Yet Another Fresh Install of Ubuntu Setup Script

Over the years of installing, updating, re-installing Ubuntu, I have slowly crafted a decent “fresh install” bash script to help setup and configure Ubuntu after a clean install. This script is ever evolving, and still doesn’t capture everything I want it to, but it does knock out a giant chunk of things to do, automatically from the start.

A related and a bit more polished script can be found here: What to do after installing Ubuntu? Run this script!. This one is more GUI oriented, while mine is more command line automated. (If someone want’s to add a GUI to my script, that would be great…).

Here is my version of yet another bash script for setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu:

My Update Fresh Ubuntu Script:

  • Ubuntu 10.04 +
  • Easy to use
    • Configure it once, run it, watch it go automatically
    • True/false if-blocks for easy toggling each feature
  • Install packages for
    • Programming / Development
    • Nautilus / GNOME
    • Dropbox / Restricted-Extras
    • Media / Video / Flash
  • Import various keys/repositories
    • New Compiz
    • Ubuntu Tweak
    • GIMP plugin registry
    • Bisigi Themes
  • Tweaks
    • Speed up GNOME menus
    • Enable parallel booting
    • Enable deadline process scheduler
    • Revert back to gcc-4.3
    • Move window buttons back to right side
    • Re-map caps-lock key to ctrl key
  • Prepare for Nvidia CUDA drivers
    • Remove default nvidia modules
    • Blacklist default nvidia modules
    • Setup ldconfig for CUDA libraries

Download Update Fresh Ubuntu! (Version 0.4 – updated for Ubuntu 10.10)
If you have a small screen, see how to optimize GNOME for a tiny display.

Note 1: I am not responsible for anything going wrong with your system using this script, so please edit the script (enable/disable sections) as desired!

Note 2: This script is highly tailored to me, and I encourage you to modify and enhance the script to suit your own needs before running it!

Enjoy!

6 thoughts on “Yet Another Fresh Install of Ubuntu Setup Script”

  1. Great script! Exactly what I was looking for to build my own and I needed a good model. Could you expand a bit on how the “True/false if-blocks” are meant to be used? This may be a silly basic question but it is eluding me right now. Thanx!

  2. Hey Bart,
    Thanks!
    The ‘true/false’ blocks were meant as a way to enable/disable sections from running when the script is run – in cases where you may want to run only parts of the script or use different parts for different machines.
    Enjoy!
    ~Chris

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