- New HDD was cut into two partitions and win xp was installed on one.
- Ubuntu was installed off a USB stick "Install alongside Win XP" was chosen. This correctly used the empty (unformatted) partition for Linux, with appropriate swap space choice.
- Ssh needs to be installed - can be installed through the package manager. I used a metapackage to install both client and server. The changes took effect immediately (no restart or manually starting server). I went from not being able to ssh into the machine from my mac to being able to.
- Python 2.6 comes installed
- sudo apt-get python-pip
- sudo pip install ipython
- sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
- The Unity Launcher cannot be configured to be at the bottom. Idiots.
- sudo apt-get install aptitude
- install kubuntu-desktop via aptitude (picked kdm as display manager)
- Muon package manager has authentication problems (can't authenticate - Muon creator says it is a policykit problem). Idiots
- Uninstall KDE and go back to Unity: follow the instructions here. (This is important)
- (sudo apt-get autoremove because it told me to)
gattach was a handy tool to use for webmail clients like gmail. I couldn't find it anymore, but then from this discussion I found out that gattach is now affixa.
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