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Lubuntu 24 LTS guide

Lubuntu installation

Getting the iso

You can get the iso from the following link iso or this website Lubuntu download

CALAMARES INSTALLER

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Lubuntu post installation

Install applications

Before installing applications, you need to install a browser so that you can access this website link and then copy paste all the procedures and installations.

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sudo apt install falkon

These are my preferred applications.

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sudo apt install herbstluftwm icewm i3 openbox obconf flameshot ksnip \
vokoscreen-ng obs-studio yt-dlp tint2 vlc \
gparted xdotool yad lxrandr arandr lynx curl xclip conky-all wmctrl dunst jq dmenu rofi \
nitrogen figlet gpick sxiv xpad dos2unix fzf rsync p7zip ncdu cheese xfce4-terminal \
thunar-archive-plugin lxappearance gedit galculator qrencode lshw lxtask dosfstools \
qt5ct qt6ct lxsession lm-sensors inkscape shotcut transmission-gtk fakeroot pavucontrol \
xarchiver unzip zim gxkb graphviz firejail mpv breeze-cursor-theme twolame inxi peek pdftk \
doublecmd-gtk evince  picom copyq cpu-x autoconf \
stacer unrar keepassxc screenkey mate-polkit clipit kdialog featherpad ripgrep parallel \
acpi jgmenu datamash gnumeric rs miller mawk hyperfine mc \
ubuntu-drivers-common ubuntu-restricted-extras keepass2 stterm photoflare cutycapt

Installing Firefox

To install firefox, it is better to not install snaps since Lubuntu minimal comes with no snap. Enable firefox ppa repository

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa #created for ppa priority over snap

in the created file mozillateamppa input the following and save

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Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

Installing firefox now is with ppa priority over snaps

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sudo apt install firefox

Installing Espanso

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wget https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso/releases/download/v2.2.1/espanso-debian-x11-amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./espanso-debian-x11-amd64.deb

Installing Fastfetch

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch
sudo apt install fastfetch

Installing Font-manager

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:font-manager/staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install font-manager
sudo apt install thunar-font-manager

Installing Sublime-Text

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sudo apt install apt-transport-https
wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.gpg] https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list

sudo apt update
sudo apt install sublime-text

Installing YAD Latest

Install dependencies

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sudo apt-get install automake build-essential intltool libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav 
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev # for --html --browser

clone yad repo compile and install

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git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad
cd yad
autoreconf -ivf && intltoolize
./configure --enable-html --enable-sourceview && make
sudo make install

Finally run gtk-update-icon-cache after yad installation.

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gtk-update-icon-cache

For the youtube video link