Eventually make things faster (sudo without password) on a desktop env as long as you are the sysadmin of the box,
admin=... grep wheel /etc/group groupadd -g 11 wheel usermod -a -G wheel root usermod -a -G wheel $admin cat >> /etc/sudoers <<-EOF %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL EOF #cat > /etc/sudoers.d/$admin <<-EOF #$admin ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL #EOF
Enable ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X like in the old days,
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
Setup your SSH client.
Choose your Desktop Env:
Install a few packages from the post-installation guide. You may then add those ones for workstation usage,
sudo apt install \ vlc \ mpv \ chromium-browser \ deluge deluged \ filezilla \ firefox \ irssi \ nautilus-share \ rxvt \ terminator \ thunderbird \ xterm sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
Chromium w/o keyring,
--password-store=basic %U
Run (and enable?) indexing,
updatedb
Reduce the boot-loader timeout,
cp -pi /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.dist vi /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
You can ask GRUB2 to boot the same OS that was booted last time by default,
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true
do you need Putty-like happy copy/pasting?
cp -pi /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py.dist vi /usr/share/terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py /def on_buttonpress (change 3 to 2 and 2 to 3)
A terminal which provides select-to-copy and right-click-to-paste http://askubuntu.com/questions/211292/a-terminal-which-provides-select-to-copy-and-right-click-to-paste
See Deal with Java.
eventually fetch Eclipse, extract and install the IDE flavor of your choosing (you can do it from the gui).
Fetch the latest version and,
ls -lhF slack-desktop-3.*-amd64.deb dpkg -i slack-desktop-3.*-amd64.deb apt -f install
Fetch the latest skype for linux as DEB and install,
wget https://go.skype.com/skypeforlinux-64.deb dpkg -i skypeforlinux-64.deb apt -f install
DESTROY and re-initialize gnome keyring,
rm -rf ~/.local/share/keyrings sudo apt install seahorse seahorse &
Eventually install & setup Conky.
Eventually setup Netfilter to allow only outbound connections.
check your network settings handled by Network Manager,
nmcli device show ens2
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false gsettings set org.mate.desktop.media-handling automount false gsettings set org.mate.desktop.media-handling automount-open false
check,
dconf-editor
Three solutions:
use the GUI
Control Center -> Network --> (general tab) Domain name: ... Control Center -> Network --> (DNs tab) Search domains: ...
OR add some domain searches for DHCP sessions, e.g.
cd /etc/dhcp/ cp -pi dhclient.conf dhclient.conf.dist vi dhclient.conf prepend domain-search "example.com", "example.local";
OR change the resolvconf config directly
cd /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d cp -pi base base.dist vi base search example.com
also make sure that the local system hostnames resolves itselfs as FQDN accordingly (it can point to 127.0.0.1
on a desktop)
Setup your default workgroup when mounting windows file shares
sudo apt install smbclient cifs-utils #smbfs samba vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
experienced on IBM/Lenovo T60 / R60e
If you get this error in the logs while loosing iwl3945 wireless network connectivity,
BSM uCode verification failed at addr 0x00003800+0 (of 900), is 0xa5a5a5a2, s/b 0xf802020 Unable to set up bootstrap uCode: -5
and this error when trying to UP the wireless network interface,
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error
==> disable wlan power saving using NetworkManager,
vi /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf wifi.powersave = 2 service NetworkManager restart iwconfig wls3
(optional) you might also want to remove that one in case it is installed and not needed (it was spamming my logs),
sudo apt remove ureadahead #sudo apt purge ureadahead
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales #sudo locale-gen sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Choose the OEM auto-install if you need to delivery the computer to someone-else: finish-up the process as oem user, then click on the Prepare for shipping and the user will have a little setup wizard next boot.
Finish-up as OEM user, choose preferred mirror for packages,
Control Center -> Software Sources
and apply updates using the little shield button in the systray.
install additional languages depending on target users,
Control Center -> Languages
make sure Firefox is also available language-specific.
You’re now ready to click “Prepare for shipping” on the Desktop and reboot.
Note. few things are missing with this method e.g. Adblock for Firefox.
DO NOT fetch the latest VirtualBox for Linux. Use the repos instead (well, the thing is already available now within Ubuntu):
deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian <mydist> contrib apt update
Access the guests through SSH using the default NAT setup,
VBoxManage modifyvm myserver --natpf1 "ssh,tcp,,3022,,22" VBoxManage showvminfo myserver | grep 'Rule' ssh root@localhost -p 3022
How to SSH to a VirtualBox guest externally through a host? [closed] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5906441/how-to-ssh-to-a-virtualbox-guest-externally-through-a-host
See reader.
Install friGate3 add-on on your web browser (tested with Firefox), add the target domain into List of sites
e.g.,
rutracker.org
and edit the Proxy Servers e.g. to access https://thepiratebay.org/
from France,
https://ru-92-53-1.friproxy0.biz:443 [RU] https://ru-85-60-1.friproxy0.eu:443 [RU] https://ru-82-204-3.friproxy.eu:443 [RU] https://ru-93-78-1.fri-gate.biz:443 [RU] https://ru-93-78-3.fri-gate0.eu:443 [RU] https://ru-92-53-5.friproxy.biz:443 [RU] https://ru-85-60-5.fri-gate.biz:443 [RU] https://ru-85-60-3.fri-gate0.biz:443 [RU] https://ru-92-53-3.fri-gate.biz:443 [RU] https://ru-93-78-5.fri-gate0.org:443 [RU] https://ru-82-204-1.fri-gate0.eu:443 [RU] https://ru-82-204-5.fri-gate0.org:443 [RU]
or access http://rutracker.org
from Russia,
https://fr-220-163-3.fri-gate0.eu:443 [FR] https://uk-170-185-1.fri-gate0.org:443 [UK] https://fl-170-185-1.fri-gate.biz:443 [FL] https://fr-221-177-1.friproxy0.eu:443 [FR]
cfdisk ... mkfs.ext4 -T largefile -m 0 /dev/... e4label /dev/... NEWNAME lsblk --fs --ascii
Ext4 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4
4.3. Creating an ext4 File System https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/5/html/deployment_guide/s1-filesystem-ext4-create
Creating ext4 partition from console https://superuser.com/questions/643765/creating-ext4-partition-from-console