Griffin - Ubuntu

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat partition on Griffin.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Repositories

• Added Opera (automatically added when installing Opera)
• Added Midnight Commander official repository
• Added Ubuntu Tweak
• Added Medibuntu
• Added XBMC
• Added IPList

Installed Applications

Common Essential:
[2011-01-15]	Gnome DO (gnome-do)
[2011-01-15]	Opera (opera)	[2011-01-15] v 11.00.1156
[2011-01-15]	Google Chrome (chromium-browser)
[2011-01-15]	Midnight Commander (mc)	See reference page. Use vi as standard viewer/editor. Installed version from mc official repository to fix file highlighting issue.
[2011-01-15]	Vim (vim, exuberant-ctags, vim-gnome)	including GVim to enable support of X clipboard
[2011-01-15]	Ruby (ruby)	... for Vim plug-in snipMate.vim
[2011-01-15]	Vim/Cscope (cscope)
[2011-01-15]	Samba (smbclient smbfs)
[2011-01-16]	NFS Server (nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap)	See NFS for more details; Created entries in /etc/exports.
[2011-01-15]	AutoFS (autofs)	See local config
[2011-01-18]	TrueCrypt	[2011-01-18] v7.0a, with AES-NI instructions!
[2011-01-15]	KeePassX (keepassx)
[2011-01-15]	Privoxy (privoxy)
[2011-01-15]	apt-file (apt-file)
[2011-01-15]	LAMP (apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql)	See local config
[2011-01-15]	PHPMyAdmin (phpmyadmin)	Install for apache2 + configure database with dbconfig-common. See local config apache2 only,
[2011-01-15]	SSH (ssh)	Local settings
[2011-01-15]	AutoSSH (autossh)
[2011-01-15]	Courier IMAP (courier-imap courier-doc courier-imap-ssl)	Install instructions and local settings
[2011-01-15]	Courier-POP3 (courier-pop courier-pop-ssl)
[2011-01-15]	Courier-MTA (courier-mta courier-mta-ssl)	so that mails are sent to Courier mailboxes
[2011-01-15]	Evolution plugins (evolution-plugins-experimental)	For opening Winmail.dat attachment in Evolution
[2011-01-15]	Evolution RSS (evolution-rss)
[2011-01-15]	Thunderbird (thunderbird)
[2011-01-15]	GNU C/C++ compiler (g++)
[2011-01-15]	C/C++ documentation (manpages-posix-dev stl-manual)	Make SGI doc available at http://localhost/sgi : ln -s /usr/share/doc/stl-manual/html /var/www/sgi
[2011-01-15]	Oracle/Sun Java JDK 1.6 (sun-java6-jdk)
[2011-01-15]	Eclipse 3.5.2 Galileo (eclipse)
[2011-01-15]	Meld (meld)	Diff tool
[2011-01-15]	Color Diff (colordiff)
[2011-01-15]	p7zip (p7zip-full p7zip-rar)
[2011-01-15]	dlocate (dlocate)
[2011-01-15]	XSel (xsel)
[2011-01-15]	Psi (psi)	See local config
[2011-01-15]	MS Truetype core fonts (ttf-msttcorefonts-installer)
[2011-01-15]	Compiz config settings manager (compizconfig-settings-manager)
[2011-01-15]	Ubuntu restricted extras (ubuntu-restricted-extras)	shall install automatically libdvdread4
[2011-01-18]	libdvdcss2	Installed via sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh (see also [1])
[2011-01-15]	CUPS PDF (cups-pdf)	Allow CUPS to access ~/PDF: sudo aa-complain cupsd
[2011-01-15]	Qiv (qiv)
[2011-01-15]	gThumb (gthumb)
[2011-01-15]	GPG Agent (gnupg-agent)	Added use-agent at end of ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
[2011-01-15]	Rename utils (renameutils)
[2011-01-15]	LaTeX (texlive texlive-xetex latex2hml)	Including XeTeX package
[2011-01-15]	TeX Extra packages (texlive-plain-extra texlive-science)	Soul package requires CTAN color package - see [2] [2011-01-14] Added texlive-science.
[2011-01-15]	Wine (wine)	See Wine page
[2011-01-15]	Gnome Terminator (terminator)	See Gnome Terminator
[2011-01-15]	Flash Plugin 10 (flashplugin-installer)	First need to enable Ubuntu partner repository (deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner). Next sudo aptitude autoremove "flashplugin-*" sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer
[2011-01-18]	MPlayer (mplayer mplayer-doc mplayer-fonts)
[2011-01-15]	Quicktime plugin (gnome-mplayer,gecko-mediaplayer)	To play Quicktime content in Opera, Firefox
[2011-01-15]	pdftk (pdftk)
[2011-01-15]	Gimp (gimp)
[2011-01-15]	Graphical Disk Map (gdmap)
[2011-01-15]	KDirStat (kdirstat)
[2011-01-15]	PCSC Tools (pcsc-tools)	For ATR_analysis.
[2011-01-15]	gparted (gparted)
[2011-01-16]	Macbuntu 10.10 theme	See Macbuntu page. Check log + uninstall script in ~/.macbuntu. no wobbly windows, no hot corners. Don't launch docky at startup.
Local applications:
[2011-01-15]	MBR (mbr)	To create VirtualBox rawdisk
[2011-01-15]	Racoon (racoon)	For RSA key generation, see Crypto
[2011-01-15]	HTTrack (httrack)
[2011-01-15]	NTL (libntl-dev, libntl-5.4.2)
[2011-01-15]	GMP (libgmp3-dev,libgmp3c2,gmp-ecm)
[2011-01-15]	GNU Go (gnugo)
[2011-01-15]	Various Go games (qgo uligo)
[2011-01-15]	Quarry (quarry)	Board games Go, Amazons, and Reversi
[2011-01-15]	MDF to ISO Converter (mdf2iso)	CD image conversion utility
[2011-01-18]	XBMC (xbmc xbmc-standalone)	See local page
[2011-01-18]	K3b (k3b)
[2011-01-18]	iplist (iplist)
[2011-01-18]	aMule (amule)
[2011-01-18]	fdupes (fdupes)
[2011-01-18]	Grub2 Splash Image (ubuntu-splash-image)	(from lucid-splash-image.deb) installed with sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture lucid-splash-image.deb
[2011-01-18]	PuddleTag (puddletag python-qt4 python-pyparsing python-mutagen python-configobj python-musicbrainz2)	[2010-12-23] v 0.9.11 See local page
[2011-01-18]	Panda glGo 1.4.1	See local page

