Application Installation

My essentials

This is my essential checklist of applications for setting up a new development environment, including links to their official install sources.

Ubuntu

Create root password

passwd

Install From apt

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install vim
sudo apt install emacs
sudo apt install nano
sudo apt install gedit
sudo apt install git
sudo apt install zsh
sudo apt install screen
sudo apt install curl
sudo apt install tmux
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo apt install graphviz

Install From snap

sudo snap install discord sudo snap install kolourpaint

Install From App Center

  • Steam
  • Slack
  • Visual Studio Code (“code”)

Install From .deb

From directory with .deb file

sudo dpkg -i <.deb file>

Apps

DrawIO

Download .deb from here.

Run with

drawio

If you get this error

FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(163)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/drawio/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Run this command

sudo chmod 4755 /opt/drawio/chrome-sandbox

Source

Arduino CLI

Install Arduino CLI

Source: Arduino CLI

  1. Create ~/local/ if it doesn’t already exist:

    mkdir ~/local

  2. Navigate to ~/local and run command to install arduino-cli

    curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arduino/arduino-cli/master/install.sh | sh

  3. Pre-pended $PATH environment variable with this line in ~/.bash_profile

    export PATH=~/local/bin:$PATH

  4. Source .bash_profile

    source ~/.bash_profile

  5. Verify arduino-cli was installed

    > which arduino-cli
/home/flux/local/bin/arduino-cli

  6. Update arduino-cli

    arduino-cli upgrade

  7. See the Arduino CLI wiki page for information on configuration.

Calibre

This app is used to view and print .epub files.

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.sh | sudo sh /dev/stdin

Windows

Turn off alert sounds

Windows makes an alert sound every time tab complete doesn’t work or other silly things. Turn it off in settings.

Go to Audio - change other sound settings

or

Sound > sound control panel > Sounds tab > Sound Scheme dropdown > No Sounds.

Show Hidden Files

Open File Explorer and click View > Show > Hidden items.

Cygwin

Download Cygwin and install packages

  • lynx
  • wget
  • tar
  • git
  • vim
  • dos2unix

Software Downloads

  • Python
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Chrome
  • Spotify
  • Slack
  • Steam