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Installing Docker 1.12 in Debian 9 (stretch)

Posted on October 27, 2016

Debian ships with an old version of Docker, and the official installation instructions for Docker on Debian are a bit dubious (run an entirely untrusted shell script as root! yay!), not to mention error-prone, and result in a completely non-functional Docker installation on Debian, thanks to aufs being deprecated. So these instructions should make it possible to install Docker 1.

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Getting Anki 2.0 to work with Debian stretch

Posted on August 3, 2016

Recent updates to Debian testing (aka stretch) have rendered Anki broken, with the following error message at startup: $ anki Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anki", line 7, in <module> import aqt File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> from aqt.qt import * File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/qt.py", line 22, in <module> from PyQt4.

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How to install CouchDB 1.6.1 on Debian 8.2 (jessie)

Posted on November 18, 2015

First, I must give credit where it is due. These instructions are based on Matteo Mattei’s earlier article Install CouchDB 1.6.x on Debian 7 (Wheezy), but with some important changes. The commands below assume you have sudo properly configured on your system, and that you are running as a standard user.

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lighttpd hackage: Smart module loading

Posted on February 22, 2011

I recently upgraded from Debian 5.0 to Debian 6.0, and it went great, except that lighttpd began to complain “Cannot load plugin mod_redirect more than once”. This is because the new default lighttpd configuration shipped with Debian 6.0 includes the ‘mod_redirect’ module, which was not included by default in Debian 5.

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