This is a script that I use to setup my Ubuntu12.04 LTS Desktop. It contains most of the libs and dependencies that I find are missing when I go to install other apps

setup-ubuntu.sh

#!/bin/sh
 
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# Install all manner of development dependencies 
# on Ubuntu 
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grep "my custom aliases" ~/.profile ||
{
  echo "#my custom aliases"  >> ~/.profile
  echo "alias ..='cd ..'" >> ~/.profile
  echo "alias d='ls -l | grep -E \"^d\"'" >> ~/.profile
  echo "alias lah='ls -lah'"  >> ~/.profile
}

# Enable Repository Universe sources
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main universe restricted multiverse"
sudo apt-get update
 
# These are my basic installs that i use for day to day development
sudo apt-get -y install autoconf automake bison build-essential curl scons 
sudo apt-get -y install libc6-dev libc6-dev-i386 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev 
sudo apt-get -y install libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libtool libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-dev 
sudo apt-get -y install ncurses-dev openssl zlib1g zlib1g-dev libx11-dev
sudo apt-get -y install htop

# dev apps
sudo apt-get -y install git-core subversion sqlite3 freetds-dev
sudo apt-get -y install colordiff

# Get my editor up and running
sudo apt-get -y remove vim-common
sudo apt-get -y install vim-gnome
sudo apt-get -y install terminator

#heroku and ruby
wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

#python
sudo apt-get -y install python-dev
sudo apt-get -y install python-pip

# zeromq
sudo apt-get -y install libzmq-dev
sudo easy_install pyzmq

 
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