Ubuntu 14.04 post-install commands

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# logout and login using Gnome Classic (no effects)
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

# show scrollbar in windows
gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
# change font of windows titlebar
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences titlebar-font 'Ubuntu 10'

# show all applications in gnome-session-properties
cd /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo sed --in-place 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' *.desktop
# disable Gwibber, Orca, Ubuntu One, Zeitgeist, Bluetooth
gnome-session-properties

# remove useless applications
sudo apt-get remove gnome-games-common gbrainy aisleriot gnome-mahjongg gnome-sudoku pitivi simple-scan vino vinagre tsclient rdesktop gdm-guest-session gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-mag at-spi libgail-gnome-module libatspi1.0-0 libgail-common libatk1.0-data libgnome-mag2 espeak-data espeak

# remove unity user interface
sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-common

sudo apt-get install preload # adaptive readahead daemon
sudo apt-get install meld # visual diff and merge tool
sudo apt-get install filezilla curl gnuplot mplayer
sudo apt-get install synaptic gnome-system-tools
sudo apt-get install xclip # command line interface to X selections (clipboard)
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install geoip-bin geoip-database-contrib whois

# install version control systems
sudo apt-get install git git-gui gitk
sudo apt-get install subversion

# useful perl modules
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install MediaWiki::API'
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc'
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Clean'

# install php and mysql (needed for mediawiki)
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php5 php5-mysql php5-xcache php-pear php5-dev php5-intl php5-curl

# install java
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
java -version
javac -version
sudo update-alternatives --config java

# install compatibility packages to run android tools on 64bit systems
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5
sudo apt-get install lib32z1

# cleanup
sudo apt-get autoclean 
sudo apt-get autoremove

# download latest Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
tar xvfz eclipse-*.tar.gz
sudo mv eclipse/ /opt
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/local/bin/eclipse" "eclipse" "/opt/eclipse/eclipse" 1

# download latest SoapUI from http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/
tar xvfz SoapUI-4.6.2-linux-bin.tar.gz
sudo mv SoapUI-4.6.2 /opt/
cd /opt/SoapUI-4.6.2/bin/
sed --in-place 's/`dirname $0`/\/opt\/SoapUI-4.6.2\/bin/' soapui.sh
chmod 755 /opt/SoapUI-4.6.2/bin/soapui.sh 
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/local/bin/soapui" "soapui" "/opt/SoapUI-4.6.2/bin/soapui.sh" 1

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