Linux setup steps/Install extra useful software

From Nick Jenkins

Installing extra useful software:

aptitude install nmap

# This will install the Exim V4 mail server - when prompted, select the "internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP" configuration option :
aptitude install logcheck

aptitude install diffstat
aptitude install zip unzip
aptitude install subversion subversion-tools patch

# A java compiler:
aptitude install gcj make autoconf automake1.9

# Tidying web pages.
aptitude install tidy

# package info:
aptitude install grep-dctrl

# for debugging apache crashes:
aptitude install gdb

# useful utility
aptitude install curl

# For building PHP modules:
aptitude install php5-dev

# For converting HTML to text in a console-only environment
aptitude install html2text

# To be able to compile PHP from snaps.php.net
aptitude install flex libxml2-dev

# To get the "ip" command
aptitude install iproute

# Get the "dig" command:
aptitude install dnsutils

# Get the "cruft" command:
aptitude install cruft

# Get the "sloccount" command:
aptitude install sloccount

# Get the p7zip command:
aptitude install p7zip

# Install mailer for sending attachments
aptitude install mutt

# Other useful packages:
aptitude install bzip2 deborphan p7zip-full fakeroot indent fdutils xsltproc

# Get the "uprecords" command:
aptitude install uptimed

# S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools
aptitude install smartmontools
# Then enable smartd:
nano /etc/default/smartmontools
# ... and uncomment the start smartd line.