I mentioned a handy little tool I came across for installing a variety of useful apps on my ubuntu laptop recently. Paul O’Malley has pointed me in the direction of an alternative called (strangely enough) Easy Ubuntu
It doesn’t offer as wide a selection of applications, but it probably does more than enough for most people:
Easy Ubuntu allows you to:
- Add extra repositories for installing a lot of additional software.
- Install multimedia codecs for reading all videos, musics and DVDs.
- Activate the “audio preview” feature in Nautilus.
- Install the most needed Firefox plugins: Flash, Java, Real, videos. Adds Microsoft fonts, GNOME’s Firefox buttons, officials Firefox icons.
- Install archiving support for RAR and ACE.
- Install the most used peer-to-peer softwares: aMule (a clone of eMule) and Azureus (for Bittorent).
- Install the Skype voice-over-IP software. (Warning: at this time Skype is not packaged for Breezy so install don’t work)
- Num lock: Active the num lock at system startup.
- Replace the GNOME foot logo with Ubuntu’s logo.
- Install the NVIDIA or ATI driver for 3D support.
More information on its creator’s site
