Comments on: 10 Things to do After Installing Ubuntu Linux

By: the_guv

the_guv — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:20:08 +0000

this is nice, some top tips, appreciated.

1 alt tho .. not virtualbox, best to specify virtualbox 3 .. guess that’ll be the standard in koala repos tho?

also, clonezilla is worth a mention. then again, where do you stop ;)

er, yeah, have binned mono (and tomboy) for gnote, which does the same .. export old notes with ..

cp .tomboy/*.note .gnote/

.. very clean migration. the again, Zim is super-nice wiki-style for desktop notes

(tx to theOpenSourcerer for some of those ideas.)

then again, my breakfast’s gettin cold ..

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:27:16 +0000

to get rid of orphans left behind after the install you can always do:

Sudo aptitude install deborphan

then deborphan

this will clean up any and all dependendency orphans left behind

By: Destillat KW26

Destillat KW26 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:17:02 +0000

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By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:30:37 +0000

sudo aptitude install xxxxxx and sudo aptitude remove xxxxxx is perhaps, the better way to go as aptitude will remove the unused dependencies, whereas apt-get will not. ;)

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By: Kartik Mistry

Kartik Mistry — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:51:34 +0000

It is always better to remove package by,

sudo apt-get remove PackageName

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By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:06:06 +0000

I’ve updated my script from a CLI to a GUI
http://coderswasteland.com/nod.....e/21
where you can select what items you do or do not want to install. Have fun!

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2009-06-18 « Mandarine — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:13:17 +0000

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By: Eric Schulman

Eric Schulman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:16:29 +0000

11) rm -rf /* then install slackware.

** Note added by Blog Admin **
To all users the above command will destroy your system. I’m hoping the comment (above) was made in humour.

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10 pasos a seguir... — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:27:38 +0000

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By: ken

ken — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:14:46 +0000

It is nice to have all the tips together. Thanks

By: pavel

pavel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:48:58 +0000

You can also replace bzip2 by pbzip2 (parallel bzip2), making a symlink to it

By: Johannes

Johannes — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:04:41 +0000

Hi! Nice post :-)
I have also written a small “guide” to Ubuntu, maybe you’ll find some more ideas…
Cheers,
Johannes