Nxl67170 - Ubuntu

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Precise 12.04 partition on NXL67170.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Repositories

Added texlive-backports ppa (backports of latest TeX Live from Ubuntu 12.10, see [1])

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:texlive-backports/ppa

Installed Applications

Common applications

See Common configuration for Linux.

Essential

VirtualBox (`virtualbox-4.2`)	[2013-02-20] Updated to 4.2.8! Local settings. See also VirtualBox
Privoxy (`privoxy`)
Gufw (`gufw`)	graphical front-end to ufw
SSH Tunnel script (`sshtunnel.pl`, `libssl-dev`)	Thierry Walrant's Perl script `sshtunnel.pl`
LAMP (`apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql`)	See local config
PHPMyAdmin (`phpmyadmin`)	Install for apache2 + configure phpmyadmin database + see local config
dwww (`dwww`)
Courier IMAP (`courier-imap courier-doc courier-imap-ssl`)	Install instructions and local settings
Courier-POP3 (`courier-pop courier-pop-ssl`)
qmail (`ucspi-tcp qmail`)	See qmail page
NTP (`ntp`)	synchronize with NTP server automatically add to `/etc/ntp.conf`: server wbi.nxp.com iburst
HTTrack (`httrack`)
WireShark (`wireshark tshark`)
TrueCrypt	v7.1a, with AES-NI instructions!
Samba Server (`samba smbfs`)	See local config
ACL (`acl`)
Google Chrome (`chromium-browser`)
Thunderbird (`thunderbird`)
Wine (`wine`)	See Wine page
Psi (`psi`)	See local config
CUPS PDF (`cups-pdf`)	Allow CUPS to access ~/PDF: sudo aa-complain cupsd
LaTeX (`texlive texlive-xetex latex2hml`)	Including XeTeX package Upgraded to TeX Live 2012 (from texlive-backports ppa)
TeX Extra packages (`texlive-plain-extra texlive-science texlive-latex-extra`)	Soul package requires CTAN color package - see [2] [2011-01-14] Added texlive-science. Upgraded to TeX Live 2012 (from texlive-backports ppa) — requires package texlive-latex-extra
Google Earth (`googleearth googleearth-data`)	Requires Medibuntu repository
Recoll desktop search (`recoll`)	See also Recoll page.
pdftk (`pdftk`)
Git (`git-gui gitk git-doc gitweb`)	[2013-02-20] — Updated to 1.7.10.5 compiled from source. sudo apt-get install autoconf zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev expat asciidoc # More packages might be needed git clone git://github.com/gitster/git.git # Use proxygit if behind a proxy cd git make configure # See also INSTALL ./configure --prefix=/usr/local # In // of existing package installation. /usr/local has precedence make all doc sudo make install install-doc install-html [2013-02-20] — Installed tileqt tcl/tk widget theme for gitk (see here).
Some git browsers (`qgit gitg source-highlight`)	[2013-02-20] gitg updated to 0.0.7!
KDirStat (`kdirstat`)
Color Diff (`colordiff`)
Word Diff (`wdiff`)
Diffuse (`diffuse`)
bsdiff (`bsdiff`)
KDiff3-QT (`kdiff3-qt`)	(QT version has no dep on KDE) Settings → Integration → add `;--` to command line opts to ignore, and check Quit also via Escape key
Diffstat (`diffstat`)	A better grep...
Ack (`ack-grep`)	A better grep... sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ack-grep /usr/local/bin/ack
Hexedit (`hexedit`)	Hex editor
Hexer (`hexer`)	Hex editor with vi-like interface
Uncrustify (`uncrustify`)	v0.59, simply compiled from source (`./configure; make; sudo make install`)
socat (`socat`)
multitee (`multitee`)
colortail (`colortail`)
Qiv (`qiv`)
libdvdcss2	Installed via `sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh` (see also [3])
VLC (`vlc`)
pipe viewer (`pv`)
Acrobat Reader (`acroread`)	Edit mime type in `~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list`: [Added Associations] application/pdf=acroread.desktop;evince.desktop;gimp.desktop Add to `~/.mailcap`: application/pdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-pdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-bzpdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf.bz2 application/x-gzpdf; acroread '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf.gz Add Digital ID for NXP DocStore
CPU indicator (`indicator-multiload`)	Selected CPU, Memory, Network
screen (`screen`)
Synergy (`synergy`)	v1.4.10! See local settings.
tmux (`tmux`)	Alternative to screen, but with support for multiple panes like terminator
todo.txt	Copy `todo.sh` to `/usr/local/bin`, `todo_completion` to `/etc/bash_completion.d` Copy `colorSymbols` to `/usr/local/bin` Update `colorSymbols` filter to process attachment ( `#attach`)
Unison 2.27.57 (`unison2.27.57`)

