Packages/apps for new install

[Liam Proven]

On 07/07/2025 5:53 pm, bruce wrote:

> Looking to create new ubuntu install. To some extent, the install
> might "copy" and extend an old centos box.

This gets bigger and bigger and less and less coherent all the time. I 
don't know whaty's going on, but if you have not slept for 2+ days, then 
GO TO SLEEP and do not post again until you've had 8-10 hours' rest.

>    working
>     --init apps/services -- from old/centos drive (as i recall)

It's not meaningfully possible to transfer a whole system config from 
CentOS to Ubuntu.

>       ssh

Built in.

>       php

Avoid at all costs, IMHO.

>       editors -- gedit

Built in if you have GNOME.

> /gearny/

Geany, not Gearny. OK, better than Gedit, but why two?

> vim

OK, why 3?


>       browsers -- chrome/firefox/seamonkey

OK. Firefox is built in. Chrome is easy. Seamonkey I get from Ubuntuzilla.

>      python,

Built in.

> php,

Again?

Again: don't.

 >  java/android dev

What does that even mean?

>      mysql

Is this a server or a workstation?

>      visual studio code IDE

MS spyware. Don't.


>      term func/process

Don't know what this means.

>      vnc??

What about it?

>      apt, apt-get

Built in.
  >      apache/nginx

Again: server or client?

>      curl>      zip/gzip/etc..
>      gparted
>      smartmontools

All in the repos.

>      nmap

What is the purpose of this box?

>      wget

Built in.

>      git

In the repos.>
> the more the merrier..

No; less is more. Pick essentials, junk the rest. Don't make a 
workstation a server, and _vice versa_.
  > oh -- the process will be to have "most/all" of  the apps on the
> internal 128G ssd, and have an external usb/2.5" sata 1-2TB drive for
> everything else.

You keep banging on about this. Why?

It's too damned small in 2025. It's also about $10.

If the SSD comes with the laptop, then buy a better laptop 'cos this is 
cheap junk.

If you've already bought it, you should do more research first, as this 
will come back to bite you.

Anyway, buy a grown up size SSD and give the 128 away or sell it online 
or something. NVMe -> USB is expensive and usually not worth it.


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