Stuff to install or setup on top of default ubuntu installation
Remove libre office. Add ..
- Update Manager
- System Monitor
- Terminal
tree zsh tilix gimp scribus inkscape neovim curl build-essential keepassx storebackup smplayer lilypond quodlibet scantailor lm-sensors acl
terminal emulators:
- tilix
- terminator
acl - Access control lists
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki
- gnotravex hex-a-hop gnotski supertuxkart gtans gnect
- puzzle-moppet
- babaschess
- pychess numptyphysics lightsoff bovo pioneers smc palapeli pathological
- circular-chaos
- configure wifi
- firefox:
- login and sync
- Disable WebRTC to prevent ip address leaks (details below):
about:config->media.peerconnection.enabledset tofalse
- LVM data mountpoints
- File manager bookmarks for lvm mountpoints
- storebackup ??
- grub theme burg -- how to
- nautilus - Favourites (/tmp, /mnt/backup2tb)
- keepassx : security - lock database after __ seconds of inactivity (300 seconds?)
- transmission blocklist level1
- Music database -- set directories in Quod Libet
references:
- http://askubuntu.com/questions/52584/shared-folders-for-all-users
- http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12842/make-all-new-files-in-a-directory-accessible-to-a-group
steps:
- edit /etc/fstab. Ensure all the drive/partition has
/dev/sda1 /mnt/music ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro,acl 1 2 - unmount to activate acl.
mount -o remount,acl /mnt/music - create a new user group.
addgroup kutties - add users to the group.
gpasswd -a ragu kuttiesandgpasswd -a ananth kutties - add permissions to the group for the existing stuff.
setfacl -Rm g:kutties:rwX /mnt/music - add permissions to the group for the new files in future.
setfacl -d -Rm g:kutties:rwX /mnt/music
sudo apt-get install m17n-db m17n-contrib ibus-m17n
ibus-setup
choose ibus as the input method in 'System > Language Support'
in order to have this automatically started on start up im-switch -s ibus (??)
Details here
- Configure music library paths in Quod libet
- Paned Browser settings: set to Custom and add one by one
- ~format
- genre
- album
- ~people
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
- mattn/gist-vim -- helps to use vim for working with github gists
- unimpaired -- adds easy way to add blank line without going into insert mode
- fugitive -- do git within vim
Update gvim startup settings with
# ~/.vimrc
colorscheme kellys or colorscheme desert
set guifont=Ubuntu\ Mono\ 12
Following was required to be added for ~/.bashrc since gvim took time to start
function gvim() { (/usr/bin/gvim -f "$@" &) }
rvm installation -- http://www.andrehonsberg.com/article/install-rvm-ubuntu-1204-linux-for-ruby-193
install -- rvm requirements
vim for ruby -- https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config exuberant-ctags ack
bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
echo '[[ -s "/home/andre/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/home/andre/.rvm/scripts/rvm"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
type rvm | head -1
rvm pkg install openssl
rvm install 1.9.3 --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr
rvm use 1.9.3 --default
rmdir $rvm_path/usr/ssl/certs
ln -s /etc/ssl/certs $rvm_path/usr/ssl
curl -Lo- https://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash
gem install newgem
reference - https://rvm.io/interpreters/jruby/
rvm requirements # and install the prerequisites for jruby
rvm install jruby --1.9
projectm -- sudo apt-get install projectm-pulseaudio
recording visualizations -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1497453 and http://www.isep.ipp.pt/roswiki/RecordingOpenGLAppsWithGLC.html
glc -- https://github.com/nullkey/glc/wiki/Install
Installing from debian -- add ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main (don't forget to remove after installating)
This one is from latex collection. Used in no-nonsense-calendars. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/ttf
e2fsck -c /dev/fill-me
-c invokes badblocks internally. badblocks manual recommends this method rather than using badblocks command separately and feeding it to e2fsck -- CAUTION! block size.
Note: ubuntu checks file systems periodically, but doesn't check for badblocks probably.
For /home, reboot in recovery mode and run e2fsck
Settings, Printer, make & model -> change Choose the same Manufacturer, Same model, but try a different foomatic driver shown in the list.
Anu, We need to add this http://www.themukt.com/2014/06/21/use-flash-silverlight-unity-web-plugins-linux/