Category: debian
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Installing debian 11 “bullseye” using PXE boot on an Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 laptop
I installed GNU/linux on a laptop, for the first time since 2012. And the install was mostly trouble free. I spent a little time on getting the PXE boot working and getting the wireless NIC working, but other than that everything I’ve tried has been working smoothly (display, sound, keyboard, touchpad and suspend/resume).
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How I learned about linux’ “OOM Killer”
This blog post describes how I discovered a linux feature called “OOM Killer” that can have strange effects if it interrupts a program at a place where it really shouldn’t be interrupted.
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Faking a debian repository for package development
I use aptly to deliver my unofficial debian packages both to myself and others that might be interested. However I’ve found that using aptly to do package development is a bad idea, because you can’t (by design, probably) overwrite packages in an aptly archive. You can only create new versions. For some installation tests it’s…
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Installing apache karaf on debian
Until the RFP (Request For Packaging) bug for karaf in the debian bug tracker is resolved, here is an APT archive with a karaf package for debian (architecture “all”). The package is created using native debian packaging tools, and built from a source tarball and the APT archive itself is created, using aptly.
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Packaging karaf with native debian packaging tools
Note! This is an improvement over the packaging in Installing apache karaf on debian stretch, this package is packaged using native debian packaging tools instead of fpm, and is built from the karaf source tarball instead of the karaf binary tarball. Apache karaf is an OSGi container and application server that is provisioned from maven, and…
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Setting up a debian package archive with aptly
This article describes how to set up a debian archive with aptly on a debian 9 “stretch” computer, served by an nginx web server.
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Installing apache karaf on debian stretch
Edit: It is now possible to install karaf on debian without building it yourself, the package installed is not the one described here, but the new and improved package built from source with native debian packaging tools, that can be found here https://github.com/steinarb/karaf-debian
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Sign nginx website and dovecot imap server on debian with let’s encrypt
If you have a setup with a single server with multiple services (web, IMAP etc.), and one CNAME per service (www.somedomain.com, imap.somedomain.com), and you would like to get the services signed in a manner that doesn’t give warnings or errors in browsers (especially browsers in phones and tablets with iOS and Android), then this article…