December 11, 2009 · Package Mgmt · 36 comments

If you are seeing Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG use the one of the following methods to fix

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December 2, 2009 · Package Mgmt · 7 comments

There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree.

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November 13, 2009 · Package Mgmt · 24 comments

If you’re running out of disk space and you want to quickly see what packages are using the most space on your hard drive, use the following command

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November 10, 2009 · Package Mgmt · 1 comment

If you want to keep a specific package at a specific version on your machine you can try this tutorial.This is very useful if you want to lock specific version of kernel,drivers,application versions
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November 9, 2009 · Package Mgmt · 7 comments

This addon allows installing ubuntu packages from iceweasel, firefox, galeon or konqueror just clicking on a web link. For this to work, links need to have an url beginning with apt:// This package does not install the packages or download them from the web sites, it just launches apt, passing the package name to install as a parameter to apt.
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