Table of Contents

1. Post installation script for Debian Sid

• How-to
• Description
  • Prerequisite
  • Apt configuration
  • X11 Server
  • Graphic Environment
  • Gnome tools
  • Dev tools
  • Admin tools for cli
  • UEFI tools
  • System tools for cli
  • Internet tools for cli
  • Internet tools for X11
  • Office tools for cli
  • Office tools for X11
  • Multimedia tools for cli
  • Multimedia tools for X11
  • Games
  • Network share
  • Nvidia driver
  • Wireless driver for BCM43
  • Wireless tools for cli
  • Wireless tools for X11
  • Miscellaneous useless packages
  • Manpages - Documentation

post_install_sid.sh

Script to complete the installation of Debian Sid on my laptop.

How-to

• You just have to use the template file to specify your own informations:

cp informations.template informations
vi informations

• Then run the script:

sudo post_install_sid.sh

Description

Prerequisite

Add

• debconf-utils: Contains some small utilities for debconf developers.
  • Load pre-seed files (debconf-set-selections) or see current debconf database (debconf-get-selections).
• lsof: Utility to list open files.
  • Usefull to redirect the standard output.

Post-Configuration

• Load locales and keyboard pre-seed files.

Apt configuration

Pre-Configuration

• Load pre-seed to automatically restart services after an upgrade
• apt.conf.d: Use apt/apt.conf.d directory from git repository to provide additionnal configurations such as:
  • Update package lists every day.
  • Dowload upgradeable packages every day.
  • Automatically clean dowloaded packages every week
  • Set the default Debian version to Sid/Unstable.
  • … see apt/apt.conf.d/ files.
• sources.list.d: Use apt/sources-list.d directory from git repository to provide the sources-list.d system directory.
  • Backup initials files if exists.
  • Add Wheezy/OldStable (official + backports), Jessie/Stable (official + backports), Stretch/Testing (official), Sid/Unstable (official + multimedia) and Experimental (official) repositories.
• preferences.d directory: Use apt/preferences.d directory from git repository to provide the preferences.d system directory.
  • Backup initials files if exists.
  • Default preferences: Sid < Stretch < Stable < Old-stable < Experimental
  • Firefox/Icedove preferences: Experimental
• Update Debian repositories.

Add

• deb-multimedia-keyring: GnuPG archive key of the deb-multimedia repository.

Post-Configuration

• Set a variable to ensure to keep old config files when upgrading a package.
• Then force a full-upgrade of the system with the new repositories.

X11 Server

Pre-Configuration

• Load x11-common seed file that allows anybody to run the X server.

Add

• mesa-utils: Provides several utilities built by Mesa (glxinfo, glxgears, …).
• xorg: Provides the X librairies, an X server, … for a standalone workstation running the X Window System.

Graphic Environment

Add

• gtk2-engines-cleanice: Contains theme engine and 3 themes for GTK.
• herbstluftwm: Manual tiling window manager for X11.
• i3lock: Simple screen locker.
• lxappearance: LXDE GTK+ theme switcher.
• nitrogen: Wallpaper browser and changing utility.
  • Easy to manage multi-screen.
• redshift: Adjusts the color temperature of your screen.
• rofi: Can act as an application launcher, window switcher, ssh launcher and dmenu replacement.
• roxterm: Multi-tabbed GTK+/VTE terminal emulator.
• scrot: Command line SCReen shOT utility (screen capture).
• suckless-tools: Simple commands for minimalistic window managers.
• terminator: Multiple GNOME terminals in one window.
• wmctrl: Command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager.
• xautolock: Program launcher for idle X session.
• xbacklight: Simple utility to set the backlight level.
• xclip: Command line interface to X selections/clipboard.
  • Used with VIM to copy the vim-selection into X11 buffer.

Remove

• Sometimes automatically installed with GUI packages:
  • geoclue-2.0
  • modemmanager
  • xscreensaver
  • xscreensaver-data

Post-Configuration

• Ensure to have an xautolock launch at boot time (in ~/.xinitrc).

Gnome tools

Add

• evince: Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer.
• etherape: Graphical network monitor.
• gedit: Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
• gnome-calculator: GNOME desktop calculator.
• gparted: GNOME partition editor.
• nemo: Official Cinnamon File Manager (Nautilus replacement).
• nemo-fileroller: Nemo extension to manage (create, extract, …) archives.
• planner: Project management application that supports Gantt.

Remove

• eog: Eye of GNOME graphics viewer program. Use 'mirage' or 'gpicview' instead!

