Applications for Fast Setup on Ubuntu

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • List of apps
• Prerequisites
• Usage
  • Clone of repository
  • Installation
  • Uninstallation
• Additional Recommended Apps and Steps
• Additional Recommended Repositories

Overview

This script helps in installing various applications on Ubuntu using the apt package manager.
The list of apps is in apt_apps.txt.
The script provides an option to install All Apps or Specific Apps using a graphical interface with zenity.

NOTE: After installation you can remove the folder First-Setup-Apps.

List of apps

• System Tools
  • htop: Interactive process viewer (simple)
  • btop: Interactive process viewer (CPU, RAM, Disk, Network)
  • nvtop: Interactive process viewer (support NVIDIA GPU)
  • neofetch: System information tool
  • terminator: Terminal emulator
  • timeshift: System restore tool [OPTIONAL]
  • rclone: Tool to synchronize a Linux directory with cloud storage services [link]
• Media and Editing
  • vlc: Media player
  • cheese: Simple application for webcam [OPTIONAL]
  • gimp: Image editor [OPTIONAL]
  • kdenlive: Video editor [OPTIONAL]
• PDF Tools
  • krop: PDF cropping tool [OPTIONAL]
  • pdfarranger: PDF file manipulation [OPTIONAL]
• GNOME Extensions
  • gnome-shell-extensions: Collection of shell extensions for GNOME
  • gnome-shell-extension-manager: Manage GNOME Shell extensions
  • gnome-tweaks: Tweak tool for GNOME
• Development Tools
  • tree: Tool to see directory structure of a path
  • dconf-editor: Viewer and editor of applications internal settings. [ADVANCED]
• Extra
  • oneko: Try it! [OPTIONAL]

At the bottom of this page you can find additional recommended applications, that you can download from official sites.

Prerequisites

Installed by default on Ubuntu system:

• apt package manager;
• zenity for the graphical interface.

In addition:

• git-all to clone this repository.

  sudo apt-get install git-all

Usage

Clone of repository

Run in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/yursds/First_Setup_Apps.git
cd First_Setup_Apps

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The following commands should be run from the main directory, which is named First_Setup_Apps.

1. Follow the Prompts: Choose whether to install all applications or select specific ones through the graphical interface.

2. Check the Summary: The script will provide a summary of installed and not installed applications after execution.

Installation

Run in the terminal from the main folder First_Setup_Apps:

./install_apt.sh

Uninstallation

Run in the terminal from the main folder First_Setup_Apps:

./uninstall_apt.sh

Additional Recommended Apps and Steps

For a faster first setup, the following packages are not included in the installation list.

• For LaTeX users, the recommended applications are the following:

  • LaTeX Tools

    • klatexformula: LaTeX formula editor [OPTIONAL];

    • texstudio: LaTeX editor [OPTIONAL];

    • texlive-full: Comprehensive TeX system [OPTIONAL];

      ATTENTION
      When installing texlive-full, as reported in this issue, the process may get stuck at:

      Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some time...

      to resolve this, simply press the Enter button multiple times.

• From official sites, it is recommended to install the following must-have applications:

  • code: Visual Studio Code;
  • inkscape: Vector graphics editor [OPTIONAL];
  • ferdium: Organizer of favorite client apps;
  • WPS office: suite office (compatible with MS office).

• For more robust authentication with GitHub, it is recommended using GitHub CLI. Follow the official instruction to complete the authentication.

• For docker installation it is useful to follow the preliminaries instructions on the repository docker_ros_nvidia. [OLD VERSION]

Additional Recommended Repositories

• nautilus-open-any-terminal
• https://github.com/harry-cpp/code-nautilus