I started with Ubuntu 7.10 on a Dell Inspirion 530n. Here are the changes I made:<\/p>\n
Get latest updates (but don’t upgrade to 8.04).<\/p>\n
Label my external hard drive:
\ne2label \/dev\/sdb1 Backup<\/p>\n
And check that it worked:
\nvol_id \/dev\/sdb1<\/p>\n
Create a mount point
\nsudo mkdir \/mnt\/backup<\/p>\n
Add it to \/etc\/fstab with this line:
\nLABEL=Backup \/mnt\/backup ext3 defaults 0 2
\n(The 0 means don’t back it up. The 2 means run fsck, but after the root filesystem is done.)<\/p>\n
Via mplayer:
\nInstall GStreamer ffmpeg video plugin
\nInstall GStreamer plugins for aac, xvid, mpeg, faad
\nInstall GStreamer plugins for mms, wavpack, quicktime, musepack
\nInstall GStreamer extra plugins<\/p>\n
Install wine
\nInstall cabextract
\nFollow these instructions: http:\/\/appdb.winehq.org\/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7179&iTestingId=15035<\/p>\n
Set up the printer with these instructions: http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=674727
\nSet up the scanner with these instructions: http:\/\/solutions.brother.com\/linux\/sol\/printer\/linux\/sane_install.html<\/p>\n
Install firefox per these directions:
\nhttp:\/\/ubuntuzilla.wiki.sourceforge.net\/<\/p>\n
Install rsnapshot
\nEdit \/etc\/cron.d\/rsnapshot
\n 0 *\/4 * * * root \/usr\/bin\/rsnapshot hourly
\nCreate cron.daily\/rsnapshot
\n #!\/bin\/sh
\n \/usr\/bin\/rsnapshot daily
\nAnd again for weekly and monthly<\/p>\n
Install libtiff-tools (for tiffcp)<\/p>\n
Install kino
\nedit \/etc\/udev\/rules.d\/40-permissions.rules to put raw1394 in the video group<\/p>\n
wget -q http:\/\/packages.medibuntu.org\/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update
\nsudo wget http:\/\/www.medibuntu.org\/sources.list.d\/gutsy.list -O \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/medibuntu.list
\nsudo apt-get update
\nOpen Synaptic (System, Administration, Synaptic Package Manager)
\nEnable the Recommended Updates (Settings, Repositories, Select the Updates tab, check the box in “Recommended Updates (gutsy-updates)”, click Close)
\nReload your package information (Ctrl+R)
\nsudo apt-get install acroread acroread-escript acroread-plugins mozilla-acroread<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I started with Ubuntu 7.10 on a Dell Inspirion 530n. Here are the changes I made: Get latest updates (but don’t upgrade to 8.04). Label my external hard drive: e2label \/dev\/sdb1 Backup And check that it worked: vol_id \/dev\/sdb1 Create a mount point sudo mkdir \/mnt\/backup Add it to \/etc\/fstab with this line: LABEL=Backup \/mnt\/backup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}