My recipe for a super-fast, lean install of Ubuntu 12.04
I would’nt suggest you go with the newer Ubuntus - cost 12.04 is supported till 2018… unless you love playing around with shiny new stuff (which you can do in a VM as well)
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| #Brightness increase/decrease problem on inspirons | |
| #check `ls /sys/class/backlight/` - it should show `dell_backlight` and `intel_backlight` | |
| sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf | |
| `Section "Device" | |
| Identifier "card0" | |
| Driver "intel" | |
| Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight" | |
| BusID "PCI:0:2:0" | |
| EndSection` | |
| # in /etc/default/grub | |
| GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor” | |
| # run `sudo update-grub` | |
| #reboot |
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| docker#run this in bash. somehow the wildcards dont work on zsh | |
| #for nemo file manager instead of nautilus | |
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/mint | |
| #for latest git. | |
| sudo apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa | |
| #for gnome-shell... cos unity will suck up all your memory | |
| #plus https://extensions.gnome.org/ !!! | |
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 | |
| sudo apt-get update | |
| sudo apt-get install gnome-shell synaptic lm-sensors cpufrequtils openssh-server ppa-purge vim-gnome git nemo vlc libstdc++6:i386 ia32-libs aptitude | |
| sudo apt-get remove zeitgeist* zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub python-zeitgeist rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist geoclue geoclue-ubuntu-geoip geoip-database ubuntuone* whoopsie ubuntuone-client* python-ubuntuone-storage* ubuntuone-installer* menu apt-xapian-index oneconf deja-dup indicator-messages telepathy-indicator software-center totem rhythmbox menu rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist liboverlay-scrollbar* nautilus update-manager | |
| sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor gnome-text-editor /usr/bin/geany 10 | |
| #for java | |
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java | |
| sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer | |
| # ~~ DEPRECATED download -pf kernel and install it (64-bit linked below) | |
| # http://repos.natalenko.name/debian/pf/linux-image-3.8.2-pf_1_amd64.deb | |
| # http://repos.natalenko.name/debian/pf/linux-headers-3.8.2-pf_1_amd64.deb~~ | |
| #install 3.12 kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.12-trusty/ | |
| sudo apt-get autoremove | |
| sudo apt-get autoclean | |
| #Aptitude is a better apt-get | |
| #make aptitude aware of all installed packages | |
| sudo aptitude keep-all | |
| #at the end to remove all orphaned startup entries, icons, etc. | |
| aptitude -F %p search '~c' | xargs sudo dpkg -P | |
| #for bittorrent | |
| sudo apt-get install transmission | |
| #for Virtualbox | |
| wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - | |
| sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list' | |
| sudo apt-get update | |
| sudo apt-get install dkms | |
| #download http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.0/virtualbox-4.3_4.3.0-89960~Ubuntu~precise_amd64.deb | |
| #download http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.0/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0.vbox-extpack | |
| sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-4.3_4.3.0-89960\~Ubuntu\~precise_amd64.deb | |
| sudo VBoxManage extpack install --replace Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0.vbox-extpack | |
| #enable USB passthrough and 2.0 AHCI | |
| #for docker | |
| #you need to use docker version 0.7 onwards because it will complain about missing AUFS on all kernels above 3.5 otherwise | |
| http://test.docker.io | sudo sh | |
| #copy the sudoers file below to /etc/sudoers | |
| #performance tweaks | |
| #~~DEPRECATED because of http://lwn.net/Articles/545244/ - sudo apt-get install zram-config~~ | |
| # ~~ DEPRECATED ALSO - add "zcache" to "/etc/default/grub"'s GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT | |
| #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash zcache" ~~ | |
| #enable zswap https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQwODI | |
| # make sure you are running kernel >3.11 and add "zswap.enabled=1" to "/etc/default/grub"'s GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT | |
| #verify swap by "dmesg | grep zswap". you should see "zswap: loading zswap" | |
| # to check zswap performance - check /sys/kernel/debug/frontswap/succ_stores, if succ_stores is | |
| #0 it means that the memory pressure is still not heavy and none pages need be swapped out. | |
| # or do "sudo grep . -Ir /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/" | |
| #add noatime to all filesystems | |
| #UUID=735916a6-35e3-4e9f-b2b4-cff955e0c10f /home ext4 defaults,noatime | |
| #verify it installed by cat /proc/swaps - you should see /dev/zram{#} entries with a non-zero priority. hard disks should be set | |
| # with negative priority | |
| sudo sensors-detect | |
| #make sure coretemp is added to /etc/modules (happens automatically) | |
| #wifi fixes for 11n wifi | |
| echo "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1 swcrypto=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf | |
| # to test immediately try "sudo modprobe -rv iwldvm && sudo modprobe -v iwldvm" and then "iwconfig" | |
| #change | |
| #hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 | |
| #hosts: files dns | |
| #to rebuild final grub config | |
| sudo update-grub | |
| #reboot | |
| #remount filesystems sudo mount -o remount /dev/sda4 | |
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| #run this in bash. somehow the wildcards dont work on zsh | |
| #for gnome-shell... cos unity will suck up all your memory | |
| #plus https://extensions.gnome.org/ !!! | |
