User Applications

User Applications
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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 ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-xfree86-nonfree ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc libxkbcommon-tools xsltproc

TODO: Other packages to make standard?

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

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
emacs

If the distro version of emacs is out of date, see Chapter 22, Build emacs .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

Download from github

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