Ubuntu

To install:

sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

There are a couple of pitfalls:

1. A bad swap file entry in /etc/fstab stopped systemd from booting
2. systemd did’t like my ssd optimizations:
   • tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0 # had to be commented out
   • had to do: mkdir /etc/tmpfiles.d/console-kit.conf to stop another error message

See ubuntuforums.org/…owthread.php

Installed basic Kodi 14 with:

• Broadly based on: foundation.zurb.com/…sass.html

Purpose of tools and their dependencies

• Bower
  • Function: to keep web assets up to date
    • Updates local versions of CSS, JS and HTML (i.e. Foundation) from Git repo
  • Dependencies:
    • installed with npm
    • which depends on node.js
    • requires Git to operate
  • Drupal zurb_foundation usage

apt-get install openssh-server

Follow instructions on www.howtoforge.com/…untu-14.04

making particularly sure to follow them on the first setup screen when the database is chosen.

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and uncomment the line default_charset = "UTF-8"

service apache2 restart

• optionally add a line in fstab to put the data somewhere else:

/data/owncloud  /var/www        none    bind    0 0

Basic setup

echo 'apt update; apt dist-upgrade' > /root/up && chmod 700 /root/up
apt -y install openssh-server vim subversion git mysql-server
apt -y install gedit mysql-workbench
apt -y install python-mysqldb python-pip python-yaml
pip install python-redmine
apt -y install vlc wkhtmltopdf rdiff-backup evince keepassx
ln -sfn /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf2 # alias for when more than one version is in use

• install X2Go from here: drup.org/setting-x2go

• Install LAMP stack

apt -y install openssh-server
apt -y install tasksel
tasksel install lamp-server

• Some basic stuff

The latest git version of the MLT framework can be downloaded and compiled as decribed here: www.mltframework.org/…dScripts

It’s important to remove any traces of the fake ffmpeg that Ubuntu unfortunately packages. You know you have it because if you run ffmpeg you get a vindictive message from former developers who left the project.

• Here is the info: askubuntu.com/questions/313217/install-latest-ffmpeg-for-all-users-in-debina-ubuntu

The official installation guide seems to be maintained regularly: