If you are loged as root
apt-get install ntfsprogs  gpart dolphin lvm2 kvpm wine filezilla openssh-server nfs-common nano thunderbird arora kompozer seamonkey ekiga -y
 
If you are loged as a user
sudo apt-get  install ntfsprogs  gpart dolphin lvm2 kvpm wine filezilla openssh-server nfs-common nano thunderbird arora kompozer seamonkey ekiga -y


 

Rought explanation

ntfsprogs - suite of NTFS utilities - in layman’s terms, it allows you to read/write NTFS partitions (Windows partitions)
gpart - Another partitioner
dolphin - Useful file manager
lvm2 - Logical volume manager, very useful to manage several hard drives for the creation of a single volume.
 kvpm - Another volume manager -  created for KDE, works well under Gnome. 
wine - Allows windows applications to run on linux (Some applications) *
filezilla - Very complete and easy to use FTP client
virtualbox-ose - Virtualization software, used to run other operating System within your own environment.
openssh-server - enables remote terminal sessions to your machine.
nfs-common - enables your machine to create and manage NFS shares. (I personally create and manage NFS shares from Webmin)
nano - an easy to use terminal editor.
thunderbird - email client.



Usefull tools not included on the repository

Webmin - Linux configurations
IPScan - Network Scanner
* Wine-Doors - Wine implementation
VirtualBox  32Bit - 64Bit - Virtualization software


To enable root access: (Not recommended for security reasons)

System-> Administration -> Users and Groups -->  Click on Unlock --> Select ROOT, Give it a password - Close
Then go to:
System-> Administration -> Login Window
Select the “Security” tab
Make sure “Allow Local System Administrator Login” is checked
Log out and log back as root.




Some useful scripts

This one is to clean older files, on a specific folder and subfolders, it checks for files older than 29 days, 

 
find /Camera1/videos/* -mtime +29 -exec rm -f {} \;


This script is to filter and create two text files with specific words such as "sshd" and "errors"
grep "sshd" /var/log/messages* />/tmp/sshd_logins.txt  &&  grep "error" /var/log/messages* />/tmp/SSH_Login_Errors_$(date +%m%d%y).txt


Ubuntu Server GUI install


sudo apt-get update Then run
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop gdm -y
sudo shutdown -r now
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start


To enable root access: (Not recommended for security reasons)

System-> Administration -> Users and Groups -->  Click on Unlock --> Select ROOT, Give it a password - Close
Then go to:
System-> Administration -> Login Window
Select the “Security” tab
Make sure “Allow Local System Administrator Login” is checked
Log out and log back as root.

Watch DVDs in Ubuntu

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse


/usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

If you have trouble finding this file, run                locate install-css.sh






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