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I've been running the latest development build of Ubuntu 9.10 since July, and through several issues (including a few that required me to build a new clean image), I have developed a good set of notes that I use to rebuild.
First, I build a new clean image from the Ubuntu.com website.
The Ubuntu 9.10 Beta is currently available:
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/beta
The Daily Build is available here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/
Next, I install all updates and reboot. You can do this through Synaptic Package Manager or by a terminal window:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
- Add terminal launcher to panel
- Add synaptic launcher to panel
From a terminal window, I issue the following command:
sudo apt-get -f install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse frozen-bubble libk3b6-extracodecs p0f kobodeluxe testdisk p7zip gftp lbreakout2 libdvdread4 kismet wireshark linux-wlan-ng-firmware vlc vlc-plugin-* mozilla-plugin-vlc p7zip bzflag chntpw azureus ark audacity totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg alien aircrack-ng libpcap0.8-dev xserver-xorg-dev build-essential ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-common linux-wlan-ng rar unrar libperl-dev php5-cli php5-dev php5-gd libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev cvs libssl-dev sun-java6-plugin java-common odbcinst1debian1 sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre unixodbc amarok flashplugin-nonfree dvb-apps dvbstream xine-ui mplayer libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libglib2-ruby1.8 libglib2-ruby cabextract flex bison msttcorefonts gawk gparted nmap samba deborphan libosp5 w3c-dtd-xhtml wine k3b k9copy filezilla gnome-ppp virtualbox-ose etherape tiger fslint aptoncd smartmontools sysv-rc-conf kdegames sysstat snort bchunk gmountiso tracker kdirstat openarena kget ubuntu-restricted-extras gddrescue lsdvd ophcrack
- Install the Adblock Plus extension for FireFox
From a terminal window, I enable the Uncomplicated Firewall, set default rules, and disable a few ports:
sudo ufw enable&&sudo ufw default deny&&sudo ufw deny 1241/tcp&&sudo ufw deny 139/tcp&&sudo ufw deny 445/tcp&&sudo ufw deny 631/tcp
sudo gedit /etc/ufw/before.rules
Comment-out the following lines by adding a # symbol in front:
#-A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT
#-A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type source-quench -j ACCEPT
#-A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type parameter-problem -j ACCEPT
System / Preferences / Sound
- Sound Effects tab, Sound Theme: No sounds
For English installations, you can save some space by installing localepurge.
- apt-get install localepurge
- Select lowercase 'en' from the list and select 'ok'
System, Preferences, Appearance, Theme
- [X] Customize button, Window Border Tab, Crux
- Colors Tab, Selected Items, background color: #13437E, Text: #F7EADA
- Right-click Desktop, Desktop Background, select solid background
- Colors, Solid color, #13437E
- Change terminal window colors:
- Uncheck: Use colors from system theme
- Edit profile, colors, Built-in schemes: White on black
- Download and install Opera browser
- Places, Home Folder, Edit, Preferences:
- Default file view: List view - Open home folder
- Edit, Preferences: View new folders using: List View
- Show hidden and backup files
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