Things to DO after installing Ubuntu 14.04

As Ubuntu has released its latest version 14.04 and many more community driven desktop environments. Ubuntu has not come with complete set of application out of the box like Linux Mint. You need to install some codecs and apps to work it out.

Here is what you can do after installing Ubuntu 14.04. After first step you can download the file and proceed as given in the file.

1. Enabling Canonical Repo.....

Go to dash board and type software and click on Software and Updates. A window like this will appear.

Now choose canonical partners from the tab "Other Software". It may ask to reload.

Now you can download the file from here. It is an .sh file. All the following commands are listed in this file. You just need to execute the file using ./ubudate.sh and it will do rest of the things. Before that you need to make this file executable using command chmod a+x ubudate.sh Otherwise you can install manually these software as your choice.


2. Now run command to update the system.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Install Multimedia Codecs...

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

4. Install VLS and SMPlayer for video playing

sudo apt-get install vlc smplayer

5. Music players and xbmc

sudo apt-get install banshee rhythmbox minitube xbmc

6. install compression stuff

sudo apt-get install p7zip-rar p7zip-full unace unrar zip unzip sharutils rar uudeview mpack arj cabextract file-roller

7. Install filezilla

sudo apt-get install filezilla

8. Install flash-player

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

9. Install Chromium(I suggest Chromium instead of google-chrome)

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

10. WGET

sudo apt-get install wget

11. Google talk plugin

wget -c --tries=0 "https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb"

sudo dpkg -i google-talkplugin*.deb

12. tweak tool

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool unity-tweak-tool

13. Skype

sudo apt-get install skype

14. Java

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin openjdk-7-jre

15. GIMP

sudo apt-get install gimp

16. compizconfig-settings-manager

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

mmm.... there are many more but these are enough...