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apt-file search "somefile"% apt-cache pkgnames
% dpkg -l% dpkg -L <i>pkg</i>% dpkg -S <i>/path/to/file</i>% dpkg -p <i>pkg</i>I can never remember how to install Java on Debian, so here’s my version on how to do it the Debian Way (TM).
Download the Sun Java 2 Runtime environment or Development Kit from Sun’s Java site. The file you download should have a “.bin” extension. Then install:
apt-get install java-package fakerootjava-package is a set of Debian scripts for creating your own Debian-ized Java package. fakeroot lets you run certain programs as root, such as the Debian package creation process. After these are installed, run:
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-*.bin
sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk*.debThe first creates a Debian package from the Sun binary installer, while the second installs the created Debian package.
This will fulfill all Java dependencies in Debian, something you would not get if you installed Java via some other method. It’s also the “official” Java, as opposed to using something like Blackdown, and makes you less reliant on having to rely on other people for packaging. For example, I used this to create my own AMD64 64-bit Java package.
Since e-mail aliases are basically free (it’s a line in a text file), I’ve started the habit of creating new e-mail aliases for what I think have a “high-risk” of getting harvested by spammers.
I created one for Debian’s mailing lists a week ago, and today I received my first spam e-mail to that address. It was an eBay phishing scheme.
Debian’s public mailing list archives make no attempt at address obfuscation—any web crawler is free to come and take as many valid e-mail addresses as they want. My attempts at complaining about this appear to have fallen on dead ears—no one appears to care.
At least it’s nice to definitely know where your spam is coming from.
At the moment, there are only two semi up-to-date x86-64 (that is, for Athlon-64, Intel EMT64, and Opteron) Debian-based live CDs.
I’m getting Ubuntu now to try out on my new workstation.
