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You can either do those modifications on already existing VE, or, if you want these changes to be incorporated into your template, create a temporary VE, do these changes, stop the VE and tar the result into the same template file.
Well, the first thing you *must* do is install a language pack. You can do this by typing in <pre> apt-get install language-pack-en </pre> <pre>Bug alert: I (Shane Hathaway) got the following error when I tried to install language-pack-en. debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptordpkg: dpkg - error: PATH is not set. I patched the problem by typing "export PATH". Even though the path is set, for somereason it is not exported by default. I also added "export PATH" to /etc/profile .</pre>
Then you should create another user. To do this, just type in <pre> adduser bob </pre>
You will probably want to install some other basic utilities: <pre>apt-get install man traceroute wget</pre>