Install a new desktop

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Procedure.svg Install a new desktop
Organic Design procedure

Download and install

Get network access and update

Install additional software

  • Word processor: OpenOffice2 Writer (should be pre installed)
  • Spreadsheet: OpenOffice2 Calc (should be pre installed)
  • Browser: Epiphany or Firefox (preinstalled)
  • Email: Thunderbird
  • SMTP Server: Exim4, if using local SMTP to send instead of ISP
Local SMTP not working reliably, tests ok for my POP, but not sending to others, changed back to ISP
  • Text Editor: MooEdit (an excellent texteditor!)
first apt-get install libc6-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev gettext intltool then ./configure && make && make install
  • Image Editor: GIMP
  • Vector Graphics: InkScape
  • Database: MySQL Server 5
  • Webserver: Apache2
  • PHP5
  • ImageMagick
  • Media player: VLC (this worked out of the box for all my media, the default "Movie Player" needed to download codecs and couldn't find many of them)
  • NTFS Configuration Tool (allows writing to NTFS drives)
  • P2P: Azureus