2010/07/04

Ubuntu tweaks

I'll try to update this to keep track of the tweaks I find necessary for ubuntu to work well.

Install System-wide Pulseaudio Equalizer:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:psyke83/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer

Install Pulseaudio tools and alsaplayer plugin, etc:
sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter

Multimedia Playing
sudo apt-get install totem vnc ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 && sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh


Send email from cli with attachments
sudo apt-get install mutt
echo "see attached" | mutt -s "file attached" -a Documents/somefile.xls -- jdoe@somewhere.com

Network Troubleshooting Tools
sudo apt-get install iputils-tracepath nmap aircrack-ng

Remote Systems Administration
sudo apt-get install gtkvnc rdesktop tsclient

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