Prepare Lubuntu 20.04 for software development

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After using windows, macosx, and serveral linux ditributions. For me, Lubuntu is the lightest and easiest to set up and run so far. If you search there will be two domains provide lubuntu which are lubuntu.me and lubuntu.net. You should use lubuntu.me which provide the most updated version of lubuntu. In this blog, I will focus on the additional packages after installation.

Create Lubuntu 20.04 bootable usb

• Download Lubuntu 20.04 iso file.

• Create bootable usb using balena etcher or unetbootin.

• Boot to the usb and install Lubuntu.

• This is a starting screen using lxqt.

Additional packages

There are packages for apt and snap. I prefer apt since the app installed by snap command will take long time in the first launch.

Web browser: brave

I usually install brave browser in addition to firefox since some of the tools such as teams and slack are not working very well with firefox.

sudo snap install brave

Bluetooth devices management: blueman

sudo apt-get install blueman

API client: postman

sudo snap install postman

Text editor: vscode

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo apt install apt-transport-https
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code # or code-insiders

Database admin gui: dbeaver community edition

sudo snap install dbeaver-ce

Password manager: Keepassxc

sudo snap install keepassxc
sudo snap connect keepassxc:removable-media

Nodejs

sudo snap install node --classic

Rust lang

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Go lang

sudo snap install go --classic

Java

sudo apt-get install wget apt-transport-https gnupg
wget -qO - https://adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io/adoptopenjdk/api/gpg/key/public | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io/adoptopenjdk/deb focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/adoptopenjdk.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-cache search adoptopenjdk
sudo apt-get install adoptopenjdk-16-hotspot

Maven

sudo apt install maven

Docker

sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
echo \
  "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker

Virtual box

sudo apt install virtualbox

That is quite enough for me. If you need something extra you can try apt search or snap search command to find those.