What to do after installing Deepin OS

After having successfully installed Deepin in our team, you have to make some adjustments to be able to work, this system has several applications by default Among which I can highlight crossover with it we can install Windows applications in our system, Spotify also comes by default and of course its Deepin Store which has a large number of applications.

However the distribution comes with some missing and above all adjustments in terms of repositories that on our side of the planet can cause conflicts and / or that their download is too slow.

Without more to start with this small guide I can only say that it is made by a simple user, it is not official and it only focuses on the most common among users, for all this it is necessary to use the terminal at all times.

Change Deepin repositories

As I mentioned, the distro uses the official repositories so for our location we can make use of some closest mirrors here I leave a list of them, to add these repositories we must edit the sources.list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

And we add the one closest to us

deb ftp://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://mirror.nexcess.net/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

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deb ftp://deepin.ipacct.com/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/linuxdeepin/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://mirror.inode.at/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

Denmark:

deb ftp://mirror.dotsrc.org/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

South America:

deb ftp://sft.if.usp.br/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

United Kingdom:

deb ftp://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/linuxdeepin/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/packages.linuxdeepin.com/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

Germany:

deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/linuxdeepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://mirror2.tuxinator.org/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.fau.de/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

Sweden:

deb ftp://ftp.portlane.com/pub/os/linux/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

South Africa:

deb ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/linux/distributions/linux-deepin/deepin/ unstable main contrib non-free

Finally, we only have to update the list with this command:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Update CPU Firmware

For a better management of your cpu in the system we install with:

sudo apt-get install firmware-linux

sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

sudo apt install build-essential checkinstall make automake cmake autoconf git git-core dpkg wget

If we have an AMD processor:

sudo apt-get install amd64-microcode

If we have an Intel processor:

sudo apt-get install intel-microcode

Alternative to Java

To install this we already have the necessary packages in the deepin repositories we only have to install with:

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre icedtea-8-plugin

Codecs.

Although deepin has a large number of codecs loaded by default, there are some that it omits, for this we only install with:

sudo apt install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio vorbis-tools

Multi-Architecture Configuration

For those users who use 64-bit CPU there are some applications that tend to conflict, which is why we must enable the following:

dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update

Then install the i386 libraries:

sudo apt install libstdc++6:i386 libgcc1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libncurses5:i386

To remove the architecture:

dpkg --remove-architecture i386

Installation of compression / decompression tools

The handling of packed files is very common, so the most popular formats for this are rar, zip, tar, among others, in order to compress / decompress the files in proprietary formats, we must install several tools such as unrar, p7zip. To install we do it with these commands

Sudo apt install bzip2 zip unzip unace rar unace p7zip p7zip-full p7zip-rar unrar lzip lhasa arj sharutils mpack lzma lzop cabextract

Graphics card drivers installation

We also have free drivers for our video drivers, but if you want to install the ones that are officially offered:

AMD / ATI graphics cards official download page

Once your driver has been downloaded, you must open your terminal as superuser #

Sudo chmod 777 amd-driver*.run

Sudo ./amd-driver*.run

Sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\tIdentifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "fglrx"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf

NVIDIA Graphics Cards

We must download the driver for your Graphics card from the official Nvidia website, I recommend you write down the following commands since we will not use the graphic environment.

We stop the graphical environment:

 service dde stop

 

If after stopping the graphical environment it does not allow us to enter text, we type Ctrl + Alt + F2 to start the console, you must enter your username and personal password before accessing as Superuser

We enter the directory where we download the nvidia driver with the command "cd" to enter folders, for example:

cd Descargas

We give permissions to execute, remember to change the name of the derivative for which you downloaded

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux*.run

We start the installer, we say yes to everything you ask us

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86*.run

We start graphical environment again

service dde start

 

Restart the system.