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= Xubuntu App List for New Installs =
So many computers, so many Xubuntu installs. So little time.

Here is my list of default apps to add to a fresh install...

== apt-get apps ==
These use the default repos...

*rcs
*screen
*gparted
*audacity
*liquidsoap (add: which packages!)
*chromium
*tcl-tk (to do: specify)
*expect
*komodo
*vpn-stuff (specify) see also: http://askubuntu.com/questions/153333/always-on-vpn-connection 
** nmcli con up id YourVPNName My nmcli version is 0.9.4.0
** Ubuntu market VPNautoconnect
*ogg-stuff (specify)
*gst123
* whois (find authoritative version or build repo)
* ipcmd (again, need to build repo)

== Ubuntu Marketplace Apps ==

gufw - Graphical Firewall Configurator
dropbox - share files with the NSA
ubuntu one - ubuntu dropbox

== Related: CentOS 5 ==
<pre>
# fragments from iws init.sh
echo "Installing software..."
set +x
yum install -y iptables
yum install -y dstat
yum install -y httpd
yum install -y php
yum install -y screen
yum install -y rcs
yum install -y traceroute
yum install -y ftp
yum install -y tcl8.5
# GEOip requirements
yum install -y httpd-devel
yum install -y zlib
yum install -y zlib-devel
set -x
</pre>

== Related Stuff ==
Package/App Management Stuff

=== List Installed Apps ===
The result of the following command is a list of comma separated values. First column: path to the .desktop entry, second column: path to the icon, third column: the executable.
<pre>
# Be careful; don't just blindly paste this in, it can do unexpected things.
# Suggesting creating a script file for this.
find /usr/share/applications/ -name '*.desktop' -exec perl -ne 'BEGIN { $pname = $ARGV[0] ; } ; \
      /(Icon|Exec)=(.*)/ and $ret{$1} = $2 ; END { printf "%s,%s,%s\n", $pname, $ret{Icon}, $ret{Exec} ; }' {} \;
</pre>

Explanation: find prepares a list of files that end with .desktop and are found in /usr/share/applications or a subdirectory thereof, and calls (-exec ... {} \;) a perl oneliner to parse the information.

Perl is started with the -n option which creates an implicit loop iterating over each line of the given file, and an -e option which specifies to run the argument provided.

The perl program contains BEGIN and END blocks to be run before and after each of the .desktop files is parsed (the perl oneliner is called separately each time for each of the files that find has located). BEGIN block records the filename (which is given as the first argument to the oneliner, the {} pragma of find), and the END blocks summarizes the information in a comma separated manner.

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/151282/getting-list-of-installed-apps-not-packages

=== List Installed Packages ===
For recreating on another machine...

Create a backup of what packages are currently installed:

<pre>
sudo dpkg --get-selections > list.txt
</pre>

Then (on another system) restore installations from that list:

<pre>
sudo dpkg --clear-selections
sudo dpkg --set-selections < list.txt
</pre>

To get rid of stale packages

<pre>
sudo apt-get autoremove
</pre>

To get installed like at backup time

<pre>
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
</pre>

Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages

See also: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/show-the-list-of-installed-packages-on-ubuntu-or-debian/


=== List Default Packages ===
Packages installed with *buntu

<pre>
view /etc/apt/sources.list
</pre>