Debian post-install “devel” version
I already read many post about “Debian post-installation” most of them focused on packages for multimedia, games, video, eye candy, desktop etc.
Personally after to install any desktop environment I install devel packages for obviously reasons, my “Debian post-installation recipe”:
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
apt-get install vim dpkg-dev git file gcc libc6-dev make patch perl autoconf automake dh-make debhelper devscripts fakeroot lintian debian-policy developers-reference quilt rpm dpatch gmanedit pbuilder dput
Who knows? maybe it will be useful.
apt-spy
I used SID since I started using Debian, but today I wanted to try testing, the logic tells you that the easiest way is to replace “unstable” to “testing” in your sources.list.
However we can do better, look for the more fastest “mirrors” and even filter by country.
#apt-get install apt-spy
#apt-spy update
#apt-spy -d testing -a North-America -e 5 -o /etc/apt/sources.list
Basically what I did was, install the software, update the mirrors, and run the program, where:
-d testing (distribution, you can use: stable, unstable or testing)
-a North-America (area, benchmarking only servers on the specify area: Asia, North-America, South-America etc.)
-e 5 (stop benchmarking after the number of servers in this option)
-o /etc/apt/sources.list (output file)
And that’s all, we have a new source.list with the fresh and fastest mirrors.
Don’t forget read: man apt-spy