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Intro
Notes while replacing my LMDE with Debian Sid + Cinnamon.
This included recovery of some settings so those are not notes for an install from scratch.
Installation
First installing from Debian testing ISO (Jessie) then dist-upgrading to Sid
Sid multiarch
/etc/apt/sources.list:
# Add contrib & non-free to Jessie source lines
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/sid.list:
deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade
Add Kali repositories
See Kali
Install software
Essentials
apt-get install sudo adduser phil sudo
To allow sudo on some specific programs without password, create /etc/sudoers.d/phil
phil ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/killall, /sbin/iptables, /etc/init.d/openvpn, /etc/init.d/logkeys, /bin/mount, /bin/umount
apt-get install mc apt-get install etckeeper git cd /etc etckeeper init apt-get install intel-microcode firmware-iwlwifi dpkg-reconfigure console-setup # -> utf-8 / latin1+latin5 / Terminus / 10x20
Cinnamon
apt-get install cinnamon
Once Cinnamon is installed, some tuning:
- pin progs to panel: drag & drop from menu
- change user picture: Settings / Account details
- Hide Icons on the Desktop: Settings / Desktop
- Add a Program Shortcut to the Mint Menu: Right-click the Mint Menu, select "Configure" then "Open the menu editor", Click a software category / "New Item".
applet Multicode System Monitor: see http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/79
apt-get install gir1.2-gtop-2.0
Settings / Applets / Get more / search network -> NMulticode System Monitor
Right click on bar / add applets
Gnome
apt-get install gnome-terminal gnome-backgrounds grilo-plugins-0.2 gnome-screenshot gedit
Strangely, to modify background I had to use Gnome settings instead of Cinnamon settings:
gnome-control-center # -> background
debian
apt-listchanges - package change history notification tool apt-rdepends - Recursively lists package dependencies dlocate - fast alternative to dpkg -L and dpkg -S equivs - Circumvent Debian package dependencies apt-file debootstrap reportbug-ng
$ apt-file update
system tools
bridge-utils - Utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet bridge encfs openssh-server - secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines pcscd - Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (daemon side) pcsc-tools - Some tools to use with smart cards and PC/SC samba-common-bin smartmontools - control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. usbview - USB device viewer uuid - the Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool wfrench - French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict wine - Windows API implementation - standard suite
utils
an - very fast anagram generator baobab - GNOME disk usage analyzer bleachbit - delete unnecessary files from the system calibre - e-book converter and library management comix - GTK Comic Book Viewer gnumeric - spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program gt5 - shell program to display visual disk usage with navigation htop - interactive processes viewer impressive - PDF presentation tool with eye candies iotop - simple top-like I/O monitor link-grammar - Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser mc - Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager polygen - generator of random sentences from grammar definitions powertop - diagnose issues with power consumption and management psutils - PostScript document handling utilities pv - Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through pyp - sed/awk-like tool with Python language screen - terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation signing-party - Various OpenPGP related tools synergy - Share mouse, keyboard and clipboard over the network tmux transgui - Front-end to remotely control Transmission unetbootin - installer of Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive unison - file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows wodim - command line CD/DVD writing tool
latex
latex2rtf texlive texlive-latex-extra latexmk texlive-xetex texlive-publishers texlive-science texlive-luatex texlive-generic-recommended
devel
astyle cmake ddd - The Data Display Debugger, a graphical debugger frontend dissy - graphical frontend for objdump git-annex - manage files with git, without checking their contents into git gitk - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (revision tree visualizer) git-svn - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (svn interoperability) gperf - Perfect hash function generator hexedit - view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII ht - Viewer/editor/analyser (mostly) for executables indent - C language source code formatting program lua5.1 - Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language meld - graphical tool to diff and merge files nasm - General-purpose x86 assembler qt4-qmake subversion uncrustify - C, C++, C#, D, Java and Pawn source code beautifier valgrind wdiff - Compares two files word by word
ipython - enhanced interactive Python shell python-tk - Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python python-setuptools - Python Distutils Enhancements (setuptools compatibility) libpython2.7-dev - Header files and a static library for Python (v2.7) python-pip python-pygments pypy python-dev python-bzutils python-ptrace python-pydot python-virtualenv python-autopep8
autoconf - automatic configure script builder automake - Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles colormake - simple wrapper around make to colorize output libpcsclite-dev - Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (development files) libssl-dev - Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - development files libtool - Generic library support script libusb-1.0-0-dev - userspace USB programming library development files libusb-dev - userspace USB programming library development files libbz2-dev libmuparser-dev libsparsehash-dev liblzma-dev libsnappy-dev libqt4-dev
elec/embedded
android-tools-adb - Android Debug Bridge CLI tool android-tools-fastboot - Android Fastboot protocol CLI tool arduino - AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design opensc - Smart card utilities with support for PKCS#15 compatible cards
data
antiword - Converts MS Word files to text, PS and PDF cabextract - Microsoft Cabinet file unpacker catdoc - MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter dos2unix - convert text file line endings between CRLF and LF furiusisomount - ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG image management utility gpsprune - visualize, edit, convert and prune GPS data lsdvd - read the content info of a DVD mtd-utils - Memory Technology Device Utilities mtp-tools - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library tools page-crunch - PDF and PS manipulation for printing needs pdfchain - graphical user interface for the PDF Tool Kit pdftk - tool for manipulating PDF documents pgpdump - PGP packet visualizer pst-utils - tools for reading Microsoft Outlook PST files qprint - encoder and decoder for quoted-printable encoding recode - Character set conversion utility