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 | |
| sudo apt-get update | |
| sudo apt-get install gnome-shell synaptic lm-sensors cpufrequtils openssh-server ppa-purge vim-gnome git nemo vlc aptitude geany transmission inxi linux-tools-common libqt4-opengl linux-tools-generic cpufrequtils acpi | |
| #check your system through `inxi -F` rather than uname | |
| #for Oracle java | |
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java | |
| sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer | |
| #for python dev | |
| sudo apt-get install python-dev | |
| # use this for Ruby http://www.lambdacurry.com/damn-fast-production-ready-ruby-setup/ | |
| #Aptitude is a better apt-get | |
| #make aptitude aware of all installed packages | |
| sudo aptitude keep-all | |
| sudo aptitude remove ~nzeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub python-zeitgeist rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist geoclue geoclue-ubuntu-geoip geoip-database ~nubuntuone whoopsie ~nubuntuone-client ~npython-ubuntuone-storage ~nubuntuone-installer menu apt-xapian-index oneconf deja-dup indicator-messages telepathy-indicator software-center totem rhythmbox menu rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist ~nliboverlay-scrollbar nautilus update-manager | |
| sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor gnome-text-editor /usr/bin/geany 10 | |
| #at the end to remove all orphaned startup entries, icons, etc. | |
| aptitude -F %p search '~c' | xargs sudo dpkg -P | |
| #aptitude equivalent of apt-get autoremove... completely non-obvious | |
| sudo aptitude -oAptitude::Delete-Unused=1 install | |
| #for Virtualbox | |
| wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - | |
| sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list' | |
| sudo apt-get update | |
| sudo apt-get install dkms | |
| #download http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.0/virtualbox-4.3_4.3.0-89960~Ubuntu~precise_amd64.deb | |
| #download http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.0/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0.vbox-extpack | |
| sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-4.3_4.3.0-89960\~Ubuntu\~precise_amd64.deb | |
| sudo VBoxManage extpack install --replace Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0.vbox-extpack | |
| #enable USB passthrough and 2.0 AHCI | |
| #add yourself to vboxusers group, else you wont have USB passthrough | |
| sudo adduser user vboxusers | |
| #copy the sudoers file below to /etc/sudoers | |
| #performance tweaks | |
| #~~DEPRECATED because of http://lwn.net/Articles/545244/ - sudo apt-get install zram-config~~ | |
| #~~DEPRECATEDverify it installed by cat /proc/swaps - you should see /dev/zram{#} entries with a non-zero priority. hard disks should be set | |
| #~~DEPRECATED with negative priority | |
| # ~~ DEPRECATED ALSO - add "zcache" to "/etc/default/grub"'s GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT | |
| #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash zcache" ~~ | |
| #enable zswap https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQwODI | |
| # make sure you are running kernel >3.11 and add "zswap.enabled=1" to "/etc/default/grub"'s GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT | |
| #verify swap by "dmesg | grep zswap". you should see "zswap: loading zswap" | |
| # to check zswap performance - check /sys/kernel/debug/frontswap/succ_stores, if succ_stores is | |
| #0 it means that the memory pressure is still not heavy and none pages need be swapped out. | |
| # or do "sudo grep . -Ir /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/" | |
| #add noatime to all filesystems | |
| #UUID=735916a6-35e3-4e9f-b2b4-cff955e0c10f /home ext4 defaults,noatime | |
| sudo sensors-detect | |
| #make sure coretemp is added to /etc/modules (happens automatically) | |
| #wifi fixes for 11n wifi | |
| echo "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1 swcrypto=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf | |
| # to test immediately try "sudo modprobe -rv iwldvm && sudo modprobe -v iwldvm" and then "iwconfig" | |
| #change in /etc/nsswitch.conf | |
| #hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 | |
| #hosts: files dns | |
| #update your kernel to 3.14 | |
| wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14.1-trusty/linux-image-3.14.1-031401-generic_3.14.1-031401.201404141220_amd64.deb | |
| wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14.1-trusty/linux-headers-3.14.1-031401-generic_3.14.1-031401.201404141220_amd64.deb | |
| wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14.1-trusty/linux-headers-3.14.1-031401_3.14.1-031401.201404141220_all.deb | |
| sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.14.1-*.deb linux-image-3.14.1-*.deb | |
| #to rebuild final grub config | |
| sudo update-grub | |
| #reboot | |
| #remount filesystems sudo mount -o remount /dev/sda4 | |
| sudo cpupower frequency-set -g powersave | |
| acpi -V | grep capacity | |
| xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search | |
| xdg-mime default transmission-gtk.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet | |
| xdg-mime default transmission-gtk.desktop application/x-bittorrent | |
| #for docker | |
| ### DEPRECATED - sudo aptitude install docker.io | |
| wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/gpg | sudo apt-key add - | |
| sudo sh -c "echo deb http://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list" | |
| sudo aptitude update | |
| sudo aptitude install lxc-docker | |
| sudo gpasswd -a ${USERNAME} docker | |
| # for HEVC video on vlc | |
| sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265 && sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install vlc-plugin-libde265 |
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| #For skype working in ubuntu 14.04 64-bit with audio input working | |
