Ubuntu: handy commands that helps

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install mysql-admin
sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser

sudo apt-get install kate

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

sudo apt-get install skype

sudo apt-get install acroread

sudo apt-get install vlc

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

sudo apt-get install putty
sudo apt-get install audacious

echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openoffice.sources.list && sudo apt-get update
wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin && chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin && ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
sudo echo ‘deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install picasa

sudo apt-get install dctrl-tools