Table of Contents

1. Post installation script for Debian Sid

• How-to
• Description
  • X11 Server
  • Graphic Environment
  • System tools for shell
  • Network share
  • Internet tools for shell
  • Office tools for shell
  • Desktop tools for X11
  • 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

Apt configuration

apt.conf files

• Use 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.

preferences files

• Use apt/preferences.d directory from git repository to provide the preferences.d system directory.
• Default preferences: Sid < Stretch < Stable < Old-stable < Experimental
• Iceweasel/Icedove preferences: Experimental

sources-list files

• Use sources-list.d directory from git repository to provide the sources-list.d system directory.
• Add Wheezy (official + backports), Jessie (official + backports), Stretch (official), Sid (official + multimedia) and Experimental (official) 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.
• wmctrl: Command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager.
• xbacklight: Simple utility to set the backlight level.

Remove

• Sometimes automatically installed with GUI packages:
  • xscreensaver
  • xscreensaver-data

System tools for shell

Remove

• bluetooth packages (bluetooth, bluez)

Configuration

• Disable Openvpn service.
  • 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

• Modprobe
  • Disable the annoying console beeps
  • Ensure to disable dangerous modules such as firewire, thunderbolt, …
• Grub
  • Add the possibility to set the GRUB_TIMEOUT

Network share

Add

• keychain
• knockd : small port-knock daemon.
• nfs-common : NFS client. Useful network protocol for sharing between linux OS.
• openssh-server : Secure SHell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines.

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.

Internet tools for shell

Add

• axel
  • Light command line download accelerator.
• finch
  • Instant messaging client in ncurses.
• postfix
  • High-performance mail transport agent.
• weechat
  • Fast, light and extensible chat client.

Configuration

• Ensure to forward root's mail to new user email address.

Office tools for shell

Add

• cups
  • Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web interface.
• devtodo
  • Manipulate and display a hierarchical and prioritised list of tasks.
• 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.
• texlive
  • A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
• texlive-latex-extra
  • A very large collection of add-on packages for LaTeX.
• vim-latexsuite
  • View, edit and compile LaTeX documents from within Vim.
  • Activation in vim:

vim-addons install latex-suite

Remove

• 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.

Configuration

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

Desktop tools for X11

Add

• ttf-ancient-fonts : Unicode font for many symbols. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Blocks

Manpages - Documentation

Add

• info package