User Applications
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User Applications

  1. Install common desktop software

    sudo apt install -y abcde acpi bsdgames cabextract culmus dia docbook-xsl exfat-fuse eyed3 ffmpeg fonts-anonymous-pro fonts-liberation fonts-lyx fonts-mplus fonts-sil-gentium geeqie gimp gnucash gnumeric golang inkscape kubuntu-restricted-addons kubuntu-restricted-extras kwalletcli ledger libdbd-pgsql libdbi-dev libdbi1 libsox-fmt-mp3 libtool lm-sensors mercurial mpv mpv-mpris nmap normalize-audio okular open-vm-tools password-gorilla passwordsafe pavucontrol postgresql pulseaudio-utils python3-dev qtchooser rust-all scdoc scribus scribus-doc wev ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc libxkbcommon-tools xsltproc

  2. TODO: Other packages to make standard?

    1. sudo apt install kubuntu-restricted-extras gstreamer1.0-vaapi libvdpau-va-gl1 rar fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-crosextra-caladea exfatprogs
        

Procedure 5.1.  Install packages not in the distro repository

  1. firefox

    To install Firefox from a deb package, see firefox instructions

    To install from flatpak: sudo apt install flatpak

    flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

    flatpak install flathub.org org.mozilla.firefox

    Note

    source

  2. emacs

    If the distro version of emacs is out of date, see Chapter 22, Build emacs .

  3. procs

    Download from github

    sudo unzip procs-v0.14.4-x86_64-linux.zip sudo cp procs /usr/local/bin

  4. Chromium

    Ideally, install Chromium from something besides Snap.

    Configure Chromium for Wayland

    1. Go to chrome://flags

    2. Search "Preferred Ozone platform"

    3. Set it to "Wayland"

    4. Restart