Our underlying hardware uses Dell equipment for the most part inside China.
\nWe use Debian as an OS, and Dell has some software available on their linux repo’s specifically tailored for their (often rebranded from other peoples) hardware.
\nEg RAC (Remote Access) bits and pieces, RAID hardware, and BIOS updates.<\/p>\n
So, enough about why, how do we use their repo?<\/p>\n
First add it as a source …then add gpg keys – <\/p>\n Our underlying hardware uses Dell equipment for the most part inside China. We use Debian as an OS, and Dell has some software available on their linux repo’s specifically tailored for their (often rebranded from other peoples) hardware. Eg RAC (Remote Access) bits and pieces, RAID hardware, and BIOS updates. So, enough about why, how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[258,284,485,486],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-mumbo-jumbo","category-useful-info","tag-debian","tag-dell","tag-repo","tag-ubuntu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\necho 'deb http:\/\/linux.dell.com\/repo\/community\/deb\/latest \/' > \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/linux.dell.com.sources.list<\/code><\/p>\ngpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 1285491434D8786F
\ngpg -a --export 1285491434D8786F | apt-key add -<\/code><\/p>\napt-get update<\/code>, to make sure that you have the latest repo bits added, then you can install their goodies.<\/p>\napt-cache search dell<\/code> will show you whats in their repo. Pick wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"