Debian Reference

List of Tables

1.1. List of interesting text-mode program packages

1.2. List of informative documentation packages

1.3. List of usage of key directories

1.4. List of the first character of "ls -l" output

1.5. The numeric mode for file permissions in chmod(1) commands

1.6. The umask value examples

1.7. List of notable system-provided groups for file access

1.8. List of notable system provided groups for particular command executions

1.9. List of types of timestamps

1.10. List of special device files

1.11. The key bindings of MC

1.12. The reaction to the enter key in MC

1.13. List of shell programs

1.14. List of key bindings for bash

1.15. List of Unix style mouse operations

1.16. List of basic Unix commands

1.17. The 3 parts of locale value

1.18. List of locale recommendations

1.19. List of "$HOME" values

1.20. Shell glob patterns

1.21. Command exit codes

1.22. Shell command idioms

1.23. Predefined file descriptors

1.24. Metacharacters for BRE and ERE

1.25. The replacement expression

1.26. List of script snippets for piping commands

2.1. List of Debian package management tools

2.2. List of Debian archive sites

2.3. List of Debian archive area

2.4. The relationship between suite and codename

2.5. List of key web site to resolving problems with a specific package

2.6. Basic package management operations with the commandline using apt(8), aptitude(8) and apt-get(8) /apt-cache(8)

2.7. Notable command options for aptitude(8)

2.8. List of key bindings for aptitude

2.9. List of views for aptitude

2.10. The categorization of standard package views

2.11. List of the aptitude regex formula

2.12. The log files for package activities

2.13. List of advanced package management operations

2.14. The content of the Debian archive meta data

2.15. The name structure of Debian packages

2.16. The usable characters for each component in the Debian package names

2.17. The notable files created by dpkg

2.18. List of notable Pin-Priority values for apt-pinning technique.

2.19. List of the proxy tools specially for Debian archive

3.1. List of boot loaders

3.2. The meaning of GRUB parameters

3.3. List of boot utilities for the Debian system

3.4. List of kernel error levels

3.5. List of typical systemd management command snippets

4.1. 3 important configuration files for pam_unix(8)

