Python script to automate apt update and send statistics to InfluxDB / Telegraf

I wanted to get an overview how many updates my servers are currently missing. I wrote a Python script to update the APT-cache and write the results into InfluxDB via API_v2.

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How to run AIR packages that won’t install anymore

We have several English Grammar learning CDs that are using Adobe AIR as their runtime environment. I wasn’t able to install any of them, because there was this error:

The application could not be installed because the installer file is damaged.

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