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Jannich Brendle on December 3rd, 2009

This is a small shellscript I wrote, to ease starting irssi on my VPS: #!/bin/sh if screen -ls | grep -q IRC ; then msn_pid=$(screen -ls | grep IRC | cut -f1 -d. | sed ‘s/\t//’) screen -r -d $msn_pid.IRC else screen -S IRC irssi fi If irssi is already running in screen, it resumes [...]

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Jannich Brendle on June 11th, 2009

A metapackage is a package which do not contain any files to be installed. Instead it have dependencies to other packages. There are several uses for metapackages, I use them for easy installation of packages I often use, when installing debian or xubuntu on a new computer. So just for this guide, I am going [...]

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Jannich Brendle on July 23rd, 2008

If you want to use java on a virtual private server, you will quickly learn that it will not install without complications. To make it install, do this: apt-get install sun-java5-jdk # the first time, this will fail nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-bin.postinst Comment out this line: $basedir/bin/java -client -Xshare:dump > /dev/null apt-get install sun-java5-jdk It will now [...]

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