Basic Install Items
Reference Guide Ubuntu904
- Ubuntu restricted extras from Add/Remove
- DVD Playback
- sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 totem-gstreamer
- sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
- check with Synaptic Package Manager you should see the following packages installed after searching for libdvdread4, libdvdnav4, libdvdcss2
- System, Preferences, Main Menu -- trim down menu, remove things you are not going to use
- Nautilus Edit, Preferences, Preview -- turn off thumbnails
- Install Sun Java 6
- sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
- sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
- sudo update-alternatives --config java
Lessons Learned
- Turn off visual effects, it causes VLC and MPlayer to crash by locking the computer.
- After you install Eclipse you will need to run the sudo update-alternatives --config java again because Eclipse installs its own version of Java, and this will set the defaults. Sun's version runs faster.
Flavors of the Month
- Comix - Manga viewer
- Gwenview - Simple image manipulation
- Eclipse
- ISO Master - Redo contents of ISO images
Other Items
- Here's the grub menu.lst as of May 3, 2009: menu.lst