Five things to do after installing Ubuntu

Five things to do after installing UBUNTU

1. Install Flash Player 

        Normally cannonical doesn't ship latest adobe flashplayer with their latest   distribution, therefor you need to install it manuallay

you can download the latest flashplayer from get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
 and select ".tar.gz for other linux"

extract it

 tar -zxvf install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz

change directory into the extracted folder 

 cd  install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64

 copy libflashpalyer.so into the browser plugin page ex. firefox

 sudo cp libflashpalyer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

 or you can simply search "adobe flash" in ubuntu software center and install it

  2. Install VLC media Player

   VLC is one of the best Media Player for linux or windows
   in terminal

                                                  

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc

   3. Install Ubuntu Tweak Tool

   Ubuntu tweak tool is must have software for ubuntu users, the most powerful feature of the tweak tool is "janitor" you can clean your computer using janitor and also you can change themes and settings

 

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa 

 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

   4. Install Conky

 Conky is a free software system monitor for the X Window System. It is available for Linux,  Conky is highly configurable and is able to monitor many system variables including the status of the CPU, memory, swap space, disk storage, temperatures, processes, network interfaces etc ,
 

Check our previous post for installation and configuration about conky here

Check our previous post for installation and configuration - See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/042013-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail/#sthash.kD11xpWC.dpuf

Check our previous post for installation and configuration - See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/042013-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail/#sthash.kD11xpWC.dpuf

Check our previous post for installation and configuration - See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/042013-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail/#sthash.kD11xpWC.dpuf

Check our previous post for installation and configuration - See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/042013-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail/#sthash.kD11xpWC.dpuf

Check our previous post for installation and configuration - See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/042013-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail/#sthash.kD11xpWC.dpuf

 5.  Install Skype

Check our previous post for installation and configuration - See more at: http://www.unixmen.com/042013-top-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail/#sthash.kD11xpWC.dpuf

Skype is a freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging client developed and widely using VoIP and video chatting software

You can download it Skype Download page , Click here and select ubuntu 12.04
you can install the .deb file simply double click on it