cimorene: A giant disembodied ghostly green hand holding the Enterprise trapped (you shall not pass)
[personal profile] cimorene
It's lucky that I've streamlined the process of new-OS-installation-and-setup so much during the past year, since I started naming each install with consecutive letters of the alphabet. In fact, the year isn't up yet, but this install is Madame Xanadu, #24. I took out the old hard disk and the mysterious clicking stopped. (But there's less than 100 gigs of free space left on the terabyte media drive now... )

Also, if I just have two more computer failures/upgrades between now and Easter I'll have finished the whole alphabet.

This is my streamlined process, from the text file I keep at the top of my backups directory:

!!Ubuntu-based system setup
!!Updated 28.03.2012 for Oneiric-based Mint12 Lisa

# Enable graphics drivers & restart Maverick and before: Enable Compiz (Change Desktop Background> Desktop Effects)

# sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

# install mint-meta-codecs

# Install from Repos
sudo apt-get install conky-all devilspie gdevilspie dconf-tools gedit-plugins pyrenamer evolution empathy quodlibet samba synapse && sudo apt-get remove banshee (Devilspie necessary to duplicate embedded terminal in Gnome Shell; Evolution necessary to integrate Google calendar in Gnome Shell)

# Startup applications> + conky + gnome-terminal embedded + devilspie + synapse

# Copy backups .bin, .devilspie, .gimp-2.6, .mozilla, .thunderbird, .opera, .quodlibet, .conkyrc, .todo.cfg, .face, .fonts to ~

#turn ~/Docs, Music, Pics & Vids into virtual links to media drive

# Share media directories with samba manager

# Opera (non-Mint)
Software sources > Add
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
(uncheck the source code line)
wget -qO - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
Then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opera

# Oneiric+: gnome shell extensions for 2. weather in top bar 3. removable drives indicator 4. gpaste clipboard manager 5. top bar system monitor

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-weather gnome-shell-extensions-drive-menu gnome-shell-extensions-gpaste sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-system-monitor


# Install turpial, caffeine, pgl

# Configure todo script

# Install gnome-shell theme

# Clock format: modify /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui. Then sudo gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true

# Set Gedit to autosave: edit>preferences>editor - autosave files every

# Install simple light dm manager (pre-Precise)
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:claudiocn/slm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simple-lightdm-manager
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org

Profile

cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (Default)
Cimorene

July 2025

S M T W T F S
   123 45
67891011 12
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

  • Style: Practically Dracula for Practicalitesque - Practicality (with tweaks) by [personal profile] cimorene
  • Resources: Dracula Theme

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated 15 Jul 2025 03:30 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios