Debian install - Step 3

Media players

sudo apt update sudo apt install mpv audacious  

that's a great video player that can handle all you need, and a winamp-style music player.

Audacious Qt

download the latest stable from http://audacious-media-player.org/download

get the dependencies

sudo apt install qt5-default vorbis-tools libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libfaad-dev libneon27-dev libcdio-dev  

unpack the player, and run

./configure --enable-qt --disable-gtk  

or you can have both qt/gtk if you like

then,

make sudo make install  

with the plugins, just ./configure, make, sudo make install

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Media encoders

Handbrake

get it from the repo's - the venerable, quality video encoder

sudo apt install handbrake  

Avidemux

Without sourcing the deb-multimedia repository, you can find the great video cutter Avidemux here videmux.org/nightly/appImage/

run app image with /dir../avidemux*.app

Recently, after a system upgrade, the app wouldn't run and I needed to provide a symlink to a library, a fake file 'libva-drm.so.1' linking to libva-drm.so.2,

cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva-drm.so.2.300.0 libva-drm.so.1  

Bombono

An easy dvd creator. download from pkgs.org/download/bombono

then do..

sudo dpkg -i bombono*deb sudo apt install -f  

Audio editors

sudo apt install ardour audacity qjackctl  

that's a quality sound recorder and audio editor. To record with ardour you'll need to open a line with Jack

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Media rippers

for audio CD

sudo apt install abcde eyed3 lame  

The CLI way, using cdparanoia to rip the audio cd and lame or oggenc (vorbis-tools) to encode -see linux-ripping-and-encoding-audio-files

Bashburn is straight forward, it uses cdparanoia to rip wav files, converts ogg or mp3 (although adding track info might be tedious).
Abcde is much simpler to use (just hit the command `abcde` after you've made a conf file for the type of rip you want to do - see this guide).

GUI ripping: there's K3b, which is big and clumsy, sound juicer (need gvfs-backends) or asunder, which rip and convert on the fly, without first making error-reduced wav files.

Others: rubyripper, ripperx, and grip which you have to build from source (download sourceforge.net)
lame is needed for mp3 encoding.

for movie DVD

with the deb-multimedia repo, you can..

sudo apt install k9copy dvdrip dvdbackup libdvdcss2  

otherwise you need to look for packages elsewhere.

get libdvdcss from pkgs.org/download/libdvdcss2


k9copy and dvdrip are both graphical, and you can select which title to rip (but again, there's KDE libraries to install).
dvdbackup is command-line, and it rips the DVD to hdd in its entirety.
With libdvdcss2 installed you can play and possibly rip a DVD encrypted with CSS (Content Scramble System), e.g. it enables Handbrake to rip encrypted dvd titles to mp4, but there is still other encrypion it can't deal with.

To rip with dvdbackup, cd to the dir to store the dvd and run dvdbackup -i /dev/dvd -M -o movie

furiusisomount and acetoneiso are two other useful apps.

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Desktop apps

sudo apt install xpdf pdfshuffler x11-apps diodon uget clamtk easytag gdmap meld regexxer bleachbit transmission yelp xsel xvkbd goldendict xfce4-notes-plugin bluefish filezilla screengrab  

that gets you... a light-weight a pdf viewer and cutter, basic x11 tools, clipboard manager, download manager, virus scanner, id3 tag writer, graphical disk map, file/directory comparison app, file text search/replace, system cleanup app, torrent downloader, help agent, x-selection tools, dictionary, grouped sticky notes, html editor, ftp manager, screenshot taker

transmission gets permissions error - right click on a torrent and > Set Location, select the actual download location.

for a fully functional DVD burner, there's xfburn (basic) or k3b with KDE bloat (unless you'd prefer an easy command-line tool like bashburn -which has gone from the package lists)

sudo apt install k3b libk3b6-extracodecs normalize-audio  

the last two packages there are to enable conversion of wav to mp3 or mp3 to wav (and other formats) -ie ripping an audio cd or making an audio cd in K3b...

Xfce stuff and panel plugins

sudo apt install xfce4-taskmanager xfprint4 xfce4-notes-plugin xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-dict x-tile xarchiver gstreamer-0.10 xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-wavelan-plugin xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-timer-plugin xfce4-volumed  

xfce plugins http://goodies.xfce.org/... recommends for xfce http://wiki.xfce.org/...

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ClamTK virus scanner

FAQ page A GUI frontend for Clamav - mainly it's used for scanning potentially infected files received from Windows machines to prevent sending on infected files etc.

Latest version can be installed from .deb file from clamtk website - from repository it may report out-dated GUI and virus definitions.

depends: libnet-dns-perl


To update clamav virus definitions, run

sudo freshclam  

It's possible to update multiple machines remotely if you download the main.cvd and daily.cvd file (from the Upgading links at http://www.clamav.net/...) and copy it to /var/lib/clamav

sudo rsync -a daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav  

Note: you must select options in Preferences in order to scan anything!

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Anti rootkit

these are Linux-specific anti-trojan programs

sudo apt install rkhunter chkrootkit  

To run them use these commands as root:

rkhunter --propupd rkhunter --checkall  

run an update with

rkhunter --update  

sudo chkrootkit -x | less  

I'm not exactly sure what this shows!

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/

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Hosts file

add web sites to the /etc/hosts file to block them - literally to drop any request that looks them up

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
and here http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak sudo geany /etc/hosts  

when done adding to the list of blocked sites, run

sudo service networking restart  

or you can try hostsblock http://gaenserich.github.io/hostsblock/

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optional

sudo apt install evince geekie pyrenamer catfish cheese docky flush hasciicam xfburn xpad geany axel-kapt tucan pdfshuffler pdfchain  

evince, geekie - gui pdf and image viewers
pyrenamer, catfish - batch rename and file search gui tools
cheese, hasciicam - webcam apps
docky - app launcher dock
flush or transmission -bit torrent handlers
xpad - make notes
axel-kapt -download accelerator
tucan -upload-downloader for file share sites
pdfshuffler pdfchain -pdf cutters

sudo apt install gconf-editor gnome-system-tools gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer ttf-mscorefonts-installer  

gnome configuration editor - sets things in gnome app's
gnome system tools - enables user management
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins - enables reading and conversion of audio from CD's in KDE app's
mscorefonts - includes Times, Tahoma, Verdana, Ariel etc.



For backups...

sudo apt install luckybackup backintime-qt4 rsbackup restic  

there's 2x GUI and 2x command line utilities


Edu-games for learners

sudo apt install tuxtype tuxmath extremetuxracer supertux tuxguitar tuxpuck ktouch ktuberling kig step klavaro kbruch kturtle kalzium education-music raincat gamine bomber bomberclone  

Tips:
to enable transparency of the Xfce roxterm terminal emulator, check "enable display compositing" in Xfce Settings manager > Windows Tweaks.


problems:
network manager gives this message: "system policy prevents modification of network settings" and asks for root key to logon to network

sudo nano /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy  

search for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system

at the end of that section change <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
to <allow_active>yes</allow_active>



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Step4 - web browsers, GPG, Bible, GPS