Development

GNU C/C++ compiler (`g++`)
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
openJDK 7 (`openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-doc`)	Selected alternatives with: sudo update-alternatives --config java sudo update-alternatives --config javac # TODO: Add others (like ant, javah, etc?)
openJDK 6 32-bit (`openjdk-6-jdk:i386`)	Installing after OpenJDK7 brings less dependency issues it seems. See Griffin for alternatives
ia32 libraries (`ia32-libs libc6-dev:i386 gcc-multilib g++-multilib`)	TODO: Seems we should install `ia32-libs-multiarch` though... Installing this package removed some package, so reinstall them back with: sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ dkms \ nvidia-current virtualbox-dkms Compiling with `gcc -m32` still does not work though (missing 32-bit `libgcc.a`). Installing package `gcc-4.6:i386` force removal of many 64-bit packages. Instead we go for solution given here: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
Javadoc	Installed on http://nxl67002ux/. JDK 1.4.2 in `/data/www/javase/1.4.2/docs`; JDK 6u21 in `/data/www/javase/6/docs`
Perl-doc html (`perl-doc-html`)	Available from dwww, section Programming/perl
make documentation (`make-doc`)
USB dev libs (`libusb-dev:i386`)	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev)
ARM RVDS 2.2	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev) Recover env. at /cadappl from old install
ATOP 2.5g dev packages (`patchutils lynx ncftp ksh tcsh sysvbanner flex bison dos2unix gawk`)	(NXP Telematics ATOP dev) Main reference: `bb/target/jvm/modules/j9port/srce/doc/build_on_linux.html` Create symlinks for RTK: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl sudo mkdir -p /usr/ccs/lib sudo ln -s /usr/bin/cpp /usr/ccs/lib/cpp

Local applications

MBR (`mbr`)	To create VirtualBox rawdisk
apt-rdepends (`apt-rdepends`)
GraphViz (`graphviz`)	To plot package dependencies with `apt-cache dotty` and `apt-rdepends -d`
Banshee (`banshee`)
Feh (`feh`)	Fast and light image viewer (like qiv)

Uninstalled

Application (package) [YYYY-MM-DD] uninstalled (reason)

Simple Settings

SUDO - keep environment variable http_proxy, https_proxy (to keep proxy settings for apt-get etc)
SUDO - keep environment variable GREP_OPTIONS (keep grep options)
SUDO - keep environment variable DISPLAY, XAUTHORITY (avoid doing xhost local:root before launching X pgm)
SUDO - keep environment variable HOME (e.g. to keep git aliases and settings when using etckeeper)

Defaults        env_reset
Defaults        env_keep += "http_proxy https_proxy GREP_OPTIONS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY HOME"

SUDO - Allow truecrypt and rfkill w/o password:

ALL     ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/truecrypt
ALL     ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/rfkill

CRON - Add cron script ~/etc/crontab-noekeon (backup of wikis on Noekeon.org)
PROXY - script for automatic setup of network environment (proxy, ssh...) (see config files).
Security — Disabled control-alt-del in console as recommended in Ubuntu Server Guide. Comment out the following line in the file /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf:

#exec shutdown -r now "Control-Alt-Delete pressed"

Add user www for synchronization of /data/www folder (localhost page):

sudo useradd -g www-data -G users -u 999 -s /bin/bash -m www
sudo passwd www
su - www
ssh-keygen                                         # Or copy .ssh/ copy from other www users
scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys

