That new distro smell

Update

The content of this post now has a new home in my backpack.

Just completed a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary so that I had a clean slate to base my MonoFromSource instructions on. Now that’s out of the way I need to configure things back the way I like them, so I thought I’d make myself some notes here.

As you can imagine, this is a work in progress so I’ll add things as I go along.

Step 1 – repositories

Based on the instructions on the Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide, here is my /etc/apt/sources.list:

 deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse
 deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse

 deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse
 deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse

 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse
 deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse

 deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat stable main
 deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat unstable main
 deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat testing main

Step 2 – install software

Here’s a rough list of what I consider essential software:

 $ sudo apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla evince gftp \
 gstreamer0.8-plugins w32codecs libdvdcss2 beep-media-player \
 gnomebaker ubuntu-calendar nvidia-glx nvidia-settings firestarter \
 xfonts-intl-arabic xfonts-intl-asian xfonts-intl-chinese \
 xfonts-intl-chinese-big xfonts-intl-european xfonts-intl-japanese \
 xfonts-intl-japanese-big xfonts-intl-phonetic gsfonts-x11 \
 msttcorefonts rar

Then I’ll enable the NVIDIA driver with:

 $ sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

I also follow the UUSG for installing JRE.

Step 4 – compile software

Step 5 – configuration

I leave Ubuntu pretty much as-is, except for disabling the Semi-Spatial Nautilus

Step 6 – Firefox extensions

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