{"id":361,"date":"2012-01-11T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-01-11T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:47:06","slug":"ubuntu-11-10-must-have-apps-and-things-to-do-after-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/ubuntu-11-10-must-have-apps-and-things-to-do-after-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 11.10 Must Have Apps and things to do after installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say Ubuntu 11.10 is the best thing just yet since things are still not simple enough, but I just love the Price for what it can do! Moreover, Ubuntu works perfectly on my 3 year old desktop while Red Hat 6 wouldn&#8217;t even recognize the display. For development, I still prefer Linux and therefore went with Ubuntu on my backup Dev Box. <\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s another list of must have apps and things to do after getting Ubuntu 11.10.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have already <a href=\"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/first-thing-to-do-after-installing-linux-at-work-assuming-your-using-dhcp-with-a-long-lease\/\">modified your \/etc\/hosts<\/a> file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s already there<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Terminal, Firefox, LibreOffice<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some must-haves (for me and developers like me) that just work without the fancy Ubuntu Software Center DAK crap<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Java JDK, Eclipse, Perforce, FileZilla<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Get Updates and Upgrade <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get update &#038;&#038; sudo apt-get upgrade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install SSH<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install openssh-server<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install Gnome-Shell<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nsudo apt-get install gnome-shell<br \/>\n#sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback ### while messing with No Machine NX\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install Shutter<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install shutter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install Adobe PDF Reader<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install acroread<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install ccsm &#8211; CompizConfig Settings Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install ccsm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install VLC<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install vlc<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Install Skype<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo apt-get install skype<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I installed these, but they were not straight forward. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>google-chrome, Adobe Flash Plugin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, NoMachine NX will not work with Ubuntu 11.10 &#8211; it&#8217;s a known issue and several people have posted workarounds, which didn&#8217;t seem to work for me. Anyway, it&#8217;s not officially supported due to Unity 3D enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>Things to enable<br \/>\nOpen SSH (installing should start sshd)<br \/>\nRemote Destkop Sharing &#8211; Enable this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say Ubuntu 11.10 is the best thing just yet since things are still not simple enough, but I just love the Price for what it can do! Moreover, Ubuntu works perfectly on my 3 year old desktop while Red Hat 6 wouldn&#8217;t even recognize the display. For development, I still prefer Linux and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}