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===========================
Debian Linux
===========================

Some gotchas from installing debian a few times:

 * Massive ``ssh`` headache issues from around 2007-2008; make sure to check on
   these.

 * ``git`` is not what you want; you want ``git-core``

 * Python transition should be better, but I couldn't find a way. 
   To get to python 2.5 on etch, do something like::

    Edit /usr/share/python/debian_defaults to this Code:

        # the default python version
        default-version = python2.5
        # all supported python versions
        supported-versions = python2.4, python2.5
        # formerly supported python versions
        old-versions = python2.3
        # unsupported versions, including older versions
        unsupported-versions = python2.3

    Then sudo pycentral updatedefault python2.4 python2.5
    And change the symlink /usr/bin/python to point to python2.5

 * Make sure to install things like bzip2, unzip, etc

 * ``bash`` by default takes a very long time to initialize because the 
   auto-completion scripts are loaded multiple times; disable this in
   ``~/.bashrc``?