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* Global system configuration files are in the <tt>/etc</tt> directory.
* Under Debian-based distributions (such as Debian Sarge, Ubuntu, etc):
-** Install [DEB
] Packages using <tt>dpkg -i filename</tt>. See dpkg(8).
+** Install [Deb
] Packages using <tt>dpkg -i filename</tt>. See dpkg(8).
** To search for packages available on your distribution, use <tt>aptitude search name<tt>
** To install a package, and any other packages it depends on, use <tt>aptitude install name<tt>
** Note that names are case insensitive, and contain no spaces. Try doing a substring search if you can't find it at first. Debian has over 15000 packages, so there is a good chance it already has what you want.
