Setting up Ubuntu 2

And here is the second part

3 Updating the system

Afterwards we have to look out updates and install the latest. For this run the  Update Manager to proceed in saying so: System> Administration> Update Manager

The Update Manager tells you what updates are available to update the list you can click the Check button go. Click on Install Updates to install updates to:

Enter your password:

It may take a few minutes until the updates are downloaded and updated:

If the updates are complete, click on Close . A new kernel downloaded, you will need to restart the computer to apply the changes. Should this be the case, see a Restart Nowbutton. Click on it to start the system in order.

The system is now on the  most currently standard

4 Flash Player and Java

If the box you install this third-party software installation had clicked the while, should the Flash Player and Java are already installed.

To verify this to open Firefox and type: about: plugins into the address bar of your browser. Firefox will then list all installed plug-ins, and it should also list the Flash Player to version 10.1 of the R85 ...

... Should also include the IcedTea (Java) are plug-in:

5 Listing of the current stock

Now we look at the menu bar to see to what are the necessary applications already available:

The following should appear: a  [x] marks the application has already been installed, while the empty box [] indicates that the application is still missing:

Graphics:

[ ] The GIMP
[ ] F-Spot
[ ] Picasa

Internet:

[x] Firefox
[ ] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[ ] FileZilla
[ ] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[] AMule
[X] Transmission BitTorrent Client
[ ] Vuze
[X] Empathy IM client
[ ] Skype
[ ] Google Earth
[ ] Xchat IRC

Office applications:

[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[ ] Adobe Reader
[ ] GnuCash
[ ] Scribus

Sound & Video:

[ ] Amarok
[ ] Audacity
[ ] Banshee
[ ] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[ ] gtkPod
[ ] XMMS
[ ] dvd::rip
[] Cinema
[ ] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[ ] VLC Media Player
[ ] RealPlayer
[x] Totem
[ ] Xine
[X] Brasero
[ ] K3B
[ ] Multimedia-Codecs

Programming:

[] KompoZer

[ ] Bluefish

[] Quanta Plus

Others:

[ ] VirtualBox

[ ] TrueType fonts

[x] Java

[X] Read / write support for NTFS partitions

There are so few Anwednungen already on the system, but not all. The read / write-support for NTFS in Ubuntu 10.10 is enabled by default.