New system notes
Created: Jan 11 2025, 11:42 UTC
Last modified: Feb 4 2025, 19:38 UTC
Notes for when I install a new Linux system (instructions here may be Mint specific)
Don’t bother creating partitions for boot or home. One partition for root is fine especially with SSDs.
Install the following packages:
- Spotify (go to https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/)
- Emacs
- Signal (download from signal website. follow instructions)
- Syncthing (install it from their repository)
- Dropbox (install it from this page, using the Ubuntu deb file)
- Need to install gir1-gtk for the newer Dropbox packages to work
- Docker (look at https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/)
- And set up so that we can run docker as non-root (bottom line is to add your user to the docker group, creating it if it’s not there)
Install these on Desktop only:
- Digikam from flatpak since it seems to be more up to date
- Gimp
- rsnapshot
Set up SSH keys so that I can log into my remote VPS.
Start the following services when you start (using Startup Applications on Linux Mint):
- Syncthing
- Dropbox (done automatically when you install the deb file)
- Emacs server (/usr/bin/emacs –daemon)