Monthly Archives: September 2009

rm -rf /usr/lib

September 15, 2009 – 2:06 pm

So in another case of tab completion gone wrong I ended up staring at the following on my laptop. johnf@zoot:~/dev/vquence/metrics/trunk$ sudo rm -rf /usr/lib ^C The command only ran for a few seconds so the damage wasn’t to bad, but what did I lose? The locate command came to my rescue. locate runs out of [...]

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Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu

September 14, 2009 – 4:59 pm

One of the things I love about the Ubuntu project and launchpad is the Personal Package Archive. PPAs make it so simple and easy to backport packages. The only problem with PPAs is that they are public. I had a need to be able to host some private internal packages as well as squid with [...]

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