I recently re-structured all my partitions on all my harddrives & re-installed Ubuntu 8.04 (among other OSs) from scratch. Every time I do this, I need to stop & think on what software I want installed. So I compiled a little list on stuff to do & to install after a fresh setup as a personal reminder. While I don’t plan on repeating this experience – I’ve cloned an image of the freshly installed & set up Ubuntu with Clonezilla – it still might be handy to have such a list lying around (online), so I decided to share it.
This is by no means a definitive list, or the only way to install these applications, but more a personal preference, as I want some specific applications to be the latest version, not the one in the default ubuntu repositories.
From the default Ubuntu repositories:
- Ubuntu restricted extras (mp3, dvd, flash, java, ms fonts…)
- lame, mp3gain, gstreamer plugins (various)
- Abiword (gnome edition) + plugins
- lightweight word processor
- Amarok (1.4.9.1)
- KDE app, but essential
- Amarok Scripts:
- Armagetron Advanced (0.2.8.2.1)
- addictive tron-cycle game (online multiplayer)
- Bluefish editor
- Chm viewer
- Compiz advanced desktop effect settings
- to personalize eyecandy & tweak usability
- Compiz fusion icon
- easy switching between window managers (useful for certain full screen games)
- DeVeDe
- Easy Crypt (a TrueCrypt GUI)
- encrypt folders & filesystems for privacy & security
- EasyTAG
- gedit-plugins (for gnome text-editor)
- GIMP Image Editor
- Gmount-iso
- easy mounting of ISO files
- Gnome Partition Editor (gparted)
- GnuCash
- GTetrinet
- online multiplayer tetris combat
- Inkscape
- Iso Master
- read, write & extract iso files (among others)
- K3b
- KDE app for burning CDs/DVDs
- k9copy
- KDE app for shrinking/converting DVDs
- kdissert
- treebuilding/mindmapping tool
- KeePassX
- password manager
- Miro Internet TV
- Mozilla:
- Firefox (+extensions):
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 (+ Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3)
- Add to Search Bar 1.7
- All-in-One Gestures 0.19.1
- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.4
- Better GReader 0.4
- BugMeNot 2.0
- Clipmarks 3.5.0
- CustomizeGoogle 0.75
- Diigo 3.1.6.1
- DownThemAll! 1.0.3
- Greasemonkey
- Image Zoom 0.3.1
- NoScript 1.3.2
- PDF Download 2.0.0.0
- ScrapBook 1.3.2.5
- StumbleUpon 3.18
- Tabs Open Relative 0.3.3
- Undo Closed Tabs Button 3.0.3
- Thunderbird (+extensions):
- Display Mail User Agent
- Quote Collapse
- Quote Colors
- Show Address
- Web Mail (& hotmail, maildotcom, yahoo)
- pop3 access for webmail accounts
- Firefox (+extensions):
- Mplayer
- nautilus actions (gedit, sudo, scripts & other)
- right-click nautilus extensions
- netspeed applet (for gnome panel)
- Open Office (full suite)
- Prism (Google Docs, Google Talk)
- Soundconverter
- Sun Java
- Tellico
- all round collection manager
- Tilda
- a quake/yakuake clone
- Totem Media Player
- Wireshark
- Xchat
Third Party Repositories
For the following applications I added their repositories, since these offer either software that you cannot find in the default Ubuntu repositories or later versions of that software. I prefer adding repositories to downloading .deb files or other, because this way you get notified of updates.
- Deluge Bittorrent 1.0
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ubuntu hardy main
- Electric Sheep
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/flam3/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/flam3/ubuntu hardy main
- Google
- Picasa 2.7
- wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
apt-get update - deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
- wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
- Picasa 2.7
- Gnome-Do 0.6
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main
- You might want to install the version that comes with the default ubuntu repository, as this 0.6 version seems to have some bugs.
- Medibuntu
- Google Earth 4.3, Adobe Reader 8, libdvdcss2, etc.
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
- Google Earth 4.3, Adobe Reader 8, libdvdcss2, etc.
- Playdeb (recent games):
-
deb mirror://www.getdeb.net/playdeb-mirror/hardy/// hardy/
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- VLC Media Player (latest 0.9.3)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main
- Virtualbox 2.0.2 (non-free)
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free- (+ add yourself to the vboxusers group)
- Wine 1.1.5
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
Downloaded from separate sites:
- Easy Stroke
- mouse gestures for the gnome desktop
- Zattoo Player (Internet TV)
- Nautilus Scripts
Windows Apps:
- Babo Violent 2.11
- an online multiplayer top-down shooter
