August 1st, 2008
My Ubuntu Cheat Sheet
Looks like I’m maintaining an Ubuntu server these days…
Package Management
# Finding Installed Dependent Packages apt-cache rdepends --installed packageX # Installing Individual .deb Packages sudo dpkg -i package_file.deb # Ubuntu version info cat /etc/lsb-release
Trust not to aptitude…
Sometimes aptitude does silly things, like install X11 when all you wanted was ImageMagick. Try apt-get as well to see if it doesn’t have a different set of deps (this is true of ImageMagick as of December 2008).