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
• Added gitg
• Added Natty (+pinning)

Content of /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=natty-updates
Pin-Priority: 250

Package: *
Pin: release a=natty
Pin-Priority: 200

Package: etckeeper
Pin: release a=natty-updates
Pin-Priority: 990

Package: etckeeper
Pin: release a=natty
Pin-Priority: 900

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.
[2011-03-04]	etckeeper (etckeeper)	v 0.52 from Natty
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
[2011-01-20]	PGP (pgpgpg)
[2011-01-21]	IMAPSync (imapsync)
[2011-01-24]	Synergy (synergy)	[2011-03-04] v1.4.2beta! See local settings.
[2011-02-05]	GIT (git-gui gitk git-doc gitweb)
[2011-02-13]	FTP Server (proftpd-basic)	Followed instructions here Selected run from inetd during install, but configured to run standalone so that it must be started manually with. sudo /etc/init.d/proftd start Added /bin/false to /etc/shells Created user userftp, with shell /bin/false to prevent login. Directory /home/userftp/incoming (mode 777) Login with user userftp + user passwd
[2011-02-20]	Some git browsers (qgit gitg source-highlight)	[2011-02-21] gitg updated to 0.0.8!
[2011-03-09]	Nautilus Audio Converter (wavpack mppenc libmpcdec6 faac flac vorbis-tools faad lame nautilus-script-audio-convert)	Enable script ConvertAudioFile (Menu Preference → Nautilus Scripts Manager). See Ubuntu Geek - Simplest way to convert audio file(s) on Ubuntu Linux
[2011-03-24]	Canorus (canorus)	Music score editor. Sounds does not work.
[2011-03-24]	Frescobaldi (frescobaldi)	Music score editor.
[2011-03-24]	MuseScore (musescore)	Another music score editor. Play sound out of the box.

Un-installed applications (by uninstall date):

[2011-01-21]

[2011-01-21]

Ophcrack, John the ripper (ophcrack john)

To crack win7 password. Uninstalled because not needed anymore

To install:

• Click Edit and see html comments.

Simple Settings

• [2011-01-16] — Enabled proprietary video device driver NVIDIA.
• [2011-02-13] — gdm — Do not show face browser with know users in login window (see Gnome page).

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

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

Synergy

• Configuration file /etc/synergy.conf
• Install xsel (to circumvent Firefox copy/paste Chinese bug)
• Edited gdm startup scripts to launch server automatically
• Added quick alias to ~/.bashrc

Terminal

• My custom configuration

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?
• Solved — Enable it by editing Gnome menu, right click on menu → Edit Menu → System Tools → Enable icon for Configuration Editor.
• Issue — Known issues documented in Maverick release manifest & Release Notes:
• Connected DisplayPort monitors may prevent booting. (655795)
• 802.11n support for the iwlagn driver has been temporarily disabled. Intel is actively working to get this properly fixed up in the firmware. This workaround should be reverted once updated firmware is available. (630748, 654152). See also [4], [5] (kernel), Intel WiFi driver for linux.
cfr file /etc/modprobe.d/intel-5300-iwlagn-disable11n.conf

dmesg | grep -i iwl
sudo modprobe -r iwlagn
sudo modprobe iwlagn 11n_disable=1
iwconfig                                           # Check that 11n is disabled
# ...
# wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any
# 
# ...

• The logo will not display during boot when using the Nvidia proprietary driver. (653274)
• Issue — [arrandale] Integrated intel graphics GMA HD doesn't work (590504). See also [6]
This relates to kernel message at boot:

dmesg | grep i915
# ... intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled

• Issue — Suspend does not work; pc goes suspend but then restart immediately it seems in login screen. Related bug: 570604.
• Solved — Problem is linked with xhci_hcd that prevents suspend when loaded (this is because sleep/suspend is not implemented yet in that module). Unloading it will allow suspend (workaround). Bug is fixed in Ubuntu 11.04. Launchpad bug 522998

echo 'SUSPEND_MODULES="xhci_hcd"' >> /etc/pm/config.d/unload_modules   # As root

• Issue — Window Manager does not display window decorators after Macbuntu install. Temporary fix:

compiz --replace&

To Do

• To Do — NFS Server, Remove temporary rules from /etc/exports
• To Do — Get apt-get log for 1st install.
• To Do — Look here for possible fix on EliteBook laptops.