INSTALL_Jessie-testing.org

Debian Testing (Jessie) install

Table of Contents

• Download and install Debian
  • Bash setup
  • System
  • APT and upgrade
• Software
  • General
  • Web
  • Multimedia
  • Other
    • Google Stuff
    • Skype
    • Rockbox utility

Download and install Debian

• Download an image of the Debian Installer.
• Check md5 sums:

  md5sum debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso 
      

• Copy the iso on a USB stick (warning, this formats the stick):

  sudo dd if=debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso of=/dev/sdX
      

  (where sdX is given by df).

• Boot on the USB stick and follow instructions. Swap = RAM × 2 up to 4 GB of RAM, otherwise Swap = RAM. Space kept for root on /home: 3%
  • If necessary, adds a SWAP file.
• Install sudo (if necessary):

  # adduser mathieu sudo
      

  • Then relog:

  # su - mathieu
      

  • Deactivate root account:

  sudo passwd -l root
      

  • To re-activate root account (if necessary):

  sudo passwd -u root
      

• Install the complete and functional system (if necessary):

  sudo tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install
      

  or $ sudo aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment

  sudo aptitude install gnome
  sudo tasksel install desktop
  sudo tasksel install laptop
  sudo aptitude install laptop-mode-tools
  sudo aptitude install gnome-session
  sudo aptitude install gnome-terminal
  sudo aptitude install gdm3
      

Bash setup

• Remove menu, set up text colors and transparent background: in the options.
• Autocompletion as root, Ctrl-N keeps current directory, Manpage with colors, Aliases (which allow sudo), Ctrl-PageUp/Down to autocomplete based on history, Screen (server version), add or uncomment the following lines:

  sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
      

  if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
  . /etc/bash_completion
  fi
  ### Ctrl-N keeps current directory
  export PS1='\[$(__vte_ps1)\]'$PS1
  ### Manpages with colors
  export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most -s"
  ### Alias upgrade
  alias upgrade='sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade && sudo aptitude clean && sudo aptitude autoclean && sudo aptitude purge ~c'
  ### Alias VPN UF
  alias vpnuf='echo -n "<password>" | sudo openconnect -u <UF-email> --passwd-on-stdin https://vpn.ufl.edu/'
  ### Alias wake-on-lan
  alias wol='wakeonlan -i <IP> <MAC>'
  ### Alias app (find the name of an application)
  alias app='ps --no-header -o comm -p $(xwininfo -all | grep "Process id:" | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d" " -f2)' 
  ### When using sudo, use alias expansion (otherwise sudo ignores your aliases)
  alias sudo='sudo '
  ### Git in English
  alias git='LANG=en_US git'
  ### Alias getwd = pwd
  alias getwd='pwd'
  ### Prevent screen to turn off (server only)
  xset s off # Disable X windows screen saver
  xset -dpms # Disable display power management system
  ### Bash history with Ctrl + page up/down
  nano .inputrc
  "\e[5~": history-search-backward
  "\e[6~": history-search-forward
  # "\e[A": history-search-backward
  # "\e[B": history-search-forward
  set show-all-if-ambiguous on
  set completion-ignore-case on
  "\e[1;5C": forward-word
  "\e[1;5D": backward-word
        

System

Problème de luminosité ? http://ihisham.com/2013/12/fix-gnome-screen-brightness-keys-bug/

• Use only SWAP when 100% of RAM is used

  sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
      

  # SWAP after 100% RAM used 
  vm.swappiness = 0
        

  • To empty SWAP (switch to RAM only–requires that enough RAM is available):

  sudo swapoff -av
  sudo swapon -av
      

• If step skiped during install, set up space for root on /home (3% instead of 5%):

  sudo tune2fs -m 3 /dev/XXX
      

  (where XXX is given by df and corresponds to /home; -l to check).

• Optimize SSD:
  • Reduce write frequency + boost performance:

    sudo nano /etc/fstab
            

    Add the noatime and discard options for every SSD partition.

