7 passi da seguire dopo l’installazione di Ubuntu

Ho trovato QUI questa interessante lista di cose da fare subito dopo aver installato Ubuntu sul proprio computer:

1. Enabling/Adding Extra Repositories
Ubuntu comes by default with only some of the repositories enabled because of licensing issue since downloading certain codecs and apps may be illegal in some countries so you have to enable these repositories/add new repositories to enable installation of these packages.

To enable new repositories go to (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager), type in the root password.Then Go to (Settings -> Repositories), there enable all the check-boxes to enable all the repositories you need.

Also for installing some apps extra repositories are needed since they are not in the default repositories so go to third Party and add the following there

deb http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ubuntu/ edgy main main-all
deb http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ edgy main main-all

This repositories below is for Multimedia files and stuff above was for ntfs-3g you can use any one of the above since they are mirrors.

deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl edgy-seveas all

IMPORTANT: Do not press reload button now in synaptic package manager type first following command in the terminal to install the GPG keys.

After doing this exit Synaptic Package Manager go to (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type the following command to import GPG keys .

wget http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/1135D466.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

After doing this your system should be ready for installing extra application. Type the

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade<!--

at terminal to start adding data from the repositories.

2. Installing ntfs-3g

ntfs-3g this is necessary if you have a ntfs drive in your computer ( Usually Windows XP installs on NTFS drive) and you want to read and write data to the drive you have to install this .

This can be installed as following type the following at the command prompt

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Then type the following command

gksu ntfs-config

This is automatic configuration of ntfs-3g , enable read , write support and it should be configured.

These commands would back up fstab file if configuration goes wrong.

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
gksu gedit /etc/fstab

Now restart Ubuntu and your windows partition should be working well.

3. Installing flash-plugin

Macromedia Flash player is not installed by default but since we would be surely needing it while browing the net , installing it is necessary, and it can be installed by the following command:

sudo apt-get install -y flashplugin-nonfree

4. Installing Microsoft True Type Fonts

If you are making a jump from windows to ubuntu you would surely miss the true type fonts that Windows uses , since Microsoft has released them free so they can be installed without a hitch in Ubuntu (Though not distributed with Ubuntu).

sudo apt-get install -y msttcorefonts

5. Installing unrar

RAR is one of the very widely used archives on Windows, however unrar tool to decompress RAR is not shipped with distribution and it has to be installed manually.

sudo apt-get -y install unrar

6. Installing DVD playback support

Now this is a contentious issue, in some countries playing DVD files through DEcss is illegal, so use it at your own will, anyways to enable dvd playback issue the following command at the command line:

sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2

Note : the above commands would only work if you have added the repositories i had mentioned before the Seveas repositories.

However if you do not have these Repositories installed, issue the following command to install the DVD playback support:

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/./install-css.sh

7. Installing the extra multimedia codecs & players

Now you would surely want to install all the codecs for playing various media files and the players. Primarily xine, vlc & mplayer, so issue the following commands to install the multimedia codecs.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse libxine-extracodecs w32codecs
vlc mplayer

E’ tutta roba utile, speriamo non dia noia durante l’installazione.

~ di chrome0some su Martedì 18 Settembre 2007.