My Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install gpa (GnuPG graphical frontend)

Installed mozilla-thunderbird. It's a memory hog with all my gmail downloaded.

sudo apt-get install xpad

... and added it to gnome session startup

Why is this not available by default?
sudo apt-get install curl

Installed Firefox extensions

• tabbrowser preferences
• sessionsaver
• linkify
• download statusbar
• performancing
• greasemonkey
  • google rss reader auto-read
• fasterfox

Installed Firefox 1.5 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirefoxNewVersion , had to hack browser.xul again.

sudo apt-get install swf-player
sudo apt-get insall flashplayer-mozilla
rm -rf /opt/firefox/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins

sudo apt-get install apache2

Now I can be like those geeks that have their mail signed by a private key that no-one has or can get, or better yet, cares to have.

sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail

I have not been able to get this to work together with enigmail. Advise?

sudo apt-get install gnupg-agent

A cute editor for CSS/HTML/etc.

sudo apt-get install bluefish

For the KDE weenies.

sudo apt-get install konqueror

To pop my mail using Thunderbird and fetchnotes (Thanks Tessa).

sudo apt-get install dovecot

I tried this on Windows, but the DOS environment made it impossible. I'll try it again.

sudo apt-get install ipython

Evince doesn't cut it for me.

sudo apt-get install acroread
sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread
sudo apt-get install acroread-plugins


I hate MTS, but I have to use it for work.

sudo apt-get install ipsec-tools
sudo dpkg -i http://web.opensource.ibm.com/www/d-c4eb/debian/mts-client_0.9.6c-7_i386.deb


IBM Java. NOTE: Only for IBMers.

sudo dpkg -i http://olymp.vienna.at.ibm.com/dc4eb/ibm-j2sdk1.4_1.4.2+sr03-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i http://olymp.vienna.at.ibm.com/dc4eb/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/devel/ibm-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+sr00-2_i386.deb


For Roller development:

Installed apache-tomcat-5.5.15.tar.gz from Apache.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server4.1

Followed the tip from: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/31/configuring-network-interfaces/

uncommented the timeout line in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
and changed it to 20
commented /etc/network/interfaces -> auto eth0

sudo apt-get install lame sox ffmpeg mjpegtools vorbis-tools
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-plugins-multiverse gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg gst-register-0.8


My LaTeX setup was not working for a WWW2006 paper I submitted. I could not find amssymb.sty, a quick google search and apt-get and I was back compiling our paper.

sudo apt-get install tetex-extras

Kile depends on ispell for spell checking.
sudo apt-get install ispell

Rob Gonzalez said that if I didn't upgrade the kernel to 2.6.15 I wasn't cool, so I did. Well, in reality, the reason why I wanted to upgrade the kernel is because I'm hoping to resolve some issues with wpa_supplicant and our IBM wireless network. I needed to upgrade the madwifi drivers, but Rob kept insisting how much faster my system would run if I upgraded the kernel as well, especially since I was still runing Ubuntu with 386 as opposed to the 686 kernel (because it did not have ath_pci compiled).

ftp ftp.kernel.org
tar -xjf linux-2.6.15.tar.bz2
cp /boot/config-2.6.12-9-386 ./.config
apt-get install build-essential bin86 bin86 kernel-package libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install g++
apt-get install make
apt-get install configure
apt-get install autoconf
apt-get install libc6
apt-get install libc6-dev
make xconfig
sudo make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
sudo dpkg --install kernel-image-2.6.15_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

At first I compiled it using gcc-4.0, but I was having incompatibility format errors with the madwifi-ng drivers. I then recompiled it using gcc-3.4 and I was golden.

The next thing was to install the latest madwifi-ng drivers. I'll tell you more about them after you've installed them. Simply follow the instructions on the wiki http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

Besides making sure you point to the right gcc in the Makefile, also make sure you point to the right kernel headers.

export CC=gcc-3.4
sudo make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux

In the case you encounter errors early on, it might be because the Makefile.inc they set the option to throw errors on warnings. I found a post on ubuntuforums that helped me figure this out.

• Open Makefile.inc
• sudo gedit Makefile.inc look for

  COPTS+= -Werror

• Change this line and remove the -Werror part so line now looks like this.

  COPTS+=

Voila. Madwifi-ng is now installed together with my kernel 2.6.15. Now I'll try to fix my wpa_supplicant problems when I go back to work.

This is for P2 development for my CS299r class.

P2 no longer depends of SFS, it now depends on boost.
sudo apt-get install libsfs0c2-dev

sudo apt-get install python2.4-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install swig
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-date-time1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-date-time-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-graph-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-program-options1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-program-options-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-regex1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-regex-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-serialization-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-signals1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-signals-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-test1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-test-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-thread1.33.0
sudo apt-get install libboost-thread-dev

I installed this when trying to clean up some orphaned packages.

sudo apt-get install deborphan

When you code for a living...

sudo apt-get install sloccount

IBM WECM

sudo apt-get install sysutils
sudo apt-get install ibmwc
sudo apt-get install ibmwc-gui
sudo apt-get install ibmwc-gui-nls
sudo apt-get install ibmwc-nls
sudo apt-get install ibmwc-ppp
sudo apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
sudo apt-get install libxft1

I was hoping this would work:

sudo apt-get install libconfigfile-perl
sudo apt-get install libapt-pkg-perl
sudo apt-get install apt-file

But a quick try yielded no results.

sudo apt-file search *

Tidy!

sudo apt-get install tidy

This is somewhat useful, especially for adding new alternatives and listing all of the packages that have them:

sudo apt-get install galternatives

I've begun teaching my daughter how to manipulate the mouse and use the PC:

sudo apt-get install childsplay
sudo apt-get install gcompris

I gave up building my own kernel, but since now I can build my own madwifi drivers, I'm using -686 kernel.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.12-9-686
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-686
sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.12-9-686
sudo apt-get install linux-image-686


I can't believe I did not have this already:

sudo apt-get install php4-common
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php4
sudo apt-get install php4
sudo apt-get install php4-mysql

I finally upgraded to Dapper.

Open /etc/apt/sources.list in your favorite editor and search/replace ‘breezy’ –> ‘dapper’

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Then I installed Ruby on Rails, but watchout, rails in Dapper is broken. I found this good post.

sudo apt-get install ruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 libapache2-mod-fastcgi libfcgi-dev libncurses5-dev ruby1.8-dev libfcgi-ruby1.8

Then install gems from http://docs.rubygems.org/

tar -xzvf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.0/
sudo ruby setup.rb

Then finally install rails:

sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
sudo gem install fcgi

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