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oio11To Do List After installing Crunchbang “Waldorf” Debian “Wheezy” Linux OS
Debian Linux “Wheezy” Openbox Desktop Environment
“I would recommend Crunchbang to the user already comfortable around a Debian system. While the distro does a pretty good job at presenting a working environment out of the box, it strips away certain bling-bling features the average desktop user has come to expect from a distribution. For instance, it won’t present you with a micro-blogging client synchronized with your IM client and a notification system bundled in your taskbar. These are the kinds of things you should expect from Ubuntu and the general mindset with Crunchbang (affectionately referred to as ‘#!’) is that “if you want it, you should do it yourself”. The very bare minimum of apps will be available by default, although the distro does a terrific job of presenting all kinds of install-scripts, one-click (or in case of the very relevant cb-welcome script, one key) commands for installing additional software like alternative web browsers, Java, printer support or even a Dropbox client.”
“Crunchbang’s minimalism is a bliss. It works really well out of the box (I personally only had an issue with activating my wireless card, something that I could solve in a matter of minutes), and won’t tamper much with your system. Everything works the way you’d expect it to and you will encounter very few (if any) surprises along the way. In short, Crunchbang does a good job of presenting a working and good looking system out of the box, while still getting out of your way for your everyday use.”
“Is #! for you? Here’s my rule of thumb: Would you know how to manage your sources.list file to suit your own needs? If you do, you probably know enough.”
Download Crunchbang Eleven “Waldorf” Debian Wheezy OS:
http://crunchbang.org/download/
Special Note: For faster downloading I recommend using BitTorrent to download Crunchbang.
How-to prepare an ISO to USB for Linux & Windows:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/
and
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/statler_usb_installation
Here is a really nice tutorial series for Crunchbang:
“The new release is the first one to be ported to Wheezy, the current testing version of Debian. If #! was originally based on Ubuntu (something we can still detect by its preference for apt-get over aptitude, or the fact that sudo is present by default), it has moved its base to Debian for over a year. Logically, the current stable version of #! (Statler) is based on the current stable version of Debian (Squeeze). However Wheezy has been in testing mode for some time now, and rumors are already announcing it for early 2013 (although, as usual, “it will be released when it’s ready”). It is worth noting though that despite its name, Wheezy is far from being a completely experimental base. ‘Stable’ is a conservative name to say the least, and, for what it’s worth, Ubuntu has already based its last 3 versions on Wheezy.”
“In any case, it is a good thing that corenominal has already moved on with the porting. I have installed the new build on a Virtualbox machine and have used it all night. I’m actually writing this article from it. My first impressions: it works great. Visually not much has changed since the last build, except for two things: a good looking new font seems to be the default and compositing (basically shadows and transparency) is activated by default, using the new, supposedly improved, Compton manager. I strongly salute the initiative; it doesn’t seem very resource-greedy (3MB of RAM and virtually no CPU) and will definitely please my friends when I tell them to try a Live CD. Pulse Audio is also present, great, saves me the trouble of installing it.”
Here is a nice video demonstration of Crunchbang Eleven:
Crunchbang comes with it’s own post-installation script to update your entire system, also to add printer support, and plenty of other software you will probably need.
Now you may want to add more repositories to your source.list to have access to more codecs and software for your system.
Edit the repositories, copy and paste in Terminal:
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
smxi is an interactive script designed to help people maintain their systems. It supports Debian (Stable, Testing, and Sid) and true Debian based distros (such as, but not limited to, AntiX, Aptosid, Epidemic, Linux Mint Debian [LMDE], Mepis). It does not support Ubuntu based distros because there are too many differences between Debian and Ubuntu.
Smxi is a feature rich, powerful script, and has the following primary features and options:
Special notes: Here are the settings that worked best for my Crunchbang Waldorf system: Set distro to Testing, and no distro updates should be needed for Crunchbang. Go ahead and install any of the software available that you want within smxi, and make sure to read every prompt, and check for the proprietary video graphics driver for your kernel you want to install on your system. I added the Liquorix kernel, and it works great too. No issues so far.
Here is how to install SMXI in Terminal:
I wanted to change my display to fit my flat screen monitor so I added these lines to my autostart configuration file (Settings >> Openbox >> Edit autostart):
Here is the conky script (simply copy and paste over the old one), and to open the configuration file click on Settings >> Conky >> edit conkyrc.
I wanted to make my screen layout look more like the screenshot above, and this is how I changed my Tint2 configuration file. Clicks Settings >> tint2 >> Edit config file and save when done:
Here is how you can switch out Iceweasel for Firefox. Yes, I know they are identical, but someone may want to learn how to install Firefox on Debian Wheezy:
Adblock Plus (plugin) (Highly Recommended)
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a content-filtering extension for Mozilla Ice Weasel and Google Chrome web browsers. ABP, a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Very popular, and almost what I would consider to be a necessity, if you surf the Internet on a daily basis. Works great with sites like youtube.com and other similar web sites that bombard you with constant commercials. It will also allow you to import preconfigured blocklists to stop tracker web sites from monitoring your browser presence.
Password Exporter (plugin)
This extension allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported later. Very helpful when needing to re-install onto a new system or migrating your data and personal information.
NetVideoHunter (plugin)
NetVideoHunter is a Ice Weasel add-on (extension), and you can easily download videos and audio from almost all audio and video streaming web pages with two clicks. Tested and considered to be probably the best plugin out of all the other similar plugins available for this kind of task.
HTTPS Everywhere (plugin)
HTTPS Everywhere is a Ice Weasel and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
NoScript (plugin)
NoScript (plugin) is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, created and actively maintained by Giorgio Maone, an Italian software developer and member of the Mozilla Security Group. NoScript allows executable web content such as JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other plugins only if the site hosting it is considered trusted by its user and has been previously added to a whitelist. NoScript also offers specific countermeasures against security exploits.
Dictionaries & Language Packs (plugin) (Recommended)
Additional Miscellaneous Add-ons for Firefox and Iceweasel:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8399&p=1
To add the WebUpd8 Oracle Java PPA repository to your software sources in Debian, use the following commands (but you can use SMXI to install Java 7, if needed):
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Test your browser to make sure your Java is installed and working properly here:
http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore is not only the best solution for hardware failure, it is also the ultimate antivirus: Even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes. If there is one thing you are going to be doing often with Crunchabang, it is reinstalling your operating system, and so it makes sense to backup your work before you get too involved tinkering around with Crunchbang. (Recommended)
http://redobackup.org/
Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan. Clonezilla SE provides multicast support similar to Norton Ghost Corporate Edition.
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
How to configure Autologin with SliMconf:
How to change the clock from military time to 12-hour AM/PM w/date in Tint2 config:
Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW & GUFW)
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
Here is a configuration script if you are running a server:
http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/
How to periodically scan for rootkits. Both RKHunter and CHKRootkit basically do the same thing check your system for rootkits. No harm in using both.
Open a Terminal and enter the following :
http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-secure-ubuntu-1204-lts-server-part-1-basics
Debia equivalent : vlc, mplayer, fluendo media codecs
Unfortunately, many audio and video formats won’t work “out of the box” with Debian, or most Linux distros.
