Upgrade Ubuntu

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Index

• Requirements
• Firefox
• SSH
• GIT
• ZSH
• Vim
• LAMP
• Chromium
• Java
• Adobe Flash
• Dropbox
• Ruby
• Node
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Sublime Text 3
• Disable some apps from launching
• Unity custom launchers
• Some other softwares
• Other

Requirements

Create a workspace folder into $HOME.

mkdir ~/workspace
sudo ln -s ~/workspace/ /workspace

Firefox

• Change homepage
• Configure Sync

Keyboard configuration

Go to about:config and update the followings :

• browser.backspace_action to 0
• browser.ctrlTab.previews to true

Plugins

• Firebug
• Live HTTP Headers
• Web Developer
• Adblock Plus
• Pocket
• JSONView
• feedly
• Firefox OS Simulator
• ColorZilla

Tip: to select Software Center for apt files from Firefox, select the following script: /usr/bin/software-center.

Use Aurora

To use Firefox Aurora instead of the stable release:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

Use Nightly

To use install Firefox Nightly (doesn't override Stable/Aurora):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk

SSH

cd ~
ssh-keygen -t rsa

You should also install openssh-server: sudo apt-get install openssh-server

/!\ Don't forget to add you public key to your Github and/or Bitbucket accounts.

GIT

Install

sudo apt-get install git

Configuration

gedit ~/.gitconfig

Add the following instructions: see https://github.com/rhannequin/dotfiles/blob/master/gitconfig.

Check it

cd ~/workspace && mkdir github bitbucket
cd github
git clone git@github.com:rhannequin/upgrade-ubuntu.git

ZSH

sudo apt-get install zsh curl
git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc
chsh -s /bin/zsh

Update the file ~/.zshrc and replace content with : https://github.com/rhannequin/dotfiles/blob/master/zshrc.

Vim

sudo apt-get install vim
mkdir ~/.vim && mkdir ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
vim .vimrc

See https://github.com/rhannequin/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc.

Run :PluginInstall.

LAMP

Install

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
sudo ln -s ~/workspace/ /var/www/workspace
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
# select "apache2" tp configure it automatically
# select "yes" to configure phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin
sudo service apache2 restart

PHP configuration

You need to edit php.ini files from PHP to activate debug. The following parameters must be like this:

- error_reporting = E_ALL
- display_errors = On
- display_startup_errors = On
- track_errors = On

Modules

You must activate the following modules:

sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php5-mcrypt
sudo a2enmod rewrite deflate
sudo service apache2 restart

Chromium

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
# TODO: fix missing backspace key and ctrl+tab

Java

Download JAVA SE 7u55 JDK.

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm
cd /usr/lib/jvm
sudo tar xvzf ~/jre-7u45-linux-*.tar.gz
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_55/bin/java 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_55/bin/javac 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_55/bin/javaws 1
# 64 bits only
# sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_55/jre/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_55/jre/lib/i586/libjavaplugin_jni.so 1
sudo update-alternatives --config java
sudo update-alternatives --config javac
sudo update-alternatives --config javaws
sudo update-alternatives --config mozilla-javaplugin.so

Adobe Flash

Dropbox

32 bits

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -

64 bits

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

Start dropbow

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Ruby

Requirements

Requirements for Ruby are:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev g++

With rbenv

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
git clone git@github.com:sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
rbenv install 2.1.1
rbenv global 2.1.1

With RVM

sudo apt-get install aptitude samba curl
\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
rvm requirements
rvm install 2.1.1

Make sure you have the following line in your ~/.bashrc:

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # This loads RVM into a shell session.

Installing Rails

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev
gem install rails
# Only for rbenv
rbenv rehash
rails -v

Node

Install

sudo apt-get install g++
cd ~/workspace
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git && cd node
git checkout v0.10.26
mkdir ~/opt && mkdir ~/opt/node
./configure --prefix=~/opt/node
make
make install

Some modules

npm install -g express coffee-script bower grunt-cli jslint nodemon sails

PostgreSQL

Install

sudo apt-get install postgresql

Create new user

sudo -i -u postgres
psql
CREATE USER rhannequin;
ALTER ROLE rhannequin WITH CREATEDB;
CREATE DATABASE first_pq_db OWNER rhannequin;
ALTER USER rhannequin WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'root';
\q
exit

Pgadmin

sudo apt-get install pgadmin3

MongoDB

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

Sublime Text 3

Install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

Package Control

Run command:

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = '7183a2d3e96f11eeadd761d777e62404e330c659d4bb41d3bdf022e94cab3cd0'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://sublime.wbond.net/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

If an error occurs, you need to download the binary package and move it to Installed Packages at $HOME/.config/sublime-text-2. Restart Sublime Text.

If you're bihind a proxy, you need to edit the config file ùPreferences > Package Settings > Package Control > Settings - User* with:

{
  // An HTTP proxy server to use for requests
  "http_proxy": "xxx.xxx:xx",

  // An HTTPS proxy server to use for requests - this will inherit from
  // http_proxy if it is set to "" or null and http_proxy has a value. You
  // can set this to false to prevent inheriting from http_proxy.
  "https_proxy": "xxx.xxx:xx",

  // Username and password for both http_proxy and https_proxy
  "proxy_username": "xxx",
  "proxy_password": "xxx"
}

Some packages

• BracketHighlither
• Better CoffeeScript
• INI
• SCSS
• Markdown Preview
• Trailing Spaces
• Emmet
• Sublime Linter
• SideBarEnhancements
• AdvancedNewFile
• Theme - Flatland

Settings

Replace config file Preferences > Settings - User with: see https://github.com/rhannequin/dotfiles/blob/master/sublimetext/settings.

Replace config file Preferences > Key Binding - User with: see https://github.com/rhannequin/dotfiles/blob/master/sublimetext/key-bindings.

Sublime Linter

Edit settings from Settings - User de Sublime Linter with: see https://github.com/rhannequin/dotfiles/blob/master/sublimetext/sublime-linter-settings.

Disable some apps from launching

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sudo sysv-rc-conf

Unity custom launchers

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/share/applications/ --create-new

Some other softwares

sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload vlc flashplugin-installer meld rar gimp filezilla openvpn virtualbox alacarte

JetBrains

Install IntteliJ IDEA, RubyMine and WebStorm from JetBrains website.

Skype

From Skype website.

Troubles with webcam since 14.04

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
> Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype %U

Heroku

wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

Friends

sudo apt-get install friends-app dconf-tools
dconf-editor
# > com > canonical > friends
# Set interval to 1 and notifications to all

Steam

Download the Steam .deb package and install it.

Other

• Configure Twitter
• System Parameters > Privacy : remove bottom inputs.

Notification bar for 14.04 (systray)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gurqn/systray-trusty
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Nautilus for 13.04 and 13.10 (fixed in 14.04)

Enable Backspace:

echo '(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ShellActions/Up" "BackSpace")' >> ~/.config/nautilus/accels

Move windows for 13.10 (fixed in 14.04)

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
ccsm

Go to Desktop Wall > Assignations > Move with window within the wall