Re: A few Newbie Questions
> > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space
> > on your harddrive?
> > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg
> > to uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb
> > free.)
>
> dpkg should be fine for removal although "apt-get remove" (you might
> want to do --purge when permanently removing a package), will handle
> dependencies for you. How large were these packages though? It is
> possible that they were small enough to not make a difference
>
If you are using apt, it may help you to know, that apt stores downloaded
.deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ (i guess this is not true for
apt-cdrom, at least it wouldn't make sense;-). over the time this
directory tends to eat pretty much space, so i delete the debs stored
there occasionally.
> > 3.) How do I change the clock time to the correct time?
>
> man date
> (heh)
>
if you have a permanent internet-connection, ntpdate comes to mind. It
allows you to sync to time-servers on the net..
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