Installation from tar.gz, has the disadvangate that there is no easy way to un-install. But there are two methods of building .deb packages and install them on the system as any .deb package, so the apt-get does the dιrty job of installing and un-installing. You can find them in the article.
This article describes how to prevent brute force attacks with Fail2ban against a SquirrelMail Web login using the Squirrel Logger plugin. The article covers also the installation of all needed modules.
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). The article contains installation info and screenshots of the program running.
A tutorial that shows how to compile and install the VLC from source in Debian Lenny in several steps. The version at the time of writing was VLC 1.0.1, so the tutorial should work successfully for it.
This article describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. The configuration, the use of quota and the upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup are showed.
Most virtual machines need a desktop to run on. VirtualBox 2 comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.
This article describes how to convert Debian i386 to amd64. There are 7 steps needed, and all the details are described, for the process to be completed.