Debian Post Install

A set of scripts to be runned right after a fresh debian install!

Foreword

This is a work in progress, aimed to have a complete, user friendly, reasonably fast working Debian OS right after a fresh installation, trying to minimize typical operations (like "apt-get install 1000debs", a desktop with useful icons and buttons, programs to be started at boot, ...).
I use it also because I want to install a full operational system with all features on older hardware (PIII 500mhz, 10G HD, 256Mb RAM). I find that GNU/Linux distributions made for older hardware usually lack a lot of features for normal desktop users, and they find it difficult to understand, while user friendly dists like Ubuntu are simply not designed to work on older hardware. So, once again, aupa Debian not only for it's political correctness!

I repeat: this is a work in progress! More precisely this is my way of learning how to write scripts! Feedback from my friends is very appreciated! For the rest, write an email for feedback to .

Overview

The scripts are containers for a set of bash commands, mainly they set the OS for testing/unstable, do a lot of apt-getting, copy some pre-written configuration files, while change others.

There is a main directory containing the post-install scripts, and a sub-directory, called "postinstall", containing pre-written configuration files.

Until I receive a good hint about how to test the big "install-debs" list for unmeeted dependencies, I'll leave the main script splitted into three parts (step 1 2 3), simply to allow changements in the list in the middle of the post-install process!

step 1

root@yourcomputer:~# 
root@yourcomputer:~#  
root@yourcomputer:~# 

ToDo list

• Less human intervention while dpkg's configures; installer keeps asking questions about: java, locales, localepurge, (...)
• Control if the default /etc/apt/apt.conf.d is still giving problems
• Add dinamically lines to /etc/crontab instead of writing a new file
• Find an easy and reasonably fast way to test the install-debs.sh list of packages for unmeeted dependencies before running the main script.
• Dinamically change the .conkyrc for the hard disks lines
• Dinamically change the .bashrc instead of writing a new file
• default_iceweasel_profile.zip is not unpacking the way it should (?), so it won't really change anything
• Dynamically change the ssh_config instead of writing a new file
• Change tilda_config_0 for a better (nicer) tilda configuration
• ...