What other cli apps should I recommend besides these?

[ardchoille42]

I'm helping 3 people install Ubuntu today and one of them would like a total command line environment - she's used to the way things are done all in cli at her work.

So far I have found the following apps:
Bash - shell
MC - file manager
Calcurse - calendar/todo app
Abook - addressbook
elinks - web browser
mutt - email client
irssi - irc client
finch - IM client
newsbeuter - rss feed reader

All if this will be running in screen on tty1, she won't be using xorg at all.

What other cli apps should I recommend?

[igknighted]

Personally, I like zsh for the shell instead of bash, and lynx for the web browser or elinks.

I guess she probably needs some sort of writing app... what better than vim? Then she should probably learn troff/groff for formatting.

Hmm, what else... there are some console media players, you could check those out. I forget what they are called though

[dagnabit dang doohickey]

gpm [man page]

[Idefix82]

For picture editing, the cli tools in the imagemagick package are great.

[ardchoille42]

Personally, I like zsh for the shell instead of bash, and lynx for the web browser or elinks.

I guess she probably needs some sort of writing app... what better than vim? Then she should probably learn troff/groff for formatting.

Hmm, what else... there are some console media players, you could check those out. I forget what they are called though

Yeah, I replace vim-tiny with vim, I've never liked the "tiny" version. Good suggestion, I need to find a cli mp3 player and possibly others.

gpm [man page]

Yeah, I was looking at gpm, I'll install that.

For picture editing, the cli tools in the imagemagick package are great.

Another good one, thank you.

[oldos2er]

dpkg -- Package manager (and/or aptitude)
slrn -- Usenet client
another vote for zsh -- Highly configurable shell environment
nano -- Easy to use editor

[ardchoille42]

dpkg -- Package manager (and/or aptitude)
slrn -- Usenet client
another vote for zsh -- Highly configurable shell environment
nano -- Easy to use editor

More goodies, this is why the Ubuntu community is so cool
Good point, she might like nano better than vim. I'll install both and let her decide.