Instructions to replace a live Debian installation with Arch

Lorsque l'on dispose de plusieurs versions installables dans les dépôts renseignés dans les fichiers sources.list, il faut définir des priorités pour que APT sache quelle version installer.

Par exemple, si l'on a les dépôts Debian de testing et unstable et que l'on veut rester autant que possible en testing, il faut indiquer à APT que testing a une priorité supérieure à sid. Inversement, si pour un paquet donné on veut utiliser sa version présente dans sid, il faut le spécifier également. La définition de ces priorités s'appelle le pinning.

Building a Debian package can be complicated. If you’re in a hurry to build a really simple package, you might find the available documentation (such as the Debian New Maintainers’ Guide) overwhelming. Maybe you just want to install some files with dpkg. Maybe you don’t want to deal with Makefiles. Maybe you discovered the source package for hello-debhelper (the “Hello World” of Debian packaging) uncompresses to 3.1MB. Maybe these instructions will be more helpful. Then again, maybe not.

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There are a couple groups of settings below. The first couple go in /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/filename.conf.

All lots of repo for debian

Show bug report before upgrading a paquet through apt-get
Very useful when in a unstable debian release.

What do to when endless unmet dependency probleme ->
The solution was to put the offending package on hold:

echo "libc6-dev hold" | dpkg --set-selections

then run:

apt-get -f install

Or not mute it

Make wine work with pulsaudio and surely other app

Add an user to sudo group and ask for root password

Install real firefox, get rid of this fucking iceweasel

rm last line from /etc/network/interfaces

command:
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf
echo LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen fr_FR.utf8
dpkg-reconfigure locales