Why not try Ultimate Ubuntu 2.7 that has all that and more pre-installed and not have to fetch programmes off repositories... :). You might have to fetch the opera browser

ty ty ty your out-line for the perfect desktop for linux worked great was user freindly. Im new to linux and i got threw it great thanks again for all your help with my linux ubuntu 9.04 set-up.

This is excellent in illustrating the power of linux, the potential utility is huge.  Java did throw up a bit of difficulty for me though, generally in relation to overwriting of files. 

Thank you so much, I was actually Google-ing each little app I needed one at a time!!! Until I came across this.

When downloading Opera, one can now select Ubuntu 9.04.

When obtaining Picasa:

** The option to open with the package installer is not present as shown above
** Save the file
** Open the containing folder (likely Desktop, was for me, ymmv)
** Optional: move to another folder (I moved to a program specific folder under Downloads within my /home directory)
** Set permissions to Allow executing file as program (Permissions tab on the Properties dialog)
** Install as above

These tutorials have been very (very) time-saving for me.

Thank you so much!

 

This is my second time I used this site to install my ubuntu, that is the ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and the ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. Its been very helpful. Thanks and Keep it up.

      This is ok, but I can't play myspace video or music. I prefer tutorials that use sudo apt command to install alot - this tutorial is slow.  Everything looks good as far as eye candy here just not the greatest tutorial I ever followed.       nice try

I have just begun the transition from Windows to Linux based operating systems, and that was a pretty good tutorial for someone that has no real previous knowledge of Ubuntu. I would recommend it to all the "first-timers" like myself.

Users of 32-bit systems do not require mozilla-acroread, and it's no longer available in Synaptic, so they needn't bother looking for it.
In previous versions of Ubuntu, acroread and mozilla-acroread were found in the medibuntu repository but now only amd64 versions are located there.

Users who require Adobe Reader and the browser plugin need only install acroread (which needs the archive-canonical partner repository enabled).

Glad to see you've replaced VMWare Server with VirtualBox this time but why the OSE version? As pointed out by another commenter, it would be better to install VirtualBox from its own repository. And why not include the VirtualBox Guest Additions? If you're going to have a virtual machine, you may as well have seamless integration and shared directories to make it really useful.

Thanks for your efforts with the "Perfect Desktop" series, they're always my first port of call when installing a new linux distro.

i love the step by step processes but i would like to say that command line editing of medibuntu repos are not needed. its best if u show the graphical way. thats much easier for computer novices. 

i would suggest to add

1. gnome backgrounds for more wallpapers

2. ubuntu tweak ( a classic tweak software and a lot of very useful 3rd party applications database)

3. Wine for running Windows based games( as there are no Linux ports or replacements for them,sadly! )

4. Empathy for google-talk voice chat 

5. Gizmo for yahoo messenger voice-chat

6. Virtualbox OSE does not have USB support which is much needed so its better to add virtualbox from its own repository.

7. simple backup/restore for backing up data incase of a failure.

 

mplayerplug-in is no longer being developed (almost 2 yrs now) and has been replaced by gecko-mediaplayer. So I would suggest that you update your instructions to reflect that.

Love what you've been doing. Keep up the good work. On a side note, it would be interesting sometime to see a Perfect Desktop install using only opensource programs. If that's even possible.

It bloated and the standard document reader coming with gnome/ubuntu can read pdf just fine.

VirtualBox works fine er, out of the box, no need for any fancy special commands. Don't know if you used to have to do that but it's not needed now.

Why would you wan't firefox and opera too? evolution and thunderbird at the same time? any special reason? there are a few more redundant applications there...

I noticed that everything after the OS install can be done through the command line. Why not include a copy-paste-able script for us lazy people, which does it all in one simple operation?

Thank for for showing the install process. I'm a new Linux user and I must say this is the most informative article on how to install Linux I've seen. If Ubuntu added this tutorial to their software on opening then Linux has just taken another giant leap for Windows users.

Thank you so much!!!

Phrase Perfect Desktop , and the word Ubuntu do NOT belong in the same sentence!!!! EVER!!!!!! Unless that sentence states that "Ubuntu is absolutley the farthest thing possible from the perfect desktop".

Just a note: when you install the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package, this automatically includes Sun Java, the Microsoft Truetype Core Fonts and all the GStreamer codecs, so you don't need to manually choose the latter packages in Synaptic.

Other than that, great tutorial!