Here is a quick installation script for Multimedia codecs and other applications:
If you are running a 32-bit version of Debian, copy and paste in Terminal:
MPlayer is a movie player that plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and PVA files. You can also use it to watch VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. It supports a wide range of output drivers including X11, XVideo, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB etc. There are also nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
Open your Terminal, copy and paste (when you get to the EULA prompt press Tab key):
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23958
Additional True Type Fonts
When you begin the installation process you will come to a window that will require you to accept the EULA to install, and you will need to click on your <Tab> key to select <OK> and carefully press enter key and then carefully use <TAB> to select YES at the next prompt.
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
For 32-bit
Archiver/ Packing software (Recommended)
Windows equivalent : winrar, zip, 7zip
Ubuntu equivalent : tar, unrar, p7zip, arj, unace
An archive format is the file format of an archive file. The archive format is determined by the file archiver. Some archive formats are well-defined by their authors and have become conventions supported by multiple vendors and/or open-source communities.
sudo apt-get install unace rar unrar p7zip zip unzip p7zip-full p7zip-rar sharutils uudeview mpack arj cabextract file-roller
Google Chrome Plugins:
Adblock Plus (plugin) (Recommended)
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a content-filtering extension for Google Chrome web browsers. ABP, a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Very popular, and almost what I would consider to be a necessity, if you surf the Internet on a daily basis. Works great with sites like youtube.com and other similar web sites that bombard you with constant commercials. It will also allow you to import preconfigured blocklists to stop tracker web sites from monitoring your browser presence.
Remote Desktop (plugin)
Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet.
HTTPS Everywhere (plugin)
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
Reditr is to Reddit what Tweetdeck is to Twitter. And now you can experience it under any GNU/Linux based system thanks to Google Chrome.
Additional Miscellaneous Add-ons for Chrome and Chromium:
Special Note: After install Google Talk, if you see something like this:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
You will need to open Synaptic Package manager and find the duplicate repository entry and disable it manually.
Instant Retro (Chrome alternative to Instagram) is a nice web app that lets you upload your digital photos and add vintage effects to your pictures in a snap. No smart phone needed! No need to sign up, just upload your digital photos from your computer and get started. It has a number of options that add different effects to the photo. Some of the effects are Roll, Burned, Lens, Rounded and Fuji. There are also options like the ability to adjust curves, lighten center, desaturate, etc which can adjusted using the horizontal sliders. If you are looking for something like Instagram on Ubuntu Linux then InstantRetro is for you.
http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-retro/jlahmeejnbkdnjnckboeglpfmjbfmopp
Viewing PDF files
Windows equivalent : Adobe Reader
Ubuntu equivalent : Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but doesn’t have PDF creation capabilities. Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication (when you get to the EULA prompt press Tab key) and make sure to install medibuntu repository at the beginning of this guide at the top.
Special Note: You need to install the stable repo before you can add acroread in Wheezy.
Windows equivalent : CuteFTP, SmartFTP, CoreFTP
Ubuntu equivalent : FileZilla
FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP/SFTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from SourceForge.net.
This is great FTP client, very complete, in my opinion, and the best one around.
To install FileZilla in terminal:
Geany is a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla and including basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features. Among the supported programming languages are C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, LaTeX, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Pascal, Haskell, Erlang, Vala and many others.
It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.
KompoZer’s WYSIWYG editing capabilities are one of the main attractions of the software. In addition, KompoZer allows direct code editing as well as a split code-graphic view:
Access it through Applications → Programming → Kompozer
LibreOffice (Recommended)
Windows equivalent : Microsoft Office Suite
Ubuntu equivalent : LibreOffice 3 Suite
LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms. Its developers’ goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements. The name is a hybrid word with the first part Libre, which means free (as in freedom) in French and Spanish, and the English word Office.
LibreOffice comes preinstalled by default in Ubuntu usually, but you still want to double-check at this point that you have everything else installed that you probably will need, and that you have the latest updated version from the developers.
To install LibreOffice:
Grammar checking Plug-in for LibreOffice Writer:
http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/how-to-install-grammar-checker-in-libreoffice-in-ubuntu/
Make sure to update your LibreOffice plugins afterwards too.
To enable PDF import capability:
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center
Special Note: If you would like the MS Windows OS or Apple Mac OS version of LibreOffice Suite for another computer you have at work or school – here is where you can find the link. And I definitely recommend using the torrent because the direct link doesn’t usually completely download for some unknown reason. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Image Editors
Windows equivalent : Adobe Photoshop
Debian equivalent : GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. It has layering abilities like Photoshop.
In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
New additions in Gimp 2.8 are single window mode, on-canvas text editing, layers group, and to apply all changes to a layer grouping.
GIMP’s product vision is that GIMP is, or will become, a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements.
Special Note: If you want the latest version of Gimp, I have attempted to figure out a way to install the latest GIMP 2.8 in Debian Squeeze and I couldn’t find instructions that would work to allow me to successfully build it from scratch. I was able to install Gimp 2.7, but it had problems too after testing it out. There really isn’t a way to get 2.8 on here without a huge hassle – AFAIK.
Download additional Script-Fu filters and tweaks:
Instructions on how to install Scripts that work in Gimp:
http://www.gimphelp.org/script28.shtml
To install additional helpful plugins for Gimp try:
http://registry.gimp.org/popular
Photo Management
Windows equivalent: Aftershot Pro, Lightroom, Bridge, Photoshop Organizer
RAW file viewers/editors/plugins for SLR Digital Photography
Not the most intuitive program to use at first, Raw Therapee is a fairly feature rich and comprehensive RAW editor that’s compatible with Linux. At the time of writing, the team are working on a stable release of version 3.0, which is a major release for the project. Unidentified Flying RAW (or UFRaw for short) is a dedicated RAW image editor based on GTK+. It can be used as an application on its own or as a plugin for GIMP (simply open a RAW image in GIMP to be presented with the UFRaw editor window).
Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. It focuses on the workflow to make it easier for the photographer to quickly handle the thousands of images a day of shooting can produce. It’s also one of the very few FOSS projects able to do tethered shooting.
Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. Shotwell automatically groups photos and videos by date, and supports tagging. Its image editing features allow users to rotate, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. It also features an auto “enhance” option that will attempt to guess appropriate levels for the image. Shotwell allows users to publish their images and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Piwigo, and YouTube.
The GUI was built with wxWidgets and the audio I/O supports PulseAudio, OSS and ALSA under Linux.
gtkpod is a graphical user interface for the Apple iPod for Unix-like systems, written using the GTK+ toolkit.
Windows equivalent : iTunes
This application allow you to connect to your ipod, shuffle, idohickeythingamabob so you can access your music, mp4s, and tranfer them, copy them, rename them, with Ubuntu or Debian systems. It’s all kinds of good stuff for apple media users.
Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had approximately ten million users as of 15 September 2010; about 2.5 million of whom were paying members.The service is, as of November 2011, available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Special Note: There is a special work-around to get Spotify installed in Crunchbang here:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=19554
Google Earth allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. With Google Earth’s rich, geographical content, you are able to experience a more realistic view of the world.
Software Prerequisite: Make sure you have all your media codecs installed listed at the beginning of this tutorial.
And if you are running a 64-bit version of Debian you need to install ia32-libs:
Select either: 32 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) or 64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)
And install it with Gdebi like this:
To install Checkgmail type the following command in the Terminal Window.
Hard Disk Partition Manager
Windows equivalent : Norton Partition Magic
Ubuntu equivalent : GParted
GParted is a GTK+ front-end to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application.
