Below is everything I do on a fresh install of Ubuntu to tweak it just the way I like it.

Eventually I may script everything, but I do installs so infrequently that I’ve not really needed it.

Feel free to pick through and install anything you find useful.

At the bottom of the post I will break-down each item with a brief explanation of it’s purpose.

Changes:

• 10-0411 Removed skype & amsn
• 10-0104 Added Glipper
• 09-1123 started new page for fresh 9.10 install
• 09-0821 added php5-curl
• 09-0808-Added Virtualbox 3.0 via Apt
• 09-0802-Added ‘Installing Virtualbox Linux Guest Additions for VB Server’
• 09-0724-Tested NTP in 9.04, added
• 09-0502-Added trash-cli, mc
• 09-0430-Added nmap kino sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
• 09-04/24-Copied from 8.10
  • Updated Flash Instructions
  • Added to extra installs: Non-Free-Codecs, Realplayer, Screen, nautilus-open-terminal, giver, synergy, rdiff-backup
  • Added instructions for SNMP, Standard Temperature Sensors, Drive Failure Notification
  • Added instructions for Network Time Sync

Instructions In PURPLE are copied from previous version and not yet verified for 9.10

Extras

Add the Medibuntu Repositories:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && sudo apt-get -q update && sudo apt-get –yes -q –allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get -q update

Install the Extras:

sudo apt-get install atool ffmpeg giver glipper gparted gstm kino mc mencoder moreutils mplayer nautilus-open-terminal nfs-kernel-server nfs-common nmap non-free-codecs openssh-server php5-cli php5-curl portmap rss2email sendemail realplayer rdiff-backup renameutils sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts screen synergy trash-cli ubuntu-restricted-extras unison w64codecs && sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap

Flash in 64 Bit Ubuntu

Webmin (Web Admin)

Virtualbox Install Using apt No Lucid version yet.  Installed 9.10 version on 10.04 and it’s working fine.

Not Yet Tested 10.04: Network Time Sync

Not Yet Tested 10.04: SNMP

RemasterSys

• Add the repository:
  deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository ubuntu/

Munin

sudo apt-get install munin-node smartmontools acpi lm-sensors

Sipie (NOT YET TESTED 10.04)

sudo apt-get install mplayer python-setuptools python-wxgtk2.6 && sudo easy_install sipie

I keep my scripts in a separate location called /scripts.  To modify my path to include this location I add

PATH=”/scripts:${PATH}”

to the end of /etc/bash.bashrc