| sudo aptitude install pavucontrol libpulse0:i386 | |
| #install skype |
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| # | |
| # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. | |
| # | |
| # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of | |
| # directly modifying this file. | |
| # | |
| # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. | |
| # | |
| Cmnd_Alias WHEELER = /usr/bin/lsof, /bin/nice, /bin/ps, /usr/bin/top, /usr/local/bin/nano, /usr/bin/ss, /usr/bin/locate, /usr/bin/find, /usr› | |
| Cmnd_Alias PROCESSES = /bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/nice, /usr/bin/ionice, /usr/bin/top, /usr/bin/ps | |
| Cmnd_Alias EDITS = /usr/bin/vim, /usr/bin/nano, /usr/bin/cat, /usr/bin/vi | |
| Defaults env_reset,pwfeedback | |
| Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" | |
| Defaults visiblepw, path_info, insults, lecture=always | |
| Defaults loglinelen = 0, logfile =/var/log/sudo.log, log_year, log_host, syslog=auth | |
| Defaults !env_editor, editor="/usr/bin/vim:/usr/bin/vi:/usr/bin/nano" | |
| Defaults passprompt="Sudo invoked by [%u] on [%H] - Cmd run as %U - Password for user %p:" | |
| # Host alias specification | |
| # User alias specification | |
| # Cmnd alias specification | |
| # User privilege specification | |
| root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL | |
| ALL ALL = (ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: WHEELER, NOPASSWD: PROCESSES, NOPASSWD: EDITS | |
| # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges | |
| %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL | |
| # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command | |
| %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL | |
| # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives: | |
| #includedir /etc/sudoers.d |
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| vm.swappiness=10 | |
| net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 | |
| net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 | |
| net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 |
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| # http://nodebox.metaforix.net/articles/debian-on-lenovo-thinkpad-t420 | |
| #create new file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-my.conf | |
| Section "InputDevice" | |
| Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" | |
| Driver "synaptics" | |
| Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" | |
| Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" | |
| Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" | |
| Option "SHMConfig" "on" | |
| Option "LeftEdge" "1751" | |
| Option "RightEdge" "5191" | |
| Option "TopEdge" "1624" | |
| Option "BottomEdge" "4282" | |
| Option "FingerLow" "25" | |
| Option "FingerHigh" "30" | |
| Option "MaxTapTime" "180" | |
| Option "MaxTapMove" "222" | |
| Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "180" | |
| Option "SingleTapTimeout" "180" | |
| Option "ClickTime" "100" | |
| Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75" | |
| Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "282" | |
| Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "7" | |
| Option "VertScrollDelta" "-101" | |
| Option "HorizScrollDelta" "-101" | |
| Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0" | |
| Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" | |
| Option "CornerCoasting" "0" | |
| Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1" | |
| Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1" | |
| Option "MinSpeed" "1" | |
| Option "MaxSpeed" "1.75" | |
| Option "AccelFactor" "0.0395883" | |
| Option "TouchpadOff" "2" | |
| Option "LockedDrags" "0" | |
| Option "LockedDragTimeout" "5000" | |
| Option "RTCornerButton" "2" | |
| Option "RBCornerButton" "3" | |
| Option "LTCornerButton" "0" | |
| Option "LBCornerButton" "0" | |
| Option "TapButton1" "1" | |
| Option "TapButton2" "3" | |
| Option "TapButton3" "0" | |
| Option "ClickFinger1" "1" | |
| Option "ClickFinger2" "1" | |
| Option "ClickFinger3" "0" | |
| Option "CircularScrolling" "0" | |
| Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1" | |
| Option "CircScrollTrigger" "0" | |
| Option "CircularPad" "0" | |
| Option "PalmDetect" "0" | |
| Option "PalmMinWidth" "10" | |
| Option "PalmMinZ" "200" | |
| Option "CoastingSpeed" "20" | |
| Option "CoastingFriction" "50" | |
| Option "PressureMotionMinZ" "30" | |
| Option "PressureMotionMaxZ" "160" | |
| Option "PressureMotionMinFactor" "1" | |
| Option "PressureMotionMaxFactor" "1" | |
| Option "ResolutionDetect" "1" | |
| Option "GrabEventDevice" "1" | |
| Option "TapAndDragGesture" "1" | |
| Option "AreaLeftEdge" "0" | |
| Option "AreaRightEdge" "0" | |
| Option "AreaTopEdge" "0" | |
| Option "AreaBottomEdge" "0" | |
| Option "HorizHysteresis" "25" | |
| Option "VertHysteresis" "25" | |
| Option "ClickPad" "0" | |
| EndSection | |
| #go into bios and enable virtualization - otherwise virtualbox will not work | |
| # fn+space for thinklight. fn+f7 does NOT work | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'hibernate' | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action suspend | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action suspend | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 5 | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 5 | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power use-time-for-policy false |
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| sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 | |
| sudo aptitude update | |
| sudo aptitude install libjpeg62:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxtst6:i386 | |
| #always download the 32-bit version from http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx | |
| sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_10.0.36281_i386.deb |