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One of the first things I do for my desktops is set them with a static IP. Below is how I go about it.

First uninstall Network Manager. This will just simply get in the way.
Edit as root:
/etc/network/interfaces
and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address 192.168.0.100):
# This

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