Debian Jessie Stable

Upgrading to Debian Jessie stable soon. Have downloaded the ISOs for KDE and GNOME...need to decide which to go with.

INSTALLATION LOG

Backed up home directory
Wiped disk during install (/home in separate partition)
Had to use a separate USB to retrieve nonfree wifi for my Lenovo ThinkPad x201:

• Package: firmware-iwlwifi
• File: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

Put the USB in when prompted and the install proceeded without interruption.

Rebooted and all came up smoothly

CUSTOMIZATIONS

Google Chrome

Use Iceweasel to download 64-bit Google Chrome deb to Downloads folder

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

This throws errors about missing packages libappindicator1 and libcurl3

sudo apt-get install libappindicator1 libcurl3

This throws errors

sudo apt-get -f install

This closes out the install and gets everything working

Add Google Chrome to Favorites

Geany

sudo apt-get install geany

sudo apt-get install geany-plugins

GCC

sudo apt-get install gcc

Note: already the latest version

Filezilla

sudo apt-get install filezilla

Configure vim  .vimrc

sudo apt-get install vim

From my 2009 post, copied and pasted into ~k/.vimrc .

Historical note: the "rc" in ".vimrc" derives from "runcom", from the MIT CTSS system, ca. 1965.

git

sudo apt-get install git

subversion
sudo apt-get install subversion

gimp extras

Via:

sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry gimp-data-extras

Enabling NTP Support

sudo apt-get install ntp

Activities > Search for Date and Time

Automatic Date & Time: On

Automatic Time Zone: On

Set default editor to vim

vim ~k/.bashrc

Append line: export EDITOR="vim"

Default applications

Via:

Activities, Search for Details

Default Applications

Web: Chromium Web Browser

Mali: Chromium Web Browser

Calendar: Evolution

Music: VLC media player

Video: VLC media player

Compressing/decompressing

Via:

sudo apt-get install unace rar unrar zip unzip p7zip p7zip-full p7zip-rar mpack sharutils uudeview arj cabextract

curl

Via: sudo apt-get install curl

VLC installation and configuration

Note: a bit different than previous upgrades, but mostly the same (answer via)

sudo apt-get install vlc

This installs 2.2.0-rc2 Weatherwax....which apparently still cannot play YouTube

sudo rm /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.*

sudo curl "http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua;hb=HEAD" -o /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.lua

Start VLC

Tested on video 

It works : o )

Shotwell
sudo apt-get install shotwell

gparted
sudo apt-get install gparted

bleachbit (system cleaner)
sudo apt-get install bleachbit

Screensaver
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-gl

Note: this seems to need more (?) For example

UltraNav Touchpad

Activities > Mouse & TouchPad
Uncheck "Two finger scroll"
Uncheck "Natural scrolling"
Note: seems this works out-of-the-box, but the two finger scroll got me...used to one finger scrolling, on the right of the TrackPad

Fingerprint reader

Via:

lsusb reports: "Bus 001 Device 003: ID 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor"

sudo apt-get install libpam-fprintd

grep fprint /etc/pam.d/common-auth 

This reports "auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_fprintd.so max_tries=1 timeout=10 # debug"

fprintd-enroll

Running this prompts "Enrolling right-index-finger finger." and "Enroll result: enroll-stage-passed"

Scanned my finger each time; this ended after 6 times with message "Enroll result: enroll-completed"

Now it works! : o )

clisp

sudo apt-get install clisp

Note: seems like an abandoned package (?) 

Fonts

Via:

sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-wqy-microhei ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-freefont ttf-liberation

Configure printing

Activities > Search for "Printers"

Unlock, then select button "Add"

On screen "Add a New Printer" select "Network"

Select "HP LaserJet CP1525nw", then select button "Add"

Print test page...prints successfully in color

Configure GNOME 3 Settings

Activities > Tweak Tool

Desktop

• Icons on Desktop: On

Top Bar

• Show date: Checked
• Show week numbers: Checked

Extensions: Looks interesting!

MISTAKES

Forgot to transfer FileZilla site configurations, so manually recreated

May have forgotten to save touchpad settings (?)

UPDATE
Install updated version of libsane