Archive for August, 2009

preparing your debian lenny for work just after install!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

I want to talk about the first steps i do when i install a new clean debian lenny, well first thing i want to feel comfort that i can build anything i want therefore lets install some build essential package, but before lets edit our /etc/apt/sources.apt file, oups we need a vim with colors, but hell whats that creepy sound when i reach the start with delete. Ok ok, lets start from scratch.

List of packages that every lenny server should include for my opinion:

apt-get install vim build-essential fakeroot psmisc

now edit /etc/apt/sources.apt

change:
deb http://debian.co.il/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://debian.co.il/debian/ lenny main

to:
deb http://debian.co.il/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb-src http://debian.co.il/debian/ lenny main non-free

now run:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

now:

apt-get install unrar

lets add some colors to vim now:

cat > ~/.vimrc

syntax on

^D

vim /etc/inputrc +21

uncomment “set bell-style none”

now lets add some colors to root:

vim /root/.bashrc

uncomment those:

export LS_OPTIONS=’–color=auto’
eval “`dircolors`”
alias ls=’ls $LS_OPTIONS’

and add: alias grep=’grep –color’

cool, now just exit and relogin back again.

updatedb

thats all for now.

Our mirror moved to a larger server, now AMD64 supported!

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Our mirror is fully updated and now also contains AMD64 repositories for debian packaged and Debian ISO mirror with i386 and amd64 aswell!

Now our mirror is running on Lighttpd backend with lua support for rewriting clean urls.

debian AMD64 DVD: http://www.debian.co.il/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/

Enjoy!