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PI-Apps Raspberry Pi App Store for Open Source Projects

Posted 02-15-2021 at 02:57 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 11-02-2021 at 07:59 AM by craigevil

For anyone new to GNU/Linux especially Raspberry PI, PI-Apps is a life saver.
PI-Apps is an Open Source Store for Raspberry Pi OS, it only works on arm/arm64.
It installs many apps that are either hard to install or impossible to find.
Best of all, all it does is install them in your ./home so it doesn't touch the system. Nothing to mess up.

The webpage: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps
To install:

Code:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install

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Howto enable sudo in Debian

Posted 09-20-2012 at 11:21 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 09-21-2012 at 10:20 AM by craigevil

Tags debian, gksu, kdesu, root, sudo

Debian unlike other distros like Ubuntu does not come with sudo enabled by default. That said it is easy enough to set it up.

How to setup sudo:

1) Use visudo to edit your sudoers file
2) Add your user to the sudo group

Code:

adduser foo sudo

3) Or you can use gksu, or kdesu on KDE.

Or you can follow the simple steps here:
Debian Reference Chapter 1. - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/de..._configuration
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Howto get newer package versions for Debian Stable

Posted 03-28-2012 at 09:43 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 02-16-2021 at 12:31 PM by craigevil (removed outdated links)

Tags backports, debian stable, iceweasel/firefox, sources.list

DebianSoftware - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware

Quote:

New Debian users should obtain all their software from the Debian repositories. The Debian maintainers have gone to a lot of work to ensure that the software in the Debian repositories works well together and is secure. Getting software from non-Debian sources voids the (non-existent) warranty! The combination of package management systems and the advent Linux distributions which supply vast amounts of software fundamentally changes

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Howto install Oracle Java on Debian

Posted 03-10-2012 at 02:47 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 07-15-2021 at 06:44 PM by craigevil (added wiki page)

Tags debian, firefox, java, oracle, plugin

Please see The Debian wiki Java page: https://wiki.debian.org/Java
Basically ignore this entire article and see https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html
https://adoptopenjdk.net/installation.html#linux-pkg

This post is outdated, Do NOT use it
Steps for Oracle Java 6

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Version 1.6.x (a.k.a Java 6 Update x)
NOTE: Java 6 is scheduled to die (End of Life or EOL) in November 2012
As of April 27, 2012 the latest version of Java 6 is 1.6.0_32

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Security and Privacy on the Internet

Posted 08-12-2010 at 03:31 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 04-24-2021 at 09:07 PM by craigevil (Most of the advice is outdated.)

Tags anonymity, firefox, pgp, privacy, security

This post like all of my posts are several years out of date.
Use the Tor Browser, or a VPN preferably a paid one.
You can also use a browser like Librewolf that is a bit more hardened than Firefox or Chrome.

If you are really worried about privacy there are a few things you can do including:
Use the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox and use the
Easy Privacy list as well as the Antisocial list.
This list blocks the ever increasing social networking content...

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