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[Atomic-Fanboy]

Practice installing it first.

Install Debian as a guest OS in a virtual machine.
Play with it and mess around a bit.
Once you know exactly how to go and install it to a real hard drive parition, do so.
If you're not sure or confident, then you need to mess around more.

Read : Debian-Reference, Debian-Handbook, Debian Newbie's Guide, Debian-Wiki and anything else Linux or Debian related.

Have fun!

[manishthatte]

Here is a tip to install google chrome:

1) Download package filenamechrome.deb to ur comp

2) open terminal

3) login to ur sudo

4) type: sudo dpkg -i <location>filenamechrome.deb

5) type: sudo apt-get -f install

6) Voila...find google chrome in Applications > Internet

[JTunn]

Here is a tip to install google chrome:

1) Download package filenamechrome.deb to ur comp

2) open terminal

3) login to ur sudo

4) type: sudo dpkg -i <location>filenamechrome.deb

5) type: sudo apt-get -f install

6) Voila...find google chrome in Applications > Internet

Works like a charm, cheers!

[Bloom]

Determining your WAN ip address from the terminal (or in a bash script)

1. Using external means

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curl ident.me ; echo
curl http://checkip.amazonaws.com ; echo


Either of these two work fast. If you haven't got curl and you don't want to or can't install is, you can also use 'wget -O - -q' instead of 'curl -s'.

This one uses dig and the resolver of OpenDNS:

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 dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

The next one is also very fast and uses icanhazip.com but only with commands built-in to every Linux:

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exec 3<> /dev/tcp/icanhazip.com/80 && # open connection
  echo 'GET /' >&3 &&                   # send http 0.9 request
  read -u 3 && echo $REPLY &&           # read response
  exec 3>&-                             # close fd


2. By internal means

Many internet home routers for cable or DSL show a status page with the WAN ip address which doesn't require a login. If so, you can get your WAN ip address from your router.

This is an example for DDWRT:

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curl -s router | grep "ipinfo" | awk -v FS="(IP: |</span)" '{print $2}'


or if a login is needed:

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 curl -s -u username:password router | grep "ipinfo" | awk -v FS="(IP: |</span)" '{print $2}'

Replace 'router' with the hostname or LAN ip address of your router.
Replace username and password by the username and password needed to login to the webinterface of your router.

Many Europeans (including me) have an AVM Fritz1Box router. That one yields the WAN ip address as well, but it's a little more complicated:

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curl -s "http://router.:49000/igdupnp/control/WANIPConn1" -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"" -H "SoapAction:urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1#GetExternalIPAddress" -d "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <s:Envelope s:encodingStyle='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/' xmlns:s='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'> <s:Body> <u:GetExternalIPAddress xmlns:u='urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1' /> </s:Body> </s:Envelope>" |grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'


Replace 'router.' with the actual hostname or LAN ip address of your Fritz!Box router.
(source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/95910/c ... -public-ip)