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+===========================
+Debian Linux
+===========================
+
+See also `freebsd </k/software/freebsd-tricks>`_ and 
+`unix </k/software/unix-tricks>`_ tricks.
+
+Some gotchas from installing debian a few times:
+
+ * To enable sshd in ubuntu install ``openssh-server``
+
+ * 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, less, etc
+
+ * ``bash`` by default takes a very long time to initialize because the 
+   auto-completion scripts are loaded multiple times; disable this in
+   ``~/.bashrc``?
+
+ * For building stuff you want build-essential