Ubuntu Linux Initial Setup

This article documents common tasks I perform when setting up a new Debian-based install.

Packages to install

apt-get install vim vim-gtk openjdk-6-jdk chromium-browser picasa sound-juicer mplayer ffmpeg gstreamer0.1-plugins-ugly wine meld p7zip openssh-server subversion rapidsvn inkscape gimp curl wget

.vimrc

My .vimrc consists of:

set nu
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set hlsearch
set tw=110
set fileformat=unix
syntax on
map <F1> <ESC>:buffers<ENTER>
map <F2> <ESC>^i#<ESC>
map <F3> <ESC>^i<TAB><ESC>
map <F4> <ESC>:nohl<ENTER>
map <F5> <ESC>:tabprev<ENTER>
map <F6> <ESC>:tabnext<ENTER>
map <F8> <ESC>:tabnew<ENTER>
set spell spelllang=en_gb