audio
id3v2 - A command line id3v2 tag editor mp3blaster - Full-screen console mp3 and Ogg Vorbis player musescore - Full featured WYSIWYG score editor sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing
picture
darktable - virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers exif - command-line utility to show EXIF information in JPEG files gifsicle - Tool for manipulating GIF images gimp gimp-data-extras - An extra set of brushes, palettes, and gradients for The GIMP gimp-lensfun - Gimp plugin to correct lens distortion using the lensfun library gimp-plugin-registry gimp-texturize - generates large textures from a small sample gnuplot - Command-line driven interactive plotting program gphoto2 graphviz - rich set of graph drawing tools gthumb inkscape - vector-based drawing program jhead - manipulate the non-image part of Exif compliant JPEG files jpeginfo - Prints information and tests integrity of JPEG/JFIF files jpegpixi - Remove hot spots from JPEG images with minimal quality loss netpbm - Graphics conversion tools between image formats plotutils - GNU plotutils command line tools based on libplot pngtools - series of tools for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images rawtherapee - raw image converter and digital photo processor
hugin - panorama photo stitcher - GUI tools #autopano-sift-c - Automatically create control points for panorama image
video
audacity cheese - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam gaupol - subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files gnome-video-effects-frei0r mencoder - MPlayer's Movie Encoder metacam - extract EXIF information from digital camera files mkvtoolnix - Set of command-line tools to work with Matroska files mkvtoolnix-gui - Set of tools to work with Matroska files - GUI frontend mpegdemux - MPEG1/2 system stream demultiplexer mplayer2 - next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
cclive - lightweight command line video extraction tool mimms - mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader quvi - command line program to extract video download links youtube-dl - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites
net
esniper - simple, lightweight tool for sniping ebay auctions iftop - displays bandwidth usage information on an network interface ipcalc - parameter calculator for IPv4 addresses ipmitool - utility for IPMI control with kernel driver or LAN interface iptraf - Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor ipv6calc - small utility for manipulating IPv6 addresses mosh - Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo #mozplugger - Plugin allowing external viewers to be launched inside Mozilla subnetcalc - IPv4/IPv6 Subnet Calculator upnp-inspector - Python UPnP framework analyser upnp-router-control - UPnP compliant router manager tcpdump knot-dnsutils bind9utils autossh fping minicom
icedove - mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support enigmail - GPG support for Thunderbird and Debian Icedove
Specific installation instructions
chromium
apt-get install chromium pepperflashplugin-nonfree
If the Flash plugin crashes, you can try this:
- Check exact chromium version you have
dpkg -l|grep chromium ii chromium 39.0.2171.71-2 amd64 web browser
wget http://mirror.pcbeta.com/google/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_39.0.2171.71-1_amd64.deb
- Extract plugin and copy it over pepperflash version:
dpkg -x google-chrome-stable_39.0.2171.71-1_amd64.deb temp/ sudo cp temp/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/* /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/
openvpn
apt-get install openvpn resolvconf
- restore /etc/openvpn
- /etc/default/openvpn: AUTOSTART="none"
Syntax with systemd is different:
- service openvpn@to_yobi start
- service openvpn@to_yobi stop
Synergy
Getting latest version from their website:
- http://synergy-project.org/download/?file=synergy-1.5.0-r2278-Linux-x86_64.deb
- http://synergy-project.org/download/?file=synergy-1.5.0-r2278-Windows-x64.msi
virtualbox
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list apt-get update apt-get install virtualbox-4.3 /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
And extension pack at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
google-musicmanager
https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-musicmanager-beta_current_amd64.deb
dropbox
TODO
To avoid autostart:
- Settings / Startup Apps Prefs / disable Dropbox
Skype
Take Debian 7 multiarch version: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/downloading/?type=debian32
dpkg -i skype-debian_4.2.0.13-1_i386.deb apt-get -f install dpkg -i skype-debian_4.2.0.13-1_i386.deb
Problem of sound? see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=143634
Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa:
-load-module module-udev-detect +load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
Googleearth
apt-get install googleearth-package make-googleearth-package dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb apt-get -f install dpkg -i googleearth_6.0.3.2197+1.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Psi-plus
psi-plus - Qt-based XMPP/Jabber client (basic version) psi-plus-plugins - plugins for Psi+ libqca2-plugin-ossl - SSL/TLS support for the Qt Cryptographic Architecture
Recover backuped config:
~/.cache/psi+ ~/.config/psi+ ~/.local/share/psi+
Gogoc
gogoc - Client to connect to IPv6 tunnel brokers
Recover backuped config:
/etc/gogoc/
Avoid it to start automatically:
update-rc.d gogoc disable
Run once "gogoc -n" as root to accept key, then ctrl-c
To use:
service gogoc start service gogoc stop
Exim4
Check /etc/mailname for your machine FQDN
Add to /etc/email-addresses:
<myuser>: <myemail>
Add to /etc/exim4/passwd.client:
<mysmtpserver>:<myuser>:<mypwd>
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
- mail sent by smarthost; no local mail
- system mail name: yobi.be
- incoming SMTP connections: 127.0.0.1 ; ::1
- outgoing smarthost: smtp.....::port
Install Security software
See Security packages.
Install SDR software
See RTL-SDR.
Maintenance
Resizing
Default install reserved 10G for /root, which became quickly too short.
First, learn vg name:
vgscan
=> vg is something like yourhostname-vg
umount /home
In this example, root fs was 9.3Gb and home fs about 217Gb
We reduce inner filesystem too much to avoid any problem when resizing the logical volume.
resize2fs /dev/mapper/yourhostname--vg-home 190G lvreduce -L 197G yourhostname-vg/home
Then we readjust the inner fs:
resize2fs /dev/mapper/yourhostname--vg-home
Now we can grow root logical volume
lvextend -L 30G yourhostname-vg/root resize2fs /dev/mapper/yourhostname--vg-root
Using ZRam
See https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam
Requires linux kernel >= 3.14