It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems (works with Vista / Windows 7 System & Data partitions), reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). It is useful for tasks such as: creating space for new operating systems, restructuring disk space to separate user and operating system data, and copying partitions to enable upgrading to a larger hard disk drive. Your hard disk drive or USB flash drive can be subdivided into one or more partitions. GParted enables you to reorganize your disk partitions while preserving the contents of these partitions.
Windows: “Kindle for PC” software
Calibre was originally called libprs500, but was renamed calibre (lower case ‘C’) in mid-2008. calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, where a single database entry corresponds with the same book in a variety of formats. calibre supports the following formats for cataloging: AZW, AZW1, CBR, CBZ, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, IMP, LIT, LRF, LRX, MOBI, ODT, OEBZIP, OPF, PDB, PDF, PML, PMLZ, PRC, RAR, RB, RTF, SNB, TPZ, TXT and ZIP.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/957788-installing-calibri-font/
P2P Clients & Servers, File Sharing
Windows equivalent : Limewire, utorrent, Azureus, Emule, PeerGuardian
Ubuntu equivalent : Frostwire, Deluge, Azureus, Amule, Moblock/Mobloquer
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounted for roughly 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009.
Frostwire
Windows equivalent: Limewire
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client, first released in September, 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but developers added more features, such as BitTorrent support. In version Five, Gnutella support was dropped entirely, and now FrostWire only uses the BitTorrent network. Development of the program has been active since the program was first released in September 2004.
Install Frostwire:
http://www.frostwire.com/download/?os=ubuntu&
Bittorrent Add-ons for Ubuntu:
Windows Equivalent: PeerGuardian (highly recommended for Bittorent users)
Ubuntu equivalent : PGL and PGLGUI
PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origins lie in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P.
While you are installing PGL just accept the default settings for now. You can change them with PGLGUI after you are done installing everything.
To install PGL and PGLGUI in terminal (select the default settings by using the TAB key and pressing enter – there will be several prompts – just accept default settings and afterwards you can configure the blocklists):
Add these to your source.list:
And then copy and paste in Terminal:
The first thing most users will notice after installing PGL and have it running is that their Pidgin/Empathy/IMclientOfChoice/WebBrowser stops working. PGLGUI log will list the IP’s and info about the IP’s, so just whitelist them if need be with one mouse click.
It is really a very strong utility and will block pretty much everything until you tell it to do otherwise. But you only need to run this when you are seeding or downloading torrent files.
Deluge Client is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity.
The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.
Azureus Client: Uses Java to run, very complete but a bit heavy. And has a wide variety of add-ons to choose from too.
Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a P2P file sharing client using the bittorrent protocol. Search and download torrent files. Play, convert and transcode videos and music for playing on many devices such as PSP, TiVo, XBox, PS3, iTunes (iPhone, iPod, Apple TV).
µTorrent Server is a very tiny BitTorrent server, super fast and ultra light. µTorrent’s built for speed. That means ultra-efficient downloads of mega-sized files. Untested in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Go to µTorrent official site and download the Ubuntu installation package and use the following instructions to install µTorrent at:
http://ubuntuguide.net/install-lightweight-fast-%C2%B5torrent-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts/
They aren’t quite Ubuntu friendly, but they will help you get that on there.
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and more. I highly recommend installing this on your system at some point, and making sure to have it automatically run at system login as a reminder. Even though Ubuntu doesn’t have issues with Viruses and Spyware, however your system can become slowly bogged down with tmp cache files in Mozilla Firefox and Chrome with heavy use, so it makes sense to run bleachbit periodically to speed up your system.
Windows equivalent : CCleaner
http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/crunchbang-11-waldorf-debian-wheezy-os/
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
Debian Linux “Wheezy” Openbox Desktop Environment
Crunchbang is a light-weight Debian OS, using Openbox desktop environment. It has a minimalist approach in comparison to other distos, and it includes projects like conky, tint, and compositing eye-candy. Crunchbang got it’s name from the possibility of it making your system go “Crunch” “Bang”. The distro description small print disclaimer says it’s unstable, may break, and you use it at your own risk.
“I would recommend Crunchbang to the user already comfortable around a Debian system. While the distro does a pretty good job at presenting a working environment out of the box, it strips away certain bling-bling features the average desktop user has come to expect from a distribution. For instance, it won’t present you with a micro-blogging client synchronized with your IM client and a notification system bundled in your taskbar. These are the kinds of things you should expect from Ubuntu and the general mindset with Crunchbang (affectionately referred to as ‘#!’) is that “if you want it, you should do it yourself”. The very bare minimum of apps will be available by default, although the distro does a terrific job of presenting all kinds of install-scripts, one-click (or in case of the very relevant cb-welcome script, one key) commands for installing additional software like alternative web browsers, Java, printer support or even a Dropbox client.”
“Crunchbang’s minimalism is a bliss. It works really well out of the box (I personally only had an issue with activating my wireless card, something that I could solve in a matter of minutes), and won’t tamper much with your system. Everything works the way you’d expect it to and you will encounter very few (if any) surprises along the way. In short, Crunchbang does a good job of presenting a working and good looking system out of the box, while still getting out of your way for your everyday use.”
“Is #! for you? Here’s my rule of thumb: Would you know how to manage your sources.list file to suit your own needs? If you do, you probably know enough.”
Download Crunchbang Eleven “Waldorf” Debian Wheezy OS:
http://crunchbang.org/download/
Special Note: For faster downloading I recommend using BitTorrent to download Crunchbang.
How-to prepare an ISO to USB for Linux & Windows:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/
and
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/statler_usb_installation
Here is a really nice tutorial series for Crunchbang:
“The new release is the first one to be ported to Wheezy, the current testing version of Debian. If #! was originally based on Ubuntu (something we can still detect by its preference for apt-get over aptitude, or the fact that sudo is present by default), it has moved its base to Debian for over a year. Logically, the current stable version of #! (Statler) is based on the current stable version of Debian (Squeeze). However Wheezy has been in testing mode for some time now, and rumors are already announcing it for early 2013 (although, as usual, “it will be released when it’s ready”). It is worth noting though that despite its name, Wheezy is far from being a completely experimental base. ‘Stable’ is a conservative name to say the least, and, for what it’s worth, Ubuntu has already based its last 3 versions on Wheezy.”
“In any case, it is a good thing that corenominal has already moved on with the porting. I have installed the new build on a Virtualbox machine and have used it all night. I’m actually writing this article from it. My first impressions: it works great. Visually not much has changed since the last build, except for two things: a good looking new font seems to be the default and compositing (basically shadows and transparency) is activated by default, using the new, supposedly improved, Compton manager. I strongly salute the initiative; it doesn’t seem very resource-greedy (3MB of RAM and virtually no CPU) and will definitely please my friends when I tell them to try a Live CD. Pulse Audio is also present, great, saves me the trouble of installing it.”
“It looks perfectly working so far. I don’t know if you should use it in a critical environment yet, but as far as I can tell, there’s nothing wrong with the new version. If you’re new to #! and are looking to give it a spin, maybe you should download the latest build of Statler and not risk being disappointed by any potential problem you may find with this one.” ** [http://www.tech-thoughts-blog.com/2012/05/first-builds-of-new-crunchbang-waldorf.html]
Here is a nice video demonstration of Crunchbang Eleven:
Crunchbang comes with it’s own post-installation script to update your entire system, also to add printer support, and plenty of other software you will probably need.
