ok, i've been persuaded to ditch ubuntu 25.04 and set up my spiffy new dell pro max 16 laptop with debian trixie -- installation was uneventful, which is all i ever ask for. and since i have some new colleagues who may, at some point, be doing similar work and be getting a similar workstation, i'm documenting all of the extra stuff i typically add to my dev machine to make sure it's loaded with everything an embedded linux person might want, and i'm curious as to what other packages developers consider "must have" that they always end up installing that might not come with the default install. ignoring the obvious stuff like gcc/g++, perl, python, and build tools like make/cmake/autotools, what other utilities do people find they can't live without? start with (of course) git, but then i add gitk as well. (this pulls in tcl/tk so now i have that). any other git-related utilities that others find indispensable? debian-based package management tools? i forget if stuff like apt-file comes by default, things like that. it baffles me that "tree" doesn't seem to be installed automatically (or maybe it is with trixie, i forgot to check). for virtualization/containers, i add docker-ce, podman, virt-manager and virt-viewer. anything else that relates to this? "xorriso" for manipulating ISO images. "jq" and "libxml2-utils" for JSON and XML processing. you get the idea -- just stuff that a linux (embedded) developer should simply *have* on their system. rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org