Although I have ever touched Ubuntu 6.0 quite long time ago, I am still a complete newbie to Linux. Recently, because I need assign a large proportion of RAM to a statistical software for analyzing, I use Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64. Increasingly, I found it much fancier than I expected. Well, some interesting experiences do make me laugh a lot at myself when I finally understand how naive those mistakes I made can be.
When I installed Ubuntu and found that the “Main menu” does not work, I reinstalled Ubuntu twice. Though sometimes the reinstallation works for this problem, it is not what it means.
Well, just want to note down the step and packages I need for my installation:
1. Software Source: select the fastest source after installation, it saves time when updating and installing with Synaptic
2. Language support: I install Ubuntu with default English and change language support for Chinese afterwards, this saves a lot of time on installing the system.
3. Edit the USB support /etc/fstab:
I guess this is good for using external hard disk and USB sticks
$sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Add the following lines to the end of /etc/fstab
# the USB group
# Give all users write/read permisions to USB devices
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=666 0 0
4. Sharing in LAN:
Install samba with Synaptic or command line
$ sudo apt-get install samba
After samba is installed:
$sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
Add the line “usershare owner only = False” to the [global] section of the smb.conf
5. Packages I normally installed
ntfs-config : auto mount NTFS partitions
gmountiso : Mount ISO images
gnochm : CHM reader
texmaker : LaTeX Editor
texlive-full : LaTeX Environment
gv : .gs viewer
stardict: Dictionary
azureus : BitTorrent client
xpdf : pdf reader (for me, I use it for installing Chinese language support of pdf files)
poppler : pdf Chinese language support
Audacious : MP3 player, nice
realplayer : Real format video player
python-mutagen : This can decode mp3 titles into Chinese
6. mp3 title decode
$ mid3iconv -e GBK *.mp3
7. 32bit libraries
ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk, libc6-i386, lib32zl, lib32gcc1
If install via Synaptic, search ia32-libs, the rest will be installed together automatically
8. msttcorefonts
It’s MicroSoft TrueType fonts, including:
Andale Mono
Arial Black
Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Comic Sans MS (Bold)
Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Impact
Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
Webdings
It can be installed either by Synaptic or command line:
$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
After it’s successfully installed, use the following command to activate it.
$sudo fc-cache -fv
