a new Debian server. I disabled root SSH and password auth, so you've gotta use a key file. For my primary user, everything works exactly as expected. I used ssh-keygen -t dsa and got myself a public and private key. Put one in…
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NSD reply from unexpected source

I have server with NSD. There are MAIN_IP and ADD_IP. When I try to get IP of my site from server I have right output dig @localhost my_site.com But when I try to make this from my PC, I have dig @my_ns_server.com my_site.com ;; reply from…
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iptables: 0.0.38.69 ACCEPT?

Just looking at the firewall rules on a Debian Lenny box with "iptables -L". One entry is scaring me: ACCEPT all -- 0.0.38.69 anywhere ACCEPT all -- anywhere 0.0.38.69 This is not coming from any of my scripts -…
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Broken upgrade of debian, causing perl issues

So I stuffed an upgrade of debian, both upgrade and dist-upgrade. I am more used to yum but thats no excuse. Now things are being silly. The majority of things work, however, my bugzilla install fails. On loading bugzilla I get a 500 error and this…
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How to specify which DHCP server to get the name server from?

I'm using Debian Lenny with two ethernet network cards, one plugged into a different network. My goal was to set both interfaces to DHCP, but I want the name server to be gotten from only one of them. The problem is, whoever gets the DHCP offer…
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How to upload to WebDAV using a web browser?

I've setup and configured webdav on debian using the following tutorial: http://www.unix-tutorials.com/go.php?id=3711 I want to be able to download and upload files to the webdav share using a web browser. I can download and upload files to the…
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