~/bin — Convert scripts for new hostname nxl6717ux and NXL67170 (see ~/bin/restore_wiki.sh, ~/bin/generate_wiki_page.sh, ~/bin/set-network.sh, files in ~/.unison)

For Telematics build environment

CRON - Add cron script ~/work/NXP/ATOP/crontab-svn-fetch (fetch svn database automatically)
Printer — add Canon network printer (select IPP network printer via DNS-SD for protocol)

Detailed System Settings

1st install

2nd install on [2013-02-20]
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04 amd64
Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB
Language: English
Location: Europe, Belgium Time
Computer name: nxl67170ux
Keyboard layout: BE
Name: beq06659
Login name: beq06659
Update: No automatic update
Software to install: Ubuntu Desktop
Partition: see main page

Kernel

Initial kernel: Precise Pangolin 3.2.0-38-generic (see Ubuntu page).

File System

For details, see /etc/fstab.
- NTFS — C: → do not mount automatically. Risk of corruption if mounted while VirtualBox is running!
  Also NTFS partition must be mounted without umask=007,gid=46, or will get operation not permitted when modifying timestamps:
- Reiserfs — / → enable acl
- ext4 — /data → enable acl and data=writeback

/dev/sda2               /c          ntfs        ro,users,nls=utf8,exec                0       2
UUID=...                /           reiserfs    notail,noatime,acl                    0       1
UUID=...                /data       etc4        defaults,noatime,data=writeback,acl   0       2

File system structure:

/:                                        
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      boot/       # /dev/sda3
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      c/          # /dev/sda2
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      d -> /data/d/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      data/       # /dev/sda8
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      net/
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      sage -> /data/sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      smb/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      win/
/data:
  drwxrwsr-x beq06659  beq06659  d/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      home/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x www-data  root      www/
/home/beq06659:
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  Documents -> /windows/d/Profiles/beq06659/My Documents/
/net:
  # NFS autofs
/smb:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      mnemosyne/   # SMB autofs
/var:
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      www -> /data/www/

Configure acl on /data/d:

# VirtualBox uses /data/d as Windows D: drive. Since VirtualBox runs as 'root', all files gets root/root ownership.
# We use acl so that files gets group access beqO6659/rwx by default
cd /data
sudo chgrp -R beq06659 d
sudo chmod -R g+w d
find d -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 chmod g+s
find d -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 setfacl -m d:group:beq06659:rwx

Configure acl on /data/www:

# Set default access condition to rwxr-xr-x / www / www-data
cd /data
sudo chgrp -R www-data www
find www -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 chmod g+s
find www -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 setfacl -m d:group:www-data:r-x
find www -type d -print0|sudo xargs -0 setfacl -m d:user:www:r-x           # TODO: this one does not work with root...

Network

Edited /etc/hosts (added names for intranet)
Added to /etc/apt/apt.conf:

Acquire::http::proxy "http://localhost:8118/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://localhost:8118/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://localhost:8118/";

Added to /etc/environment:

http_proxy="http://localhost:8118/"
ftp_proxy="ftp://localhost:8118/"
https_proxy="https://localhost:8118/"

.pac files:
- privoxy: file:///home/beq06659/etc/proxylocal-privoxy.pac (or http://localhost/proxy.pac to circumvent Opera bug)
- nxp: http://nww.nics.nxp.com:8080/proxy.pac
/etc/sudoers — keep variables http_proxy and https_proxy
Proxy configurations

NXP network
sshproxy	Connect to NXP proxy with sshtunnel (with NTLM auth. if needed) Forward IMAP/SMTP ports Opens a SOCKS5 proxy
privoxy	Forward to ssh SOCKS5 proxy. Provide http proxy server.
apt-get, wget, browsers	through privoxy (through environment variables or .pac file)
ftp	Direct connection (no solution...)
HOME network
sshproxy	Direct connection Forward IMAP/SMTP ports Opens a SOCKS5 proxy (not used)
privoxy	Direct connection Provide http proxy server.
apt-get, wget, browsers	through privoxy (through environment variables or .pac file)
ftp

SAMBA/NFS CLIENT - Mount mnemosyne shares as NFS autofs (see [4]) and as SMB autofs

Enabled/created the following automounters in /etc/auto.master:

