Xubuntu 6.06 Installation

I installed Xubuntu 6.06 because I wanted to try XFce4.

Initial impression: XFce is quite nice and seems fast. I just need to learn the keyboard shortcuts.

Post-Installation: Followed some of the suggestions on http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu; did the following.

Add networking information (essid, keys, etc.).

• vi /etc/network/interfaces
• /etc/init.d/networking restart

Update and Upgrade.

• apt-get update
• apt-get upgrade

Copy my xorg.conf into place.

• cd /etc/X11
• mv xorg.conf{,.original}
• cp /scratch/etc/X11/xorg.conf .

Edit sources.list.

• cp sources.list sources.list.original
• vi sources.list
• apt-get update

Install Microsoft fonts.

• apt-get install msttcorefonts

Install mutlimedia codecs.

• wget -c -O /tmp/w32codecs.deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/pool/dapper/i386/non-free/w32codecs/w32codecs_20060611-1plf1_i386.deb
• dpkg -i /tmp/w32codecs.deb
• apt-get install libdvdread3
• /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

Install mutlimedia players.

• apt-get install lame sox ffmpeg mjpegtools mpg321 vorbis-tools
• apt-get install mplayer
• sed -i.backup -e's@vo=x11,@vo=xv,@g' /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
• apt-get install sound-juicer

Install Acrobat Reader.

• apt-get install acroread

Install Flash plugins.

• apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
• update-flashplugin

Install Java (Sun).

• apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin
• update-alternatives --config java

Install LaTeX.

• apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra gv xpdf-reader texinfo texi2html dvipng sam2p tetex-doc dialog psutils

Install Octave (Matlab replacement) and Gnuplot.

• apt-get install octave
• apt-get install gnuplot{,-doc}

Install subversion.

• apt-get install subversion

Install vim-gtk and set it as the default editor.

• apt-get install vim-gtk vim-doc
  
• sed -i.backup.gvim -e's@gedit.desktop@gvim.desktop@g'
  -e's@text/x-csrc=gvim.desktop@text/x-csrc=gvim.desktop\ntext/x-c++hdr=gvim.desktop\ntext/x-c++src=gvim.desktop\ntext/x-csharp=gvim.desktop\ntext/x-tex=gvim.desktop@g'
  /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
  
• sed -i.backup
  -e's@MimeType=text/plain;@MimeType=text/plain;text/html;text/css;text/xml;text/x-dtd;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-java;text/x-csharp;text/x-tex;text/x-bibtex;text/x-readme;@g'
  -e's@NoDisplay=true@NoDisplay=false@g' /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop
  

Install games.

• apt-get install supertux
• apt-get install frozen-bubble

Install Openssh-server.

• apt-get install openssh-server

Install basic compilers and libraries.

• apt-get install build-essential manpages-dev