LMDE

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 repos

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

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

And to use Jessie repo e.g.:

apt-get install chromium/jessie

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

colormake                     : simple wrapper around make to colorize output
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

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
multimon                      : Linux Radio Transmission Decoder
opensc                        : Smart card utilities with support for PKCS#15 compatible cards
rtl-sdr                       : Software defined radio receiver for Realtek RTL2832U (tools)

security

network

arping                        : sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address)
dsniff                        : Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities
etherwake                     : tool to send magic Wake-on-LAN packets
iodine                        : tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server
kismet                        : wireless sniffer and monitor - core
kismet-plugins                : wireless sniffer and monitor - plugins
ndisc6                        : IPv6 diagnostic tools
netcat                        : TCP/IP swiss army knife -- transitional package
netsniff-ng                   : packet sniffing beast
nmap                          : The Network Mapper
socat                         : multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
sshfs                         : filesystem client based on SSH File Transfer Protocol
themole                       : automatic SQL injection exploitation tool

forensics

autopsy                       : graphical interface to SleuthKit
chkrootkit                    : rootkit detector
cruft                         : program that finds any cruft built up on your system
dc3dd                         : patched version of GNU dd with forensic features
dcfldd                        : enhanced version of dd for forensics and security
ext4magic                     : recover deleted files from ext3 or ext4 partitions
foremost                      : forensic program to recover lost files
gpart                         : Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
logkeys                       : keylogger for GNU/Linux systems
mac-robber                    : collects data about allocated files in mounted filesystems
memdump                       : utility to dump memory contents to standard output
pdfresurrect                  : tool for extracting/scrubbing versioning data from PDF documents
recover                       : Undelete files on ext2 partitions
recoverdm                     : recover files/disks with damaged sectors
recoverjpeg                   : tool to recover JPEG images from a filesystem image
rkhunter                      : rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner
tiger                         : Report system security vulnerabilities
unhide.rb                     : Forensic tool to find processes hidden by rootkits
vinetto                       : A forensics tool to examine Thumbs.db files
wipe                          : Secure file deletion
vbindiff                      : visual binary diff, visually compare binary files

stegano

outguess                      : Universal Steganographic tool
steghide                      : A steganography hiding tool

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
rotix                         : A program to generate rotational obfuscations

crypto

fcrackzip                     : password cracker for zip archives
john                          : active password cracking tool
password-gorilla              : cross-platform password manager
pdfcrack                      : PDF files password cracker
ssss                          : Shamir's secret sharing scheme implementation

reverse-engineering

flasm                         : assembler and disassembler for Flash (SWF) bytecode

coding

ckport                        : portability analysis and security checking tool
cppcheck                      : tool for static C/C++ code analysis
flawfinder                    : examines source code and looks for security weaknesses
pychecker                     : tool to find common bugs in Python source code
pylint                        : python code static checker and UML diagram generator

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