Now you may want to add more repositories to your source.list to have access to more codecs and software for your system.
Edit the repositories, copy and paste in Terminal:
sudo geany /etc/apt/sources.listHere is a good source.list to update your system if you are located in the USA:
## CRUNCHBANG ## Compatible with Debian Wheezy, but use at your own risk. deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf waldorf main #deb-src http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf waldorf main ## Debian deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free ## Multimedia deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free ## Debian Security deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main # Spotify Music deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free ## Debian Stable deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free ## Sun Java 8 Plugin Script deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise mainOnce you copy and paste that into your source.list file, make sure to add the repo key for deb-multimedia in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgradeSpecial Note: If you are outside the USA you can build your local list of repositories here:
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
smxi is an interactive script designed to help people maintain their systems. It supports Debian (Stable, Testing, and Sid) and true Debian based distros (such as, but not limited to, AntiX, Aptosid, Epidemic, Linux Mint Debian [LMDE], Mepis). It does not support Ubuntu based distros because there are too many differences between Debian and Ubuntu.Smxi is a feature rich, powerful script, and has the following primary features and options:
- System Upgrades (dist-upgrade / upgrade)
- Kernel upgrades / kernel module upgrades
- Automatated video card driver installation (plus any needed patches), especially non-free drivers like nVidia and AMD/ATI fglrx
- Installing extra software (including building a desktop/server from scratch, starting with just the base Debian system)
- Removing certain software
- Cleaning up your system (cleaning up apt archives, removing kernels/ kernel modules, cleaning system cruft, etc)
- Tweaking your system, mozilla configurations, installing some small graphics tweaks, etc.
Special notes: Here are the settings that worked best for my Crunchbang Waldorf system: Set distro to Testing, and no distro updates should be needed for Crunchbang. Go ahead and install any of the software available that you want within smxi, and make sure to read every prompt, and check for the proprietary video graphics driver for your kernel you want to install on your system. I added the Liquorix kernel, and it works great too. No issues so far.
Here is how to install SMXI in Terminal:
cd /usr/local/bin && sudo wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi.zip && sudo unzip smxi.zip && sudo smxi
I wanted to change my display to fit my flat screen monitor so I added these lines to my autostart configuration file (Settings >> Openbox >> Edit autostart):## Display xrandr -s 1280x720 -r 60 & xrandr --dpi 96 &
Here is the conky script (simply copy and paste over the old one), and to open the configuration file click on Settings >> Conky >> edit conkyrc.
# conky configuration
#
# The list of variables has been removed from this file in favour
# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.
# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.
#
# For ideas about how to modify conky, please see:
# http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/59/my-conky-config/
#
# For help with conky, please see:
# http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/2047/conky-help/
#
# Enjoy!
##############################################
# Settings
##############################################
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont HandelGotD:size=8
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 4.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 200 5
maximum_width 220
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color grey
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 5
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
TEXT
CPU $alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
${cpugraph cpu0}
MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar
swap $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
${swapbar}
/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}
global $alignc ${fs_used /home/karlos/global} / ${fs_size /home/karlos/global} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /home/karlos/global}%
${fs_bar /home/karlos/global}
$processes processes ($running_processes running)
NAME $alignr PID CPU
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}
${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}
${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5}
${top name 6} $alignr ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6}
${top name 7} $alignr ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7}
${top name 8} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8}
${top name 9} $alignr ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 9}
Inbound $alignr ${downspeed eth0} kb/s
${downspeedgraph eth0}
Outbound $alignr ${upspeed eth0} kb/s
${upspeedgraph eth0}
Alt+F2$alignr Run Dialog
Alt+F3$alignr Alt Menu
Super+space$alignr Main Menu
Super+t$alignr Terminal
Super+f$alignr File Manager
Super+e$alignr Editor
Super+m$alignr Media Player
Super+w$alignr Web Browser
Super+g$alignr Graphics Editor
Super+l$alignr Lock Screen
Super+v$alignr Volume Control
Super+x$alignr Logout
PrtSc$alignr Screenshot 
I wanted to make my screen layout look more like the screenshot above, and this is how I changed my Tint2 configuration file. Clicks Settings >> tint2 >> Edit config file and save when done:#--------------------------------------------- # TINT2 CONFIG FILE #--------------------------------------------- # For more information about tint2, see: # http://code.google.com/p/tint2/wiki/Welcome # # For more config file examples, see: # http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/3232/my-tint2-config/ # Background definitions # ID 1 rounded = 0 border_width = 0 background_color = #000000 40 border_color = #828282 0 # ID 2 - task active rounded = 1 border_width = 0 background_color = #d8d8d8 30 border_color = #d8d8d8 30 # ID 3 - task rounded = 1 border_width = 0 background_color = #000000 0 border_color = #000000 0 # ID 4 rounded = 1 border_width = 1 background_color = #888888 20 border_color = #ED2323 60 # ID 5 - taskbar rounded = 0 border_width = 1 background_color = #000000 0 border_color = #000000 0 # ID 6 - active taskbar rounded = 0 border_width = 1 background_color = #d8d8d8 8 border_color = #d8d8d8 0 # ID 7 - tooltip rounded = 3 border_width = 0 background_color = #222222 90 border_color = #222222 90 # ID 8 rounded = 1 border_width = 1 background_color = #888888 20 border_color = #888888 20 # Panel panel_monitor = all panel_position = bottom center horizontal panel_items = TSC panel_size = 100% 30 panel_margin = 0 -1 panel_padding = 0 0 panel_dock = 0 wm_menu = 1 panel_layer = bottom panel_background_id = 1 # Panel Autohide autohide = 0 autohide_show_timeout = 0.3 autohide_hide_timeout = 1.5 autohide_height = 6 strut_policy = follow_size # Taskbar taskbar_mode = multi_desktop taskbar_padding = 6 0 6 taskbar_background_id = 5 taskbar_active_background_id = 6 taskbar_name = 1 taskbar_name_background_id = 0 taskbar_name_active_background_id = 0 taskbar_name_font = Liberation Sans 9 taskbar_name_font_color = #828282 100 taskbar_name_active_font_color = #828282 100 # Tasks urgent_nb_of_blink = 20 task_icon = 1 task_text = 0 task_centered = 1 task_maximum_size = 40 40 task_padding = 2 2 task_background_id = 3 task_active_background_id = 2 task_urgent_background_id = 4 task_iconified_background_id = 3 # Task Icons task_icon_asb = 80 0 0 task_active_icon_asb = 100 0 0 task_urgent_icon_asb = 100 0 0 task_iconified_icon_asb = 80 0 0 # Fonts task_font = Liberation Sans 06_55 6 task_font_color = #828282 60 task_active_font_color = #828282 100 task_urgent_font_color = #FFFFFF 100 task_iconified_font_color = #d8d8d8 60 font_shadow = 0 # Launcher launcher_padding = 8 4 4 launcher_background_id = 0 launcher_icon_size = 24 # Specify icon theme names with launcher_icon_theme. # if you have an XSETTINGS manager running (like xfsettingsd), tint2 will follow your current theme. launcher_icon_theme = gnome-colors-statler # Each launcher_item_app must be a full path to a .desktop file launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/terminator.desktop launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/xfce4-file-manager.desktop launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/iceweasel.desktop # System Tray systray = 1 systray_padding = 4 2 3 systray_sort = right2left systray_background_id = 0 systray_icon_size = 24 systray_icon_asb = 100 0 0 # Clock time1_format = %I:%M %p / %a %b %d #time1_font = Museo 8 time1_font = AvantGardeLTMedium 8 #time2_format = %A %d %B #time2_font = Monospace 6 clock_font_color = #b5b5b5 100 clock_padding = 4 0 clock_background_id = 0 clock_lclick_command = gsimplecal clock_rclick_command = gsimplecal # Tooltips tooltip = 1 tooltip_padding = 2 2 tooltip_show_timeout = 0.0 tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.0 tooltip_background_id = 7 tooltip_font_color = #d8d8d8 100 tooltip_font = Liberation Sans normal 9.0 # Mouse mouse_middle = none mouse_right = toggle mouse_scroll_up = toggle mouse_scroll_down = iconify # Battery battery = 1 battery_low_status = 20 battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low" battery_hide = 96 bat1_font = Liberation Mono 8 bat2_font = Liberation Mono 8 battery_font_color = #b5b5b5 100 battery_padding = 2 0 battery_background_id = 0 # End of configHere is my autostart script for reference:
