LXDE fast install

Overview of the install

updated June 2020

It looks like this for the Netinstall CD..

Run the Netinstall CD
Restart and login to root
check sources file, sudoers, fstab, interfaces
copy config files to home, or mount home if partition already present
run apt update and apt full-upgrade, then install the desktop...

for LXDE
add if you like: synaptic apt-xapian-index gdebi

I go without lxde and lightdm now, and add here: openbox lxpanel lxtask geany

and you may need firmware such as firmware-amd-graphics firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-iwlwifi

for plain openbox

necessary packages and may be missing after a Netinstall without internet:

Install Gtk themes...

Possible error with Xorg without installing a display manager, when you run startx:

parse_vt_settings Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission Denied)

or
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission Denied)

fix with:
change "allowed_users=console"
to

or the other way is to install elogind with,

6. Install packages

Thunar file manager.. Ranger, file-system utils, printing, bluetooth
media player/encoder/desktop apps..

no longer with me, but could be useful:
marble pinta cheese catfish pyrenamer xfburn xpad

Just add/remove what you like from this.

7. Install the build dependencies (as on the Netinstall page)

with a fast connection you can get this done in an hour, but then setting up takes time - of course, days!
You can always cancel apt downloading of packages and resume it later on, just use Ctrl-C to cancel. Press up arrow and Enter in the terminal to hit the same apt command again and apt will continue with downloading.

Which leaves Ranger, compton, Libre Office, video editors, ffmpeg, XnViewMP, Vivaldi, Viking, Qgis, Refractasnapshot ......to install from downloaded packages.

Last set up things

power options in Xfce-power-manager

edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to change which dir's get the "Documents", "Music", "Video" icons in Thunar, if installed.

If you install Synaptic and you want a launcher: copy the .desktop file from /usr/share/app's to ~/.local/share/applications/ and change "Exec=synaptic" to: Exec=gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic, or use the command in openbox menu (see configuring lxde)

Post netinstall scripts

These are pretty basic but they help to automate some work and help me not to forget anything at the time. Adapt them to your needs.

1. system files setup script

the system files that I rsync to the new system are contained in a heap of folders in a dir called netinstall_1910, that are named with the location the files are normally found at, e.g. etc-xdg-menus folder contains files found at /etc/xdg/menus.

for how to chroot, see my chrooting page

#!/bin/bash
#script to set up system files, run in chroot env, as root - Quinton, 10/2019
#chroot the new install, in booted system run `sudo rsync -arult netinstall_1910 /mnt/tmp`, then at chroot prompt `cd /tmp/netinstall_1910` and run this script, or paste parts of it on the command line

#enter your username for setting up groups
USER=

#add groups
for g in dialout plugdev lpadmin admin clamav fuse audio ;do groupadd -f $g
for g in netdev dialout plugdev lpadmin admin clamav fuse audio sudo ;do adduser $USER $g; done

#add nopasswd line to sudoers, to allow for script to call shutdown, reboot and suspend without getting stuck for need of user password
echo %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/reboot, /usr/sbin/pm-suspend >> /etc/sudoers

#check that hostname is correct =hostname at install
nano /etc/hostname

#iptables (firewall)
rsync -art etc/iptables.up.rules /etc

#apt lists
rsync -arult etc-apt/ /etc/apt

#udisks2 file for automounting, if no display manager
rsync -art etc-polkit-1--localauthority-50-local.d/ /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d

rsync -art etc-X11-cursors/ /etc/X11/cursors 
rsync -arult etc-xdg-menus/ /etc/xdg/menus
rsync -arult lib-firmware/ /lib/firmware

#root config files, such as colours, bash alias, ranger
rsync -arult root/ /root

#xs script and any other home-made sys-level script
rsync -art usr-bin/ /usr/bin

#screen resolution, leave for laptop (low res screen)
#mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d && rsync -art etc-X11-xorg.conf.d/ /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

2. Package install script

#!/bin/bash
#script to install packages after new Netinstall, run in chroot env from running Linux system - Quinton, 06/2020
#included here are 1. possible missed pkgs from netinstall, 2. openbox desktop (no display mgr), 3. thunar file man, 4. ranger with media viewers, file archiving, disk utilities, printing, bluetooth, android, etc, 5. media editors and desktop apps, 6. build dependencies, 7. ffmpeg build deps, 8. viking build deps, 9. refractasnapshot/live-build/refracta2usb deps, 10. jekyll pre-install.

apt update
apt dist-upgrade

#1
apt install sudo grub2 network-config iw rfkill lshw

#2
apt install xorg pm-utils hdparm cpufrequtils cpulimit alsa-utils openbox lxpanel lxtask lxpolkit wicd tango-icon-theme obconf obmenu openbox-menu lxappearance-obconf moblin-cursor-theme rxvt-unicode htop elinks links2 gparted bash-completion xcape firmware-amd-graphics firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-iwlwifi elogind libpam-elogind

#3
apt install thunar thunar-volman thunar-archive-plugin tumbler tumbler-plugins-extra thunar-media-tags-plugin xdg-user-dirs

#4
apt install ranger w3m w3m-img less xsel xvkbd atool mediainfo jhead ffmpegthumbnailer trash-cli exiftool feh imagemagick zip unzip bzip2 p7zip-full ntfs-3g blktool dosfstools mtools testdisk partclone sshfs locate git cups gpa ntp yad rpl bluetooth blueman mtp-tools go-mtpfs adb pmount udiskie gvfs

#5
apt install mpv vlc handbrake audacious gnome-sound-recorder lame gimp inkscape abcde eyed3 xpdf x11-apps geany gpsbabel clipit uget clamtk gdmap bleachbit ksnapshot kcharselect meld regexxer xiphos fonts-sil-ezra rkhunter chkrootkit goldendict transmission easytag xfce4-notes-plugin bluefish yelp dvdbackup ttf-mscorefonts-installer screengrab

#6
apt install build-essential intltool pkg-config libalglib-dev libglib2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libx11-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libssl-dev libnotify-dev gcc make cmake yasm libqt4-dev kdelibs5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libxml2-dev

#7
apt install libtheora-dev libxvidcore-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libmp3lame-dev libfaac-dev libfaad-dev libgsm1-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsamplerate0-dev libjack-dev libsox-dev ladspa-sdk swh-plugins libmad0-dev libpango1.0-dev libass-dev libfdk-aac-dev libopus-dev libvpx-dev libx264-dev libx265-dev

#8
apt install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtk2.0-dev libsqlite3-dev nettle-dev libgeoclue-2-dev libgexiv2-dev libgps-dev libmagic-dev libbz2-dev libzip-dev liboauth-dev 
apt install qgis qgis-plugin-grass

#9
apt install squashfs-tools live-boot live-config live-boot-initramfs-tools live-config-sysvinit libburn4 libjte1 libisofs6 libisoburn1 xorriso isolinux hwinfo libhd21 libx86emu2 pv syslinux syslinux-common

#10
apt install ruby ruby-dev 
gem install jekyll

#for compton build
apt install  asciidoc xsltproc libconfig-dev
 
#update clamtk virus definitions with
freshclam

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