Dev tools

Add

• build-essential: Useful to build Debian packages.
• binutils: GNU assembler, linker and binary utils.
• cpp: GNU C preprocessor.
• debconf-utils: Contains some small utilities for debconf developers.
  • Load pre-seed files (debconf-set-selections) or see current debconf database (debconf-get-selections).
• gcc: GNU C compiler.
• g++: GNU C++ compiler.
• make: Utility for directing compilation.

Admin tools for cli

Pre-Configuration

• Load hddtemp pre-seed file.

Add

• acpitool: Command line ACPI client for laptop users (apm replacement).
• alien: Convert and install rpm and other packages.
• apticron: Simple tool to mail about pending package updates.
• apt-file: Search tool for files within Debian packages.
• apt-listbugs: Tool which lists critical bugs before each APT installation.
  • List all pending bugs of a package:

apt-listbugs -s all -S pending list PKG_NAME

• apt-rdepends: Recursively lists package dependencies.
  • List the dependencies of a package:

apt-rdepends vim-tiny

• List packages that depend of a package:

apt-rdepends -r vim-nox

• Get a graph of dependencies:

apt-rdepends -d firefox|dot -Tsvg > firefoxdep.svg

• apt-show-source: Shouws source-package information.
• apt-show-versions: Lists available package versions with version.
• dctrl-tools: Tools to process Debian package information.
• debian-goodies: Small toolbox-style utilities for Debian systems.
  • Show which installed packages occupy the most place:

dpigs

• dnsutils: Clients provided with BIND.
• dstat : Versatile resource statistics tool.
• ethtool: Display or change Ethernet device settings.
• git: Fast, scalable and distributed revision control system (cvs).
• git-svn: Git extension for SVN interoperability.
• gpm: General Purpose Mouse interface.
  • e.g: Allows mouse in tty.
• hddtemp: Hard drive temperature monitoring utility.
• htop: Interactive processes viewer.
• ifscheme: Scheme control for network interfaces.
  • Useful to manage multiple WLAN networks.
• iperf: Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool.
  • Measure performances between A and B:

user@A % iperf -s
user@B % iperf -c IP_COMPUTER_A

• mlocate: Quickly find files on the filesystem based on their name.
• lsof: Utility to list open files.
• mercurial: Easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system (cvs).
• module-assistant: Tool to make module package creation easier.
• ncdu: Ncurses disk usage viewer.
• netdiscover: Active/passive network address scanner using ARP requests.
• netselect-apt: Speed tester for choosing a fast Debian mirror.
  • Please see http://httpredir.debian.org/ instead of netselect-apt.
• ngrep : Grep for network traffic.
• nmap: The Network Mapper.
• ntp: Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs.
• parted: Disk partition manipulator.
• pastebinit: Command-line pastebin client.
  • Send the command result to a pastebinit:

ls -al /dev | pastebinit -
pastebinit - < <(ls -al /dev)

• perf-tools-unstable : DTrace-like tools for Linux.
  • Provide opensnoop :

sudo opensnoop -p $(pidof firefox)

• rsyslog: Reliable system and kernel logging daemon.
• strace : System call tracer.
• sudo: Provide limited super user privileges to specific users.
• sysv-rc-conf: SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal.
• tcpdump: Command-line network traffic analyzer.
• tree: Displays an indented directory tree,in color.
• util-linux: Miscellaneous system utilities.
• whois: Intelligent WHOIS client.

Post-Configuration

• apt-file: Synchronize the package contents from their sources.
• Grub: Add the possibility to set the GRUB_TIMEOUT
• mlocate: Update the mlocate database.
• Modprobe:
  • Disable the annoying console beeps
  • Ensure to disable dangerous modules such as firewire, thunderbolt, …
• NTP:
  • Set a better NTP server (strate 1) for french computer.
  • Restart the NTP service.
• Rsyslog: Display rsyslog in tty9.
• Sudo: Add default user to the sudo group
• Fstrim: Ensure to enable TRIM in '/etc/rc.local' if a SSD is available.
  • See http://links.gardouille.fr/?ozlKFg for more informations.

UEFI tools

Add some UEFI tools if grub-efi is installed on the system.

Add

• efibootmgr: Interact with the EFI Boot Manager.
• efivar: Tools to manage UEFI variables.

