Ubuntu: Post-Install Packages

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Ubuntu comes as a CD Installer with only the minimal packages to avoid bloating of the distro. There are cases when the default packages are not adequate for using it properly and you need to add more on you own. The best configuration would be having one app for each type of work you would want to achieve,

The aim of this wiki page is to list down the required packages against the requirements. There can be more than one software, but only 2 most famous and easy available and stable package need to be mentioned.

Necessary

  • Media Player -- VLC and Amarok
  • GRUB Editor -- QGRUBEditor
  • Incoming Bluetooth File Transfer -- obexpushd
  • CHM Readers -- gnochm, xchm
  • Virtualization Software -- VirtualBox, qemu
  • Vector Graphics -- Inkscape
  • Online Radio Scrobbling -- lastfm
  • Taking backup of packages -- aptoncd
  • SQLite browser - sqliteman
  • Binary Emulation -- wine
  • IDE - geany
  • FTP Client -- FileZilla
  • Codecs -- gstreamer, xine
  • Creating Live USB Distro -- usb-creator
  • Backup of whole system on LiveCD/DVD -- remastersys
  • Graphical frontend to mounting CD/DVD Images -- gmountiso

Alternative/Secondary

  • Browser -- Epiphany, Opera
  • Shell -- Yakuake
  • Media Player -- Banshee
  • Torrent - KTorrent
  • Mail Client - Thunderbird

Development

  • Web Development -- LAMP
  • C/C++ -- build-essential
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