We encountered many issues with Ubuntu 12.04 not being stable enough and having bugs unfixed, or ubuntu dependencies not being as good as the Debian one.
All of our clients are using Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits and we decided to find an alternative to replace Ubuntu before the LTS expires.
We decided to choose Debian for the following reason:
Our servers run 64 bit version of Debian but we need to see if all software are compatible.
For thunderbird install, use the mint deb if necessary: http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/t/
Trying to get Testing installed I realized it would take me hours as it depends on the connection to the mirror.
In order to select the best mirror do the following from a Debian machine (A source list will be copied to your home directory):
su - apt-get install netselect-apt netselect-apt mv /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak} cp ~/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update |
Here is the result from 2014/01/04 in BlueLight:
# Debian packages for stable deb http://debian.mirror.net.in/debian/ stable main contrib # Uncomment the deb-src line if you want 'apt-get source' # to work with most packages. # deb-src http://debian.mirror.net.in/debian/ stable main contrib # Security updates for stable deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib |
for each user
mv ~/.icedove{,-org} mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.icedove |
apt-get install rsync vlc audacious emacs23-nox ssh icedove chromium gnome-tweak-tool flashplugin-nonfree python-software-properties file-roller gedit |
Adding the Ubuntu 12.04 icons and cursors
rsync -av root@192.168.10.2:/usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark /usr/share/icons/ rsync -av root@192.168.10.2:/usr/share/icons/DMZ-White /usr/share/icons/ |
edit ~/.config/nautilus/accels, search for the line:
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/DirViewActions/Trash" "<Primary>Delete")
uncomment and change to:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/DirViewActions/Trash" "Delete")