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| author | bnewbold <bnewbold@eta.mit.edu> | 2008-10-09 01:44:03 -0400 |
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| committer | bnewbold <bnewbold@eta.mit.edu> | 2008-10-09 01:44:03 -0400 |
| commit | ffbfd6cbd4b49c563dd31b14f2b4b9af51469aa5 (patch) | |
| tree | 30859dd52e3258c01a0975c2606110076e791ca5 | |
| parent | 26eddfcd1b4da4a8b4bc305beea8bfab6e4f080a (diff) | |
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add unzip package; other debian tips
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diff --git a/software/debian b/software/debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ddf5d14 --- /dev/null +++ b/software/debian @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +=========================== +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 diff --git a/software/freebsd-packages b/software/freebsd-packages index 642a615..89dca9a 100644 --- a/software/freebsd-packages +++ b/software/freebsd-packages @@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ These are the packages I typically install for a workstation; this is after sele xmms-flac xmms-faad2 xmms + unzip vim emacs mplayer pork + xpdf ctorrent teTeX ipython |