Ubuntu-installations

Immediate installations of packages and repositories after installing Ubuntu

A new LTS version is released every two years. You can Download it from the official Ubuntu website.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a heads-up of the first and most important thing to do after installing any version of Ubuntu.

Update all the package informmation to install the new softwares and also upgrade the system packages by

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

In order to play media files like MP#, MPEG4, AVI etc, you’ll need to install media codecs:

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt install snapd

Now that the repositories are set and codecs are installed, it is time to get software.

• Google Chrome wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

• VLC sudo snap install vlc

• GIMP sudo snap install gimp

• Spotify sudo snap install spotify

• Skype sudo snap install skype --classic

• Atom sudo snap install atom --classic

• Android Studio sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk sudo snap install android-studio --classic

• VS Code sudo snap install code --classic

• Octave sudo apt-get install octave

• Telegram sudo snap install telegram-desktop

• Zoom wget -O zoom.deb https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i zoom.deb

You can also install pip yourself to ensure you have the latest version.

sudo apt install python3-pip

virtualenv is used to manage Python packages for different projects.

python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

To create a virtual environment, go to your project’s directory and run venv.

python3 -m venv env

Instead of installing packages individually, pip allows you to declare all dependencies in a Requirements File. pip to install all of the packages in this file using the -r flag:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install git by:

sudo apt-get install git