Kubuntu Post Installation Recommendations

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This section is part of Kubuntu and Ubuntu Linux Distribution Reference.

Install rar and unrar utilities

File compression often used by newsgroups and torrents 

sudo apt-get install rar unrar

Quick Access Plasma widget

sudo apt-get install plasma-widget-quickaccess

Other web browsers

Firefox is considered a superior web browser when coupled with the NoScript and Ghostery plugins. Some web sites are not Firefox friendly. There are other web browsers that run under KDE Linux including: Chromium and Google Chrome.

Install Chromium, the open source version of Google Chrome. 

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Install the commercial version "Google Chrome" for Debian Linux.

Google Chrome for 64bit Linux 

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Google Chrome for 32bit Linux 

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
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