/net           /etc/auto.net
/smb/mnemosyne /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne

Created configuration file /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne (mount options: noperm,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne.*)
Created SMB credential files /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne.* (see man mount.cifs)
Created path for mount points:

sudo mkdir /net
sudo mkdir -p /smb/mnemosyne
#ls /net/mnemosyne
#sudo mkdir -p /mnt/mnemosyne
#for i in /net/mnemosyne/volume1/*; do sudo ln -s $i /mnt/mnemosyne/$(basename $i); done

NXP Wired

Added local domain name be-leu01.nxp.com to /etc/resolv.conf (! do not edit this file directly, see Linux Admin#Network Manager - Search Path)

NXP Wireless (see Linux Admin#Wireless Network)

Network name (SSID): WLAN-NXP
Wireless security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: TLS
Identity: beq06659
User certificate / CA certificate / Private key: imported from Windows (EMEA-CA, exp. 2014-02-18, for Client Authentication, Secure Email)

Privoxy settings:

Added to /etc/privoxy/user.action:

{ -filter }
tennislibre.com

Add filter settings for chromanova web-radio (config file):

# 3 forward rules for chromanova radio
forward             85.25.86.69         emea.nics.nxp.com:8080
forward             91.143.81.239       emea.nics.nxp.com:8080
forward             212.112.241.88      emea.nics.nxp.com:8080

Firewall

Moved user rules to /etc/ufw so that they can be tracked by etckeeper

cd /lib/ufw
sudo mv user* /etc/ufw
sudo ln -s /etc/ufw/user.rules
sudo ln -s /etc/ufw/user6.rules

Enabled ufw

sudo ufw enable

Policy:

sudo ufw allow from 192.168.11.2                   # Enable full access from local virtualbox
sudo ufw allow from 172.19.0.0/16 to any port 22   # Enable - from home local network - SSH

Preferences

Fonts (via ubuntu-tweak):

Category	Font	Size
Default Font	Ubuntu	9
Desktop Font	Sans	9
Monospace font	Lucida Console Semi-Condensed	10
Document font	Sans	10
Window title bar font	Ubuntu Bold	10

Hinting: Basic
Antialiasing: Subpixel antialising (LCD screens only)

Keyboard

Assign Ctrl-Alt-Del to Shutdown dialog

Appearance

Launcher icon size: 32

Theme

Macbuntu 10.04

Fonts — see below.
Terminal — Colors select Use colors from system theme (was set to Gray on black built-in schemes). Keep transparent background 95%.
Panel — add back System Monitor. We don't add back the bottom task panel.
In Configuration Editor, /apps/metacity/general/button_layout: menu:minimize,maximize,close

Appearance

(before Macbuntu) Fonts — Application → Tahoma 9; Document→ Sans 8; Desktop → Sans 8; Title → Sans Bold 9; Fixed width → Monospace 8
(after Macbuntu) Fonts — Application → Lucida Grande 9; Document→ Lucida Grande 9; Desktop → Lucida Grande 9; Title → Lucida Grande 10; Fixed width → Lucida Console 9 (originally Lucida Console 10)
Fonts — rename ~/.fonts.conf to ~/.fonts.conf.macbuntu to disable macbuntu hinting settings override.

Appearance

Isabelle Hires Noir&Blanc crop-despeckle 936x1200.png, in ~/etc.

Keyboard Layout (System-Wide)

Layout: Belgium (default) + USA, no separate layout
Custlayout Belgium (file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be) to allow AltGr-; → '<' and AltGr-: → '>', and support Greek letters with AltGr-Shift.
Options: Capslock affects all keys, Alt+CapsLock or Right Ctrl+Right Shift switch layout, right alt chooses 3rd level.
(because Alt+Shift,Left Ctrl+Left Shift prevents ctrl-alt-shift shortcuts to work, Right Ctrl conflicts with VirtualBox)

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action	Remark
Super-E	Home Folder	Hack Super is mapped to Win keys not needed anymore it seems

Window List Panel (see here)

Window List Content → Show windows from all workspaces
Restoring Minimized Windows → Restore to native workspace

Fonts

System fonts (/usr/local/share/fonts):

