INSTALLATION

Debian Installation
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STEP. Preparation
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- Download small Debian ISO-image.
- Burn it to CD OR
  Open VMWare Virtual Machine and choose "Create New Virtual Machine". Pick ISO Image.

STEP. Execute installation
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- Install only base system

STEP. Add i386 multiarch support (AMD64 machines only)
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dpkg --add-architecture i386

STEP. Prepare apt
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- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, it should look like following:

# Main (stable)
deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

# Main (unstable)
#deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

# Security (stable)
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib

# Main-updates (stable)
deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

# Multimedia (stable)
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free

#Backports (stable)
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main

- Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf to increase default cache-size

APT::Cache-Limit "1000000000";

STEP. apt update && upgrade
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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

STEP. Install important core software
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apt-get install sudo vim openssh-server firehol

STEP. Give primary user unlimited sudo access
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adduser zamar sudo

- Edit file /etc/sudoers according to the following diff:
< %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
---
> %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

STEP. Change setting for vim
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- Edit /etc/vim/vimrc according to the following diff:

< "syntax on
---
> syntax on

< "set showcmd          " Show (partial) command in status line.
< "set showmatch                " Show matching brackets.
< "set ignorecase               " Do case insensitive matching
< "set smartcase                " Do smart case matching
< "set incsearch                " Incremental search
< "set autowrite                " Automatically save before commands like :next and :make
---
> set showcmd           " Show (partial) command in status line.
> set showmatch         " Show matching brackets.
> set ignorecase                " Do case insensitive matching
> set smartcase         " Do smart case matching
> set incsearch         " Incremental search
> set autowrite         " Automatically save before commands like :next and :make

> set shiftwidth=4
> set tabstop=4
> set expandtab
> set ignorecase
> set bg=dark

STEP. Configure && restart firewall
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- Edit /etc/firehol/firehol.conf. It should look like following:

version 5

interface eth0 home
  policy reject
  protection strong 4/sec
  server ssh accept
  client all accept

- After editing configuration, restart firewall:

/etc/init.d/firehol restart

STEP. Disable CTRL+ALT+DEL
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- Edit /etc/inittab according to the following diff:

< ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
---
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "CTRL+ALT+DEL is disabled"

STEP. Set static IP-address
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- Configure router (192.168.1.1) to always give same IP-address/MAC and
- Use simple /etc/network/interfaces definition:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

OR

- Configure /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.205
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 192.168.0.254
#  dns-nameservers 192.168.0.254

STEP. Update list of known hosts
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Example diff for /etc/hosts

> 192.168.1.100 meripeto

STEP. Setup deb-multimedia repository
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apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring
apt-get update

STEP. Install mplayer and set hardware specific configuration
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apt-get install mplayer

Example diff for /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

> fs=yes
> vm=no
> zoom=no
> monitoraspect=4:3
> ontop=yes
> framedrop = yes
> cache = 8192
> cache-min = 15.0
> slang = en #fi
> alang = en

STEP. For virtual machine, remove package which keeps sending RAID status notices every two hours
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apt-get remove mpt-status

STEP. Setup cron to automatically download package updates every morning
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crontab -e (as root)

Insert the following line:

22 6 * * * apt-get update && apt-get --download-only --assume-yes dist-upgrade

STEP. Personalize X
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- To get the right look for xterm, create file '~/.Xdefaults' with the following content:

xterm*width: 111
xterm*height: 40
xterm*background: Black
xterm*foreground: Wheat
xterm*cursorColor: Orchid
xterm*reverseVideo: false
xterm*reverseWrap: true
xterm*font: fixed
xterm*fullCursor: true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: off
xterm*scrollKey: on
xterm*titleBar: false

- To always start fluxbox when executing 'startx', edit/create file '~/.xinitrc' to have the following content:

#!/bin/sh
exec startfluxbox

STEP. Install VNC-Server
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- Install:
sudo apt-get install vnc4server

- Configuring a new user:
vnc4server 

- To start:
vncserver :1 -geometry 1440x900

- To stop:
vncserver -kill :1

- To safely connect:
Start putty connection with tunneling enabled
Use vncviewer to connect at localhost:5901

STEP. Configure USB headset
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- Make sure that your usb headset is recognised by using:
lsusb
cat asound/cards

- Make snd-usb-audio as a default choice

cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-usb-audio index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=1

STEP. Set up Alternatives for GCC
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sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.7 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.7
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 50 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 40 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.9
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/bin/clang-3.5 60 --slave /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/bin/clang++-3.5 --slave /usr/bin/llvm-profdata llvm-profdata /usr/bin/llvm-profdata-3.5

sudo update-alternatives --config clang
sudo update-alternatives --config gcc

STEP. Don't go to sleep when laptop lid is closed
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1) Add the following line in /etc/systemd/logind.conf
HandleLidSwitch=ignore

2) Restart systemd-logind
sudo restart systemd-logind

STEP. Bring in Personal programs and scripts
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- Clone https://github.com/zamar/admin repository with 'git clone'

- Install things src/ script/ config/ directories

STEP. Use myprogs to install remaining packages
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- Use 'myprogs init', 'myprogs print', 'myprogs check' and 'myprogs sync' to install all wanted packages