  • /tmp in RAM:

    sudo nano /etc/fstab
            

    tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=1g

  • Init settings:

    sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
            

  • Remove .xsession-errors

    sudo echo 'ln -fs /dev/null "$HOME"/.xsession-errors' > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/00disable-xsession-errors
            

• Bug with Super+H opening baobab instead of Nautilus:

  xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory
      

APT and upgrade

• Copy sources.list and preferences in /etc/apt/.

  sudo cp etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt
  sudo cp etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt
      

• Avoid downloading translation indexes:

  sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf
      

  Acquire::Languages "none";
        

• Complete upgrade + install:

  sudo aptitude update
  sudo aptitude install deb-multimedia-keyring
  sudo aptitude install apt-listbugs
  sudo apt-cache policy
  sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
  sudo aptitude full-upgrade
  upgrade
      

• WIFI Firmware support:

  sudo aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi
  sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
  sudo modprobe iwlwifi
      

Software

General

sudo aptitude install aspell aspell-fr aspell-en autoconf bijiben build-essential cadaver chromium-browser cmake cmake-curses-gui conky-all cowsay debian-goodies deja-dup detox disper dosbox elinks epiphany-browser espeak firmware-linux-free flashplugin-nonfree fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-crosextra-caladea fortune gcstar gftp gir1.2-gweather-3.0 git gkbd-capplet gnome-shell-extensions gnome-tweak-tool gnote gparted gtg gtick gtk2-engines-pixbuf gvncviewer hibernate hunspell-en-ca hunspell-en-us hunspell-fr libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-pdfimport marble most mozplugger myspell-en-gb network-manager-openconnect-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome ntp pandoc pandoc-citeproc privoxy python-vte revelation rsync screen stellarium subversion telepathy-haze terminator tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-fra transmission tree ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-baekmuk unetbootin unifont unison units unrar vpnc wakeonlan yafc

Web

• Mozilla software

  sudo aptitude install iceweasel iceweasel-l10n-fr icedove icedove-l10n-fr iceowl-extension iceowl-l10n-fr torbrowser-launcher
      

• Icedove integration with Gnome calendar

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.office.calendar exec icedove
      

• Suppression des liens des dicos fr_*

  sudo rm /usr/share/hunspell/fr_*
  sudo rm /usr/share/myspell/dicts/fr_*
      

  In case of trouble, just reinstal hunspell-fr.

• Privoxy :

  sudo aptitude install privoxy
      

  Paramètres Gnome / Réseau / Serveur mandataire : HTTP/HTTPS = localhost:8118

• Enigmail (needs version >= 1.8):

  sudo aptitude install -t unstable enigmail
      

  Then change Gnome settings for the passphrase:

  gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.crypto.cache
      

  Lists relevant settings: the method can be `session` (never expires during the session), `idle` (timer is reset each time there’s activity on the computer) or `timeout` (simple timer since entering the passphrase). We set it to `timeout` with 5 minutes of delay:

  gsettings set org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-method "timeout"
  gsettings set org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-ttl 300
      

Multimedia

sudo aptitude install gimp-gmic gimp-plugin-registry gimp-resynthesizer gthumb hugin imagemagick inkscape darktable rawtherapee phatch qtpfsgui cuetools easytag flac gstreamer1.0-ffmpeg gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly monkeys-audio shntool soundconverter devede easytag mkvtoolnix oggconvert pitivi frei0r-plugins gnome-video-effects-frei0r openshot rhythmbox-ampache sound-juicer sox subtitleeditor vlc vorbis-tools vorbisgain xbmc sweethome3d qarte chromium-bsu

Polices

Hack: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ Copy OTF files in usr/local/share/fonts and check permissions: $ sudo cp * /usr/local/share/fonts $ sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/local/share/fonts Use gnome-tweak-tools to change non-proportional font to Hack Regular 11

Calibri/Cambria : https://wiki.debian.org/SubstitutingCalibriAndCambriaFonts Install Carlito and Caladea, + LibreOffice font substitution (nothing checked though)

Emacs / LaTeX / PDF

sudo aptitude install emacs24 gedit-latex-plugin gummi ispell texlive-full bibtex2html rubber jabref latex2rtf xpdf pdftk pdfjam poppler-utils libtext-pdf-perl pdf2svg impressive pdfchain pdfshuffler calibre mupdf pdf2djvu scribus xournal ditaa

Note that biblatex lives in texlive-bibtex-extra, which comes with texlive-full; pdfmanipulate comes with calibre.

Emacs

Config:

cp -R .emacs.d ~
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

• Different font between Emacs and other software (e.g. gedit): gnome-tweak-tool > Polices > Optimisation > Full
• To get Emacs in the list of available software (contextual menu):

  nano /home/mathieu/.local/share/applications/emacs.desktop
      

  [Desktop Entry]
  Version=1.0
  Name=Emacs
  GenericName=Text Editor
  Comment=View and edit files
  MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;te$
  Exec=/usr/bin/emacs %F
  TryExec=emacs
  Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg
  Type=Application
  Terminal=false
  Categories=Utility;Development;TextEditor;
        