System tools for cli

Add

• bdsmainutils: Collection of more utilities from FreeBSD.
• colordiff: Tool to colorize 'diff' output.
• cpio: GNU cpio; a program to manage archives of files.
• exuberant-ctags: Build tag file indexes of source code definitions.
• genisoimage: Creates ISO filesystem images.
• keychain: Key manager for OpenSSH.
• knockd: Small port-knock daemon.
• lzip: Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm.
• moreutils: Additionnal Unix utilities.
  • Edit directory content as a file with vim:

vidir

• multitail: View multiple logfiles windowed on console.
• myrepos: Tool to manage all your version control repos.
• ntfs-3g: Read/write NTFS driver for FUSE.
• openssh-client: Secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access from remote machines.
• openvpn: Virtual private network daemon.
• physlock: Lightweight Linux console locking tool.
  • Physlock need to be run as root, so it's possible to set NOPASSWD for sudoers:

sudo visudo
%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/physlock

• screen: Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation.
• tmux: Terminal multiplexer.
• udisks2: D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices.
  • A simple user can mount removable devices:

udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sdb2

• And unmount (take, 'unmount' and not 'umount') it's own devices:

udisksctl unmount --block-device /dev/sdb2

• unrar: Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version).
• unzip: De-archiver for .zip files.
• urlview: Extracts URLs from text.
• vim-nox: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with scripting languages support.
• vim-doc: Vi IMproved - HTML documentation.
• vim-scripts: Plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles.
• vlock: Virtual Console locking program.
• wakeonlan: Sends 'magic packets' to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters.
• zsh: Shell with lots of features.
• zip: Archiver for .zip files.

Remove

• bluetooth packages (bluetooth, bluez)
• network-manager : Can come with tlp dependencies.
• vim-tiny: Useless default vi version !

Post-Configuration

• Vim: set vim-nox as default editor.
• Openvpn: Disable to automatically start
  • Useful in case of many configuration files. A default vpn is launch by "post-up" instruction in '/etc/network/interfaces' file:

allow-hotplug enp0s25
iface enp0s25 inet dhcp
  post-up openvpn /etc/openvpn/XYZ_tunnel.conf

• ZSH: set as default user for root; "${new_username}"; new users with adduser.

Internet tools for cli

Add

• axel: Light command line download accelerator.
• finch: Instant messaging client in ncurses.
• lynx-cur: Classic non-graphical (text-mode) web browser.
• mat: Metadata anonymisation toolkit.
  • Also provide a GUI: 'mat-gui'.
• postfix: High-performance mail transport agent.
• weechat-curses: Fast, light and extensible chat client.

Configuration

• Ensure to forward root's mail to new user email address.
• Ensure Postfix only listen on localhost.

Internet tools for X11

Add

• browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash: PPAPI-host NPAPI-plugin adapter for pepperflash to get the latest Flash Plugin into Firefox/Firefox.
• dwb: Lightweight WebKit browser.
• filezilla: Full-featured FTP client with an easy-to-use GUI.
• icedove: Mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support.
• icedove-l10n-fr: French language package for Icedove.
• iceowl-extension: Calendar Extension for Thunderbird/Icedove (Lightning addon replacement).
• firefox: Web browser based on Firefox.
• firefox-l10n-fr: French language package for Firefox.
• libjs-pdf : PDF.js viewer built with HTML5 by Mozilla.
• luakit: Fast and small web browser extensible by Lua.
• midori: Fast, lightweight graphical web browser based on WebKit.
• mumble: Low latency encrypted VoIP client.
• pepperflashplugin-nonfree: Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin (based on Flash Player from Goggle/Chrome).
• pidgin: Graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client for X.
• pidgin-otr: Off-the-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin.
• rdesktop: RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Terminal Server and Windows Servers.
• transmission: Lightweight BitTorrent client.
• transmission-remote-gtk: GTK+ interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon.
• xvnc4viewer: Virtual network computing client software for X.

Remove:

• Old and unsecure Flash Plugin: flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

Post-Configuration

• pepperflashplugin-nonfree: Ensure to install the lastest version.

Office tools for cli

Add

• cups: Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface.
• devtodo: Manipulate and display a hierarchical and prioritised list of tasks.
• ghostscript: Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.
• gocr: Multi-platorm OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.
  • Extract text from pbm image files:

for i in *pbm; do gocr $i > $i.txt; done

• graphviz: Rich set of graph drawing tools.
• imagemagick: ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats.
• imagemagick-doc: Document files of ImageMagick.
• odt2txt: Simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text.
  • Used with lesspipe for example.
• pdftk: PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.
• poppler-utils: PDF utilities for convert, manipulate or get informations of PDF documents.
  • Extract all images from a PDF file:

pdfimages file01.pdf img_name

• taskwarrior : Feature-rich console based todo list manager.
• texinfo: Documentation system for on-line information and printed output.
• texlive: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
• texlive-latex-extra: A very large collection of add-on packages for LaTeX.
• units : Converts between different systems of units.
• vim-latexsuite: View, edit and compile LaTeX documents from within Vim.
  • Activation in vim:

vim-addons install latex-suite

• xpdf: Light-weight PDF reader.

