Project CleanSlate - Bash Script to Install Your Favorite Applications on Xubuntu

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So, I kinda crashed my HDD last weekend. But thankfully, I have had made a backup of all important data. But sadly, I haven't yet find a way to make a backup copy of my customized Linux OS with all my favorite and necessary apps and settings. But I got a brief flashback of the horror that I used to go through earlier while installing Ubuntu as shown below:


But thanks to Xubuntu, I don't have to face such horrors again. Even though, my habit of experimenting and to resurrect the buried ghost of Windows led me to this:


Thankfully, my sanity returned and I decided to install only Xubuntu on my system. Also, I decided to follow the principle of automating and wrote a bash script to install my following favorite (and must have) apps on my newly installed system:

  1. vim - Text Editor for all my programming tasks and scripting
  2. gedit - Another Text Editor
  3. Docky - Dock Application
  4. vlc - Media Player
  5. smplayer - Another Media Player
  6. Deluge - BitTorrent Client
  7. Clementine - Music Player
  8. Variety - To change wallpapers 
  9. gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad - For playing m4a files in Clementine.
Here is the bash script that I wrote it and it works perfectly and also does not require any manual inputs. 


#! /bin/bash
# Enable sources, add PPAs and update sources:
echo "Adding PPAs"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/stable -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/ppa -y
echo "Updating Repositories"
sudo apt-get update


#Install Software
echo "Installing Packages"
sudo apt-get install -y docky vlc clementine gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad smplayer smplayer-themes smplayer-skins variety vim gedit deluge

echo "Finished adding PPAs and installing applications. SUCCESSS. HELL YEAH!!!!!"
exit 0"
exit 0

After writing and saving the script with name InstallAppList.sh, make it executable by running the following command (make sure you're in the same directory where the script is saved):

chmod +x InstallAppList.sh

Then, run the script by using the following command:

./InstallAppList.sh

A Big Thanks to all the good folks there at askUbuntu.com. And also a big shoutout to Randall Munroe for creating such awesome geeky xkcd comic strips.

Last one from xkcd expressing my joy after  running and seeing the success message:



Hope you enjoyed my post as well and it was useful in some way.

Ciao.
MG

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