Debian install Step 3 - desktop software

• surf - from http://surf.suckless.org/
• dwb,
• dillo,
• uzbl.... see my uzbl page (could be out-dated now)
• elinks, links2, lynx - CLI browsers, run links2 with the switch -g to allow graphics on page.
• jumanji (from http://pwmt.org/... wiki.archlinux.org/) - like uzbl but with tabs built in by design

there's a useful list here at Arch wiki Web_browsers

mem usages: surf 140mb... dillo 12mb... elinks 12mb... luakit 79mb... dwb 53mb... uzbl 55mb


Midori is meant to be a light-weight web browser. although it ate up 11GB of mem the last time I used it. You need to enable the userscripts plugin in Preferences, then just find and install what you need.

To get flash working (could be old), run

sudo apt install flashplugin-nonfree  

Heavy-weight browsers

These will eat up some ram (typically 900mb+), and more with each tab opened...

Chrome-based: Chromium, Iron, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, Yandex
Firefox-based: Waterfox, Icecat

Stopping the white background flash just before a page loads can be a real problem!

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Image cataloguers/editors

XnView Multi Platform

A very cool image processing program available as a .deb at the forum, http://newsgroup.xnview.com/...

See my Xnview Tips page for help using XnView, setup and configuring appearance.

Darktable

offers many good tools for making your shots stand out.


And don't forget gimp and inkscape are useful graphics tools to have...

sudo apt install darktable gimp inkscape feh imagemagick  

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Libre Office

This is the office suite to have if you need document productivity - its by far the best developed in the Open Source world.

It's best to grab the latest from libreoffice.org/download/

And first remove the older version (because installing a newer version may leave the previous version in /opt - all 700mb of it), run..

sudo apt remove libreoffice*  

extract from the downloaded tar file and cd to the dir and into the DEBS dir, and then:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb  

Libre complains about having no Java Runtime Environment (even though it runs OK without)

sudo apt install default-jdk  

Or run `apt search jdk` to find a package.

Tip: to change the toolbar icons to small, and tango for example, go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View

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Desktop apps

sudo apt install xpdf pdfshuffler x11-apps diodon uget clamtk easytag gdmap meld regexxer bleachbit transmission yelp xsel xvkbd goldendict xfce4-notes-plugin bluefish filezilla flameshot  

that gets you... a light-weight a pdf viewer and cutter, basic x11 tools, clipboard manager, download manager, virus scanner, id3 tag writer, graphical disk map, file/directory comparison app, file text search/replace, system cleanup app, torrent downloader, help agent, x-selection tools, dictionary, grouped sticky notes, html editor, ftp manager, screenshot taker

transmission gets permissions error - right click on a torrent and > Set Location, select the actual download location.

for a fully functional DVD burner, there's xfburn (basic) or k3b with KDE bloat (unless you'd prefer an easy command-line tool like bashburn -which has gone from the package lists)

sudo apt install k3b libk3b6-extracodecs normalize-audio  

the last two packages there are to enable conversion of wav to mp3 or mp3 to wav (and other formats) -ie ripping an audio cd or making an audio cd in K3b...

Xfce stuff and panel plugins

sudo apt install xfce4-taskmanager xfprint4 xfce4-notes-plugin xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-dict x-tile xarchiver gstreamer-0.10 xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-wavelan-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-volumed  

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Extra installs

sudo apt install evince geekie pyrenamer catfish cheese docky flush hasciicam xfburn xpad geany axel-kapt tucan pdfshuffler pdfchain  

evince, geekie - gui pdf and image viewers
pyrenamer, catfish - batch rename and file search gui tools
cheese, hasciicam - webcam apps
docky - app launcher dock
flush or transmission -bit torrent handlers
xpad - make notes
axel-kapt -download accelerator
tucan -upload-downloader for file share sites
pdfshuffler pdfchain -pdf cutters

sudo apt install gconf-editor gnome-system-tools gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer ttf-mscorefonts-installer  

gnome configuration editor - sets things in gnome app's
gnome system tools - enables user management
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins - enables reading and conversion of audio from CD's in KDE app's
mscorefonts - includes Times, Tahoma, Verdana, Ariel etc.



For backups...

sudo apt install luckybackup backintime-qt4 rsbackup restic  

there's 2x GUI and 2x command line utilities


Edu-games for learners

sudo apt install tuxtype tuxmath extremetuxracer supertux tuxguitar tuxpuck ktouch ktuberling kig step klavaro kbruch kturtle kalzium education-music raincat gamine bomber bomberclone  

GPS

Handheld Garmin devices

With (old) devices that download the data through gpsbabel, you need to add your user to the plugdev group if not already added:

groups <username> sudo adduser <username> plugdev  

plus, add your user to the dialout group -as with my 60csx (firmware 4.0) it was picked up on /dev/ttyUSB0, which belongs to the dialout group

Viking

An excellent app for collating, sorting and editing GPS data. Its simple and (quite) stable. Files are saved as .vik and are only usable in Viking, and so data needs exporting to gpx format for sharing with any one else or with GIS map-making software. Exporting can be done by individual layer or all layers in one go.

sudo apt install gpsbabel gpsbabel-gui viking  

Might need to make a symlink...

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgps.so.28.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgps.so.23  

Install with apt or get the latest from here projects/viking/files/

might need these dependencies

sudo apt install libbz2-dev libzip-dev  

See my GIS page for more details!

Quantum GIS

A powerful open source map making application.

To get the latest version, add the qgis gpg keyring with this...

echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://qgis.org/ubuntu-ltr jammy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list  

Then just apt update and install with

sudo apt install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass  

(see the Qgis Debian install page here https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html)

Also, if you run a dist-upgrade at any time, it's possible that Qgis will be removed in the process, with python updates etc, so you will need to reinstall qgis.
In which case, try to sort it out with `sudo aptitude install qgis`

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OpenGPG

-the open source standard for encrypting files and emails.

Both "Pretty Good Privacy" (PGP) and GnuPG implement OpenGPG. The latter is a command-line program for Linux, and there is a simple gui front-end to it, called GNU Privacy Assistant (debian gpa package). PGP works through the plugins for thunderbird or evolution email clients (see ubuntu help link).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto
http://www.phildev.net/pgp/gpgsigning.html

sudo apt install gnupg2 gpa  

A lot of useless keys appear in the gpa window.
solve this by either starting the program: gpa --disable-x509

or rename the file "com-certs.pem" and remove the .kbx files in ~/.gnupg and then restart gpa

sudo mv /usr/share/gnupg/gnupg2/com-certs.pem /usr/share/gnupg/gnupg2/com-certs.pem_bak  

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ClamTK virus scanner

FAQ page A GUI frontend for Clamav - mainly it's used for scanning potentially infected files received from Windows machines to prevent sending on infected files etc. NO LONGER MAINTAINED!!

Install with apt. depends: libnet-dns-perl


To update clamav virus definitions, run

sudo freshclam  

It's possible to update multiple machines remotely if you download the main.cvd and daily.cvd file (from the Upgading links at http://www.clamav.net/...) and copy it to /var/lib/clamav

sudo rsync -a daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav  

Note: you must select options in Preferences in order to scan anything!

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Anti rootkit

these are Linux-specific anti-trojan programs

sudo apt install rkhunter chkrootkit  

To run them use these commands as root:

rkhunter --propupd rkhunter --checkall  

run an update with

rkhunter --update  

sudo chkrootkit -x | less  

I'm not exactly sure what this shows!

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/



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