Aptitude

• http://www.linux-masters.com/2009/08/howto-recompile-debian-packages.html
• http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38976

dpkg-query -l

nainstalovat přes dpkg

dpkg -i downloaded_package.deb

dpkg jako takové neřeší závislosti, a napíše chybu při instalaci. to snadno pak opraví spuštění příkazu

apt-get -f install

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=62943

Pokud při

apt-get update

naskočí chyba

Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://ftp.cz.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY   9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not 

řešení

apt-get install debian-archive-keyring
apt-get update

Preparing to replace debianutils 2.8.4 (using …/debianutils_2.23.1_i386.deb) … Unpacking replacement debianutils … dpkg: error processing /var/cache  /apt/archives/debianutils_2.23.1_i386.deb (--unpack):  trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell’, which is also in package passwd Errors were   encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.23.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

řešení

dpkg -r --force all passwd 
apt-get -f install