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    HP ZBook 15 G3 - Ubuntu GNOME - 16.04 LTS

*: Included in the image
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7bb4c15f

Device         Boot     Start        End   Sectors   Size Id Type                       Mount
/dev/nvme0n1p1 *         2048     999423    997376   487M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/nvme0n1p2      234375168  242374655   7999488   3.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/nvme0n1p3      242374656 1000214527 757839872 361.4G 83 Linux
/dev/nvme0n1p4         999424  234375167 233375744 111.3G 83 Linux

/dev/nvme0n1p4 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

Prerequisites


Download Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS - Download
Create bootable USB Flash - How to create a bootable USB stick on OS X

Hardware Issues - Display Driver Recovery


Install in UEFI Boot mode

If machine does not boot after installing:

press shift while grub is loading (during bootup). this will give you the grub prompt.
select "Advanced options for Ubuntu"
select "recovery mode"
select "resume"

Now the gui is partially be available but not fully operable.


switch to console (ctrl+alt+f1)
login as wlinstall or your own user
enter startx to start the gui environment correctly
open terminal and run sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
sudo reboot

Get rid of crash reports

sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-361
sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-361-uvm
sudo rm /var/crash/nvidia*
Basic system*

sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
Use gdm3 as login manager
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

Grub

Edit the following lines in /etc/default/grub to look like this:
# GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
# GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

Run sudo update-grub
User

Replace --uid 1000 with your UserID.
sudo adduser --uid 1000 --gid 100 username
sudo adduser username adm
sudo adduser username sudo
sudo adduser username cdrom
sudo adduser username plugdev
sudo adduser username dip
sudo adduser username lpadmin
sudo adduser username sambashare
sudo adduser username wireshark
create a resource folder
mkdir ~/resources
create a tools folder
mkdir ~/tools
UMASK

Change UMASK to 002 in /etc/login.defs. Reboot to apply the changes.
Locale*

Set the default locale to en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/default/locale
sudo vi /etc/default/locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Updates


applications > system tools > software & updates

When there are security updates: download and install automatically


applications > system tools > software updater

run update


reboot
Bluetooth disable on system boot*

make any changes before exit 0
sudo vi /etc/rc.local
-> add "rfkill block bluetooth"
Packages*

sudo aptitude install chromium-browser wireshark gimp subversion-tools maven openjdk-8-jdk apache2 imagemagick feh php libapache2-mod-php netcat iperf iptables iotop vlc curl gcc g++ xmlstarlet ghostscript make xsltproc openssh-server dconf-editor texmaker texlive-fonts-recommended git nmap unzip shutter texlive-full
Optional

sudo aptitude install gnuplot links2 lynx okular netem cifs-utils sketch
sudo aptitude install openvpn vpnc network-manager-vpnc network-manager-openvpn brasero
sudo aptitude install wv xlhtml ppthtml shared-mime-info libxml-parser-perl libexpat-dev poppler-utils automake libtool byacc flex libswitch-perl gettext gettext-base
Automount

To use automount proceed like this.
Create folder data
mkdir /data
change /etc/auto.master to look like this.
$ cat /etc/auto.master
/data /etc/auto.cifs-shares --ghost
change /etc/auto.cifs-shares to look like this.
$ cat /etc/auto.cifs-shares
share1 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/fstab.credentials,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,uid=username,gid=users ://srv.domain.ch/share1\$
share2 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/fstab.credentials,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,uid=username,gid=users ://srv.domain.ch/xyz\$
Note:
/etc/auto.cifs-shares and /etc/auto.master must have permissions 644
I'm not sure if you have to create the following folders yourself

/data/share1
/data/share2

sudo service autofs start
Get rid of IBUS CTRL+SPACE mapping*

only available if cinnamon is installed

open dconf-editor
Desktop > ibus > general > hotkey

The trigger and triggers setting will show control+space. Edit these settings out, being careful to leave empty brackets [] in triggers.


Cinnamon Desktop*

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tsvetko.tsvetkov/cinnamon

In order to get the full Cinnamon experience you may also install the Cinnamon/Mint themes as well as the Mint icons/backgrounds.

More info: here


sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install cinnamon
logout and use cinnamon as Desktop
UI Configuration


Menu > System Settings

Hot Corners
* tl: desktop, tr: show all windows, br: show all workspaces
Panel
* Panel Layout: Flipped
* Use customized panel size
* Allow scale
* top panel height: ~1/3
Date and Time
* Display the Date
Applets
* Remove Keyboard
* Add workspace switcher
Desktop
* Mounted volumes
Keyboard
* Layouts: German (Switzerland)
* Shortcuts: Super+e Terminal, Super+w Home Folder, Super+l Lock
Mouse
* Touchpad: Disable Touchpad while typing, Scrolling two finger scrolling, enable horizontal scrolling
Bluetooth
* turn off
Power Management
* When battery is critical: power off
Firewall
* Profile Office rename to company
* Enable Firewall and allow only 22, 80, 443, 8080 for inline traffic.


