Useful add on scripts for DebianLinux that if I don't link to when I find them, I'll never find them again.
- Check for Security Updates
SteveKemp has a wonderful package for checking Debian security advisories and making sure you don't have any vulnerable packages installed. (I used to use RobBradford's security-update-check.py script to check for required security updates but the download link has been dead for ages.)
- Check for Newer Packages
- Generates a list of any newer versions of packages which exist. Useful for tracking bleeding edge packages from unstable.
- Pretty Print (Packages|Sources).gz
PHP script by Jarno Elonen generates a nice XHTML page for a local repository.
- Check for Orphaned Packages
Python script by Jack Moffitt checks to see if any of the packages you have installed have been orphaned.
See also: DebianLinux, AptHelp
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