4.2. The second entry content of "/etc/passwd"

4.3. List of commands to manage account information

4.4. List of tools to generate password

4.5. List of notable PAM and NSS systems

4.6. List of configuration files accessed by PAM and NSS

4.7. List of insecure and secure services and ports

4.8. List of tools to provide extra security measures

5.1. List of network configuration tools

5.2. List of network address ranges

5.3. List of network connection methods and connection paths

5.4. List of network connection configurations

5.5. List of network connection acronyms

5.6. List of configuration files for the PPP connection with pppconfig

5.7. List of configuration files for the PPP connection with wvdialconf

5.8. List of configuration files for the PPPoE connection with pppoeconf

5.9. List of basic network configuration commands with ifupdown

5.10. List of stanzas in "/etc/network/interfaces"

5.11. List of acronyms for WLAN

5.12. List of terminology for network devices

5.13. List of advanced network configuration commands with ifupdown

5.14. List of environment variables passed by the ifupdown system

5.15. Translation table from obsolete net-tools commands to new iproute2 commands

5.16. List of low level network commands

5.17. List of network optimization tools

5.18. Basic guide lines of the optimal MTU value

5.19. List of firewall tools

6.1. List of web browsers

6.2. List of browser plugin packages

6.3. List of basic mail transport agent related packages for workstation

6.4. List of choices for mail transport agent (MTA) packages in Debian archive

6.5. List of important postfix manual pages

6.6. List of mail address related configuration files

6.7. List of basic MTA operation

6.8. List of mail user agent (MUA)

6.9. List of remote mail retrieval and forward utilities

6.10. List of MDA with filter

6.11. List of POP3/IMAP4 servers

6.12. List of print servers and utilities

6.13. List of remote access server and utilities

6.14. List of SSH authentication protocols and methods

6.15. List of SSH configuration files

6.16. List of SSH client startup examples

6.17. List of free SSH clients for other platforms

6.18. List of other network application servers

6.19. List of network application clients

6.20. List of popular RFCs

7.1. List of key (meta)packages for X Window

7.2. List of server/client terminology

7.3. List of connection methods to the X server

7.4. Table of packages to support X Window font systems

7.5. Table of corresponding PostScript Type 1 fonts

7.6. Table of corresponding TrueType fonts

7.7. Table of key words used in CJK font names to indicate font types

7.8. List of basic X office applications

7.9. List of basic X utility applications

7.10. List of basic X selection programs

8.1. List of input method supports with IBus

9.1. List of programs to support interrupted network connections

9.2. List of key bindings for screen

9.3. List of system log analyzers

9.4. Display examples of time and date for the "ls -l" command for wheezy

9.5. List of graphic image manipulation tools

9.6. List of packages to record configuration history in VCS

9.7. List of tools for monitoring and controlling program activities

9.8. List of nice values for the scheduling priority

9.9. List of ps command styles

9.10. List of frequently used signals for kill command

9.11. List of SAK command keys

9.12. List of hardware identification tools

9.13. List of hardware configuration tools

9.14. List of sound packages

9.15. List of commands for disabling the screen saver

9.16. List of memory sizes reported

9.17. List of tools for system security and integrity check

9.18. List of disk partition management packages

9.19. List of filesystem management packages

9.20. List of packages which view and edit binary data

9.21. List of packages to manipulate files without mounting disk

9.22. List of tools to add data redundancy to files

9.23. List of packages for data file recovery and forensic analysis

9.24. List of data encryption utilities

9.25. List of key packages to be installed for the kernel recompilation on the Debian system

9.26. List of virtualization tools

10.1. List of archive and compression tools

10.2. List of copy and synchronization tools

10.3. List of filesystem choices for removable storage devices with typical usage scenarios

10.4. List of the network service to chose with the typical usage scenario

10.5. List of backup suite utilities

10.6. List of data security infrastructure tools

10.7. List of GNU Privacy Guard commands for the key management

10.8. List of the meaning of the trust code

10.9. List of GNU Privacy Guard commands on files

10.10. List of source code merge tools

10.11. List of version control system tools

10.12. Comparison of native VCS commands

10.13. List of git related packages and commands

10.14. Notable options for CVS commands (use as first argument(s) to cvs(1))

10.15. Notable options for Subversion commands (use as first argument(s) to svn(1))

11.1. List of text data conversion tools

11.2. List of encoding values and their usage

11.3. List of EOL styles for different platforms

11.4. List of TAB conversion commands from bsdmainutils and coreutils packages

11.5. List of tools to extract plain text data

11.6. List of tools to highlight plain text data

11.7. List of predefined entities for XML

11.8. List of XML tools

11.9. List of DSSSL tools

11.10. List of XML data extraction tools

11.11. List of XML pretty print tools

11.12. List of type setting tools

11.13. List of packages to help creating the manpage

11.14. List of Ghostscript PostScript interpreters

11.15. List of printable data utilities

11.16. List of packages to help mail data conversion

11.17. List of graphic data tools

11.18. List of miscellaneous data conversion tools

12.1. List of packages to help programming

12.2. List of typical bashisms

12.3. List of shell parameters

12.4. List of shell parameter expansions

12.5. List of key shell parameter substitutions

12.6. List of file comparison operators in the conditional expression

12.7. List of string comparison operators in the conditional expression

12.8. List of packages containing small utility programs for shell scripts

12.9. List of user interface programs

12.10. List of make automatic variables

12.11. List of make variable expansions

12.12. List of advanced gdb commands

12.13. List of memory leak detection tools

12.14. List of tools for static code analysis

12.15. List of Yacc-compatible LALR parser generators

12.16. List of source code translation tools