Ubuntu

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:

There is an excellent article here: www.makeuseof.com/…en-machines

• Create package list: dpkg --get-selections > ~/packagelist.txt
• Mark packages for reinstallation on new system dpkg --set-selections < ~/packagelist.txt
  • This will mark all packages, but it won’t install them until you run:
• apt-get -u dselect-upgrade

Many GTK based apps failed with errors like:

Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading icon: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/application-exit.png'

until I ran this line to regenerate the cache:

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
xrandr #to find out the names of the displays
xrandr --output DVI-0 --primary

• This tutorial showed me how to identifuy the button I wanted (8)
  www.gizmodo.com.au/…r-hardware
  (watch out because the page uses something like markdown which has garbled – and quote characters)
• But it didn’t show me how to make it double-click.
• This might be useful, but it is old:
  ubuntuforums.org/…owthread.php

Here are a few CPU oriented benchmarks for Linux.

I am not sure if they are available in packages for CentOS, so I have only given the Ubuntu packages:

(Please note that you will have to enable the community repositories for these)

• Install NX (info from this page: http://www.nomachine.com/download-package.php?Prod_Id=355 )

  CentOS 6.0 64bit

  yum install wget #must be logged on as root
NXVER=3.5.0
CVER=7
NVER=9
SVER=5
ARCH=x86_64
NXURL=http://64.34.173.142/download
wget $NXURL/$NXVER/Linux/nxclient-$NXVER-$CVER.$ARCH.rpm
wget $NXURL/$NXVER/Linux/nxnode-$NXVER-$NVER.$ARCH.rpm
wget $NXURL/$NXVER/Linux/FE/nxserver-$NXVER-$SVER.$ARCH.rpm
rpm -i nxclient-$NXVER-$CVER.$ARCH.rpm
rpm -i nxnode-$NXVER-$NVER.$ARCH.rpm
rpm -i nxserver-$NXVER-$SVER.$ARCH.rpm

Make sure these libraries are installed

aptitude install subversion cmake libcups2-dev libtiff4-dev python2.6-dev g++ qt4-qmake libqt4-dev libxml2-dev libcairo2-dev libboost-dev libaspell-dev liblcms-dev

Build PoDoFo

dp=/opt/podofo
svn co https://podofo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/podofo/podofo/trunk $dp
vi $dp/CMakeLists.txt
#append the following two lines:

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(podofo_static PROPERTIES 
  COMPILE_FLAGS "-DBUILDING_PODOFO -fPIC" )

mkdir -p $dp/podofo-build
cd $dp/podofo-build
cmake ..
make
make install

Extra applications

apt-get -y install subversion g++ openssh-server gnome-device-manager #programming
apt-get -y install gimp inkscape kpat rss-glx vlc vim hardinfo sysbench #essentials
apt-get -y install deluge akregator bibletime xiphos kdenlive koffice thunderbird amarok k3b #other programs
apt-get -y install libxine1-ffmpeg libqt4-sql-psql lame libqt4-dev gnome-alsamixer mozilla-plugin-vlc #libraries
apt-get install ia32-libs #32 bit drivers for 64 bit systems
apt-get -y install msttcorefonts xclip

DVD playback and extra codecs