Installation Notes
Tue Dec 15 08:33:24 EST 2009 (oldest material first)
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I created this system by using usb-creator under CrunchBang 9.04 to make
a bootable USB thumb drive from the Alternate Install CD image. Worth
noting is that using the current version of unetbootin, downloaded from
sourceforge, didn't work. The USB device created insisted on trying to
install from the network. I guess there's a reason for the name
unetbootin.
Also worth noting is that formatting the root partition changes its
UUID. I had to fix up the boot stanza for this partition in menu.lst on
my CrunchBang partition.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 616M 6.5G 9% /
1 set -o vi
2 df -h >> notes.karmic
3 vi notes.karmic
4 dpkg -l > dpkg.karmic_as_installed
5 dpkg --get-selections > dpkg.karmic_as_installed-selections
6 grep -v ^ii dpkg.karmic_as_installed
7 grep grub dpkg.karmic_as_installed-selections
8 sudo apt-get remove --purge grub-common grub-pc
I've removed grub because it's not used on this system and it takes a
long time to update whenever an updated kernel is installed.
I pre-seeded a few .deb files on another partition before starting this
installation.
14 sudo mount /dev/sda11 /mnt
16 cd /mnt/home/pann
17 sudo dpkg -i gpm_1.20.4-3.2ubuntu1_i386.deb
18 sudo dpkg -i rcs_5.7-25_i386.deb
21 sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.31-16_2.6.31-16.53_all.deb linux-headers-2.6.31-16-generic_2.6.31-16.53_i386.deb linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic_2.6.31-16.53_i386.deb
gpm allows me to cut'n'paste while editing this file. rcs allows me to
record changes I make to, for example, .bashrc. The theory behind
installing the updated kernel is that
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
will correctly pick up my USB wireless device.
2.6.31-16-generic
50 sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid pannda1
51 sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
52 sudo dhclient3 wlan0
bound to 192.168.1.107 -- renewal in 38813 seconds
66 sudo apt-get update
68 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
70 sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
72 sudo apt-get install grub
74 sudo dpkg --configure -a
Taking out grub seems to have caused problems with configuring updated
kernels. At least I now have "legacy" grub installed; I'm fairly sure
that won't take as long to update as grub2 did.
89 sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic
91 sudo apt-get install deborphan
92 sudo deborphan
93 sudo dpkg --purge libdns50
113 sudo apt-get clean
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 677M 6.4G 10% /
Let's do it like this:
sudo apt-get install xorg lxde wicd
sudo apt-get --purge remove gdm
dpkg -i slim_1.3.1-3_i386.deb (on sda11)
sudo apt-get install firefox
(and go from there)
121 sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid pannda1
122 sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
123 sudo dhclient3 wlan0
125 sudo apt-get install xorg lxde wicd
126 sudo apt-get clean
127 sudo apt-get --purge remove gdm
128 sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
127 sudo apt-get install firefox
132 cp -p /mnt/home/pann/.bash_aliases .
134 cd /etc
136 sudo mkdir RCS
138 sudo ci -l fstab
139 sudo vi fstab
141 sudo ci -l fstab
143 mkdir working
144 sudo mount working/
148 cd working/
150 rsync -av /mnt/home/pann/bin/ bin/
153 cd
154 ln -s working/bin
156 cd /etc
159 sudo ci -l slim.conf
160 sudo vi slim.conf
161 cd /usr/share/slim/
163 cd themes/
165 cd default/
168 sudo mv background.jpg background.jpg-orig
169 sudo ln -s ../../../lxde/wallpapers/lxde_blue.jpg background.jpg
193 vi .xsession
194 sudo reboot
197 sudo apt-get install vim-gtk par
199 sudo apt-get --purge remove vim-tiny
206 sudo mount /dev/sda11 /mnt
207 cp -p /mnt/home/pann/.vimrc .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.1G 6.0G 16% /
224 sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
226 sudo apt-get install acroread
227 sudo apt-get install htop
236 wget -N http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/non-free/a/acroread-fonts/acroread-fonts_9.1-0medibuntu1_all.deb
238 sudo dpkg -i acroread-fonts_9.1-0medibuntu1_all.deb
239 sudo apt-get install gv xpdf
242 sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin binfmt-support
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.5G 5.7G 21% /
257 sudo apt-get install cups cups-bsd enscript a2ps groff
266 a2ps -1 -o notes.karmic.ps notes.karmic
267 gv notes.karmic.ps &
272 sudo lpadmin -d Brother_HL-2070N_series
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.6G 5.6G 22% /
322 sudo usermod -a -G audio pann
Wed Dec 16 23:04:57 EST 2009
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348 sudo apt-get install iamerican ibritish
349 sudo apt-get --purge remove aspell aspell-en hunspell-en-us
Thu Dec 17 09:35:17 EST 2009
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408 sudo apt-get --purge remove apturl apturl-common arj
409 sudo apt-get --purge remove command-not-found command-not-found-data
410 sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
411 sudo apt-get --purge remove tasksel tasksel-data
413 sudo apt-get --purge remove dmsetup
Trying to take out either xarchiver or leafpad takes the baby with the
bathwater (all of lxde and friends). I need to have a look at the
masonux site where this issue is, I believe, addressed.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.5G 5.6G 21% /
I really had no luck with the metapackage approach recommended on the
masonux website, but this works:
438 sudo dpkg --purge leafpad lxde xarchiver
Time to install DropBox.
424 cp -p /mnt/home/pann/dropbox.txt .
425 cp -p /mnt/home/pann/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.571.tar.gz .
427 tar xzf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.571.tar.gz
436 cp -p /mnt/home/pann/dbmakefakelib.py .
437 python dbmakefakelib.py
438 sudo apt-get install build-essential
441 python dbmakefakelib.py
449 mv Desktop/dropbox.py bin/
450 cd bin
453 chmod +x dropbox.py
455 cd
458 vi .xsession
459 sudo apt-get install audacious
465 sudo alsa force-reload
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.6G 5.5G 23% /
510 sudo apt-get install mutt esmtp-run urlview procmail
And it turns out I need to do something about the damn autoremove
business. Ugh!
516 scp -p ideapad:working/.muttrc .
517 scp -p ideapad:working/.mutt_aliases .
520 chmod o-r .mutt_aliases
523 touch .mutt_header_cache
524 scp -p ideapad:.esmtprc .
506 sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
548 sudo apt-get install lxde
The following NEW packages will be installed:
arj leafpad lxde xarchiver
This should shut up the damn autoremove thingie.
503 sudo apt-get remove --purge audacious
504 sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
Sound is working on the full-blown (Gnome) karmic install on sda10, so I
have some lower level work to do on this system. And I probably want to
end up with VLC anyway.
Fri Dec 18 08:02:42 EST 2009
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549 sudo apt-get install conky apcupsd
(both of these need to be configured)
Sat Dec 19 09:25:42 EST 2009
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504 sudo apt-get upgrade
553 sudo apt-get install tkdiff tclreadline
Tue Dec 22 07:37:07 EST 2009
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508 aptg
509 apty
510 aptc
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.7G 5.4G 25% /
504 sudo apt-get install boa
510 cd /var/www
511 sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/boa/boa.html
512 sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/boa/boa_banner.png
514 cd
515 sudo apt-get install abiword
I always install boa and I have a fair number of documents in .abw
format that I need AbiWord to access.
I went to the LXDE forum and found a "no sound" thread that suggested
running alsamixer and un-muting everything. Bingo. After that splay
plays an MP3. lxmusic is still a mystery but I gotta keep it 'cause of
the autoremove foolishness.
556 sudo apt-get --remove purge qamix
557 sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
560 sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc videolan-doc
I was thinking about installing gnumeric (sort of a companion to
abiword) and realized I had no sc (yet).
570 sudo apt-get install sc
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.9G 5.3G 26% /
605 sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
614 sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install gnumeric gnumeric-plugins-extra gnumeric-doc
Boy, now that I know about the --no-install-recommends option I should
probably start from scratch. Sigh.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda12 7.5G 1.9G 5.2G 27% /
Thu Dec 24 17:59:35 EST 2009
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503 sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager
504 sudo apt-get --purge remove apcupsd apcupsd-doc
Sun Dec 27 09:05:27 EST 2009
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506 sudo apt-get --purge remove grub-common
I noticed that there were way too many files in /boot/grub for legacy
grub (which was installed), so I yarded out grub-common (which took grub
with it). We'll just do without any form of grub unless it turns out we
need it.
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