Fresh install

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Add items to top panel
Right click panel > Panel > Panel Preferences > Items
Workspace Switcher
Action buttons
Separator

Xubuntu Whisper Menu
Setting > Panel > Items > Whisker Menu Settings > Behaviour > Display recently used by default

Panel at bottom
2 separators at each side which expand
Separate launcher for each application inbetween

Custom Clock format
%a, %d %b %Y, %H:%M

Remove Thunderbird
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove thunderbird

Chrome
From deb on website

Git
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core

Vim
sudo apt-get install vim

Generate ssh key for Github and authorized_keys on remote servers

Clone scripts

Clone dotfiles

Clone .vimrc

transmission-remote-cli
sudo apt-get install transmission-remote-cli 
transmission-remote-cli -c usr:psword@host:port --create-config

Pip
sudo apt-get install python-pip

Pep8
sudo pip install pep8

Virtualenv
sudo pip install virtualenv

CPANM
% curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus

Vlc
sudo apt-get install vlc

Java
RTE (Java Runtime Environment)
Install the openjdk-7-jre package
SDK (Software Development Kit)
Install the openjdk-7-jdk package
Web browser Plugin
sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin 

Dropbox (~2GB download)

Virtualbox / Calibre / Pencil / Comix / jEdit

Ruby 1.9.3
sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-full

mongodb
download, extract tar -xvf <file> and move to ~/opt/mongodb/, adding it to path
as root create /data and /data/db and chmod 777 /data/db

pymongo
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev
sudo pip install pymongo

qpdfview instead on 64 bit machine as it has tab capability.
sudo apt-get install qpdfview

FBReader
sudo apt-get install fbreader

exFAT support
sudo apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse

Pandoc
sudo apt-get install pandoc

zsh
sudo apt-get install zsh


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Netbeans
https://netbeans.org/community/releases/74/install.html