- A closer look at source packages
- A history lesson
- A1 CDDs Custom Debian Distributions
- A2 Debian derivatives
- A21 Knoppix
- A25 Mn1s
- A26 Quantian
- A27 Skolelinux
- A29 SELinux
- About the author
- About this book
- Accessfloppy
- Acknowledgements
- Administering inetd the Internet superserver
- Advanced concepts
- Advanced package concepts 941 Package hook scripts
- Alien
- Alternative approaches to installing a Debian system
- An overview of debconf
- An overview of X in Debian
- An urgent plea for feedback
- Anatomy of a personal repository
- Anatomy of binary packages
- APT configuration
- APT housekeeping
- Aptitude and multiple releases
- Architecture support
- Automating clean builds with pbuilder
- Automating the package build
- B1 You should run Debian if
- B2 You should probably choose something else if
- Backups
- Becoming a Debian developer
- Booting the installation from the network PXE
- Bootstrapping a new system
- Bootstrapping an installation
- Browsing bug reports as mbox files
- Bugs against pseudopackages
- Building kernel packages with makekpkg
- Building packages with pbuilder
- Building source packages
- C11 Official Debian archive signing keys
- C2 Setting up the filesystems C21 A sensible partition table
- C22 Supported filesystems
- C3 Extra packages
- C4 Configuring a local packet filter
- C5 Dualbooting with other operating systems
- C51 Chainloading other bootloaders
- C52 Dealing with Windows peculiarities
- Caching APT archives
- Cdbs
- Checking packages
- Checkinstall
- Christian Marillats multimedia archive
- Cleaning the source tree
- Compiling modules
- Configuring kernel parameters
- Configuring RAID
- Configuring the base system
- Configuring the X server
- Contacting people
- Contributing to the project
- Creating Debian packages
- Crosscompiling for other architectures
- Customising the installer
- Dealing with errors in packages
- Dealing with packages dpkg
- Dealing with unsupported hardware
- Deban
- Deban tasks
- Debconf configuration of Debian packages
- Debconf frontends
- Debconf inaction
- Debian
- Debian and its users
- Debian and the market
- Debian kernels
- Debian releases and archives
- Debian Social Contract
- Debian system administration
- Debianising with the package maintainer tools
- Deborphan
- Deinstalling and purging packages
- Deinstalling packages
- Device management
- Discover and hotplug
- Documentation and resources
- Dpkg configuration
- Dsc
- Dselect
- E1 The current Social Contract
- E2 The future Social Contract
- Effect
- Enacting requests with APT
- Enhanced queries of the package database
- Equivs
- Extending APTs internal cache
- Features of the new installer
- Final notes 141 Conventions
- Fixing bugs
- Free beer and free speech
- Fundamentals
- Guidelines
- Handling binary packages
- Handling security problems
- Helping the Debian project
- How to use this book
- Important
- Inetdhcp
- Inetmanual
- Inquiring about package dependencies
- Installing Debian the right way
- Installing packages - 2
- Integrated management tools
- Integrating automatic hardware detection
- Integrating nonDebian software
- Integrating Pcmcia network cards
- Integrating wireless network interfaces
- Interacting with the BTS
- Introducing Debian packages
- Introduction
- Investigating the upstream source tree
- Jumpstarting with dhmake
- Keeping a clean system debfoster
- Keeping up to date
- Kernel modules and patches
- Kernel support
- Kmod the kernel autoloader
- Library packages
- Licencing issues
- List archives
- Listsaliothdebianorg - 2
- Loading modules during startup
- Local APT repositories
- Local documentation
- Log file management
- Lprlog
- Mail traffic following a bug report
- Mailing lists
- Managing etcresolvconf
- Managing packages APT
- Manual packaging
- Manualsapthowto
- Mediating between packages
- Minor
- Mirroring the Debian archive debmirror
- Miscellaneous network options
- Miscellaneous package tools 5111 debsums
- Mixing releases
- Mixing releases and security updates
- Modifying packages
- Modifying the debian files
- Modifying the tarball
- Monitoring logs with logcheck
- Msg madduck hello
- Multiarch - 2
- Netinst
- Network configuration management
- Network configuration with ifupdown
- Newsnews
- Official documentation and manuals
- Online resources
- Optional
- Option Effect
- Overriding dpkgs sanity and policy checks
- Overriding files
- Overriding permissions
- Package indices
- Package integrity
- Package management compared
- Package name Problem categories
- Package popularity contest
- Package priorities
- Package quality
- PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules
- Partition SizeMount pointTabled
- Patching the kernel
- Pending
- Pinning releases with APT
- Power from within the Debian policy
- Preseeding the installer
- Printed resources
- Priority levels
- Problems and shortcomings
- Purposely omitted tools
- Querying bugs from the command line
- Querying the BTS
- Quit stop thank
- Recompiling packages
- Reconfiguring packages
- Regular maintenance processes
- Repacking packages
- Reporting bugs
- Requirements
- S390
- Seamless upgrades
- Section name Description
- Security of the Debian system
- Security out of the box
- Security updates
- Selecting target releases
- Semiofficial resources
- Setting up a base tarball
- Signing the package files
- Size
- Social aspects of the community
- Social aspects of the group of developers
- Sources headers and documentation
- Special headers for bug reports XDebbugsNoAck
- Specifying repositories
- Splitting and updating a package
- Structure of the Debian archive
- Subscribing to a packages bug reports
- Synaptic
- System administration resources
- System initialisation and automatic processes
- System requirements
- Table of Contents
- The alternatives system
- The amd64 architecture
- The amd64 archive
- The aptgetorg directory
- The backportsorg archive
- The bug tracking system
- The changes file
- The control files
- The Debian community 241 Organisation of the project
- The Debian installer
- The Debian Linux Manifesto
- The Debian project in a nutshell
- The Debian swirl
- The Debian System
- The Debian user
- The experimental archive
- The Linux administrator
- The Linux apprentice
- The minimalistic approach to installation
- The official releases
- The package pool
- The package upload
- The processor
- The proposedupdates archives
- The Release files
- The sacred configuration files
- The stable release
- The system initialisation process
- The testing release
- The Unix administrator
- The unstable release
- The volatile archive
- Unofficial resources
- Upgrading packages
- Upload tools
- User and group management
- Users and authentication 621 System users and groups
- Using a remote database backend
- Using debconf
- Using DHCP to obtain a network address
- Using directories instead of configuration files
- Using pbuilder to set up test systems
- Verifying new packages
- Version numbers
- Web forums
- Yada