I’m regularly asked about the setup of my laptop: a System76 Gazelle Professional named Felix running Ubuntu 14.04. Writing a return to that query produced the following:
Chromium Addons:
Pocket #Formerly Read It Later Lazarus GmailTeX #Gmail + LaTeX = GmailTeX AdBlock [for YouTube] #Saves time Session Buddy Diigo HTTPS Everywhere Disconnect Incognito-Filter #Great for keeping facebook.com, accounts.google.com, etc. from hijacking web history Hacker Vision #Save your eyes! The Great Suspender #Suspends tabs not in use What font? #satisfies curiosity Wolfram Alpha GHangouts Chrome Downloads Have I Downloaded This Before? BetterTube #Optimize your YouTube experience
Get Flashplugin working on Chromium:
get adobe-flashplugin #if that doesn't work, try: sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner" sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Some of my favorite term aliases*:
alias up='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'
alias meta='sudo vi ~/.bashrc'
alias rmeta='. ~/.bashrc'
alias sag='sudo apt-get'
alias cx='chmod +x'
alias purge='rm `find *~`'
alias ip='ifconfig | grep "inet addr:"| grep -v "127.0.0.1" | cut -d: -f2 | awk "{ print $1}"'
alias get='sudo apt-get install'
alias matlab='matlab -glnx86'
alias p='python'
alias pipi='sudo pip install'
alias sim='cd ~/V-REP_PRO_EDU_V3_0_4_64_Linux/ && ./vrep.sh'
Python-based Research:
get python-pip #pip for managing packages get build-essential liblapack-dev gfortran gcc g++ #Either the ATLAS or OpenBLAS implementation of BLAS. OpenBLAS is speedier but finnicky wrt multiprocessing. get libatlas-dev libatlas3-base #or get libopenblas-dev sudo easy_install -U distribute pipi dev numpy scipy setuptools matplotlib pipi nose #nicer testing #Machine Learning pipi -U scikit-learn #Computer Vision get gcc g++ cmake #download latest opencv from #<a href="http://opencv.org/downloads.html">website</a> #untar it with tar -xvf opencv-* #or unzip opencv-* #inside untarred folder make new folder call "r" (arbitrary name) #run the following command in it cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D BUILD_NEW_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON .. make make install
A few choice packages/programs:
get guake #drop down term window - crazy useful (Sublime users: check <a href="http://www.pztrick.com/blog/2013/05/11/ubuntu-guake-terminal-and-sublime-text-hackery/">this</a> out)
get vim
get screen
get tex4ht #convert LaTeX to html
get chromium-browser #Preferred browser
get gparted #for managing partitions
get wine #Run (some) Windows on Linux
get haskell-platform
get vlc #My favorite multimedia plugin
get ipython #Bro, do you even Python?
get texmaker #LaTeX editor of choice (gedit plugin is also nice)
get openjdk-6-jre openjdk-7-jre #Open source Java platform
get geary #Alternative to thunderbird
get gwenview #crop pictures
get p7zip #extract *.7z files
get unrar #extract rar
get bleachbit #free your disk space
get xmonad suckless-tools #window manager
#ffmpeg
get libav-tools
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
get ffmpeg
#dropbox
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
#broke grub?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
up
get -y boot-repair
boot-repair #run boot-repair after installation
#Be safe, use a proxy or VPN (<a href="http://www.danscourses.com/Linux-Fundamentals/install-a-configure-squid-in-ubuntu.html">more info</a>)
get squid squid-common
#Note: If you are running 13.04, sudo service squid3 (start|stop|restart)
#evernote on linux
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvbn-rm/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install everpad
#numlock activates at startup
sudo apt-get -y install numlockx
sudo sed -i 's|^exit 0.*$|# Numlock enablen[ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ] && numlockx onnnexit 0|' /etc/rc.local
"""
For quick scripting, I use or <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/">IntelliJ IDEA</a> or <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">Sublime</a> with vim command mode enabled.
To enable control mode in Sublime Text 2: Find Preferences.sublime-settings
Change the line "ignored_packages": ["Vintage"] to "ignored_packages": [].
Restart Sublime: boom! Vim controls.
"""
#xscreensaver
sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra
#Oracle(Sun) Java (<a href="https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/blob/master/README.md">docs</a>)
cd ~/
wget https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/raw/0.3.0/oab-java.sh -O oab-java.sh
chmod +x oab-java.sh
sudo ./oab-java.sh
get sun-java6-jre
#VMWare <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/workstation-evaluation">Workstation</a>
#compiz
get compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins
#matlab from cd
cd /media/MATLAB{version}
gksu ./install
#blender
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender
sudo apt-get update
get blender
get myunity #Awesome control panel for unity
#Deprecated: get unity-tweak-tool
#My free robotics simulator of choice, the educational version is free for all and available for OSX, Windows, 32 and 64bit Linux
<a href="http://www.coppeliarobotics.com/downloads.html">v-rep</a>
*To edit your own cd && vim ~/.bashrc
After editing, refresh your bashrc with . ~/.bashrc. Now your aliases can be used! Huzzah!
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