Vladislav Korecký

Kubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal 64bit personal installation guide

Repositories

– Backup your current source.list file

sudo cp -p /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup

- Edit sources.list

sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

- Uncoment Canonical’s ‘partner’ repository like this

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu quantal partner 

- Add extra repositories by runing commands below in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/jupiter
sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu

Repository info update

sudo apt-get update

System update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Software installation

MC – midnight commander

sudo apt-get install mc

Skype

sudo apt-get install skype

TrueType Fonts

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Java

You can install JRE or JDK.
JRE – great choice if you want only run Java applications

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

JDK – for Java developers

sudo apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer

Uninstall other java alternatives

sudo apt-get remove --purge openjdk-* icedtea-* gcj-*

Display java version

java -version

output should look like this:

java version "1.7.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_07-b10)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.3-b01, mixed mode)

Codecs (DVD, video, audio, …)

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-ipafont-gothic ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming w64codecs libx264-123 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdcss2 libavcodec-extra-53 libdvdread4 libmp3lame0 kubuntu-restricted-addons kubuntu-restricted-extras

Truecrypt

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0

Go to the http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads Select "Standard 64bit" in "Linux" combobox and click download Go to the folder where is truecrypt downloaded by cd command Unpack downloaded tar by:

tar xvzf truecrypt-7.0a-linux-x64.tar.gz

Run extracted installer by:

sudo sh truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64

Follow installation wizard

Keepassx

sudo apt-get install keepass2 keepass2-doc

NFS Client

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

– One time mount – Run this command (don’t forgot modify ip, folder, etc…)

sudo mount 192.168.1.1:/var/Shared /media/nfs-shared/

– Auto-Mount on start

sudo kate /etc/fstab

– Put line below to the end of fstab file (don’t forgot modify ip, folder, etc…)

192.168.1.1:/var/Shared /media/nfs-shared nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr      0       0

HP printer and fax

– Install required packages

sudo apt-get install hplip-cups python-qt4 hplip-gui

- Restart cups server

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

– Run Hp setup wizard

sudo hp-setup

– Follow installation wizard

PDF printer

sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

– Restart cups server

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

– Printed PDFs are stored in "your_home_folder/PDF"

Shutter

sudo apt-get install shutter

GIMP

sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extras gimp-plugin-registry

Rekord my desktop

sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop recordmydesktop

Remmina – Remote Desktop Client

sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-common remmina-plugin-nx remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-telepathy remmina-plugin-vnc remmina-plugin-xdmcp

Thunderbird

sudo apt-get install thunderbird

GNU Cash – accounting software

sudo apt-get install gnucash gnucash-common gnucash-docs libdbi1 libdbd-sqlite3 libdbd-pgsql libdbd-mysql

Filezilla

sudo apt-get install filezilla

Krusader

sudo apt-get install krusader krename p7zip-full rar unrar lha arj unace rpm md5deep cfv kompare kdiff3 p7zip okteta p7zip-rar alien krename lzma

KGet

sudo apt-get install kget

KdeSVN

sudo apt-get install kdesvn kdesvn-kio-plugins

Gtk SSH Tunel Manager

sudo apt-get install gstm

Calibre – eBook management

sudo apt-get install calibre

PlayOnLinux

sudo apt-get install playonlinux xterm

If you see error message when you run playonlinux: “error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1″. Open terminal and run command:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

KDE context menu for mounting CD/DVD images

sudo apt-get install kde-service-menu-fuseiso

Jupiter – Hardware And Power Management Applet For Netbooks And Laptops

sudo apt-get install jupiter