Customizing Ubuntu Lucid

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# Some useful things
apt-get install fortune ack-grep

# Update time hourly - useful for VMs that may be paused
ln -s /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian /etc/cron.hourly/

# Latest weechat (0.3.6-dev)
add-apt-repository ppa:nesthib/weechat && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install weechat

# Git config
git config --global user.name "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

# Latest git (1.7.6)

add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

# Vim 7.3
echo 'Package: *
Pin: release a=ubuntu-backports-testers
Pin-Priority: 300

Package: vim*
Pin: release a=ubuntu-backports-testers
Pin-Priority: 500' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/ubuntu-backports-testers

add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-backports-testers/ppa

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

# Tmux trunk
cd /usr/local/src
svn co https://tmux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tmux/trunk tmux
apt-get install libevent-dev libncurses5-dev
cd tmux && sh autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install

# Common home
mkdir -p ~/Projects && cd ~/Projects
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
# Login and add as public key (CTRL-Xe to invoke Vim as editor)
# In Vim :r ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
lynx -editor=vim -accept_all_cookies https://github.com/account/ssh
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTTP::Lite'
git clone [email protected]:benjaminhawkeslewis/home.git
cd ~/Projects/home
git submodule init
git submodule update
~/Projects/home/bin/home-symlinks


# Node
cd /usr/local/src
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.4.10 # Stable tag
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install

# NPM
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

# Soda
npm install soda

# Local selenium
apt-get install xvfb firefox # Headless Firefox
apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin # or some other java
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/java
cd /usr/local/share/java
wget https://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar

# Start with…
xvfb-run java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar

# Additional browsers
apt-get install chromium-browser

# http://domino.symetrikdesign.com/2011/03/23/installing-opera-11-on-ubuntu-10-04/
apt-add-repository 'deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free'
wget -qO - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update && apt-get install opera

nice: write this up in a cookbook run by chef-solo and you are good to go... :)