Common routines after reinstalling Ubuntu

The following routines may be necessary after reinstalling Ubuntu to reconfigure your environment.

1. Activate additional drivers in "Additional Drivers" for your GPU.
2. Display
• For AMD's (formerly ATI) graphics card, you can use AMD Catalyst Control Center (Administrative) to configure for multi-display. However, when I used it today, it didn't work. Using command line works though.

  $ sudo aticonfig --initial # This reinitializes your xorg.conf.
  # Then when you reboot, you should be able to configure multi-display with
  $ sudo gksu amdcccle
  

• Use ARandR do configure display
3. Install Chrome dev release.
4. Install Sun Java 6 and OpenJDK Java SDK

   sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/java
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
   

   sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

5. Install git.
6. Install OpenAFS.
7. Install Latex.

   $ sudo apt-get install texlive-full

   Update Texlipse's preference in Eclipse by giving the bin directory of Tex distribution: /usr/bin
8. Install ssh server.

   $sudo apt-get install openssh-server