Now don’t bash me just for installing proprietary and restricted software on my computer. I have no other option for the time-being. I am too a free software evangelist.
Each time I (re)install Ubuntu on my laptop or home PC or on a friend’s laptop, I always forget some or the other software which I have to download at a later date. This is sometimes troublesome if I don’t have net working at my home and take the laptop to a wired workplace to download the packages. Here are the packages which I usually download and you would always find it as a part.
This includes many proprietary softwares as well, if you know a good replacement, please do take pains to inform me about it.
Runtimes
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (proprietary)
- Java 6 (free)
Applications
- Twhirl (proprietary)
- Terminator (free)
- xChm (free)
- Inkscape (free)
- TweetDeck (?)
- K3B (free)
- Scribus (free)
Networking (incl Internet)
- Thunderbird (free)
- Epiphany (free)
- FileZilla (free)
- WireShark (free)
- XChat (free)
- Opera (?)
- KTorrent (free)
- Bluetooth OBEX Server (free)
System Tools and Softwares
- Yakuake (free)
- VirtualBox OSE (free)
- Konsole (free)
- QGRUBEditor (free)
- APTonCD (free)
- Wine (free)
Programming (Editors + SDK)
- Geany (free)
- Glade Interface Desinger (free)
- Komodo (proprietary)
- Netbeans (free)
- Qt Designer + Qt Creator (free)
- Qt SDK (free)
- GTK+ Development Headers (free)
- Leafpad (free)
- Emacs (free)
- Amaya (free)
- QT4 Linguist and Assistant (free)
- MySQL (free)
- Apache (free)
- PHP (free)
- SQLiteman (free)
Multimedia
- VLC Media PLayer (free)
- Amarok (free)
- Banshee (free)
- Last.fm Scrobbler (free)
- Miro Internet TV (free)
- RealPlayer (proprietary)
- Gstreamer Codecs (proprietary) (restricted)
- Xine (proprietary) (restricted)
Configuration
- Dust Theme (free)
- Nautilus Action Configurations (free)
- Nautilus Open Terminal (free)
- Compiz Config Settings Manager (free)
