Debian install steps

Here is a kind of cryptic script with the steps I follow for installing Debian testing (“jessie” at this moment) on my dell 1320 laptop. I have /home in a separate partition, so all the configs and bells and whistles are already in place.

updated as of 2014-10-5

####Add contrib non free, go to testing:

• edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change to testing, testing updates and contrib non-free

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

• You can find a sources.list example by me here.

####If you want to be in unstable:

• first update to testing, then
• change to unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

####Edit fstab for SSDs and USBs

sudo vim etc/fstab

• comment the line of /media/usb so it doesn’t get mounted as root

• mount SSDs partitions with options acl,noatime,nodiratime,discard

• You can find an fstab example by me here and info about SSDs an Linux here.

####Extend laptop’s battery: sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

• Copy my laptop-mode config from github tastiness

####Add user sudoers file: (or at install, put root password blank) su usermod -aG sudo vic

Use always sudo for admin things! do not log in as root!

####Fix wifi blocked from the beginning:

• From non-free:

sudo apt-get install firmware-realtek sudo rfkill unblock all

####Deactivate internal beep sound: sudo rmmod pcspkr sudo echo "blacklist pcspkr" > /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf

• Also, get in alsamixer and mute the beep channel

####Install nvidia privative drivers:

• Do as instructed in debian page

• After: sudo nvidia-xconfig

####Faience icons theme:

• Download icons from https://code.google.com/p/faience-theme/ and paste them into ~/.icons/

####Install chromium

• It has libcurl3 as dependency:

sudo apt-get install libcurl3

• Install chromium:

sudo apt-get install chromium

• Install pepperflash to be able to have flash up to date. This will download chrome and extract the flash plugin from it:

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree

• Set up the .desktop with incognito by default:

Change the exec line of the .desktop to: Exec=/usr/bin/chromium %U --incognito sudo cp ~/.local/share/applications/chromium.desktop /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

####Install steam:

• (set up multiarch for 64bits systems):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get install multiarch-support sudo apt-get install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386

sudo apt-get install steam

####Install add-apt-repository: For adding ubuntu ppas. Be careful with them. Only install those that you know are not going to do any harm (as sublime-text or java7, which are only wrappers for downloading the package) . sudo apt-get install python-software-properties software-properties-common

####Install spotify:

• in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb https://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install spotify-client

####Install sublime-text from ppa:

• add ppa in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/sublime-text-2/ubuntu raring main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/sublime-text-2/ubuntu raring main 

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sublime-text and copy settings from github tastiness

####Install skype. From debian page: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update

Then, download the i386 package as above and install: wget -O skype-install.deb https://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb sudo dpkg -i skype-install.deb

If you have sound problems you may be missing libpulse. You can install it with: sudo apt-get install libpulse0:i386

####Install java7 installer from ppa:

• add ppa in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main
deb-src https://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

####Install intellijIdea from their page They have no repo so far

####Handful of packages: sudo apt-get install vim git zsh tmux libnotify-bin weechat htop gparted cmus units redshift gtk-redshift ruby-dev icedove iceweasel steam nautilus-dropbox owncloud-client fritzing virtualbox gimp gpick darktable guake unetbootin xchat gtk2-engines-murrine meld pitivi vlc texlive-full inkscape ttf-mscorefonts-installer kst arduino synaptic jitsi python-dbus colordiff wine nopaste

####Fetch some packages from experimental: Fetch mozilla packages as instructed on https://mozilla.debian.net/:

sudo apt-get install -t experimental icedove sudo apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel

####Install ruby gems: sudo gem install rake jekyll rdiscount tempdir bundler redcarpet

####Gnome-Shell 3.12 extensions’ dependencies:

• gnome weather extension: sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gweather-3.0 gettext pkg-config libglib2.0-dev zip gnome-common autoconf automake intltool

• elegance colors: sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev valac libglib2.0-dev

• system-monitor: sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0

####Install brother HL2240D printer

• download drivers from here
• install the LPR and CUPSwrapper .debs.

• fix margin bug:

  sudo lpadmin -p HL2240 -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops