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Wed, 04/06/2011 - 22:40 by bchavet

Disable IPv6

echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
reboot

Enable UTF-8

On debian based systems, you can enable UTF-8 support by running

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Make sure to select the UTF-8 character set that you want to enable.

Recompile deb Package

Make sure a "source" source is defined in /etc/apt/sources.list. Something like this

deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free

Then, the basic steps are

  1. Download source
  2. Install build dependencies
  3. Build deb package

For example, to recompile "less"

apt-get source less
apt-get build-dep less
cd less-374
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Enable X11 Forwarding

aptitude install xbase-clients

Restrict UID/GID Values

sed -i '/^UID_MAX/c UID_MAX 10000' /etc/login.defs
sed -i '/^GID_MAX/c GID_MAX 10000' /etc/login.defs

Show available updates

/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --allow-unauthenticated -s upgrade | /bin/grep ^Inst | awk '{$1="";$0=substr($0,2)}1' | sort
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