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Finally! Antialias fonts in emacs not running in the terminal. I've tried it and it works in Ubuntu Dapper.

My currently Linux desktop is running Ubuntu. As I'm using Linux more and more, I'm finding that I don't want to mess around with setting it up and getting it to work. I started out with RedHat 5.0 and I've gone through a dozen other distribution. I've always loved Gentoo but it takes way too long to compile, and stock debian just requires too much time/effort to get it to work. Ubuntu seems to work most of the time, but I believe the current instability is due to a faulty power supply (more on that later).

If you packaging software for Debian Linux or (K)Ubuntu sometimes you need not only one package, but you have to provide a dependency like a library or whatever. When those dependencies are not in the official repositories, the only way to fulfill those dependencies is to put your package inside the repository.

This document describes the steps to setup a chroot jail for building Ubuntu packages using pbuilder. It is recommended for Ubuntu maintainers or anyone interested in building packages using Ubuntu.

You can build packages without pbuilder but you must already have all the build dependencies of the package that you are building installed on your running system.

The following assume you want to install breezy.

There are always a few packages that you want to install that don't exist in the Ubuntu repositories. If they have any dependencies on other packages, trying to using dpkg can drop you into "dpkg hell", and having apt resolve those dependencies for you would really help. There are full blown methods of creating your own repository, such as Debarchiver or Dak.