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Thursday, February 24, 2011

What to do when you first install Ubuntu 10.10

There are some things I recommend doing as soon as you install Ubuntu 10.10 to get the most out of it.  Here's what I did:

  • Go to System>Administration>Additional Drivers. Scan your system and install appropriate wireless and graphics driver for your system.  If you don't have an internet connection plug in your ethernet cable first.
  • Go to System>Administration>Update Manager. Click on settings, go to Other Software tab and enable partners repository so that you can install software like Skype and Java.
  • Run update manager.  You can do this via command line with:
sudo apt-get update

  • Install Ubuntu restricted extras so that you can have support for audio and video codecs, DVD playback, Flash, Java (OpenJDK).  You can do this via command line with:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

  • To go along with that last one, install Medibuntu.  Some libraries can't be included with the original download for legal/licensing issues, but you can still add them (Google earth, better media support, etc).  Instructions can be found here.
That's all the tips I have so far.  Anyone else got any?

11 comments:

  1. Looks good. I've actually got a VPS that I can ssh into to play around with Ubuntu. I never had a good desktop experience with it (linux has no drivers)

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  2. @Alan - did you try the restricted drivers? You may have a better experience if they are available.

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  3. i've got ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and love it.

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  4. I've always considerd installing Ubuntu. Thanks for the tips...now Iknow at least some of the benefits.

    Still leaning towards sticking with trusty XP though.

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  5. @Marc definitely the best for beginners!

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  6. Install your wifi drivers and install adobe flash.

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  7. ive thought about using ubuntu- it looks pretty good

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  8. My friend uses Ubuntu. I wish I was good at that kind of stuff

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