What Applications do you HAVE to have after a fresh Linux install?


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The first thing I do after updating a new install is get the applications I really 'need' to complete the install.

Unless already installed by default, I make sure to install the following...

AWN

Cairo Dock (If AWN is not available)

Docky (If AWN and Cairo Dock are not available)

Rar/Unrar

7Zip

gThumb

GIMP

Firefox

Google Chrome

Qbittorrent

Gnomebaker

VLC

SMplayer

Openshot

PiTiVi (If Openshot is not available)

DeaDBeeF

Clementine

Soundconverter

EasyTag

Audacity

LibreOffice

Abiword (If LibreOffice is not available)

I don't keep a list, but from the top of my head:

Firefox

VLC

7Zip

Gimp

GParted

VirtualBox

Gimp

Blender

RecordMyDesktop

Pidgin

OpenJDK

TweakTool

This is a terminal bit (of course) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, after adding the medibuntu.org repo.

sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2 non-free-codecs keepassx kmymoney audacity vlc wine ubuntu-restricted-extras solfege scribus scribus-doc scribus-template xaralx xaralx-examples xaralx-svg p7zip-full arj lha unace ncompress pdfsam rar gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extras cabextract aptitude basket tofrodos dos2unix inkscape picard gftp mencoder soundconverter convertall emacs23 gftp-gtk planner mencoder dia-gnome fontforge mscore inkscape agave granule ntp lbreakout2 audacity gramps antiword brightside potrace dvdrip dvdrip-doc gparted cheese mp3splt ardour vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc freemind rawstudio bibus pspp avidemux wordplay asunder devede wordnet-base wordnet-sense-index wordnet glabels acidrip bluefish disc-cover winff artha flashplugin-installer rednotebook tuxguitar transmageddon fontforge-extras mp3splt-gtk acetoneiso gedit-plugins fotoxx qalculate-gtk fortune-mod fortunes fortunes-es fortunes-es-off fortunes-debian-hints gnome-games pingus chromium-browser ogmrip gnome-alsamixer gnote bsdgames bsdgames-nonfree emacs-goodies-el gnome-games-extra-data recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop rakarrack gtans tetzle jhead bleachbit libreoffice-base glom lyx jokosher pyrenamer gbrainy gnome-hearts pinta hydrogen hydrogen-drumkits lmms rosegarden praat album chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra libgnome-speech7 mplayer-doc pdfmod screenruler gtkorphan openclipart-libreoffice k3b cups-pdf krecipes numlockx kolourpaint4 stellarium guake dosbox easytag playitslowly gxine icedax tagtool id3tool mpg321 synaptic preload gdebi samba libpam-smbpass meld verbiste freeplane v4l2ucp patchage mesa-utils compizconfig-settings-manager pokerth beneath-a-steel-sky flight-of-the-amazon-queen gimp-plugin-registry lsb-core kbounce gnome-schedule ekiga abiword gnumeric prboom luckybackup smplayer

:)

I run all my "linuxes" in virtualbox, so I don't need that many apps. Just need stuff for designing themes, icons and stuff.

After an install of Gnome it's basically just this:

pacman -Sy gedit file-roller unrar p7zip unzip gnome-terminal gimp inkscape eog opera yaourt gtk-engines gtk-engine-murrine

And then some packages from AUR:

freetype2-infinality, fontconfig-infinality, awf

Chromium

MusicBrainz Picard (Use this first to tag and then EasyTag for manual/custom changes)

Htop

Calibre

Inkscape (Also GIMP, has been mentioned in other posts)

Handbrake

VIM (vi improved)

projectM

XBMC (If your PC is used for everything!)

BleachBit

Banshee (Has been causing a few problems in ARCH Linux of late, but can be fixed. It still has the best layout of all Linux Music Players, for me anyway!)

That's my list. :)

I build my packages and they are as follows:

Openbox + all the goodies (obconf, obapps, obmenu, obshutdown, tint2, etc...)

VLC

Geany + plugins

Dropbox

Claws Mail + extra plugins

Evince

Unrar

P7zip

Conky + Lua

scrot

tp_smapi

Thinkfan

sbopkg

src2pkg

I'm sure I missed a few.

  • 2 weeks later...

Terminator

Google Chrome

Pidgin

VLC

Eclipse

Then I immediately uninstall LibreOffice and GIMP because they're so awful and just take up space

If those are part of the default install then why remove them? you could break something.

Most people covered 90% of what I install only addition is--

TEAMVIEWER

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx

Since now they have a Linux version- Which allows me to connect to my desktop remotely -- as well as work on other peoples computers while still in Linux instead of having to boot into Windows.

(In no order)

gufw

preload

ttf-droid

openjdk-7-jre

icedtea7-plugin

compizconfig-settings-manager

ubuntu-tweak

google-chrome-stable

libvdpau1

libdvdcss2

p7zip-full

xfonts-terminus

Firefox

Gimp + DDS plugin

Blender

nifSkope + niftools

PlayonLinux

winetricks to install Steam > New Vegas > Skyrim > Fallout 3

Steam for Linux

Adobe Flash

w32codecs or w64codecs depending.

Openbox

Firefox

aMSN

XChat

Flash (although I didn't last time, and haven't missed it yet...)

VLC

gedit

7Zip

Gimp

Rhythmbox (although I'm almost on the Banshee bandwagon :laugh:)

Hmm... I feel like I'm forgetting something, may edit this list later.

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