Here Are 15 Things You Should Do After Installing ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

1.Update your system

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

2.Consider installing Aptitude, Synaptic and Gdebi

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install aptitude synaptic gdebi-core

3.Installing Gnome System Monitor

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-system-monitor

4.Get LibreOffice

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice

5.Installing the VLC player

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install vlc

6.Installing extra codecs to play a variety of video/audio formats

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricted-extras libavcodec-extra

7.Install the libdvdread4 package to play encrypted dvds

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

8.Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader

You can install Adobe Acrobat Reader from canonical partner repository:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ raring partner"

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install acroread

9.Installing Uget download manager: perhaps one of the best file download managers for linux

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install uget

10.Speeding up the user interface

Here's how you can do that:

Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in home directory and paste in the following lines:

gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0
gtk-menu-popdown-delay = 0
gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay = 0
gtk-enable-animations = 0
gtk-timeout-expand = 0
gtk-timeout-initial = 0
gtk-timeout-repeat = 0

Save file > close > Logout > Login back

11.Install Gksudo to run gui apps as root

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install gksu

12.Install the rar package

Here's how you can do that:

$ sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin

13.Turn off Apport

Particularly useful in case you get frequent error messages saying "System program problem detected".

14.Install Skype

Here's how you can do that:

$ wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-precise_4.2.0.13-1_i386.deb

15.Install Chrome and Chromium browsers

To install chromium browser:

$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

To install chrome browser:

64 bit
$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

# 32 bit
$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb