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Intro
Notes while replacing my Debian by LMDE.
This included recovery of some settings so those are not notes for an install from scratch.
LMDE 201403
Installation
See http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Linux Mint has a nice graphical tool for manual repartitioning but not yet LMDE...
Install LMDE with manual partitioning
- it tells us we should mount target partition ourselves under /target
- crypsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 sda1_crypt # has to be the same ref as in the crypttab later
- mount /dev/sda1_crypt /target
- continue installation
- inject proper config in /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab
First I mount /home in /home.old (mkdir /home.old) so I can access both fresh user homedir and old one, then move content of /home into /home.old and change fstab to mount on /home next time
Add Debian repositories
LMDE is based on Debian testing but with some delay and I had quickly the issue that my chromium profile was saved by a chroimum version newer than the one in LMDE repos.
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list :
deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
We need some pinning to avoid jessie taking over the LMDE repositories. The problem is that they have both the exact same keywords:
$ apt-cache policy [...] 500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest// testing/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main 500 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
So we can only differentiate by origin:
/etc/apt/preferences.d/debian-package-repositories.pref:
+Package: * Pin: origin ftp.be.debian.org Pin-Priority: 400
apt-get update
And to use Jessie repo e.g.:
apt-get install chromium/jessie
Tuning
To be able to use encfs & sshfs:
adduser <myuser> fuse
Cinnamon 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
Install software
First ones
First ones are:
etckeeper - store /etc in git, mercurial, bzr or darcs
to save /etc with git
intel-microcode - Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
to fix some warnings at boot time about some missing ucode:
platform microcode: firmware: agent aborted loading intel-ucode/06-2a-07 (not found?)
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
system tools
bridge-utils - Utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet bridge extlinux - collection of boot loaders (ext2/3/4 and btrfs bootloader) memtest86+ - thorough real-mode memory tester openssh-server - secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines openvpn - virtual private network daemon pcscd - Middleware to access a smart card using PC/SC (daemon side) pcsc-tools - Some tools to use with smart cards and PC/SC 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 mosh - Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo 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 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
devel
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 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 uncrustify - C, C++, C#, D, Java and Pawn source code beautifier 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)
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
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-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-texturize - generates large textures from a small sample gnuplot - Command-line driven interactive plotting program graphviz - rich set of graph drawing tools 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
cheese - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam gaupol - subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files 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 mp4tools - Suite of scripts to encode Audio and Video in many formats 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
chromium-inspector - page inspector for the Chromium browser chromium - Chromium web browser 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 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
icedove - mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support enigmail - GPG support for Thunderbird and Debian Icedove
Specific installation instructions
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
apt-get install nemo-dropbox
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
Exim4
apt-get install exim4-daemon-light bsd-mailx
Check /etc/mailname for your machine FQDN
Add to /etc/aliases:
root: <myuser>
Add to /etc/email-addresses:
<myuser>: <myemail>
Add to /etc/exim4/passwd.client:
<mysmtpserver>:<myuser>:<mypwd>
Edit /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf:
+dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite' +dc_other_hostnames= +dc_readhost='<mydomain>' +dc_smarthost='<mysmtpserver>::<mysmtpserverport>' +dc_hide_mailname='true'
Install Security software
See Security packages.
Install SDR software
See RTL-SDR.