How to install software packages in non-interactive batch mode on Debian/Ubuntu

If you are a system admin, you may have wondered how to install a list of software packages in one shot. Manually installing software programs on multiple Linux systems would be a tedious job, and your time can be better spent elsewhere. If you seek to install software packages in non-interactive batch mode, you can check out this guideline. This is for Debian/Ubuntu systems.Read more »

How to run iptables automatically after reboot on Debian

If you have customized iptables rules, and would like to load the customized iptables rules persistently across reboots on Debian, you can leverage if-up.d scripts that are located in /etc/network/if-up.d. On Debian, any script that is marked as executable and placed in /etc/network/if-up.d is executed when a network interface is brought up.Read more »

add-apt-repository on Debian

"add-apt-repository" is a Ubuntu command for adding Personal Package Archives (PPA) maintained for Ubuntu platform. Read more »