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Which system files are updated when you install/update/remove a package?

When a new package is installed (even from source), or existing ones are updated/deleted/purged, some system files seem to be updated. Which are these? I want the files which contain the list of ...
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Store multiple synchronized copies of a file [closed]

I would like some advice on how to, if it is possible, do the following:- I want to have the same text file in a number of locations. I would like all files to update no matter which file I modify. ...
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Local server updates for the network

I have setup one computer on our network as the file server. Because Internet here in Tanzania is both slow and expensive I would like that one system to download all the updates and then the other 10 ...
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Hibernate to a swap file

I have configured a new Ubuntu 10.10 installation in a Notebook to use a swap file, instead of using a swap partition. For default is not possible to get Ubuntu to hibernate using a swap file, so i ...