## Openbox autostart.sh ## ==================== ## When you login to your CrunchBang Openbox session, this autostart script ## will be executed to set-up your environment and launch any applications ## you want to run at startup. ## ## Note*: some programs, such as 'nm-applet' are run via XDG autostart. ## Run '/usr/lib/openbox/openbox-xdg-autostart --list' to list any ## XDG autostarted programs. ## ## More information about this can be found at: ## http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Autostart ## ## If you do something cool with your autostart script and you think others ## could benefit from your hack, please consider sharing it at: ## http://crunchbang.org/forums/ ## ## Have fun & happy CrunchBangin'!## GNOME PolicyKit and Keyring eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon -s --components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh,gpg) & ## Set root window colour hsetroot -solid "#2E3436" & ## Group start: ## 1. nitrogen - restores wallpaper ## 2. compositor - start ## 3. sleep - give compositor time to start ## 4. tint2 panel (\ nitrogen --restore && \ cb-compositor --start && \ sleep 2s && \ tint2 \ ) & ## Volume control for systray (sleep 2s && pnmixer) & ## Volume keys daemon xfce4-volumed & ## Enable power management xfce4-power-manager & ## Start Thunar Daemon thunar --daemon & ## Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info. if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 & synclient TapButton1=1 & fi ## Start xscreensaver xscreensaver -no-splash & ## Start Clipboard manager (sleep 3s && clipit) & ## Set keyboard settings - 250 ms delay and 25 cps (characters per second) repeat rate. ## Adjust the values according to your preferances. xset r rate 250 25 & ## Turn on/off system beep xset b off & ## The following command runs hacks and fixes for #! LiveCD sessions. ## Safe to delete after installation. cb-cowpowers & ## cb-welcome - post-installation script, will not run in a live session and ## only runs once. Safe to remove. (sleep 10s && cb-welcome --firstrun) & ## cb-fortune - have Waldorf say a little adage #(sleep 120s && cb-fortune) & ## Display xrandr -s 1280x720 -r 60 & xrandr --dpi 96 & ## Run the conky conky -q &
Here is how you can switch out Iceweasel for Firefox. Yes, I know they are identical, but someone may want to learn how to install Firefox on Debian Wheezy:sudo apt-get remove iceweasel sudo echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-buildAftewards you need to change your menu entry for your browser by editing your menu.xml file (Settings >> Openbox >> Edit menu.xml) and change it to something like this:
<item label=”Web Browser”>
<action name=”Execute”>
<command>
firefox
</command>
</action>
</item>
Adblock Plus (plugin) (Highly Recommended)
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a content-filtering extension for Mozilla Ice Weasel and Google Chrome web browsers. ABP, a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Very popular, and almost what I would consider to be a necessity, if you surf the Internet on a daily basis. Works great with sites like youtube.com and other similar web sites that bombard you with constant commercials. It will also allow you to import preconfigured blocklists to stop tracker web sites from monitoring your browser presence.
Password Exporter (plugin)
This extension allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported later. Very helpful when needing to re-install onto a new system or migrating your data and personal information.
NetVideoHunter (plugin)
NetVideoHunter is a Ice Weasel add-on (extension), and you can easily download videos and audio from almost all audio and video streaming web pages with two clicks. Tested and considered to be probably the best plugin out of all the other similar plugins available for this kind of task.
HTTPS Everywhere (plugin)
HTTPS Everywhere is a Ice Weasel and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
NoScript (plugin)
NoScript (plugin) is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, created and actively maintained by Giorgio Maone, an Italian software developer and member of the Mozilla Security Group. NoScript allows executable web content such as JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other plugins only if the site hosting it is considered trusted by its user and has been previously added to a whitelist. NoScript also offers specific countermeasures against security exploits.
Dictionaries & Language Packs (plugin) (Recommended)
Additional Miscellaneous Add-ons for Firefox and Iceweasel:
BCExplorer for Firefox – BrightCloud category and reputation info as you browse!
Beef Taco – Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising by 102 different advertising networks
BetterPrivacy – BetterPrivacy is a safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO’s on Google, YouTube, Ebay…
BitDefender TrafficLight for Firefox – Adds a strong and non-intrusive layer of security to your browsing experience
BrowserProtect – Protect your browser configuration against homepage and search hijacks
CipherFox – Displays the current SSL/TLS cipher and certificate chain in the status bar.
CS Lite – This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions.
Ghostery – Protect your privacy. See who’s tracking your web browsing and block them with Ghostery.
GoogleSharing – GoogleSharing ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.
HTTPS Finder – HTTPS Finder automatically detects and alerts when SSL is available on a web page. It also provides one-click rule creation for HTTPS Everywhere. Other features include an ignore-domain list, and “auto-forward” to HTTPS.
Keylogger Beater – Use it to keep your username or password from being stolen by a keylogger.
LinkExtend – Provides meta-site-ratings for computer safety, child safety, company ethics, and popularity.
Master Password+ – Various enhancements for “master password”
Netcraft Toolbar – Blocks phishing sites, helping to protect users from online fraud…
anonymoX – Firefox add-on to achieve anonymity in surfing, using web-based proxy
PrivacySuite – One place to protect your privacy when you go online.
RefControl – Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.
RequestPolicy – Be in control of which cross-site requests are allowed.
ShowIP – Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right click) and hostname (left click), like whois, netcraft, etc. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.
Certificate Patrol – Verifies SSL certificates
TrackMeNot – Protects users against search data profiling…
Priv3 – Practical Third-Party Privacy for the Social Web
WOT – The WOT add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser.
For Human Eyes Only – converts messages into images
Change IP Address – How to quickly change your IP address with a new router MAC address
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8399&p=1
To add the WebUpd8 Oracle Java PPA repository to your software sources in Debian, use the following commands (but you can use SMXI to install Java 7, if needed):echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Test your browser to make sure your Java is installed and working properly here:
http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore is not only the best solution for hardware failure, it is also the ultimate antivirus: Even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes. If there is one thing you are going to be doing often with Crunchabang, it is reinstalling your operating system, and so it makes sense to backup your work before you get too involved tinkering around with Crunchbang. (Recommended)
http://redobackup.org/
Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan. Clonezilla SE provides multicast support similar to Norton Ghost Corporate Edition.
