Debian

Using jigdo downloader is a smarter and greener way of downloading data from the Internet mirrors. In comparison to a regular download where you point your browser or wget command to a single mirror URL, jigdo allows for multiple mirrors where the main feature is to re-use a previously download ISO image of a lower version to use as base and thus only new packages not downloaded previously are downloaded.

For this reason using jigdo is often faster way of downloading debian iso images. To start using you first need to install it on your system:

# apt-get install jigdo-file

Once the jigdo-file package is downloaded your can start using jigdo do download official Debian instillation images. All you need is the URL of the *.jigdo file of the image you intend to download. In the example below we download Debian Jessie KDE iso image. First start jigdo:

$ jigdo-lite
Jigsaw Download "lite"
Copyright (C) 2001-2005  |  jigdo@
Richard Atterer          |  atterer.net
Getting mirror information from /etc/apt/sources.list

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Introduction

The LAMP server is the cornerstone of Linux web hosting. In the early days of dynamic web content LAMP was what won Linux the crown in the web space, and it still is responsible for powering a very large portion of the Internet’s sites.

If you’re looking to set up a LAMP stack to host your website, it’d be hard to find a better option to build it on than Debian Stretch. Debian is, after all, well known for its stability, security, and massive package repositories, and Stretch is certainly no exception.

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Objective

The objective is to install and configure FTP server on Debian 9 Stretch Linux allowing both anonymous or local user access.

Operating System and Software Versions

• Operating System: – Debian 9 Stretch
• Software: – vsFTPd version 3.0.3

Requirements

Privileged access to

Difficulty

MEDIUM

Conventions

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Let’s say you wish to do some changes to nginx source code in
order to add or remove some features before the actual nginx
package installation. In this config we will show how to recompile
nginx package on Debian linux.

First install package building tools:

# apt-get install dpkg-dev

Next, we need to install all nginx build dependencies:

# apt-get build-dep nginx

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Objective

The following article provides you with a simple to follow procedure on how to install video chat and voice call application Skype on Debian 9 Stretch.

Requirements

Privileged access to your Debian 9 Stretch Linux system is required.

Difficulty

EASY

Conventions

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