Added BitStream Vera 1.10

Added jsMath fonts (Linux variant, darkness 20 file, see here)

Added all jsMath extra fonts (dark version from this page)

User fonts (~/.fonts):

Added Tahoma

Compiz

General Option - Move Window: SuButton2
because AButton3 is used in OpenOffice to move columns / rows
Static Application Switcher: Use AAlt for Next Window (current workspace)
Scale: Multi-Output Mode → On all output devices, darken background, Emblem for overlay icon
Ring Switcher: Enabled + Use SuTab for Next Windows (All Workspaces) + Allow Mouse Selection
Enhanced Zoom Desktop: Disabled
Negative: Disabled
Desktop Wall: enabled Edge Flip Move.
Put : disabled Put Pointer, enabled Put To Next Output (Superz) selected Avoid Offscreen.

Frequently used Compiz shortcuts (bold are custom ones)
Shortcut	Action	Remark
`SASpace` `SuButton3`	General Options - Window Menu
`CALeft` `CARight`	Desktop Wall - Move
`SCALeft` `SCARight`	Desktop Wall - Move with window
`SSue`	Expo Key
`AF7`	Move Window
`Suz`	Windows Put To Next Output
`AF8` `SuButton2`	Resize Window
`SuTab` `SSuTab`	Ring Switcher	(All Workspaces)
`Suw` `Sua` / `TopLeft` / `TopRight`	Scale windows	Current viewport All windows
`ATab` `SATab`	Static application switcher	Current viewport

Detailed Application Settings

Amarok

Select PulseAudio as preferred device (instead of sound output HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)
Set proxy settings in ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc.

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).
Recovered most files from nxl67002ux, but it failed at first because users where assigned different UID!!!
Make sure users have identical UID, or courier will complain it has not the permission to access Maildir/p

Firefox

Theme: macfox3 1.1.7
Extensions (some disabled because Firefox hangs on launch/exit):
- AutoPager 0.7.0.0 — disabled
- Belgium eID 1.0.11 — disabled
- CHM Reader 0.2.3
- Cycle Input Focus 1.0.0 — disabled
- Delicious Bookmarks 2.3.1
- Fast Dial 3.4
- FireGestures 1.5.7 — disabled
- FoxyProxy Standard 3.3
- Live HTTP headers 0.17
- Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.9rc2
- User Agent Switcher 0.7.3 — disabled

LAMP

Install the servers:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql
# --> Defined password for MySQL root user
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
# --> Added lines at line 32:
#     #MIP CUSTOM
#     ServerName "nxl67002ux"
# Restart apache server to activate php module...
sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

# Move www root dir to /data disk
sudo mv /var/www /data
sudo ln -sf /data/www /var/www

Apache:

configuration file is at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Apache root http directory is /var/www
Enable mod-rewrite module.
In /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, change as: AllowOverride NoneFileInfo (twice).

Create databases that will store local copies of cryptokiwi and mikiwiki wiki, and of mikido:

MYSQL_HISTFILE=/dev/null mysql --user=root -p mysql

mysql> CREATE DATABASE cryptokiwi;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cryptokiwi.* TO kiwi@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikiwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikiwiki.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikido;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikido.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE nxpwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nxpwiki.* TO nxp@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> quit

Enabled HTTPS (requires valid-user)
Firewall blocks port 80 but allow port 443 (so that localhost can connect w/o password but other guest needs password)

Nautilus

Default view: List View
Display, date format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
List View: zoom 33%
Icon View, Compact View: zoorm 66%
Preview: all set to Never, and only for files smaller than 500kB (to prevent thumbnailing PDFs...)

Opera

(nxp) Import collabnet client-side certificate (beq06659.pfx)
Change fonts (Preferences → webpages — requires restart for changes to take effect!):
- Normal font: DejaVu Sans, 16.
- Monospace font: DejaVu Sans Mono, 16.

