When I use Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, here is my initial setup:
- remove help from top panel
- disable weather and temperature in clock
- adjust local time in clock
- disable confirm dialogs for logout, restart and shutdown
- disable spellcheck and auto-bullet in tomboy
- install thunderbird
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/thunderbird/thunderbird*.deb”
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/thunderbird/lightning*.deb”
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/thunderbird/calendar*.deb” - install xchat-gnome
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/xchat-gnome/tcl*.deb”
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/xchat-gnome/xchat-gnome*.deb” - install ttf-liberation
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/ttf-liberation/ttf-liberation*.deb” - install notecase
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Install/notecase/notecase*.deb” - manual update
“sudo dpkg -i /home/username/Packages/Updates/*.deb” - add calculator shortcut to top panel
- add terminal shortcut to top panel
- add firefox shortcut to top panel
- add thunderbird shortcut to top panel
- add pidgin shortcut to top panel
- add xchat-gnome shortcut to top panel
- add openoffice.org shortcut to top panel
- add tomboy shortcut to top panel
- change theme to Dust Sand
- change system font to liberation 9
- disable compiz effect
- remove minimize effect
“gconf-editor”
“apps > metacity > general > reduced_resources”
“desktop > gnome > interface > accessibility” - tune firefox preference
- set thunderbird account
- install thunderbird add-ons importexporttools
- import mbox files to thunderbird
- set thunderbird message filter
- tune thunderbird preference
- set pidgin account
- tune openoffice.org
- set rhythmbox playlist
- tune nautilus preference
- disable automatic update
- reduce grub time to 1
- set wireless connection
- set wired connection
- set mobile broadband connection
I use dpkg to install application because I already have the deb files from previous installation that I collected from /var/cache/apt/archives
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