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Installing Ruby 1.9 on a Debian or Ubuntu System

By AdrienLamothe : 09 August 2011 - 01:57 PM
I recently wanted to migrate some Ruby on Rails applications from version 2 to 3. I also had for some time wanted to migrate from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9. Many people recommended using RVM to manage a mu...
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How to Create an Ubuntu Package

By greenfly : 27 October 2009 - 10:51 PM
Ubuntu is built on Debian and uses the .deb package format to ensure that all software is installed in a consistent way. If you want to make your software really easy to install on Ubunt...
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How to use CheckInstall to create packages from sources

By carlaschroder : 22 September 2009 - 09:26 AM
If you want to create Slackware, Red Hat, or Debian packages from source code, use CheckInstall. Again using Joe's Own Editor in this example, on Debian, do the following: ...
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How to upgrade a Debian system

By carlaschroder : 20 August 2009 - 01:29 PM
If you want to upgrade a Debian package use apt-get install :# apt-get install gltron Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: ...
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How to remove packages from Debian-based Systems

By carlaschroder : 20 August 2009 - 12:44 PM
If you want to remove a package, or several packages, from your Debian systems use apt-get remove : # apt-get remove tuxpaint Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree......
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How To Install Packages On Debian-Based Systems

By carlaschroder : 20 August 2009 - 12:26 PM
All these software archives, CDs, and so on are meaningless if you can't install the software. So: you need to know how to install packages on Debian.Use apt-get install: ...
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How to Install Debian Packages From CD-ROM

By carlaschroder : 20 August 2009 - 12:08 PM
You want to install packages from a CD-ROM, but the process we've just described assumes you want to download software from an archive. How do you add a CD to sources.list? Modify /etc/apt/sources...
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