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
How to configure Autologin with SliMconf:
sudo apt-get install slimconf gksudo slimconf
How to change the clock from military time to 12-hour AM/PM w/date in Tint2 config:
Openbox > Preferences > tint2 Panel Config > Edit config file, look for # Clock and change everything for #Clock to look like this and save it:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … es-to-faq/
# Clock time1_format = %I:%M %p / %a %b %d #time1_font = Museo 8 time1_font = AvantGardeLTMedium 8 #time2_format = %A %d %B #time2_font = Monospace 6 clock_font_color = #b5b5b5 100 clock_padding = 4 0 clock_background_id = 0 clock_lclick_command = gsimplecal clock_rclick_command = gsimplecalIf you would like to know what other time variables are available:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … es-to-faq/
Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW & GUFW)Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install gufw gufwTo check your current settings:
sudo ufw status verboseTo add firewall rules:
sudo ufw deny 5353/udp sudo ufw deny 5900/tcp sudo ufw deny 22 sudo ufw deny 25/tcp sudo ufw deny 135,139,445/tcp sudo ufw deny 137,138/udp sudo ufw deny 110 sudo ufw deny 2049 sudo ufw deny 143 sudo ufw deny 21/tcp sudo ufw deny sshRe-check your changes:
sudo ufw status verboseRe-check enable (required):
sudo ufw enableIt will automatically load these settings from now on. If you need to access one of those ports temporarily, then you can open up sudo gufw and disable your firewall momentarily. Just don’t forget to re-enable it when you are done.
Here is a configuration script if you are running a server:
#!/bin/sh # obtain server's IP address SERVERIP=`hostname --all-ip-addresses | cut --fields 1 --delimiter " "` # disable firewall ufw disable # reset all firewall rules ufw reset # set default rules: deny all incoming traffic, allow all outgoing traffic ufw default deny incoming ufw default allow outgoing # open port for SSH ufw allow OpenSSH # open port for Webmin ufw allow webmin # open ports for Samba file sharing ufw allow from 10.0.0.0/8 to $SERVERIP app Samba ufw allow to 10.0.0.0/8 from $SERVERIP app Samba # open ports for Transmission-Daemon ufw allow 9091 ufw allow 20500:20599/tcp ufw allow 20500:20599/udp # open port for MySQL ufw allow proto tcp from 10.0.0.0/8 to any port 3306 # open ports for Lighttpd ufw allow “Lighttpd Full” # open port for network time protocol (ntpd) ufw allow ntp # enable firewall ufw enable # list all firewall rules ufw status verboseFor more information:
http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/
How to periodically scan for rootkits. Both RKHunter and CHKRootkit basically do the same thing check your system for rootkits. No harm in using both.
Open a Terminal and enter the following :
sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkitTo run chkrootkit open a terminal window and enter :
sudo chkrootkitTo update and run RKHunter. Open a Terminal and enter the following :
sudo rkhunter --update sudo rkhunter --propupd sudo rkhunter --check
If you get a warning for unhide.rb rkhunter simply informs you the unhide.rb executable
located in /usr/bin/ is a ruby script. It is perfectly normal and you can whitelist it in rkhunter.conf{,.local}.
http://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-secure-ubuntu-1204-lts-server-part-1-basics
Multimedia
Debia equivalent : vlc, mplayer, fluendo media codecs
Unfortunately, many audio and video formats won’t work “out of the box” with Debian, or most Linux distros.
Here is a quick installation script for Multimedia codecs and other applications:
cd /usr/local/bin sudo wget http://debianhelp.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/exoodles-tar.doc sudo cp exoodles-tar.doc exoodles-tar.gz sudo tar -xvf exoodles-tar.gz sudo chmod +x exoodles sudo exoodlesIf you want to install your codecs manually proceed with the following instructions below.
If you are running a 32-bit version of Debian, copy and paste in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-53 wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/non-free/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20110131-0.1_i386.deb dpkg -i w32codecs_20110131-0.1_i386.deb wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3_i386.deb dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3_i386.deb wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-ugly/gstreamer0.10-lame_0.10.17-0.0_i386.deb dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-lame_0.10.17-0.0_i386.debIf you are running a 64-bit version of Debian, copy and paste in Terminal:
su apt-get install libavcodec-extra-53 wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/non-free/w/w64codecs/w64codecs_20071007-0.5_amd64.deb dpkg -i w64codecs_20071007-0.5_amd64.deb wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3_amd64.deb dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3_amd64.deb wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-ugly/gstreamer0.10-lame_0.10.17-0.0_amd64.deb dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-lame_0.10.17-0.0_amd64.deb
MPlayer is a movie player that plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, and PVA files. You can also use it to watch VCDs, SVCDs, DVDs, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies. It supports a wide range of output drivers including X11, XVideo, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB etc. There are also nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install vlc mplayer mozilla-plugin-vlc guayadeque radiotraySMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave. Don’t worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, and volume. This is really great for watching DVD movies.
sudo apt-get install smplayerFFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash.
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg gxine mencoder mpeg2dec vorbis-tools id3v2 mpg321 mpg123 libflac++6 ffmpeg libmp4v2-2 totem-mozilla icedax tagtool easytag id3tool lame libmad0 libjpeg-progs libquicktime2 flac faac faad sox ffmpeg2theora libmpeg2-4 uudeview flac libmpeg3-1 mpeg3-utils mpegdemux liba52-0.7.4-devGstreammer 0.10
Open your Terminal, copy and paste (when you get to the EULA prompt press Tab key):
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-gnonlin gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer-toolsHow-to install Netflix in Crunchbang:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23958
Additional True Type Fonts
When you begin the installation process you will come to a window that will require you to accept the EULA to install, and you will need to click on your <Tab> key to select <OK> and carefully press enter key and then carefully use <TAB> to select YES at the next prompt.
Open your Terminal, copy and paste:
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installerExtra Multimedia packages:
For 32-bit
sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2 gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 ffmpeg sox twolame vorbis-tools lame faad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-badFor 64-bit
sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2 gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 ffmpeg sox twolame vorbis-tools lame faad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
Archiver/ Packing software (Recommended)
Windows equivalent : winrar, zip, 7zip
Ubuntu equivalent : tar, unrar, p7zip, arj, unace
An archive format is the file format of an archive file. The archive format is determined by the file archiver. Some archive formats are well-defined by their authors and have become conventions supported by multiple vendors and/or open-source communities.
sudo apt-get install unace rar unrar p7zip zip unzip p7zip-full p7zip-rar sharutils uudeview mpack arj cabextract file-roller
Google Chrome Plugins:Adblock Plus (plugin) (Recommended)
Adblock Plus (ABP) is a content-filtering extension for Google Chrome web browsers. ABP, a forked version of Adblock, allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. Very popular, and almost what I would consider to be a necessity, if you surf the Internet on a daily basis. Works great with sites like youtube.com and other similar web sites that bombard you with constant commercials. It will also allow you to import preconfigured blocklists to stop tracker web sites from monitoring your browser presence.
Remote Desktop (plugin)
Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet.
HTTPS Everywhere (plugin)
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
Reditr is to Reddit what Tweetdeck is to Twitter. And now you can experience it under any GNU/Linux based system thanks to Google Chrome.
Additional Miscellaneous Add-ons for Chrome and Chromium:
A Little Privacy – Prevents passing referrer to third parties, removes redirect trackers, resolves short URLs, and more.