Un-installed applications (by uninstall date):

[YYYY-MM-DD]

Application (package)

[YYYY-MM-DD] uninstalled (reason)

To install:

• Click Edit and see html comments.

Simple Settings

• [2011-01-16] - Enabled proprietary video device driver NVIDIA.

Detailed System Settings

1st install

• 1st install on [2011-01-15]
• Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 amd64
• Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB
• Language: English
• Location: Europe, Belgium Time
• Computer name: griffin
• Keyboard layout: BE
• Name: baddreams
• Login name: baddreams
• Update: Install security updates automatically
• Software to install: Ubuntu Desktop
• Partition: see main page

File System

• To be completed

Network

• To be completed

Preferences

• To be completed

Users

To be completed

Detailed Application Settings

Courier IMAP

• Install (reference here):
  • Create directories for web-based administration
  • SSL Certificate: /etc/courier/pop3d.pem, /etc/courier/imapd.pem
  • Postfix configuration: local only
  • System mail name: nxl67002ux.wbi.nxp.com
  • Created /etc/courier/userdb, and kept entries for root, localuser and beq06659
  • Use password from /etc/courier/userdb (method authuserdb).

Firefox

• Theme: macfox3 1.1.4
• Extensions:
  • AutoPager 0.6.1.12
  • Cycle Input Focus 1.0.0
  • Delicious Bookmarks 2.1.072
  • Fast Dial 2.23b1
  • FireGestures 1.5.7
  • Live HTTP headers 0.16
  • User Agent Switcher 0.7.2

Gnome DO

• Autostart, Quiet mode, notification icon, Glass theme
• Launch key: <alt>+space (! disable first Gnome global shortcut for Activate the window menu)

Nautilus

• Default view: List View
• Display, date format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
• List View: zoom 33%
• Icon View, Compact View: zoorm 50%
• Preview: all set to Never, and only for files smaller than 500kB (to prevent thumbnailing PDFs...)

Psi

(recovered from previous settings on Gryphon at ~/.psi)

• Gnome: Added Psi as startup program (Psi, /usr/bin/psi, Communicate over the jabber network).
• Options → Events → Enable popup notifications (all notifications)
• Modify Account... → Changed resource to work-ux
• Modify Account... → Automatically reconnect if disconnected
• Modify Account... → Proxy → localhost:8118

Vim

• Added ~/.bash_completion from [3] (modified to also take alias v=gvim)

Wine

See Configuration Griffin - Wine.

To Do

Issues:

• Issue — No Configuration Editor link in the menu. Must be added by hand?
• To Do — NFS Server, Remove temporary rules from /etc/exports
• To Do — Get apt-get log for 1st install.

Done & Fixed:

• Fixed — Issue description
  Fix description
• Done — Description