[apart from the standard Ubuntu installs] emacs, gnuserv, ispell, emacs-snapshot-gtk (*) tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra (*) latex-beamer gnuplot (*) imagemagick inkscape (*) dia (*) texlive-extra-utils (for epstopdf) texlive-pstricks, texlive-science, pgf poppler-utils (pdftops, pdfinfo, pdffonts, etc) psutil (for psnup) eps2png (http://search.cpan.org/~jv/eps2png-2.6/src/eps2png.pl) swftools tex4ht (htlatex) hevea colormake (http://bre.klaki.net/programs/colormake/) subversion RapidSVN meld gv screen krb klog sysv-rc-conf bum strace, ltrace, lsof net-tools dhcp3-client tcpdump iptables dnsutils nmap nmapfe ethereal/wireshark etherape ruby irb java (sun-java) eclipse (+AnyEdit) KDevelop GNU Global (gtags, htags - http://www.gnu.org/software/global/globaldoc.html#SEC1) - cscope, ctags (http://codelore.com/2007/06/ctags_and_cscope.html) gedit-plugins Kscope mplayer (with the Binary Codec Packages - "essential" - untared to /usr/lib/win32) streamtuner rhythmbox xmms vlc flash-plugin easytag, kid3, banshee chkrootkit rkhunter konsole kghostview krusader kile kpdf beagle cups-pdf mc readpst digikam RSIBreak kdirstat bonager synergy qtparted gobby Xournal (*) CellWriter KNotes Firefox plugins - Adblock, Sameplace, del.icio.us, GUtil!, DownloadHelper, search keys, User agent switcher, grasemonkey + gmailBcc NX Server, Client comix tofrodos yelp ubuntu-docs trac+svn+https Istanbul Desktop Session Recorder GnoCHM