Abine TACO – Opt-out of advertising networks
Block Mixed Content – This extension blocks loading of insecure active content in secure (HTTPS) pages.
Chrome BCExplorer BETA – BrightCloud category and reputation info as you browse!
Chromeblock – Stop secret tracking of your web browsing
Disconnect – Stop major third parties and search engines from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do.
Ghostery – Protect your privacy. See who’s tracking your web browsing with Ghostery.
KB SSL Enforcer – Automatic security, browse encrypted.
Keep My Opt-Outs – Permanently opts your browser out of online ad personalization via cookies.
NOREF – Suppress Referrer (referer) for Hyperlinks
NotScripts – A clever extension that provides a high degree of ‘NoScript’ like control of javascript, iframes, and plugins on Google Chrome.
SafeBrowser – Sends the url of the currently selected tab to Google Safe Browsing to retrieve some malware results of that domain
SaferChrome – SaferChrome makes browsing safer by identifying and preventing security and privacy breaches.
Signature Check – Allows users to check a certificate thumbprint against the SignatureCheck.org thumbprint to detect man-in-the-middle attacks that use valid signing certificates.
SiteAdvisor for Chrome – SiteAdvisor will give safety ratings for websites, this extension will warn you before you open threat sites.
TrafficLight (BETA) – Adds a strong and non-intrusive layer of security to your browsing experience
Unencrypted Password Warning – Helps to prevent you from sending unencrypted passwords or credit card numbers.
Vanilla Cookie Manager – A Cookie Whitelist Manager that helps protect your privacy. Automatically removes unwanted cookies.
WOT – The WOT add-on is a safe surfing tool for your browser.
Hide My IP – Anonymous browsing
Special Note: After install Google Talk, if you see something like this:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
You will need to open Synaptic Package manager and find the duplicate repository entry and disable it manually.
sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' apt-get update apt-get install google-talkplugin
Instant Retro (Chrome alternative to Instagram) is a nice web app that lets you upload your digital photos and add vintage effects to your pictures in a snap. No smart phone needed! No need to sign up, just upload your digital photos from your computer and get started. It has a number of options that add different effects to the photo. Some of the effects are Roll, Burned, Lens, Rounded and Fuji. There are also options like the ability to adjust curves, lighten center, desaturate, etc which can adjusted using the horizontal sliders. If you are looking for something like Instagram on Ubuntu Linux then InstantRetro is for you.
http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-retro/jlahmeejnbkdnjnckboeglpfmjbfmopp
Viewing PDF files
Windows equivalent : Adobe Reader
Ubuntu equivalent : Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but doesn’t have PDF creation capabilities. Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication (when you get to the EULA prompt press Tab key) and make sure to install medibuntu repository at the beginning of this guide at the top.Special Note: You need to install the stable repo before you can add acroread in Wheezy.
sudo apt-get install acroreadGraphical FTP clients
Windows equivalent : CuteFTP, SmartFTP, CoreFTP
Ubuntu equivalent : FileZilla
FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP/SFTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from SourceForge.net.
This is great FTP client, very complete, in my opinion, and the best one around.To install FileZilla in terminal:
sudo apt-get install filezilla filezilla-commonAccess it through Applications → Internet → FileZilla FTP Client.
Geany is a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla and including basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features. Among the supported programming languages are C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, LaTeX, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Pascal, Haskell, Erlang, Vala and many others.
It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.sudo apt-get install geany geany-pluginsKompoZer is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on a rewritten version of the now-discontinued Nvu editor. KompoZer is maintained as a community-driven fork and is a project on Sourceforge.
KompoZer’s WYSIWYG editing capabilities are one of the main attractions of the software. In addition, KompoZer allows direct code editing as well as a split code-graphic view:sudo apt-get install kompozerSpecial Note: You will need to add the stable repo to install Kompozer.
Access it through Applications → Programming → Kompozer
LibreOffice (Recommended)
Windows equivalent : Microsoft Office Suite
Ubuntu equivalent : LibreOffice 3 Suite
LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms. Its developers’ goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements. The name is a hybrid word with the first part Libre, which means free (as in freedom) in French and Spanish, and the English word Office.
LibreOffice comes preinstalled by default in Ubuntu usually, but you still want to double-check at this point that you have everything else installed that you probably will need, and that you have the latest updated version from the developers.
To install LibreOffice:
Grammar checking Plug-in for LibreOffice Writer:
http://debianhelp.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/how-to-install-grammar-checker-in-libreoffice-in-ubuntu/
Make sure to update your LibreOffice plugins afterwards too.
To enable PDF import capability:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-pdfimport
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center
Special Note: If you would like the MS Windows OS or Apple Mac OS version of LibreOffice Suite for another computer you have at work or school – here is where you can find the link. And I definitely recommend using the torrent because the direct link doesn’t usually completely download for some unknown reason. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Image Editors
Windows equivalent : Adobe Photoshop
Debian equivalent : GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. It has layering abilities like Photoshop.In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
New additions in Gimp 2.8 are single window mode, on-canvas text editing, layers group, and to apply all changes to a layer grouping.
GIMP’s product vision is that GIMP is, or will become, a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements.
sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extrasAccess it through Applications → Graphics → GIMP Image Editor.
Special Note: If you want the latest version of Gimp, I have attempted to figure out a way to install the latest GIMP 2.8 in Debian Squeeze and I couldn’t find instructions that would work to allow me to successfully build it from scratch. I was able to install Gimp 2.7, but it had problems too after testing it out. There really isn’t a way to get 2.8 on here without a huge hassle – AFAIK.
Download additional Script-Fu filters and tweaks:
Instructions on how to install Scripts that work in Gimp:
http://www.gimphelp.org/script28.shtml
To install additional helpful plugins for Gimp try:
http://registry.gimp.org/popular
Photo Management
Windows equivalent: Aftershot Pro, Lightroom, Bridge, Photoshop Organizer
RAW file viewers/editors/plugins for SLR Digital Photography
Not the most intuitive program to use at first, Raw Therapee is a fairly feature rich and comprehensive RAW editor that’s compatible with Linux. At the time of writing, the team are working on a stable release of version 3.0, which is a major release for the project. Unidentified Flying RAW (or UFRaw for short) is a dedicated RAW image editor based on GTK+. It can be used as an application on its own or as a plugin for GIMP (simply open a RAW image in GIMP to be presented with the UFRaw editor window).
sudo apt-get install libraw-bin ufraw ufraw-batch and gimp-ufraw rawtherapeeFor more raw file utilities visit: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-great-tools-editing-raw-photos-linux/
Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. It focuses on the workflow to make it easier for the photographer to quickly handle the thousands of images a day of shooting can produce. It’s also one of the very few FOSS projects able to do tethered shooting.
sudo apt-get install darktable
Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. Shotwell automatically groups photos and videos by date, and supports tagging. Its image editing features allow users to rotate, crop, eliminate red eye, and adjust levels and color balance. It also features an auto “enhance” option that will attempt to guess appropriate levels for the image. Shotwell allows users to publish their images and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Piwigo, and YouTube.
sudo apt-get install shotwellAudacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import files in various formats and convert audio files into many different audio file formats too. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. This is the first and last GUI audio editor you will ever need on Debian.
The GUI was built with wxWidgets and the audio I/O supports PulseAudio, OSS and ALSA under Linux.sudo apt-get install audacity lame libmp3lame0gtkpod
gtkpod is a graphical user interface for the Apple iPod for Unix-like systems, written using the GTK+ toolkit.
