A deb is an ar archive, with a magic number of !<arch>, consisting of three files. The first file is named debian-binary. It is a text file with a series of newline separated lines. Currently it has ...

New to trying Debian, and can't find this in the man page, but used to do this all the time under Red Hat using rpm.<BR><BR>In a debian install, given a file already installed on my file system, how ...

Through various and sundry means, I partially hosed my /usr partition. I got things back up and mostly running, except for a nagging issue.<BR><BR>Obviously, dpkg/apt figures out your dependencies for ...