What to do after installing Ubuntu 17.04

For me, a sub-average long-time software developer, Ubuntu is a great operating system. Canonical, the company who releases Ubuntu, does so every six months, in April and October; therefore, version 17.04 was released in April 2017.

Contents

• Pre-Install
• Ubuntu 17.04 Post-Install
  • Indicators
  • Tools
  • Network
  • Firefox
  • E-mail
  • Sublime Text
  • Development
  • Hugo
  • Dotfiles
  • Archivers
  • Media
  • Database
  • Slack
  • Mega
  • Applications
  • Cleaup
  • System config
  • Misc

Pre-Install

Normally I like to install every new Ubuntu release for the following reasons:

1. I remove all the cruft I have gathered, notice I said “install”, not “upgrade”,
2. new features available.

In the latest release I found the following:

• I accidentally removed my EFI boot partition and I had to create a new one.

  https://superuser.com/questions/764799/how-to-create-an-efi-system-partition

Note: You are going to have to backup your current files to another partition like I did or you could use an external drive or USB stick. I keep my bash files in a GitHub repo, see Dotfiles below.

The main things I backed up were:

• ~/bin/
• ~/.bash/.bash_functions_private
• ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/
• ~/.ssh/config
• ~/.gitconfig
• ~/.hgrc
• ~/.s3cfg
• ~/.scrapinghub.yml
• /etc/nginx/
• /etc/hosts
• bookmarks

What I should have also backed up:

• Git stashes
• repository remotes
• Gnome terminal profiles
• virtual environment setups

So here is my list of things I had to do to after the install to get up and running with a fresh Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 17.04 Post-Install

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Indicators

Resources

sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload

Touchpad

sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 python3-pyudev
wget -P Downloads http://ppa.launchpad.net/atareao/atareao/ubuntu/pool/main/t/touchpad-indicator/touchpad-indicator_1.1.0-0extras15.04.3_all.deb
sudo dpkg --install Downloads/touchpad-indicator_1.1.0-0extras15.04.3_all.deb

https://websetnet.com/install-touchpad-indicator-ubuntu-16-04/

Configuration

• Shortcut -> enabled
• General -> auto-start

Tools

sudo apt-get install bleachbit hardinfo synaptic gdebi ubuntu-restricted-extras compizconfig-settings-manager wmctrl
# Also restore `~/bin/`

Network

Merge /etc/hosts

Firefox

Update search engine to Duck Duck Go:

about:preferences#search

E-mail

Setup Thunderbird manually with passwords from memory.

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is the best editor I have ever used.

wget -P Downloads https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg --install Downloads/sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb
subl

License

Add under help menu.

----- BEGIN LICENSE -----
Steven Almeroth
Single User License
EA7E-... 104B
------ END LICENSE ------

Package Control

You want Package Control from wbond.

Install Package Control

Command Pallate (shft-ctrl-p) -> Install Package Control

Copy Files

These go in ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User:

• Anaconda.sublime-settings
• Default (Linux).sublime-keymap
• INI.sublime-settings
• Monokai (stav).tmTheme
• Preferences.sublime-settings
• Projects/
• Python.sublime-settings
• ScrapyLog.tmLanguage
• ScrapyLog.YAML-tmLanguage
• Shell-Unix-Generic.sublime-settings
• Sphinx.sublime-build
• stavs.pdb.sublime-snippet
• stavs.pudb.sublime-snippet
• trailing_spaces.sublime-settings

Note: When I copied over the Package Control.sublime-settings file I think it made Sublime Text automatically install all my packages listed there; awesome!

{
    "bootstrapped": true,
    "in_process_packages": [],
    "installed_packages":
    [
        "Anaconda",
        "GitGutter",
        "Hugofy",
        "INI",
        "MoveTab",
        "Package Control",
        "Pretty JSON",
        "Theme - SoDaReloaded",
        "TrailingSpaces"
    ]
}

Development

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libvte-dev
sudo apt-get install vim git git-extras gitg virtualenvwrapper meld tree
sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-pip
sudo apt-get install python3.6

Hugo

It’s good to update this document as I’m installing.

wget -P Downloads https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/download/v0.20.2/hugo_0.20.2-64bit.deb
sudo dpkg --install Downloads/hugo_0.20.2-64bit.deb
sudo apt-get install python-pygments

git clone git@github.com:stav/stav.linode.gen.git ~/Work/stav/Hugo
git clone git@github.com:gcushen/hugo-academic.git ~/Work/stav/Hugo/stav.linode.gen/themes/academic

Dotfiles

git clone git@github.com:stav/dotfiles.git ~/.bash
cd ~/.bash
./install.sh
# Restore `.bash_functions_private`
# Restore ~/.*

• https://github.com/stav/dotfiles/blob/master/INSTALL

Archivers

sudo apt-get install arj cabextract file-roller icedax p7zip-full p7zip-rar rar sharutils unace unrar unzip uudeview uudeview zip

The following NEW packages will be installed: arj icedax libuu0 p7zip p7zip-full p7zip-rar rar sharutils unace uudeview

Need to get 2 728 kB of archives. After this operation, 9 229 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Media

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg2theora flac id3v2 lame liba52-dev libav-tools libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libflac++6v5 libjpeg-progs libmad0 libmpeg2-4 mpack mpeg2dec mpeg3-utils mpegdemux mpg123 mpg321 sox vorbis-tools

The following NEW packages will be installed: ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora flac id3v2 lame liba52-0.7.4-dev libaudio-scrobbler-perl libav-tools libavdevice57 libconfig-inifiles-perl libflac++6v5 libid3-3.8.3v5 libid3tag0 libjpeg-progs libjpeg9 libmpeg3-2 liboggkate1 libout123-0 libportaudio2 libsdl1.2debian libsdl2-2.0-0 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base libsox2 mpack mpeg2dec mpeg3-utils mpegdemux mpg123 mpg321 sox vorbis-tools

Need to get 3 770 kB of archives. After this operation, 9 942 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Database

sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server
wget -P Downloads https://www.valentina-db.com/en/studio/download/current/vstudio_x64_lin-deb?format=raw
sudo dpkg --install vstudio_x64_lin-deb

Slack

sudo apt-get install libappindicator1 libindicator7
wget -P Downloads https://downloads.slack-edge.com/linux_releases/slack-desktop-2.5.2-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg --install Downloads/slack-desktop-2.5.2-amd64.deb

The Slack icon was not appearing in the system tray so I had to update the desktop file. Thanks to Trinh Nguyen.

1. Edit /usr/share/applications/slack.desktop, and change the following line from:

    Exec=/usr/binslack --disable-gpu %U

   to

    Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity /usr/bin/slack --disable-gpu %U

2. Restart Slack or log out and then log back in.

Mega

• See Installing MEGA Sync Client on Ubuntu

Applications

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser deluge deluged gimp mpv lynx elinks

Cleaup

echo "Cleaning Up" && sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get -y autoclean && sudo apt-get -y clean

Xkill shortcut

• Dash -> keyboard -> Shortcuts -> + -> “Kill window” xkill -> Ctrl+Alt+X

System config

• See Lenovo Yoga Ultrabook SSD Tweaks

Misc

• Chromium extension - json viewer