Smaller titlebars

change every occurance of title_vertical_pad to 4 (except second occurance which should be 3).
sudo vi /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml
Restart Cinnamon: ALT+F2 -> r
Terminal Colors

wget -O /tmp/term.conf http://dev.shaped.ch/terminal.conf
gconftool-2 --load /tmp/term.conf
Backup Deja Dup

Keep backups for 30 days only
gsettings set org.gnome.DejaDup delete-after 30

ZSH

Install and change default shell
sudo apt-get install zsh
chsh -s /bin/zsh
Install Oh My ZSH and Powerline fonts
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)
sudo apt-get install fonts-powerline
Configure ZSH

vim ~/.zshrc
Theme

Change [ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"] to [ZSH_THEME="agnoster"]
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"
Change theme colors to solarize

dconf is required if you don't already have it.
sudo apt-get install dconf-cli
git clone git://github.com/sigurdga/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized.git ~/.solarized
cd ~/.solarized
./install.sh

I recommend you option 1 (dark theme) which is just great.
Choose option 1 to download seebi' dircolors-solarized

After installation, open .zshrc and add the line:
eval `dircolors ~/.dir_colors/dircolors`
Development Applications

Docker

sudo aptitude install docker
Change the bridge interface ip edit /etc/docker/daemon.json to include the bip setting
{
  "bip": "192.168.252.1/24"
}
GIT

sudo aptitude install git
git config --global user.name "NAME"
git config --global user.email "EMAIL"
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "EMAIL"
paste the generated key to github account. verify with:
ssh -T git@github.com
Hi xy! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
Vim

Install VIM instead of VI
sudo aptitude install vim
Download configuration
cd ~/
wget -O ~/.vimrc http://dev.shaped.ch/vimrc
Set default editor to vim.basic using:
sudo update-alternatives --config editor
VIM Airline Plugin

mkdir ~/.vim
cd ~/.vim
wget -O airline-master.zip https://github.com/bling/vim-airline/archive/master.zip
unzip airline-master.zip
mv vim-airline-master/* ~/.vim/

VIM Emmet Plugin

wget -O emmet-master.zip https://github.com/mattn/emmet-vim/archive/master.zip
unzip emmet-master.zip
cp emmet-vim-master/plugin/emmet.vim ~/.vim/plugin/
cp emmet-vim-master/autoload/emmet.vim ~/.vim/autoload/
cp -a emmet-vim-master/autoload/emmet ~/.vim/autoload/
VIM Supertab Plugin

cd ~/.vim
wget -O supertab-master.zip https://github.com/ervandew/supertab/archive/master.zip
unzip supertab-master.zip
cp supertab-master/plugin/supertab.vim ~/.vim/plugin/
cp supertab-master/plugin/supertab.vim ~/.vim
Bash

wget -O  ~/.bashrc http://dev.shaped.ch/bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Local Tomcat


Download Apache Tomcat 7 to ~/resources

IDEs


Download intellij to ~/tools
Download eclipse to ~/tools
Download rubymine to ~/tools

Intellij

tar -xvzf ideaIU-14.1.1.tar.gz
ln -s ~/tools/idea-IU-141.178.9/ ~/idea
Import the settings for Jetbrains IntelliJ
wget -O intellij-settings.jar http://dev.shaped.ch/intellij-settings.jar
Now use File > Import Settings to import the settings in IntelliJ
Eclipse

tar -xvzf eclipse-jee-luna-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
mv eclipse eclipse-luna
ln -s ~/tools/eclipse-luna/ ~/eclipse
RubyMine

tar -xvzf RubyMine-7.0.4.tar.gz
ln -s ~/tools/RubyMine-7.0.4/ ~/rubymine
Other Tools

JProfiler


Downlaod and install jprofiler7 to ~/tools

License Available


VisualParadigm


Downlaod and install VisualParadigm 11.1 to ~/tools

Use Perpertual Licence


VisualVM


Downlaod and install VisualVM to ~/tools

JMeter


Downlaod and install JMeter to ~/tools

Apache Luke


Downlaod and install Apache Luke to ~/tools

Spotify

sudo apt-add-repository -y "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo aptitude install spotify-client
Skype


Software & Updates > Other Software > Enable "Canonical Partners"

sudo aptitude install skype
Sublime Text 3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install sublime-text