Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 01:10:25 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
wrote in <slrnv8jqo0.4uu.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>:

Just wondering what programs (aside from the coreutils/X11 and other
elements that make up a basic install), do you consider to be a vital
part of YOUR Linux install?  What are the little additional tools that
you can't live without, or just consider to be necessary that maybe
others wouldn't?
 
For me, its
    - fortune
    - cowsay
    - xpenguins
    - fvwm(3)
    - oneko
    - emacs
    - mc
    - zsh
    - asclock (using the FreeAMP theme)
    - PCManFM
    - star
    - urxvt
    - xpat2
    - xlock
    - links
    - most
    - lftp
    - lzip
    - xclip
    - screen
    - lrzsz
    - gcc/g++/gdc
    - nasm
    - locate
    - dar

pan(1)

I build it from the git repository, linking it with a newer
gmime.  (The latter has a recent patch that fixes Newsgroups: handling.)

The cmake that comes with Linux Mint isn't new enough to build the
pan grabbed with git, so that too.

(Sometimes it seems it's turtles all the way down...)

Oh, and tart(1) for the pithy taglines...

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