The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 11.04 - Page 3

7 Install Additional Software

To install additional applications, open the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Package Manager):

Type in your password:

In the Synaptic Package Manager, we can install additional software. You can use the Quick filter field to find packages. To select a package for installation, click on the checkbox in front of it and select Mark for Installation from the menu that comes up:

If a package has a dependency that needs to be satisfied, a window will pop up. Accept the dependencies by clicking on Mark:

Select the following packages for installation (* is a wildcard; e.g. gstreamer* means all packages that start with gstreamer):

• firefox
• gimp
• shotwell
• chromium-browser
• gwibber
• evolution
• flashplugin-installer (necessary only if you didn't check the Install this third-party software checkbox during installation)
• amule
• audacity
• vuze
• banshee
• bluefish
• dvdrip
• filezilla
• ttf-mscorefonts-installer
• gnucash
• gstreamer*
• gtkpod
• brasero
• kino
• mplayer
• smplayer
• quanta
• kompozer
• scribus
• totem
• vlc*
• mozilla-plugin-vlc
• xmms2*
• sound-juicer
• acroread
• non-free-codecs
• ubuntu-restricted-extras
• kubuntu-restricted-extras
• libdvdcss2
• xine-ui
• xine-plugin
• thunderbird
• virtualbox-ose
• rhythmbox
• googleearth-package
• skype

After you've selected the desired packages, click on the Apply button:

Confirm your selection by clicking on Apply:

The packages are now being downloaded from the repositories and installed. This can take a few minutes, so please be patient:

You might be asked to accept a few licenses:

After all packages have been installed, click on Close:

8 Flash Player And Java

To check if the Flash Player and Java are installed on the system, open Firefox and type about:plugins in the address bar. Firefox will then list all installed plugins, and it should list the Flash Player (version 10.2 r159)...

... and the IcedTea (Java) plugins among them:

9 TrueType Fonts

To check if the TrueType fonts have been installed correctly, open a word processor like LibreOffice. You should now find your new Windows fonts there:

10 Google Earth

In chapter 7, we have installed the package googleearth-package which is a utility to automatically build a .deb package of Google Earth. This means, Google Earth is not yet installed; we have to first build a .deb package of it with the help of googleearth-package, and then install the .deb package.

Open a terminal (System > Terminal) and become root:

sudo su

Now you can build the Google Earth .deb package as follows:

make-googleearth-package --force

[...]
Package: googleearth
Version: 6.0.2.2074+0.6.0-1
Section: non-free/science
Priority: optional
Maintainer:  <root@falko-virtual-machine>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: ttf-dejavu | ttf-bitstream-vera | msttcorefonts, lsb-core, libqtcore4, libgl1-mesa-glx, ia32-libs (>= 20080808),
 lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), lib32z1 (>= 1:1.1.4), libc6-i386 (>= 2.0),
 libc6-i386 (>= 2.1.3), libc6-i386 (>= 2.2), libc6-i386 (>= 2.3), libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.2),
 libc6-i386 (>= 2.4) , ia32-libs-gtk
Suggests: nvidia-glx-ia32
Description: Google Earth, a 3D map/planet viewer
 Package built with googleearth-package.
dpkg-deb: building package `googleearth' in `./googleearth_6.0.2.2074+0.6.0-1_amd64.deb'.
Success!
You can now install the package with e.g. sudo dpkg -i <package>.deb
root@falko-virtual-machine:/home/falko#

If you don't see any errors, then you should find the Google Earth .deb package in the current directory:

ls -l

root@falko-virtual-machine:/home/falko# ls -l
total 34308
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  35087830 2011-05-10 21:52 googleearth_6.0.2.2074+0.6.0-1_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Public
-rw-r--r-- 1 falko falko     2481 2011-05-10 21:27 setup.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 falko falko     2349 2011-05-10 21:27 setup.txt~
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 falko falko     4096 2011-05-10 20:26 Videos
root@falko-virtual-machine:/home/falko#

Now you can install Google Earth as follows:

gdebi googleearth_6.0.2.2074+0.6.0-1_amd64.deb

11 Inventory (II)

Now let's check again what we have so far by browsing the menus again:

Our inventory should now look like this:

Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] Shotwell Photo Manager
[ ] Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[ ] Opera
[x] Chromium
[x] Flash Player
[x] FileZilla
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[x] aMule
[x] KTorrent
[x] Vuze
[x] Kopete
[x] Skype
[x] Google Earth
[x] Quassel IRC
[x] Gwibber Social Client

Office:
[x] LibreOffice Writer
[x] LibreOffice Calc
[x] Adobe Reader
[x] GnuCash
[x] Scribus

Sound & Video:
[x] Amarok
[x] Audacity
[x] Banshee
[x] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[x] gtkPod
[x] XMMS
[x] dvd::rip
[x] Kino
[x] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[x] VLC Media Player
[ ] RealPlayer
[x] Totem
[x] Xine
[x] Brasero
[x] K3B
[x] Multimedia-Codecs

Programming:
[x] KompoZer
[x] Bluefish
[x] Quanta Plus

Other:
[x] VirtualBox
[x] TrueType fonts
[x] Java
[x] Read/Write support for NTFS partitions