Top "Debian" questions

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How to build a Debian/Ubuntu package from source?

I have the source of a program (taken from cvs/svn/git/...) and I'd like to build a Debian/Ubuntu …

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Forwarding port 80 to 8080 using NGINX

I'm using LEMP stack and Node JS on my debian server. Nginx works on port 80 and Node JS on 8080. I …

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Install php5.6 in Debian 9

How to install php5.6 in the Debian 9 The following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache2-mod-php5 : Depends: libdb5.1 but it is …

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How to update-alternatives to Python 3 without breaking apt?

The other day I decided that I wanted the command python to default to firing up python3 instead of python2. …

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E: Unable to locate package npm

When I try to install npm with sudo apt-get install npm, I got following error: E: Unable to locate package …

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Python Requests - How to use system ca-certificates (debian/ubuntu)?

I've installed a self-signed root ca cert into debian's /usr/share/ca-certificates/local and installed them with sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates. …

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Error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I am trying to execute pg_dump on PostgreSQL 9.0.4 server running on Debian and I am getting the error below: ./…

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Downloading all files from an FTP Server

I need to download everything from an FTP server to hosting on a different server. I have shell access only …

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Node.js app can't run on port 80 even though there's no other process blocking the port

I'm running an instance of Debian on Amazon EC2 with Node.js installed. If I run the code below: http = …

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How can I prevent tons of apache processes spawning when I start apache and proceeding to kill my machine?

I have a highly trafficked application on one debian machine and apache has started acting strange. Every time I start …

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