• Install a package (e.g. moderncv)

  sudo nano /etc/texmf/texmf.d/03local.cnf
      

  TEXMFHOME = ~/.emacs.d/texmf
        

  sudo update-texmf
      

  Check with:

  kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
      

  Copy packages in ~/.emacs.d/texmf/tex/latex/ and complete install when necessary, e.g.:

  latex moderntimeline.ins
  latex moderntimeline.dtx
      

• Install a font: copy the font in ~/.emacs.d/texmf/fonts/truetype/, then update the TeX index:

  sudo texhash
      

JabRef

• Import preferences (PrefJabRef-2014-XX-XX)
• Use /home/mathieu/Work/biblio/PDF/ as main file folder (External programs)
• GTK look & feel: Options > Preferences > Advanced > Class name: “com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel”
• Link folder of main BibTeX file to the Tex install:

  mkdir ~/.texmf-var/
  mkdir ~/.texmf-var/bibtex/
  ln -s ~/Work/biblio/ ~/.texmf-var/bibtex/bib
      

  Check with:

  kpsewhich -show-path=.bib
      

PDF

• Adobe Reader (in dmo)

  sudo aptitude install acroread:i386
      

Other

Google Stuff

1. Google Earth

The Debian way:

sudo aptitude install googleearth-package
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get install alien ia32-libs-gtk lib32nss-mdns libfreeimage3 lsb-core msttcorefonts pax rpm ttf-dejavu ttf-bitstream-vera
make-googleearth-package --force
sudo dpkg -i googleearth*.deb

But impossible to install ia32-libs… Solution: get offical .deb @ Google, then:

dpkg-deb -R google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb gg

To extract files, remove dependence to ia32-libs in DEBIAN/Control before recreating the archive:

dpkg-deb -b gg google-earth-stable_current_amd64_mod.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64_mod.deb

1. Google Chrome

Add Google Chrome repository (sources.list + preferences), then:

$ sudo aptitude install google-chrome-stable

Skype

Information

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo aptitude update
wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
sudo dpkg -i skype-install.deb
sudo aptitude -f install

If necessary, install dependencies manually:

sudo aptitude install libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-network:i386 libqt4-xml:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libqtgui4:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxss1:i386 libxv1:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libpulse0:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386

Don’t mute sound (music) when Skype (VoIP) calls or other notifications:

sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa 

and comment the line:

### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active
#load-module module-role-cork
  

Rockbox utility

• Download Rockbox utility
• Unzip file, and copy RockboxUtility in /usr/local/bin/:

  tar xvjf RockboxUtility-v1.4.0-64bit.tar.bz2
  sudo mv RockboxUtility-v1.4.0-64bit/RockboxUtility /usr/local/bin/rockbox
  sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/rockbox 
  rm -R RockboxUtility-v1.4.0-64bit
      

• Launch rockbox
• Install Ambiance theme (activate icons).

ownCloud and Dropbox

sudo aptitude install owncloud-client nautilus-owncloud cadaver

(or from backports:

sudo aptitude install -t jessie-backports owncloud-client nautilus-owncloud

sudo aptitude install nautilus-dropbox ## To install deamon dropbox start -i

Windows share

Credential file:

nano .smb username=basille password=***** chmod 600 .smb

sudo mkdir mnt/ecored sudo mount.cifs //if-srv-flfile02/data/Unit/EcoRed /mnt/ecored -o credentials=/home/mathieu/.smb,uid=mathieu,gid=mathieu

mkdir MabLab mkdir MabLab/bkp mkdir MabLab/bkp/mathieu mkdir MabLab/bkp/mathieu/home

#!/bin/sh ################################################# ## ## ## rsync home Micmac on Ecored ## ## ## #################################################

################################################# ## ## ## -n pour tester le script sans modifs ! ## ## ## #################################################

### Mount Ecored sudo mount.cifs //if-srv-flfile02/data/Unit/EcoRed mnt/ecored -o credentials=/home/mathieu/.smb,uid=mathieu,gid=mathieu

### Save file ACLs (permission, ownership) cd ~ getfacl -R . > .file-acl ### Restore file ACLs

### tout home sauf Photos, Musique, Vidéos, caches/thumbnails, .extraswap, emacs.d/elpa/, .R-site/site-library/, Torbrowser, Trash ### –modify-window=1 to consider rounded timestamp rsync -avz –progress –delete-during –modify-window=1 –exclude=Musique –exclude=Images/Photos –exclude=Vidéos –exclude=.local/share/torbrowser –exclude=.cache –exclude=.extraswap –exclude=.gftp/cache –exclude=.googleearth/Cache/ –exclude=.thumbnails –exclude=.emacs.d/elpa –exclude=.R-site/site-library/ –exclude=.local/share/Trash home/mathieu mnt/ecored/MabLab/bkp/mathieu/home

### Unmount Ecored sudo umount mnt/ecored

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