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Some post-upgrade activities on the EEEPC

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

After the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 I spent some time installing some of the applications I had in the previous installation and doing some little system tuning.

  • Enabled the bash “smart” completion function that helps completing not only file names but also commands options: I edited the “bash.bashrc” file …

sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

and removed comments from the following lines (more details here)

# enable bash completion in interactive shells

if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then

. /etc/bash_completion

fi

  • Installed Fbreader: I installed it using “Ubuntu software center” then I copied files “books.xml” and “config.xml” from the previous installation backup in the “.FBReader” folder in order to keep my configuration and books list.
  • Installed TrueCrypt: I just downloaded the last version from here and installed it following the same process I already used.
  • Installed Java and NetBeans: Ubuntu 9.10 repositories are quite up-to-date so I first installed Java JDK (1.6.0_15) using apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

then I simply installed Netbeans (6.7.1) from the software center

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Installed Ubuntu 9.10 (NBR) on EEEPC 900

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

The upgrades season continues … after upgrading my desktop I decided to give a try to the lastly released Ubuntu version also on the EEEPC. I so downloaded, using bittorrent, Ubuntu 9.10 NBR ISO image from here and prepared a bootable SD card using the utility provided in Ubuntu desktop. I then started the EEEPC from the SD card reader and had my first test run on the system.

 

 

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Upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

  I recently upgraded my desktop computer (Sempron 2400) to the last released Ubuntu version. I decided to upgrade using the Ubuntu update manager, I so started the upgrade process and … went to bed since it promised something like eight hours of download time.

The day after I continued the installation process and, at last, restarted my machine.

 
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