ArchLinux: What to do after installing it?

Did you finish the installation y setting ArchLinux successfully? Awesome. Now we proceed to the installation of the most used packages in a system ArchLinux common, for our own needs with the system.

1. Complements

Codecs:

$ sudo pacman -S gstreamer0.10-{{bad, good, ugly, base}{, -plugins}, ffmpeg}

Java:

$ sudo pacman -S jre7-openjdk icedtea-web-java7

Flash:

$ sudo pacman -S flashplugin

Compressed files:

$ sudo pacman -S file-roller p7zip unrar unzip

MTP:

«Media Ttransfer Protocol »(Media Transfer Protocol), is used by many mp3 players and mobile phones. I leave this for Android 3.0 and higher devices (Android 2.x devices don't need it).
For KDE users:

$ sudo pacman -S kio-mtp libmtp

For Gnome users and other environments:

$ sudo pacman -S gvfs-mtp libmtp

2 Web

Browsers

Firefox:

Mozilla's open source web browser.

$ sudo pacman -S firefox

Chromium:

Google's open source web browser.

$ sudo pacman -S chromium

Opera:

The proprietary web browser with some open source components of Opera Software ASA.

$ sudo pacman -S opera

Google Chrome:

Google's proprietary web browser.

$ yogurt -S google-chrome

Mail clients electronic

Thunderbird:

$ sudo pacman -S thunderbird

Geary:

$ sudo pacman -S geary

kmail:

$ sudo pacman -S kdepim-kmail

Video calls

Skype or Whatsapp:

$ sudo pacman -S skype

ekiga:

$ sudo pacman -S equator

Jitsi:

$ yogurt -S jisti

Instant Messaging

Pidgin:

$ sudo pacman -S pidgin

Kopete:

$ sudo pacman -S kdenetwork-kopete

3 Design

Image

Gimp:

$ sudo pacman -S gimp

Inkscape:

$ sudo pacman -S inkscape

Pinta:

$ sudo pacman -S pint

Video

Kdenlive:

$ sudo pacman -S Kdenlive

Opportunity:

$ sudo pacman -S open-shot

Pitivi:

$ sudo pacman -S Pitivi

4. Media

Audio Player

Audacious:

$ sudo pacman -S audacious

Banshee:

$ sudo pacman -S banshee

Amarok:

$ sudo pacman -S amarok

Video player

VLC:

Complete and multiplatform multimedia player.

$ sudo pacman -S vlc

Coffee:

The most complete player for KDE.

$ sudo pacman -S coffee

5 Office automation

Office suite

Libre Office:

$ sudo pacman -S libreoffice libreoffice-en

open Office:

$ yogurt -S openoffice

Simple text editors

Abiword:

$ sudo pacman -S abi word

leaf pad:

$ sudo pacman -S leaf pad

6. Development

First of all, what is the difference between IDE and GUI?

• IDE is a environment that is used to develop programs or software, including a code editor, extra tools for software development, a compiler, a code debugger and sometimes a graphical interface designer for the program under development.

• GUI is a Graphic interface The user interface, using a set of images and graphic objects to represent the information and actions available in the interface, provides a graphic visual environment and its appropriate components with which the user interacts with the application.

IDE

geany:

Recommended for small and medium projects, due to its speed and simplicity.

$ sudo pacman -S geany

Ninja IDE:

One of the best tools focused on Python, with a very attractive and complete interface.

$ sudo pacman -S ninja-ide

Bluefish:

A powerful tool focused for web designers, although it supports several programming and markup languages, but focuses on creating dynamic and interactive websites.

$ sudo pacman -S bluefish

netbeans:

A fairly complete IDE focused mainly on Java, however it supports several programming languages.

$ sudo pacman -S net beans

GUI

wxglade:

Written in Python with the wxPython graphical tool library, it provides you with the creation of wxWidgets / wxPython user interfaces. At present you can generate code in Python, C ++, Perl, Lisp and XRC.

$ sudo pacman -S wxglade

wxFormBuilder:

To design graphical interfaces that generates C ++ code and Python code with the wxPython graphical framework.

$ sudo pacman -S wxformbuilder

Glade:

To enable fast and easy development of user interfaces for GTK + and the GNOME desktop environment.

$ sudo pacman -S happy

7. Other

Virtualbox:

Software that allows the user to virtualize one or more operating systems.

$ sudo pacman -S virtualbox

Wine:

Tool to run Windows applications.

$ sudo pacman -S wine wine-monkey wine_gecko winetricks

htop:

System monitor from the console.

$ sudo pacman -S htop

bleachbit:

Tool to clean unnecessary files (cache, old kernels, empty folders ...).

$ sudo pacman -S bleachbit

teamviewer:

Take remote control of other operating systems from our system.

$ yogurt -S teamviewer

8. Extra

Microsoft sources:

$ yogurt -S ttf-ms-font

Faience and Faenza icons:

$ sudo pacman -S faience-icon-theme

Icons for our personal folders:

• Numix Folders
• beautyfolds
• Shiny Smooth Folders

GTK themes:

• Shiva Flat
• color
• Numix Arctic

Sources:

• The Navigator's Journey

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