Windows equivalent : iTunes
This application allow you to connect to your ipod, shuffle, idohickeythingamabob so you can access your music, mp4s, and tranfer them, copy them, rename them, with Ubuntu or Debian systems. It’s all kinds of good stuff for apple media users.sudo apt-get install gtkpodSpotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal.
Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had approximately ten million users as of 15 September 2010; about 2.5 million of whom were paying members.The service is, as of November 2011, available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Special Note: There is a special work-around to get Spotify installed in Crunchbang here:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=19554
linux@linux:~$ sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libssl0.9.8 spotify-client The following NEW packages will be installed: libssl0.9.8 spotify-client spotify-client-qt 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 85.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://repository.spotify.com/ stable/non-free spotify-client amd64 1:0.8.8.323.gd143501.250-1 [35.1 MB] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main libssl0.9.8 amd64 0.9.8o-4squeeze13 [998 kB] Get:3 http://repository.spotify.com/ stable/non-free spotify-client-qt all 1:0.8.8.323.gd143501.250-1 [2,272 B] Fetched 36.1 MB in 1min 12s (497 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package libssl0.9.8. (Reading database ... 133996 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libssl0.9.8 (from .../libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-4squeeze13_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package spotify-client. Unpacking spotify-client (from .../spotify-client_1%3a0.8.8.323.gd143501.250-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package spotify-client-qt. Unpacking spotify-client-qt (from .../spotify-client-qt_1%3a0.8.8.323.gd143501.250-1_all.deb) ... Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8o-4squeeze13) ... Setting up spotify-client (1:0.8.8.323.gd143501.250-1) ... Setting up spotify-client-qt (1:0.8.8.323.gd143501.250-1) ... Processing triggers for menu ...Map Viewing and Management
Google Earth allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. With Google Earth’s rich, geographical content, you are able to experience a more realistic view of the world.
Software Prerequisite: Make sure you have all your media codecs installed listed at the beginning of this tutorial.And if you are running a 64-bit version of Debian you need to install ia32-libs:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ia32-libsPrerequisite (both 32-bit and 64-bit):
sudo apt-get install lsb-coreClick here to go to the Google Earth deb package download page.
Select either: 32 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) or 64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)
And install it with Gdebi like this:
Checkgmail
To install Checkgmail type the following command in the Terminal Window.
sudo apt-get install checkgmailNow you can launch it from Application → Internet → CheckGmail
Hard Disk Partition Manager
Windows equivalent : Norton Partition Magic
Ubuntu equivalent : GParted
GParted is a GTK+ front-end to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application.
It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems (works with Vista / Windows 7 System & Data partitions), reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). It is useful for tasks such as: creating space for new operating systems, restructuring disk space to separate user and operating system data, and copying partitions to enable upgrading to a larger hard disk drive. Your hard disk drive or USB flash drive can be subdivided into one or more partitions. GParted enables you to reorganize your disk partitions while preserving the contents of these partitions.sudo apt-get install gpartedCalibre is a free and open source e-book computer software that organizes, saves and manages e-books, supporting a variety of formats. It also supports e-book syncing with a variety of popular e-book readers. calibre is cross-platform (programmed in Python and C) and is intended for the three main operating systems, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Windows: “Kindle for PC” software
Calibre was originally called libprs500, but was renamed calibre (lower case ‘C’) in mid-2008. calibre is primarily an e-book cataloging program. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, where a single database entry corresponds with the same book in a variety of formats. calibre supports the following formats for cataloging: AZW, AZW1, CBR, CBZ, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, IMP, LIT, LRF, LRX, MOBI, ODT, OEBZIP, OPF, PDB, PDF, PML, PMLZ, PRC, RAR, RB, RTF, SNB, TPZ, TXT and ZIP.
sudo apt-get install calibreAlso make sure to install better smaller fonts:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/957788-installing-calibri-font/
P2P Clients & Servers, File Sharing
Windows equivalent : Limewire, utorrent, Azureus, Emule, PeerGuardian
Ubuntu equivalent : Frostwire, Deluge, Azureus, Amule, Moblock/Mobloquer
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounted for roughly 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009.
Frostwire
Windows equivalent: Limewire
FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client, first released in September, 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but developers added more features, such as BitTorrent support. In version Five, Gnutella support was dropped entirely, and now FrostWire only uses the BitTorrent network. Development of the program has been active since the program was first released in September 2004.
Install Frostwire:http://www.frostwire.com/download/?os=ubuntu&
Bittorrent Add-ons for Ubuntu:
Windows Equivalent: PeerGuardian (highly recommended for Bittorent users)
Ubuntu equivalent : PGL and PGLGUI
PeerGuardian Linux (pgl) is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origins lie in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P.
While you are installing PGL just accept the default settings for now. You can change them with PGLGUI after you are done installing everything.
To install PGL and PGLGUI in terminal (select the default settings by using the TAB key and pressing enter – there will be several prompts – just accept default settings and afterwards you can configure the blocklists):
Add these to your source.list:
deb http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/debian squeeze main deb-src http://moblock-deb.sourceforge.net/debian squeeze mainUpdate your system.
And then copy and paste in Terminal:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C0145138 gpg --export --armor C0145138 | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get install pgld pglcmd pglguiMake sure to enable your blocklists you want and update PGLGUI after you get it completely installed:
The first thing most users will notice after installing PGL and have it running is that their Pidgin/Empathy/IMclientOfChoice/WebBrowser stops working. PGLGUI log will list the IP’s and info about the IP’s, so just whitelist them if need be with one mouse click.
It is really a very strong utility and will block pretty much everything until you tell it to do otherwise. But you only need to run this when you are seeding or downloading torrent files.
Deluge Client is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrent activity.
The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces being able to connect remotely from any platform.
sudo apt-get install deluge-torrentAccess it through Applications → Internet → Deluge Torrent.
Azureus Client: Uses Java to run, very complete but a bit heavy. And has a wide variety of add-ons to choose from too.
Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a P2P file sharing client using the bittorrent protocol. Search and download torrent files. Play, convert and transcode videos and music for playing on many devices such as PSP, TiVo, XBox, PS3, iTunes (iPhone, iPod, Apple TV).
sudo apt-get install azureusAccess it through Applications → Internet → Azureus.
µTorrent Server is a very tiny BitTorrent server, super fast and ultra light. µTorrent’s built for speed. That means ultra-efficient downloads of mega-sized files. Untested in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Go to µTorrent official site and download the Ubuntu installation package and use the following instructions to install µTorrent at:
http://ubuntuguide.net/install-lightweight-fast-%C2%B5torrent-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts/
They aren’t quite Ubuntu friendly, but they will help you get that on there.
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and more. I highly recommend installing this on your system at some point, and making sure to have it automatically run at system login as a reminder. Even though Ubuntu doesn’t have issues with Viruses and Spyware, however your system can become slowly bogged down with tmp cache files in Mozilla Firefox and Chrome with heavy use, so it makes sense to run bleachbit periodically to speed up your system.
Windows equivalent : CCleaner
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source. If you have a system that seems to be running slower than normal, it’s always a good idea to try running Bleachbit to see if it may resolve your performance issues that you may be experiencing. I personally recommend that heavy internet users run this at least once or twice a month.
sudo apt-get install bleachbit sudo bleachbit
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
