Debian installation notes

We start from a base system. Most of these steps can actually now be automated using my dotfiles; the software, in particular, can all be found in debian_packages.py.

Basic utilities

su
aptitude install sudo
update-alternatives --config editor # set to vi
visudo # add user
# Ctrl-D to exit

sudo aptitude install iceweasel
sudo aptitude install keepassx
sudo aptitude install iceweasel-adblock-plus

Audio

sudo aptitude install pulseaudio pavucontrol

Just make sure to log out or reboot; then audio should be working.

Installing Haskell

See this page.

TODO:

• how to get it so that i can easily switch between versions of python? (but this isn’t necessary, since even debian has decent versions)

• dropbox?

• Java?

• non-free packages

• evernote?

• flash?

• surfraw config

• vim /etc/apt/sources.list

• sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree

• install duckduckgo plugin

• for getting Source Code Pro on LXDE: I extracted the archive from here, then did the following from the directory containing the .otf files:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/SourceCodePro
sudo cp * /usr/share/fonts/SourceCodePro/
mkfontscale
mkfontdir
fc-cache

(as shown here) I’m not exactly sure which steps are required. mkfontdir seemed to create a fonts.dir in the current directory, so perhaps that was unnecessary considering that I had already moved all my fonts to the system directory.)

For finding pages for my website repository:

findAllPagesWith() {
    find ~/projects/riceissa.com/pages -iname "*$1*"
}

alias fp=findAllPagesWith

Website compilation

• get all the prerequisites; just install python-pip and then do

pip install --user jinja2
pip install --user pyyaml
pip install --user pandocfilters
pip install --user awesome-slugify
sudo aptitude install ruby-sass

which should take care of most problems. Make sure you have the latest Pandoc version (at least 1.13) though.

Backlinks

• computing.md