Remove

• avahi-autopid: Avahi IPv4LL network address configuration daemon.
• avahi-daemon: Avahi allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration.
• cups-browsed: Browses the Bonjour broadcasts of shared remote CUPS printers and makes the printers available locally.
• libdaemon0: Need to remove it to be able to also remove avahi-autopid.
• libnss-mdns: NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution.

Configuration

• Add the standard user to lpadmin group to be able to manage Cups administration via webgui.

Office tools for X11

Add

• freeplane: Java program for working with Mind Maps.
• gprename: Complete batch renamer for Linux.
• key-mon: Utility to show live keyboard and mouse status.
• libreoffice: Office productivity suite (metapackage).
• libreoffice-l10n-fr: Office productivity suite -- French language package.
• libreoffice-help-fr: Office productivity suite -- French help.
• libreoffice-pdfimport: PDF Import component for LibreOffice.
• fonts-linuxlibertine: Linux Libertine family of fonts.
• ttf-ancient-fonts : Unicode font for many symbols. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Blocks
• verbiste: French and Italian conjugator.
• verbiste-gnome: French and Italian conjugator - GNOME interface.
• xournal: Application for note taking, can also add note to PDF/PS files.

Multimedia tools for cli

Add

• avinfo: Audio/Video information automatic extractor/file list generator.
• eyed3: Display and manipulate id3-tags on the command-line.
• ffmpeg: Audio/video encoder, streaming server & audio/video file converter.
• mediainfo : Command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files.
• mkvtoolnix: Set of command-line tools to work with Matroska files.
• moc: Ncurses based console audio player.

Multimedia tools for X11

Add

• audacity: Fast, cross-platform audio editor.
• easytag: Viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags.
• gimp: The GNU Image Manipulating Program.
• gpicview: Lightweight image viewer.
• inkscape: Vector-based drawing program.
• mirage: Fast and simple GTK+ image viewer.
• mkvtoolnix-gui: Set of tools to work with Matroska files - GUI frontend.
• smplayer: Complete front-end for MPlayer and MPlayer2.
• rhythmbox: Music player and organizer for GNOME.
• vlc: Multimedia player and streamer.

Games

Add

• teeworlds: Online multi-player platform 2D shooter.
• teeworlds-server: Server for Teeworlds.

Network share

Add

• nfs-common : NFS client. Useful network protocol for sharing between linux OS.

Remove

• nfs-kernel-server : NFS server. Useful network protocol for sharing between linux OS.
• samba : SMB/CIFS file, print and login server for Unix. One of the only Windows compatible protocole.

Configuration

• Disable nfs-kernel-server service if still available.
• Disable all samba service if still availables.

Nvidia driver

Add

• linux-header-amd64: Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package).
• nvidia-kernel-dkms: NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source.
• nvidia-xconfig: X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers.

Post-Configuration

• Backup previous xorg.conf file if exists.
• Run the NVIDIA configuration tool.

Wireless driver for BCM43

Add

• broadcom-sta-dkms: DKMS source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver.
• linux-header-amd64: Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package).

Post-Configuration

• Unload useless wireless modules and only load the 'wl' module.
  • Verify if wireless is working with:

iwconfig

• For more informations, please see: https://wiki.debian.org/wl

Wireless tools for cli

Add

• ifscheme: Scheme control for network interfaces.
• wireless-tools: Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
• wpasupplicant: Client support for WPA and WPA2.

Wireless tools for X11

Add

• wpagui: Graphical user interface for wpa_supplicant.

Miscellaneous useless packages

Add

• asr-manpages: alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages.
  • List the availables manpages:

dpkg -L asr-manpages

• cmatrix: Simulates the display from "The Matrix".
• cmatrix-xfont: X11 font for cmatrix.
  • Used with vlock in tmux to lock and display the matrix: eae896300e
• cowsay: Configurable talking cow.
• cowsay-off: Configurable talking cow (offensive cows).
• fortunes: Data files containing fortune cookies.
• fortunes-bofh-excuses: Bastard Operator From Hell excuses for fortune.
• fortunes-debian-hints: Debian Hints for fortune.
• fortunes-fr: French fortunes cookies.
• fortunes-off: Data files containing offensive fortune cookies.
• funny-manpages: More funny manpages.
  • List the availables manpages:

dpkg -L funny-manpages

• linuxlogo: Color ANSI System Logo.

linux_logo -f -d

• sl: Correct you if you type 'sl' by mistake.

Manpages - Documentation

Add

• aptitude-doc-fr: French manual for aptitude, a terminal-based package manager.
• info: Standalone GNU Info documentation browser.
• manpages-fr: French version of the manual pages about using GNU/Linux.
• manpages-fr-dev: French version of the development manual pages.
• manpages-fr-extra: French version of the manual pages.