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:

• 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 9.04

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

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Install the Extras:

sudo apt-get install atool ffmpeg giver 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 skype sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts amsn 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

Network Time Sync

Standard Temperature Sensors

Configuring SmartMON on Ubuntu

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

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

To modify your path add

PATH=”/scripts:${PATH}”

to the end of /etc/bash.bashrc