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(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.debian.org/Apt
The package format, notably used by Debian.
See also:
- APT, the primary program for working with these packages.
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aranddpkg-debfor working with them as archives.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.debian.org/Apt
The package format, notably used by Debian.
See also:
ar and dpkg-deb for working with them as archives.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://audacious-media-player.org/
An audio player which can deal with many formats.
I keep this around because it can handle oldschool formats quite well (Commodore 64‘s SID, .mod, etc.). See Oldschool music.
See also:
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Software > Linux tools >
Programming >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
A text-editing programming language.
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https://github.com/astrand/xclip
A commandline interface to X Windows’ clipboard functionality.
I don’t really use this.. it’s just hanging around.
Abandoned – As of 2021-09-20 last updated 2016-09-13
See also:
TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: imagemagick
https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images.
It’s pretty fucking magickal.
TODO – I didn’t note the actual commands I use
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation.
When it is done, CheckInstall will create a package and install it as a standard package. It will leave you a copy of the installed package in the source directory for your re-use.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://mplayerhq.hu/
Pretty much the de-facto video player on Linux, as it comes with most Linux distributions. It can play both audio and video, and works at the commandline.
Although it’s great, it’s a last resort compared to other audio playing software.
Although it can play without one, the common frontends are:
Software >
This is just a tags placeholder for this concept.
diff is the commandline thing; important for patch.
-u switch. (advised by Working on Free Software)Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch/
Applies changes to one or more original files based on information originally provided by the diff program. Let just the smaller changes between versions be distributed without needing to send the whole new version of a file.