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

Samba

See Samba server page on this wiki.
File /etc/samba/smb.conf:

   security = user
   username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

# [...]

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
 
# [...]
 
[c]
   comment = Windows Drive C
   browseable = yes
   path = /win/c
   printable = no
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

[d]
   comment = Windows Drive D
   browseable = yes
   path = /win/d
   printable = no
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

Added user beq06659
Opened firewall ports (137/udp, 138/udp, 139/tcp, 445/tcp)

SSH

Installed SSH-Tunnel
Files recovered from other installation (ssh-tunnel v2.26 + patch):

/usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh_andlinux.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-tunnel.pl

User beq06659 - configuration file in directory ~/.ssh:
- id_rsa || id_rsa.pub || authorized_keys || config* || proxy.conf* || clbanner.txt
Disabled SSH Key Agent from Gnome Startup Applications
Added startup application:
- Name: startup.sh
- Command: /home/beq06659/bin/startup.sh
- Comment: Custom startup script
Do not accept locale env var. LC_* from the client (see SSH#Missing Locale in Perl)

Terminal

My custom configuration

Vim

Added ~/.bash_completion from [5] (modified to also take alias v=gvim)

VirtualBox

See virtual machine configuration log.
Installed with apt (original version 4.2.8)
VirtualBox is launched as user root (because it seems that only the current user and root can access PulseAudio in a same X session — see [6])
Allow user beq06659 to launch VirtualBox through user root. Add to /etc/sudoers:

beq06659	ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/virtualbox

Helper script to add to e.g. ~/bin :

#First allow user vbox to connect to X11
#xhost +SI:localuser:vbox
#sudo su vbox -c /usr/bin/virtualbox&

#New config - run VirtualBox as root to allow sound
sudo /usr/bin/virtualbox&

Create a launcher in ~/.local/share/applications/virtualbox-root.desktop

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=VBox
Name[en_US]=Oracle VM VirtualBox (root)
Exec=/home/beq06659/bin/vbox.sh
Comment[en_US]=Run several virtual systems on a single host computer
Name=Oracle VM VirtualBox (root)
Comment=Run several virtual systems on a single host computer
Icon=VBox

Wine

See Configuration NXP Dell Latitude E5430 - Wine.

To Do

Issues

Issue — Git — Cannot install tileqt (tcl theme) to beautify gitk.
Issue — TeX Live still old version (2009) — This may be the cause of errors LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted. (see [7])
- fixed — install TeX Live 2012 from backports repository.
Issue — Annoying file C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt. Caused by acroread plugin (see [8], [9], [10]). A solution would be to edit nppdf.so with hex editor.
Issue — Acrobat reader leaves ghost process SynchronizerApp-binary. Disable it!
Issue — Opera fonts too small, not as good as windows.
- partial fix — Increase default font size to 16 (Preferences → webpages). See also page Make linux looks like Windows/Mac
Issue — Touchpad scroll not working, detected as ps/2 mouse.
- partial fix — Install Kevin Cernekee's DKMS package (see below and bug 606238). See also [11] for more solutions.

sudo -s
add-apt-repository ppa:cernekee/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install psmouse-dkms
reboot

Issue — Annoying popup failure to download extra data files flashplugin-installer. See bug 977178 and bug 982684.
Pop-up is from update-notified. Might be related to sudo ignoring some environment variables / profile.
- tentative fix — sudo apt-get --reinstall install flashplugin-installer
Issue — Synergy, still heavy keyboard corruption issue (v.1.4.10), in particular ctrl stuck key (must reboot to fix), and custom layout not honored (my custom belgian on us layout).

To Do

To Do — See To Do / Issue list on Configuration NXP Dell Latitude E6500
To Do — recoll, install more filters: python:epub, python:midi, python:rarfile (see ~/.recoll/missing)
To Do — Install macbuntu or similar theme, if available

Done & Fixed

Fixed — Issue description
Fix description
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Nxl67170 - Ubuntu

Introduction

Configuration Files

Repositories

Installed Applications

Common applications

Essential

Development

Local applications

Uninstalled

Simple Settings

Detailed System Settings

1st install

Kernel

File System

Network

Firewall

Preferences

Detailed Application Settings

Amarok

Courier IMAP

Firefox

LAMP

Nautilus

Opera

Psi

Samba

SSH

Terminal

Vim

VirtualBox

Wine

To Do

Issues

To Do

Done & Fixed

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