[Tue Jul 21 17:17:37 CDT 2015]

A coworker asked me how to force an .deb-based system (Ubuntu, actually) to recognize the dependencies on a package that he had downloaded (i.e., it was not being downloaded from a repository), so he could automatically install them all. You just try a regular dpkg -i [package], which will show the dependency errors. Then, simply do the following as root:

# apt-get -f install

That should automatically install all needed prerequisites. {link to this entry}

[Mon Jul 6 19:15:09 CDT 2015]

Last week, I attended a SUSE webinar on a topic that proved to be quite interesting: Open Build Service, which is an open platform that allows you to build packages for any major Linux distribution out there. Also, while attending the webinar, I happened to hear the presenter briefly mention the Kernel Of The Day (KOTD) project, where SUSE publishes a daily build of their latest kernel source tree. I just wanted to share those two resources, since they may prove useful to other people. {link to this entry}