Articles tagged ‘apt’

If you get an error message during apt-get update saying you're missing some public keys, here's how to fix it.

I think many a Debian user has felt the need to somehow tell apt to stop hogging all the bandwidth during one of those long dist-upgrade’s. Unfortunately, apt doesn’t feature a built-in bandwidth limiter. Fortunately, a userspace bandwidth shaper exists, and it’s called trickle. If you run a command from the console through trickle, it will preload [...]

I run Debian unstable and these past days I’ve been unpleasantly surprised by GCC 4.0 a number of times. It had been introduced in the system automatically by bulk upgrades, but soon problems started arising. One one particular system, more or less everything I compiled issued warnings related to pointer signedness. On my home box I [...]