Things You Want To Do After Install Ubuntu

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This is the next of previous post Things You Want To Do After Install Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Part 1. In this post i will show you how to install the list of softwares from the previous post. To make your Ubuntu desktop as a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop.
After you install your Ubuntu Desktop you will get the new fresh Ubuntu installed as the screenshot below:

Okay, now let’s get started.
First thing i am going to do is activate the root user. Follow this steps to do it:
1. Open your terminal, and type this command

sudo passwd root

2. Type your root password
3. Then login as root, as i assume you to do the next steps using root account.
Okay now let’s update your Ubuntu repository to use medibuntu and enable lucid partner repository. Follow this steps:
1. Update the sources.list with this command

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Uncomment the Lucid partner repository

## 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 lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

3. Save the file and exit.
4. Get medibuntu repository with this command:

wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

5. Get the Medibuntu gpg-key:

apt-get install medibuntu-keyring

6. Update all the repository list:

apt-get update

You can update your Synaptic to display third party repositories by:

update-apt-xapian-index

Okay now our repository have been update. You can either use Synaptic package manager to install all the list from previous post, or using shell to install it. But for me i prefer using shell, since it easier for m
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This is the next of previous post Things You Want To Do After Install Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Part 2. In this post i will show you how to install the list of softwares from the previous post. To make your Ubuntu desktop as a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop.
Okay now let’s continue to the next step. I assume you still login with root account in the terminal. If not please login first.
I’m going to show you how to install the additional softwares, please follow this steps:
1. On the terminal please type this command:

apt-get install amarok gimp flashplugin-nonfree amule audacity vuze banshee bluefish dvdrip filezilla ttf-mscorefonts-installer gnucash 'gstreamer*' gtkpod-aac sun-java6* k3b kino mplayer smplayer quanta kompozer scribus 'vlc*' mozilla-plugin-vlc xchat-gnome sound-juicer realplayer googleearth acroread non-free-codecs ubuntu-restricted-extras libdvdcss2 xine-ui xine-plugin thunderbird virtualbox-ose

2. It will take some times to download and install all the softwares. If you know that you don’t need some softwares please remove that from the command.
3. You will be ask some question to install, just follow the instruction because it will be different for every software.
The next thing is install the opera browser:
1. Update your sources.list by this command:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add this line to the end of the file:

deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free

3. Save the file.
4. Get the gpg-key:

wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

(If you get “The following packages cannot be authenticated” warnings, you’ll also need this:)

apt-get install debian-archive-keyring

5. Update your repository and install opera:

apt-get update
apt-get install opera

The next thing is install the Google Chrome browser:
1. Run this command:

add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
apt-get install chromium-browser

The next thing is install Skype:
1. Go to http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/ and select the right Ubuntu .deb package for your architecture (Ubuntu 8.10+ 32-bit or Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit)
2. After the download has finished, open back the terminal and go to the directory where the package has been saved (the default location is the Downloads folder in your home directory, i.e. ~/Downloads):

gdebi skype-ubuntu*

The next thing is install Google Picassa:
1. Go to http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30 and select the right .deb package for your architecture (i386 or amd64).
2. After the download has finished, open back the terminal and go to the directory where the package has been saved (the default location is the Downloads folder in your home directory, i.e. ~/Downloads):

gdebi picasa_3.0-current_*

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This is the next of previous post Things You Want To Do After Install
 Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Part 3. In this post i will show you how to 
install the list of softwares from the previous post. To make your 

Ubuntu desktop as a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop.

In this post is only for developer, but feel free if you want to install it too.
To install Gedit with additional feature, please refer to this post.
For install Apache, MySQL, PHP and PHPmyadmin for testing evironment, please refer to this post.
To install SSH Server and SSH Client, run this command:

apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

Okay now your Ubuntu desktop have reach application and resdy to use. But you can still improve it and beautify it, like install compiz change the desktop background, add desktop widgets. Don’t stop learning and have fun with Ubuntu.