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Gnote: Tomboy but faster…
Dec 7th
I have been a fan of tomboy since i used GNOME for the first time, its a handy tool for quick notes such as saving something while you are on the phone or day to day task listing. Problem with tomboy is its a ‘little’ greedy on resources. Lucky us, someone wrote a non-mono/gtk tomboy alternate called gnote. I have shifted to gnote since i came to know about it. Its just like tomboy, or should i say its tomboy but faster. (more…)
Packages being kept back?
Dec 4th
Sooner or later when you upgrade your system you would see something like: The following packages have been kept back: empathy mplayer mysql-server mysql-server5.0 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
This doesn’t really impose a big problem if its your laptop. Why it happens? Well usually because the “newer” versions of those packages has unsatisfied dependencies or they need to remove something already install on your system, so they pass the ball to your court and decide whether to remove and upgrade or not. (more…)
Restore old packages on new install
Oct 3rd
It happens to me a lot that i get a new laptop or machine for half a year or so and i have to use that. Being a sysadmin, i am lazy so i hate installing everything again and again.
I take occasional backups of my configurations files, manage configurations in small files than a huge file so like the concept of *.conf.d directory. Here is what i do to restore my packages:
aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?installed!?automatic' > ~/machine_name-date-packages
sudo xargs aptitude --schedule-only install < old-list-of-packages ; sudo aptitude install
Then i go to sleep for couple of hours, More >
