install-debian/README.md

#### Table of Contents

1. [Post installation script for Debian Sid](#post_install_sid.sh)
  * [How-to](#how-to)
  * [Description](#description)
    * [Prerequisite](#prerequisite)
    * [Apt configuration](#apt-configuration)
    * [X11 Server](#x11-server)
    * [Graphic Environment](#graphic-environment)
    * [Gnome tools](#gnome-tools)
    * [Dev tools](#dev-tools)
    * [Admin tools for cli](#admin-tools-for-cli)
    * [UEFI tools](#uefi-tools)
    * [System tools for cli](#system-tools-for-cli)
    * [Internet tools for cli](#internet-tools-for-cli)
    * [Internet tools for X11](#internet-tools-for-x11)
    * [Office tools for cli](#office-tools-for-cli)
    * [Office tools for X11](#office-tools-for-x11)
    * [Multimedia tools for cli](#multimedia-tools-for-cli)
    * [Multimedia tools for X11](#multimedia-tools-for-x11)
    * [Games](#games)
    * [Network share](#network-share)
    * [Nvidia driver](#nvidia-driver)
    * [Wireless driver for BCM43](#wireless-driver-for-bcm43)
    * [Wireless tools for cli](#wireless-tools-for-cli)
    * [Wireless tools for X11](#wireless-tools-for-x11)
    * [Miscellaneous useless packages](#miscellaneous-useless-packages)
    * [Manpages - Documentation](#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:
```sh
cp informations.template informations
vi informations
```
* Then run the script:
```sh
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:
```sh
apt-listbugs -s all -S pending list PKG_NAME
```
* apt-rdepends: Recursively lists package dependencies.
  * List the dependencies of a package:
```sh
apt-rdepends vim-tiny
```
  * List packages that depend of a package:
```sh
apt-rdepends -r vim-nox
```
  * Get a graph of dependencies:
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
ls -al /dev | pastebinit -
pastebinit - < <(ls -al /dev)
```
* perf-tools-unstable : DTrace-like tools for Linux.
  * Provide opensnoop :
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sdb2
```
  * And **unmount** (take, 'u**n**mount' and not 'umount') it's own devices:
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
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
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:
```sh
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:
```sh
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: https://git.101010.fr/dotfiles-gardouille/tmux/commit/eae896300eadb3da3fd27fac6b8c37beeac04679
* 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:
```sh
dpkg -L funny-manpages
```
* linuxlogo: Color ANSI System Logo.
```sh
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.