[ubuntu-in] What To Do After Installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx? Run This Script! (link to article)

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

While browsing, came across this link / article (most pasted below but
for best views visit the site itself)

Found it interesting because it seems to be , yet another , solution,
to make life easier for those (many) of us who like to redo much of
the generic vanilla ubuntu to suit our needs

More importantly in the spirit on opensource it should be possible to
copy and edit to suit our requirements even more (like i cannot see
Googleearth and a few other packages of my liking )

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What To Do After Installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx? Run This Script!
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/what-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-1004.html

Back when Ubuntu Karmic was released, I translated a script which
helps new user set up a few things most people do when they first
install Ubuntu. Today I updated the script for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
and also added a few more tweaks.


Here's what the script does:

add extra repositories (Medibuntu, Getdeb, etc)
download and install the latest updates
install Ubuntu Tweak
install codecs, web browser plugins (Java, Flash), additional support
for archives (RAR, 7-Zip) and additional fonts; installs the latest
Flash Player for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 64bit from Adobe's website
Gconf tweaks: move the Metacity window buttons back to the right,
disable the GDM login sound, fix the update manager behavior to always
show updates and enable the icons in menus and buttons
install GIMP (which has been removed from Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid)
install VLC
install Thunderbird email client
install Chromium web browser
install Google Chrome - the latest dev version (it will download the
32 or 64 bit version automatically - depending on your system
architecture)
install WINE
install MPlayer
set MPlayer and Totem character encoding to Central / Eastern European
(Windows-1250), you can disable this by removing lines: 64 and
69,70,71,72,73,74,75, or selecting manual configuration from the
script menu
uninstall Empathy and replaces it with Pidgin

It's not much, but relatively new users as well as people installing
Ubuntu on multiple machines will definitely find this useful.


Like always, remember it's not recommended running a script without
knowing exactly what it does, so I invite you to look at the code
before running it.


The script does not requires "sudo" when you first run it and instead,
your password will only be asked when the script tries to add a
repository or install an application.


To download and run the script, simply paste this in a terminal:

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1113424/webupd8/script_ubuntu_10.04_lucid_lynx.sh
chmod +x script_ubuntu_10.04_lucid_lynx.sh
./script_ubuntu_10.04_lucid_lynx.sh

The script can run all the options automatically for you (1) or it can
ask you before performing each task. I suggest you use the second
method (enter "2" after running the script) so you can easily choose
what to install / tweak and what to skip.


If you encounter any issues or want to add some useful stuff to the
script, don't hesitate in contacting me.
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ram